--- title: How to 16 hour Graze  description: For the 16hr grazing, you will need 3 feed slots spread across 48 hours. --- [Skip to content](https://help.pasture.io/how-to-16-hour-graze-#main-content) English Show submenu for translations [![Pasture.io](https://help.pasture.io/hs-fs/hubfs/logo%20square.jpg?width=100&height=75&name=logo%20square.jpg)](https://pasture.io/) Open main navigation Close main navigation - English Show submenu for translations How can we help you? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Help Center](https://help.pasture.io/?hsLang=en) 2. [Livestock](https://help.pasture.io/livestock?hsLang=en) 3. [Grazing](https://help.pasture.io/livestock?hsLang=en#grazing) # How to 16 hour Graze ## For the 16hr grazing, you will need 3 feed slots spread across 48 hours. The feed slot cycle day is allocated for the day that the feed slot starts on. - Go to **Herds** - **Select the herd** you want to graze every 16 hours by clicking on the line of that herd A window will appear to the left of your screen **![](https://help.pasture.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-15-2026-12-07-41-2596-AM.png?width=362&height=522&name=image-png-Jan-15-2026-12-07-41-2596-AM.png)** - **Select Edit Details** You will need **3 feed slots** spread across **48 hours for 16 hr grazing.** - Click on the **“+Add Feed Slot”** until you have the required number of Feed Slots needed    ![](https://help.pasture.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-15-2026-12-09-33-7154-AM.png?width=598&height=76&name=image-png-Jan-15-2026-12-09-33-7154-AM.png) - **Enter the details:** **Name -** Give your feed slot a name, this could be something like “Day” or “Night”, or “Day 2” *(this needs to be a unique name not used in other feeds slots)* **Timeframe** - This refers to the time that the herd **enters** and **leaves** **the paddock** **Cycle** - Enter  1 or 2 depending on the cycle day   **Amount -** you can either leave blank and the app will use the time differences to allocate the percentages, or for 16-hour you could put relevant allocation for the two days such as 60%, 60% and 80% (ie 2x 100%). Example: **Feed slot 1**  5 am to 9 pm (Day 1) **Feed slot 2**  9 pm to 1 pm (Day 1) **Feed slot 3**  1 pm to 5 am (Day 2) ![](https://help.pasture.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-15-2026-07-22-57-5147-PM.png?width=670&height=859&name=image-png-Jan-15-2026-07-22-57-5147-PM.png) - **Save All** Your **Feed Slots** will now show as **three slots** under the herd’s details ![](https://help.pasture.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-15-2026-03-23-06-9433-AM.png?width=936&height=274&name=image-png-Jan-15-2026-03-23-06-9433-AM.png)   You are now able to enter your grazings by selecting from the available 16 hour grazing options ![](https://help.pasture.io/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-15-2026-12-13-11-9856-AM.png?width=670&height=139&name=image-png-Jan-15-2026-12-13-11-9856-AM.png)   It is easy to revert from 16 hour grazing if you are swapping for example from 16 hour milking to twice a day. Just enter a '1' in the Days/Cycle. Delete the 16 hour milking feed slots, and make two new feed slots. The same principal applies should you go to once a day milking or want to feed a dry herd 24 hour breaks. 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