Member Kate Tarrant
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Fantastic Brett! How long are you planning on leaving them in there? Are you considering mob grazing and back fencing to stop them returning to where they have grazed – just thinking you might end up with some selective grazing and risk taking out your new young perennials??
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Awesome Brett, what was in your mix, any perennials as well?
Have a very similar experience with our wet & in between areas.
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Great Mark, explains things pretty well. Thanks for sharing!
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Admittedly I have destocked to the point that mob grazing is challenging .. but this is the best I could get in terms of utilisation after a 2 day graze with our sheep – they are not very interested in eating much beyond the top third of the grass with more trampled than eaten. So should I force them by keeping them in the cell for longer or do I need to mob them even more tightly and move them daily to get better utilisation.. the mob are currently in good condition with reasonably firm & shiny dung pellets.
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Hi Will, We have had some red legs in some of the paddocks we seeded to multi species.. in particular they were hammering the legumes & brassicas. Mark Tupman @mark suggested spraying out Magnesium Suplhate at a rate of 5 to 7kg/ha along with some molasses… our soils are quite deficient in magnesium & I think if my understanding is correct, magnesium is essential for protein synthesis (converting nitrate to ammonia to proteins) & molasses helps to provide energy for the process, and RELM love high nitrate conditions.. but I’ll leave Mark to explain further &/or correct me.
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Yes be interesting to see what’s happening below – might be good to bring a sample to the LCDC to take a look down the microscope 😀
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Thanks Brett, great 👍
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Thanks Eric, good to hear some positive feedback about Phalaris, our sheep are eating it and in digging underneath one of the plants the roots have gone down at least 3 times deeper than the annuals which is the point isn’t it. Now need to get some perennial herbs and legumes going in there as well!
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Cheers Mark, I will probably move them onto the stockpile feed when they finish in this current paddock at the end of the week .. in the meantime will try for a higher density stocking rate in the cells.
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Thanks Eric, that’s what I thought .. & yes the ewes are a bit chubby I know!
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I think she means a second bite of new growth, grazing the stemmy older stuff no problem but happy to be corrected!
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Certainly has! After my last post I decided to put the mob back into the sacrifice paddock with some oaten hay I bought.. just moved them into the first strip this morning.. much more grass now!😊 Put some hay in a mobile feeder to help with the adjustment.
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Looks like getting those foliars out earlier gave the plants a good head start & stave off RELM, I got some out on a couple of paddocks at the same time as you and no sign of them whereas the other paddocks all have some to varying degrees, only got foliars on them last week – plants looking like they are going to grow through the damage though so hope that’s the case.
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Ended up just extending the sacrifice paddock a bit and have bought some Oaten Hay to keep the mob going. Means I can give the rest of the paddocks a bit more time…
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And to you also Eric, hope you get a good dousing! We seeded 10ha with multi species and are also keeping it locked up to go to seed this year. Will have plenty of standing feed for summer/autumn next year 😃. Having a year off lambing.. happy days!