With good rain and ground you could keep 2 cattle on 10 acres for sure, and 1 inexpensive way is to corral them in a smaller space that rotates, so they'll trim down the grass, and crap that up, stomp seeds in the ground, then you move them to the next spot, to let that patch recover. Temporary, mobile electric fence will work as long as…
With good rain and ground you could keep 2 cattle on 10 acres for sure, and 1 inexpensive way is to corral them in a smaller space that rotates, so they'll trim down the grass, and crap that up, stomp seeds in the ground, then you move them to the next spot, to let that patch recover. Temporary, mobile electric fence will work as long as their food supply and water is constant. Look up gang grazing too. you could trim a little woods back to get more acreage. We use a fair amount of temporary fence to direct where the cattle graze, or where we can store round bales away from them. You have to design a pathway between the grazing and shade/shelter and water. Lots of homesteaders are doing this small scale method.
(As for the name- I wanted to write about using the weeds for health independence. One of my colleagues asked me what my title would be, and it popped into my head: "weedom rhymes with freedom". After I chose it, I found that the 4/20 people already had used the word in relation to legalizing their favorite weed :-D but I kept the name anyway, because it has a good sound.
With good rain and ground you could keep 2 cattle on 10 acres for sure, and 1 inexpensive way is to corral them in a smaller space that rotates, so they'll trim down the grass, and crap that up, stomp seeds in the ground, then you move them to the next spot, to let that patch recover. Temporary, mobile electric fence will work as long as their food supply and water is constant. Look up gang grazing too. you could trim a little woods back to get more acreage. We use a fair amount of temporary fence to direct where the cattle graze, or where we can store round bales away from them. You have to design a pathway between the grazing and shade/shelter and water. Lots of homesteaders are doing this small scale method.
(As for the name- I wanted to write about using the weeds for health independence. One of my colleagues asked me what my title would be, and it popped into my head: "weedom rhymes with freedom". After I chose it, I found that the 4/20 people already had used the word in relation to legalizing their favorite weed :-D but I kept the name anyway, because it has a good sound.