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Strip Grazing

Daily strips, one-minute moves, recovery at a glance

Strip grazing with polywire: every day (or few days) the animals get a fresh strip along your cross fence, and the map colors every past strip by how long it's rested. A few weeks in, your map looks like this:

A real season: each strip colored by rest — red = fresh-grazed → green = ready again.
A real season: each strip colored by rest — red = fresh-grazed → green = ready again.

Before you start: add your animals in Animal Groups (just a headcount) and map your pasture boundary — see Set up your pasture. Then open Paddocks and make sure the toggle says 🐑 Move Mode.

Recording a strip

  1. 1In the Record Move In form, name the strip if you like ("Strip 8") and tap your animal group.
  2. 2Set planned days — this drives your "time to move" reminder.
  3. 3Under Mark strip boundary, pick 🖊️ Draw on Map and tap the strip's four corners on the satellite (or 📍 GPS Walk and drop points at each corner as you set the wire). Acres calculate automatically.
  4. 4Tap Record Move In.
Today's strip: group tapped, corners drawn, acres auto-filled.
Today's strip: group tapped, corners drawn, acres auto-filled.
The animals are on the map — day counter running.
The animals are on the map — day counter running.

The daily move — under a minute

  1. 1Tap Move Out on the Currently Grazing card. Note the exit grass condition; head count and weight are pre-filled.
  2. 2Tap Move Out + Move In Next — it opens the next strip's form with your group and date already set.
  3. 3Draw the next strip along the wire, tap Record Move In. Done.
Move out: exit condition + one green button to chain into the next strip.
Move out: exit condition + one green button to chain into the next strip.

Reading the recovery map

Every finished strip joins Grazing History and colors by rest time — the bands run red (fresh) through green (✓ Ready), 7/14/21/30 days by default. Change the day thresholds and colors under 🎨 Recovery colors. With a weather station connected, each strip also shows rainfall since grazing — rest plus rain is true recovery.

On the map, past strips run red (fresh) to green (rested) — the strip your animals are on right now shows in its own color so it's never lost in the rainbow.
On the map, past strips run red (fresh) to green (rested) — the strip your animals are on right now shows in its own color so it's never lost in the rainbow.
History rows: rest bars fill toward Ready.
History rows: rest bars fill toward Ready.
⚠️ Rotating before you had the app? Tap + Historical animal move / grazing chart row to back-enter old moves so the colors are honest from day one.
Next guide: Rotating fixed paddocks →All guides