[Eric Dobbe]

Great photo’s Kate.

it doesn’t appear that your sheep are suffering from lack of nutrition 🤠

Our cool season grasses are typically high in ME and protein but can lack the fibre, hence the scouring – particularly early winter when there is a high leaf to stem ratio with our annual plants. Grazing lower will increase the fibre better than grazing just the tops of the leaves. So in short no animal production loss by going to golf ball height. I would suggest it is more beneficial. Remember, overgrazing is not how low you graze, but it’s when you graze the unrecovered plant ( come back to soon).