Sheep per acre

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Sun, 05/31/2020 - 04:05 #1

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sena
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Sheep per acre

Hello
We are thinking buy a property in East gippsland, 2.5 acres of land, it has perennial grass, 2 paddocks. How many sheep can we keep there. Thank you.

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Mon, 06/01/2020 - 12:10 #2
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Hi Sena,

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the question.

There are lots of variables when it comes to stocking rates, including rainfall, soil/pasture type and fertiliser history.

For your area an estimated average stocking rate would be around 10DSE/hectare or 10 x 50kg wether sheep.

If you don't want to buy in supplementary feed I would be conservative and halve this stocking rate to say 5DSE.

So you could keep 5 wethers on 2.5 aces or 3 ewes with progeny.

Make sure you rotate the animals between the two paddocks to give the pasture a good chance to recover.

Regards,
Charlie

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Tue, 06/02/2020 - 20:53 #3
sena
Last seen: 06/02/2020 - 21:07
Joined: 05/31/2020 - 03:55

Thank you

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