- For example, you could start with short-grass grazing in the spring and switch to paddock farming with a 1-2 day grazing area requirement after the 1st or 2nd growth.
- In mountain areas, steep areas are often used specifically in the form of portion pastures during periods of good weather and the flat areas are used as paddocks or short grass pastures.
- A high level of pasture feed acceptance can be achieved with alternating pasture and cutting use (hay pasture). In this case, however, full pasture farming requires a lot of space around the farm.
- As is often the case in New Zealand, farms are adding day or two-day areas within paddocks.
- In Ireland, suckler cow farms sometimes let the calves and young cattle of the nursing cows graze ahead of them. Here the inter-departmental wire within the paddocks is stretched so high that the calves can pass through unhindered and graze ahead.
- In paddock systems, high-performing animals could bump into the areas on the first two days. Low-performing animals then graze deeply on the more structurally rich stock on the following days.
| Grazing duration per paddock | |||
| 3 days | 6 days | 10 days | |
| Main growth phase | 6-9 paddocks | 3-5 paddocks | 2-3 paddocks |
| From the end of August | 12-16 paddocks | 5-8 paddocks | 3-5 paddocks |
