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Integrate Waterers with Rotational Grazing System

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The first thing you should think about when buying property or a farm! WATER!

What happens here

The Mirafount waterers are strategically placed and integrated into a rotational grazing system using electric fencing and spring gates (from Farm Fence Solutions). Four posts are set up around each waterer, and a spring gate allows cattle access. When moving cattle to a new paddock, the electric fence line is unhooked from one post and re-hooked to another, guiding the cattle to the next grazing area. This ensures that the cattle can always access water while being moved through different pastures, optimizing land use and animal health.

Goal: Configure spring gates and electric fences around the waterers to support a rotational grazing system, allowing efficient movement of cattle between pastures while ensuring access to water.

Tools and materials

  • Electric Fence Line
  • Fence Posts
  • Spring Gates

What they say

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right here these four posts one 2 3 four have a spring gate this is called a spring gate okay there is a spring that's held in place by a hook on these Critters and all this is from Farm fence Solutions so simply hook those and we rotate these around so when the cows come in the pasture they're able to access right here when they go to the next Paddock which would be right here we'll just take this line loose and loop it right over and hook it there and vice versa we'll just keep rotating around until we've rotated the cows throughout the pasture in the summer time we move our cattle twice a day in the winter time it just depends on how much hay and where we're at so we have the cows leap frogging Paddock to Paddock to Paddock all winter long up here while we unroll hay out onto the land and again that's where the regenerative Farm comes into practice we don't bring in outside fertilizer we actually bring in carbon so we bring in Hay we unroll the hay we bring in minerals and we bring in Limestone and limestone is what helps us to correct the pH of the soil so there's a lot of information here I can't tell you how to build a farm but I can tell you how we set up our water system there is an onoff valve down in here so you

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