• The plants have a recovery period, during which in the appropriate season, it is possible to re-seed worn areas, in order to maintain good pasture quality.
• When paddocks are not stocked they may be cut and hay may be taken.
• It is possible to chain harrow the pasture, breaking up any mat of dead herbage – an essential feature of pasture management.
• Owing to the break periods, the ground does not become ‘fowl sick’. In particular the development of parasitic worms is kept under control.