Hey Y'all! Thanks for joining us on this third episode! The sheep have been a lot of fun to add and we are excited about the impact they are having on our operation! Please hit that like button on the video, it helps a ton! More episodes to come! Drop us any questions or comments below. Thanks!

@gardenersgraziers7261

Жыл бұрын

YOU DO not need 8 barbs for sheep = Check out Charles Massy Regenerative Grazing Interview with Tim Thompson (KZread) to see how he is using a few plain wires (not hot) to hold his sheep in Australia = PROVEN

Don’t forget how effective Guard llamas are ! No extra food needed nor training . They are amazing at protecting sheep and goats .

@rbu2136

Жыл бұрын

Lol going to have to look that up. We run Kangals for animal protection. But llamas? Made me smile. Will check.

@roberthicks9191

Жыл бұрын

Do they attack guard dogs?

Finally, nice to hear something with at least some positivity about ranching/farming.

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

So happy to see more and more ranchers use sheep. They are better grazers than cows.

I have been researching for the better part of 9 months of getting sheep. This has only added more fuel to my enthusiasm for getting sheep. I wish you would cover more about how others can get into it and how to start. I know there is so so much more to cover. I would gladly help in any way to anyone who needs it.

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Hey Garrett! Adding sheep has been a good experience for us so far, and you are right, there is a ton of info to cover. We are working on lots of new things. In the mean time here are a few interesting articles that might be of a little more help. www.noble.org/legacy/going-where-no-sheep-has-gone-before/ www.noble.org/regenerative-agriculture/producer-perspectives/7-lessons-we-learned-when-we-added-sheep-to-our-regenerative-ranch/ www.noble.org/regenerative-agriculture/livestock/how-to-set-up-your-ranch-to-diversify-species-and-income/

@gardenersgraziers7261

Жыл бұрын

YOU DO not need 8 barbs for sheep = Check out Charles Massy Regenerative Grazing Interview with Tim Thompson (KZread) to see how he is using a few plain wires (not hot) to hold his sheep in Australia = PROVEN

@ladyryan902

Жыл бұрын

@ Garrett Nichols..hi I know I'm catching this month's later but I follow a channel called The Shepardess.young lady is doing it with her sheep and I watch salad in..lol I'm waiting to find land big enough 😄

Appreciate the videos. Great work. As a sheep farmer it was great to see this. Thanks

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Hey Brett! Thanks so much!

Great video on introducing hair sheep to a cow/calf ranch .

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kevin!

Beautiful place, love this video so much😁🇲🇨

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

very excellent work, farming is one of the best work ever.. watching from Philippines

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 👍 Much appreciated!

Who created & produced this series? The cinematography, editing & voiceovers are amazing

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great compliment Joe, we have a staff video specialist that is working on producing this series.

@JoeCinocca

Жыл бұрын

@@NobleResearchInstitute It’s been a very long time, since I’ve seen something produced this well in OK. Maybe my time in Cali has changed me, but the production values are stupid good. Will there be Seasons or running episodes.

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeCinocca Hey Joe! Again, thanks for the compliments! We have a couple more episodes to release yet before the end of the year, but we plan on continuing the series into 2023 for sure.

@JoeCinocca

Жыл бұрын

@@NobleResearchInstitute YES!!!!

@rbu2136

Жыл бұрын

Agree this was really well done. Thought I was watching a PBS show.

Something I don't understand: Using these practices with no tilling - how would grain etc farmers manage to plant the seeds? As well as control what else would grow there as in Unwanted anything. My ancestors started homesteading a long time ago and the last of the family farmers is now in a nursing home, age 92. Great Channel⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Hey Thanks! We utilize a no-till seed drill to plant all of our cover crops. The same can be used for commercial planting as well. We are actually going to be testing a new method for cover crop planting in an upcoming cover crop video this fall! Stay tuned for that!

@ethimself5064

Жыл бұрын

@@NobleResearchInstitute Would this include wheat crops etc?

@cacosta6294

Жыл бұрын

@@ethimself5064 yeah John Deere makes no till seeders

@ethimself5064

Жыл бұрын

@@cacosta6294 Fk John Deere

@honeybadger8942

Жыл бұрын

@@ethimself5064 I hope you inherited the family homestead.

I like your videos! BTW, what brand shirts do you guys wear?

Barn kitties in the equipment is a real problem. They go for the warm engine compartment.

I have been set on homestead sheep for a long time. Just need the homestead to put them on. Goals.

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Good goals to have!

Thank you so much for these videos. I've contemplated sheep or gosts for a few months but one of my biggest concerns is I just put in a new 5 strand barb wire fence for my cows. At the beginning of this you said you put in an 8 strand fence but then talked about a single strand hot wire. I'm assuming the 8 strand is perimeter and the hit wire is temporary fencing? I'd rather not add a netwire type of fence because I have a stockpile of barbed wire. Does 8 strands work? Also on the hot wire, what height did you settle on? I saw a video from someone else who said tilting the posts in works well with 2 strands.

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Hey great questions! So those perimeter fences with the 8 strands is a huge safety for us. They are next to a cliff drop off and so we wanted to make sure nothing would squeeze through. We have seen goats easily jump over our three strand polywire fence that stands about 3 foot tall. We do have some pastures that have barbed wire but most of them are perimeter fences. All of our paddocks are built just using a single strand of polywire with a charger. Some we use portable chargers and some have supplied power. Both work great. If you can buy sheep that have already been trained to single polywire fences, then that is a great way to go. If not you will want to put them in training pins and spend some time training them to it. Currently we don't have videos on that yet, but something in the works for next year. Right now we have found that we can build pastures that will last them a week and then move them to the next one. Realistically the single strand fencing is a mental barrier. They can and do get out on occasion and most of the time go back with the flock. With the single strand we have seen that they will duck it rather than jump it, so lower is better. We have ours around 18(ish) inches off the ground.

@gardenersgraziers7261

Жыл бұрын

YOU DO not need 8 barbs for sheep = Check out Charles Massy Regenerative Grazing Interview with Tim Thompson (KZread) to see how he is using a few plain wires (not hot) to hold his sheep in Australia = PROVEN

Also, they produce wool and are delicious.

And one more question- how do i decide on sheep or goats? Is that the next video?

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Another great question! The biggest decision maker between the two is to determine what available forage you have. Goats eat more brush and forbes (weeds) and a little grass. So if you have brush that you want to get control of, that is what would work best. Sheep do not utilize brush very well. Their diet is probably 50% grass and 50% forbes. So if that is the type of forage you have available, sheep would work best. We will have a video about our goats but it won't be till later down the road.

@jamesobryan3258

Жыл бұрын

I have cattle and goats and added some ewe lambs in August. Goats are harder to keep in. They also have different nutritional needs which, if not met, do create health problems. If you have a lot of brush you may want to start out with mostly goats with a few sheep and as the goats clean out the brush (it doesn’t take long) you will have an adapted sheep flock ready to take over.

I always wonder what the market is for sheep and goat? Where do people sell them? Milk and meat both or one or the other?

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Ours are usually sold for meat.

@jamieblevins8488

Жыл бұрын

@@NobleResearchInstitute like to farmers markets or to stores or something?

Are you guys going to harvest the wool?

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Hey Deborah, our sheep are dorper sheep which are a haired sheep that shed themselves. Much lower maintenance level than wool sheep.

I've heard an old story if your fence can't hold water they can't hold goats and I have goats and I believe it they will go right straight through barbed wire

Grazers are good for weed control.

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Yes they are! They have been pretty impactful in helping us utilize the forage that our cows won't eat.

Are those St. Croix?

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

Are sheep are dorper.

@elizabethblane201

Жыл бұрын

@@NobleResearchInstitute Ah! White dorpers.

You should run the cows, then follow them with the sheep. the sheep eat what the cows won't and it helps with parsites.

@NobleResearchInstitute

Жыл бұрын

After we moved them down to our Red River Ranch, that is what we have been doing for the most part. It has been working out great. It also allows the cows to trample down some areas that the sheep may not venture into before, but the cows create some paths for them.

American blackbelly are a tougher type of sheep

English is not my first language but the term "learning curve" was used where the word "lesson" was appropriate. I admit, I might not have learned English exactly how it is spoken in America.