Worth waiting for….

   ….the second pass over the new grass and we’re still moving them quickly.  The plan is to cover every pasture (but one) within 21 days.  The “one” is our Italian rye pasture, intended for the steers but they didn’t get the memo.

We put the steers on the “special” grass earlier this week.  By the end of the next day, they had found their way through to wire fences and across a creek to re-join the main herd.  I can hear Ian saying:  “Of course, dummy.”  Maybe there’s a book in that:  Grazing for Dummies.        

But I’m a fast learner, the next time the rotation takes the herd to the Italian rye, they’ll all go in for the feast.

When we slow up in about a week, we’ll begin Thistle Hill’s version of mob grazing.  This pasture has had no fertilizer since we began this “experiment” more than two years ago.

And about the cow/calf:  the cow is THF T3 “Favorite” by Rotokawa 93.  The hungry young one is THF 108 by THF U2.  This is his first group of calves and he and we are very pleased.

Photo by Wooz, btw.