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How often did Eurasian Steppe herders need to move their animals to new pasture?

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Map showing the extent of the Eurasian steppes, highlighted in green, stretching from eastern Europe through Ukraine and southern Russia, across Kazakhstan, and into Mongolia and northern China. The map labels the Western Steppe and Eastern Steppe regions and includes major geographic features, countries, and ancient sites within the steppe zone. — the Steppe Extent of the Eurasian steppes.

On the Eurasian Steppe, pastoralists needed to move their animals to new locations every few days or weeks to ensure the livestock had access to sufficient herbage that had not yet been eaten down.1

Because having a large group camped in one place made daily travel between pastures excessively long for lactating animals, steppe pastoralists typically dispersed into small kinship groups during most of the year. In addition to these frequent, short-term movements, historic nomadic populations also followed fixed seasonal patterns, migrating up and down mountain slopes or across open country for distances of up to 400–500 miles.1