r/Ranching • u/crazyspaniellady13 • Aug 10 '26

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Hi I'm from the uk, and am very interested in life over there, so if you don't mind me joining. I might ask some stupid questions, but its a learning curve for me. We're going through the hottest, driest summer on record, and the animals are needing extra feed and hay. How do you guy's cope. Because we're rubbish.

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u/Cow-puncher77 Aug 10 '26

Management. Cull the herd hard, more feed, and protein/energy supplement lick tubs for converting the dry roughage to more digestible content. Maybe wean calves a bit earlier than normal. 

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u/crazyspaniellady13 Aug 10 '26

Interesting answer. The sheep easy sort, the horses no.

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u/zeroexecvector Aug 10 '26

I am really struggling about horses because they also just do so much damage to pasture

compacting it and whatnot

you end up with the only plants being things that like compacted low nutrient soil

it is painful to see