What a beautiful fall day.
I brought my camera out as I checked the cattle today at Hoven Farms and wanted to share a few pictures with you readers.
These animals are ones that we are finished for slaughter. Right now they are only eating our swath grazing – a mixture of oats and barley that we swathed early October. You can still see a lot of green in the swaths so the feed is very tasty for the animals.
The cattle line up on each side of the swath and eat away. Please note the swaths that the animals are going to eat in the upcoming week immediately in the background.
The cattle will take the swaths from looking like this to looking like this….
They will eat all the material and leave a nice neat field to work up in the spring.
It is easy to love that beautiful big Alberta blue sky, isn’t it?
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Hi, Great blog and great pictures. I am teaching a beef cattle school in Ukraine where beef production as we know it is virtually unknown. Can I use these pictures to illustrate swath grazing? I want to check out your website as you are finishing animals for slaughter on forage which is something I need to learn more about. Do you read the Stockman Grass Farmer? Allen Nation has been preaching that gospel for several years now.
Please email me. I look forward to your reply.
Al Hingston
Al,
Please use the pictures to teach the class.
Yes, I do read the Stockman Grass Farmer. Great little magazine.