Why You Should Know Your Grass When Mob Grazing (Cheatgrass)

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In this video I discuss the importance of learning to identify different types of grasses while rotational or mob grazing to improve your pasture.
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@tcagle224
@tcagle224 2 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed you videos. Will there be more?
@Arms07
@Arms07 2 жыл бұрын
This is very good to know thank you. Also please say a prayer for my cow she should be due this month. It will be are first calf. She looks like she is going to give a lot of milk.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
I will say a prayer. Sounds like things are looking good though so that’s positive!
@shaunsmuder1637
@shaunsmuder1637 2 жыл бұрын
I missed it this time good video.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir!
@KnightRonin0103
@KnightRonin0103 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! Thanks for the app advice as well.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
No problem and thank you for watching!
@ajoshmiller
@ajoshmiller 2 жыл бұрын
I don't have cheatgrass, but I have had lots of weeds in the past couple years. I mow the pasture after the cows move onto a new paddock so that the weeds or anything that the cows don't eat gets cut back just as much as what they do eat. Otherwise, the weeds have an unfair advantage.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Josh. Thanks for the comment. Weeds are a problem here, but they are down my priority list right now. This stuff is bad news and very flammable when the seeds mature. Hope all is well.
@pitshit84
@pitshit84 2 жыл бұрын
You gotta mow the cheat grass (Downey Brome) when it goes to head... preferable before the seed heads mature... If you know the seeds are mature... make sure you bag the cuttings and throw away or incinerate.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Hi. On a small farm where resources are limited why would you not take advantage of the 17% protein that cheatgrass is this time of year, graze it and have the same basic outcome as mowing it? Win win? If caught before the seeds are mature then I don’t think there is any possibility of them maturity while in the rumen, and disconnected from their life source. They are removing probably 90% plus of the seed heads. I just can’t find the logic in mowing it. Am I missing something?
@pitshit84
@pitshit84 2 жыл бұрын
@@dexterranch I thought you said your cows wouldnt eat it.... i guess i missed it... yes use your cows for that purpose then, thats what i would do as well
@jeremybuchanan289
@jeremybuchanan289 2 жыл бұрын
Hope all is ok with you, been longer than normal for your video uploads.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Coming back very soon. Thanks for reaching out! Hope all is well with you also.
@shaunsmuder1637
@shaunsmuder1637 2 жыл бұрын
Haven't seen a video from you for a while you're doing all right over there just too busy to make a video hope you're doing well
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Coming back soon Shaun. I will have some explaining to do but mostly just been busy with the farm. See you soon. Thanks for reaching out! Hope all is well.
@georgiaboy6426
@georgiaboy6426 2 жыл бұрын
I remember you saying that you had gotten some cows one time that had been given sweet feed or grain by the previous owner. I think you said it took a while to get them off of it. I just got a Dexter heifer a couple of weeks ago that was grass only, she is very content in the poor pasture. A couple of days ago, I got two 2 1/2 year olds, a bull and a cow who just weened her first calf. The previous owner gave them sweet feed as a treat daily. Any time the new cow sees me outside she bellows, wanting to be fed I think. The bull is more content but will eventually join in. Can you advise me on how I should go about getting them off of the treats and onto grass and browse only (or mostly)? Also, is there risk of harming their digestive tract or anything by taking them off too soon or too quickly (ration amount)? Thank you.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Hi. I don’t think there is a risk as long as they are getting enough protein and energy through other sources. A lot of what you are seeing with the bellowing is just him having to deal with change. It’s soooo annoying, but it’s similar to taking a pacifier away from a baby. You just have to let them cry. Eventually they will forget about it, but if you bring it out again they will be screaming about it for another 2 weeks. With that kind of feed you either have to feed it all the time or you can never feed it. That’s my 2 cents. Hope it helps and good luck.
@georgiaboy6426
@georgiaboy6426 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your valued advice. The cow was also taken from her calf so I’m sure a little extra bellowing is in order. Great videos.👍🏻
@shaunsmuder1637
@shaunsmuder1637 2 жыл бұрын
I'm jealous I still have not been able to turn my heard out on grass yet.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
When do you usually go out Shaun?
@shaunsmuder1637
@shaunsmuder1637 2 жыл бұрын
@@dexterranch here in Minnesota we got probably another week to two weeks yet, usually beginning in May
@cdalnogare
@cdalnogare 2 жыл бұрын
As with some others you are way ahead of us. Our Montana Ag Live program on MT PBS is good about reminding people to mow their cheat grass. It helps tremendously. But if you skip a couple of years it will be back. Our mower is strictly mulching or I would add it to to feed in the corral. I like to wait until June to let the cows out and the cheatgrass seeds start turning red in July usually. This has been an unusually cool Spring. Maybe you should put them out there as the last graze in the Fall and then earlier in the Spring. Whatever you do I would also mow. Have a great rest of the Spring.
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Cathrine! Hope all is well.
@Andrew-sanders
@Andrew-sanders 2 жыл бұрын
You was about a month late putting the cows out there. You really should have had them out there all winter. Next winter spread seed then role out your hay and let them stomp part into ground. Will speed up the recovery of that by many years
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the advice Andrew. Just FYI a week and a half ago this grass was 3 or 4 inches tall. A month ago this area was bare dirt. As I said from the disturbance of tree removal. Thanks for watching.
@Andrew-sanders
@Andrew-sanders 2 жыл бұрын
@@dexterranch I know how fast it grows it's one of nature's bandaid plants to get ground cover fast same as weeds. The hay is the fastest way to get good grass started. Could even do now just look for adds for dutch fill hay. It's usually free or close to it. Then spread grass seed spread hay over and let cows eat what they want and stomp seed in
@tpfromcentralpa1692
@tpfromcentralpa1692 2 жыл бұрын
For once, a weed I don't fight!!!!! Must have too much water for it where I am? That is ok, got enough others ones to focus on. Until fuel went out the roof, places I picked up in similar condition would be green chopped and fed to the cows that way, green chopper would size and mix it and the cows would not pick and choose what they wanted, but now, trying to graze would be the best choice with fuel prices...........
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Pretty worried about what the hay prices will be this winter with the price of diesel.
@tpfromcentralpa1692
@tpfromcentralpa1692 2 жыл бұрын
@@dexterranch Moisture decent where you are? I am not sure where I am if fuel will influence the price more or the fact everyone around me is tearing up every available piece of earth to plant row crops. It will be interesting...........
@albertabrandenburg5027
@albertabrandenburg5027 2 жыл бұрын
Go get goats , they eat everything a cow wont .
@dexterranch
@dexterranch 2 жыл бұрын
Need better fencing lol. Some day. Thank for watching!
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