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Co-Grazing Beef Cattle And Goats In Kentucky, David C. Ditsch, Patty Scharko
Co-Grazing Beef Cattle And Goats In Kentucky, David C. Ditsch, Patty Scharko
Plant and Soil Sciences Research Report
A two season grazing study of mixed (goats and beef cattle) species was conducted in 2006 and 2008 at Sebastian Farms in Breathitt County KY. The objective of this study was to determine if the order of mixed species grazing affected beef cattle and goat weight gain and goat exposure to the barber pole worm (Haemonchus contortus) in a rotational grazing system. In this study, two co-grazing management strategies were tested. In treatment 1, goats and cattle were rotationally grazed together. In treatment 2, goats rotated through pastures as first grazers followed by cattle. Each co-grazing treatment was …