I�m a big fan of portable shelters without floors. when they get filled with soiled bedding and manure, simply move them; no mucking, no need for heavy equipment with a bucket and they can be moved from one area to another for rotational grazing and browsing, reducing the need for multiple structures.. My wife and i have experimented with a variety of basic goat shelters for our homestead dairy goat herd. we generally kept our goats on pasture spring through fall, changing their grazing areas. Portable shelters posted by redgatefarm under animals , cows , donkeys , farm life , goats , rotational grazing leave a comment as a follow up on the rotational grazing post i did recently, i figured i would do a post regarding the shelters we are using..
Although livestock bedding and shelter are extremely important when managing a conventional winter feed program that requires cattle to be kept in confined areas, neither traditional cattle bedding or shelter are necessary when cattle are grazing in a winter rotational grazing program that uses a daily pasture rotation.. As most readers probably know by now, we rotationally graze our cattle and goats. that means we move our animals every day to a new area in the paddock using the electric fencing. around here, intensive rotational grazing is a new idea.. Simple rotational grazing simple rotational grazing is a pasture system in which more than one pasture area is used and livestock are moved to different pasture areas during the grazing season. pastures need rest periods to recover from grazing and allow plants to regrow..
