grazing stockpiled forage

[JaredWoodcock]

The haying season has been wet and rough so I decided to set up the pastures for stockpiled forage. I have the opportunity to borrow another team and I was wondering if anyone has any experience grazing stockpiled forage with drafts? We have about 20 acres of mixed meadows and timothy red clover hay fields typical of new england low input haying…

Jared

[Billy Foster]

We are scheduling our sheep rotations to leave the pastures by the farm with good re-growth before frost. The sheep will be fed on the stockpiled grass until the snow is too deep here in Maine (about mid December, hopefully), then the horses will be set stocked on the rest. We have always grazed the horses behind the sheep during the grazing season but this will be the first year we have intentionally stockpiled forage to try and feed into the winter. I guess my response is not much of an answer but I just thought I would put my 2 cents in.
Billy

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