Rotational Grazing API
Rotational-grazing maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the animal-unit, grazing-day and acreage numbers a rancher or homesteader moves a herd by. It all hangs on the animal unit: a 1000-pound cow eating about 26 pounds of dry matter a day. The animalunits endpoint converts a mixed herd to that common basis — a cow is 1.0 AU, a cow-calf pair 1.3, a horse 1.25, a sheep 0.2, a goat 0.17 — so ten cows and fifty sheep are 20 AU demanding 520 pounds of forage a day; pass a weight instead and it scales by weight ÷ 1000. The days endpoint works out how long a paddock lasts: grazing days = (acres × forage per acre × utilization) ÷ (animal units × 26), where the classic “take half, leave half” puts utilization near 50 %, so five acres yielding 3,000 lb at 50 % feeds 10 AU for about 29 days. The acres endpoint sizes the paddock the other way — acres = (AU × 26 × days) ÷ (forage × utilization) — so 20 AU for a 30-day move needs about 10.4 acres. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for ranching, regenerative-agriculture, homesteading and farm-management app developers, paddock-planner and stocking-rate tools, and grazing-chart software. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. US units; forage yield varies with season — measure it. Live, nothing stored. 3 compute endpoints.
api.oanor.com/grazing-api
