Livestock Farm Practice

ROTATIONAL DEFERRED GRAZING

• This system is beneficial when seeding is desired as in annual species and when the perennials do not have sufficient density. The whole pasture is divided into three equal compartments and fenced.
• Each compartment is grazed continuously for one-third of the total grazing season and protected through the remaining two-third of the season during which time the seeds mature.
• By the time the animals are allowed to graze the third compartment, the seeds would have been shed. When they go back to the first second compartments, the seeds in those would have also repened and got shed.
• In the second year, the rotation will start from the second compartment and in the third year from the third compartment.