That is too big. Instead fence the two acres with a good strong perimeter fence and then divide it up into multiple paddocks so that you can do rotational grazing to prevent any one area from getting too beaten up. As you rotate them, plant behind them. This will improve the forages, break parasite life cycles, prevent compaction of the soil and gradually improve the pasture...."[UNQUOTE]
Hey Walter,
I wanted to pick your brain a bit (its easier then searching for thread)....Pretty soon we'll be moving to our own place. Its just a little 6 acre farmette/hobby farm. We've got to change some fencing (its 6 strand barbed wire), but I am "planning" on using about an acre for them to graze on & I've been looking for the thread where you mention dividing the acre into paddocks, but I can't find anything where you mention what size the paddocks should be. Right now I have 3 Mulefoot/Red Wattle Cross Sows (full grown about 5-600 #'s + & a young boar (same breed). I'll have them probably in their own space (at least the boar separated from the sows....maybe, right now he's too short to commence any business). But I want to start making plans on the size of the paddocks. I have cows, horses & goats that'll share the 6 acres. The cows (2) & the goats (10) will spend the summer on a 5 acre parcel elsewhere for the summer, so I can use a more grassier area for the pigs (& horses) while I work on the one acreage. But, I was curious about the size of paddocks to make.
I am making a list of the grasses, legumes, etc. that were mentioned in another thread.
And I was looking at sharing this acreage with the goats, to give them a broader foraging variety to their diet. But not have them on at the same time as the pigs. there's weeds that the goats will eat, that the pigs may not.
thanks