Great video, thank you. If your farm is small scale then my 3 sheep on 1 acre must be a micro-mini…🤣

@Shadowfate93

2 ай бұрын

How does that work got you? I've got an acre I'd like to put a pairs of ewes on it

Great video! Thank you folks!

Just found this, very informative! *New Sub*

jist found yer channel an subbed,,yer doin what ai wanna do,do ya feed yer flock on the garden in winter ta fertilise? thank ya fer the video

How many inches of pasture do you need before you move them back to that paddock?

mob grazing is usually done at 150,000+ lbs of stocking weight per acre, what research has found is that lowering the stocking weight to roughly 100,000 lbs per acre (intensive grazing, but more reasonable), you improve the animals foraging efficiency and promote better regrowth. you generally only want to give your animals enough pasture for the day, so that way they eat most of it, rather than selectively grazing and wasting a lot of it. looks to me like you might want to increase the stocking rate to get a more even graze. We graze all winter with only a little hay supplement towards the end of the year, you just have to stockpile the pastures before winter, even if it snows, the sheep will push the snow aside to get to it (as long as the snow isn't ridiculously deep or covered in ice). that should reduce the amount of hay you need to feed, and make your flock more profitable. You can incorporate livestock into a garden system, but it requires land rotation. you rotate land out of cash crop production and into annual grazing cover crops, and rotate the sheep through, and then in following year(s) rotate it back to cash crops. as long as you had your weeds under control before you seed it to grazing, the sheep and annual cover crops will keep it under control. there is another way that I have played around with, but it requires more land and it to be seeded to perennials for a couple of years, then mold board plowed to terminate the perennial grasses and immediately seeded to an annual grazing mix, then cash cropped for a year.

@mezenman

4 жыл бұрын

So would you suggest a smaller area to graze? Would that increase the stocking rate?

@wildrangeringreen

4 жыл бұрын

@@mezenman yes, you decrease the paddock size until you hit the desired rate. for example, if you have 20, 150lb sheep on 1 acre, you have a stocking rate of 3000lbs / ac. However, if you reduce their paddock size to roughly .1 acres with the same flock, you increase the stocking rate to 30,000 lbs/ac. Decrease yet again to .03 acres (1307 sqft), you achieve a stocking rate of 100,000 lbs/ac. Obviously, you will want to move them at least daily with that small of a paddock. Also by using portable fencing, you can manipulate your paddock size and rotation in relation to the growth rate of the pastures. Two channels to look at for solid grazing advise are "KY Forages" and Greg Judy's channel

Smart about the parasites!

I have 13 as well how big of paddocks are you using?

They look like they're in fantastic condition. What breed? Have you ever followed them with poultry after.? That's what I'd really like to do. Chicken tractors two days later.

@notillgrowers

6 жыл бұрын

Countrymouse Farmhouse thank you! We have followed animals with chickens before a lobg tine ago (in our internship) and I've been considering trying again. We tried it with the ducks but they are so insulated that fencing them is a joke--they just get out. I love that idea, though. The more diversity, the merrier!

@russsherwood5978

4 жыл бұрын

chicken woud werk if ya follow 4 or 5 days afta the grazers

@servantsavior

4 жыл бұрын

russ sherwood I am new to all of this so i have a dumb question. What is the benefit of following the grazing with chickens?

@countrymousesfarmhouse497

4 жыл бұрын

@@servantsavior to reduce the pest load. Chicken can eat fly larvae and all the other poo loving insects, ticks, they spread manure so benefits the pasture, feeding the chickens as they go and reduces the feed bill for them too

Are you trying to intense grasing or mob grasing? Are your patics to large? What does it look like after they gased for a day?

@notillgrowers

6 жыл бұрын

More intensive than mob. If mob grazing I would need to move them more than once per every 48 hours and need a shade house (i take advantage of our trees for that now). I do, however, sometimes mob them up to beat down brush. So most of our paddocks simply look grazed and partially flattened after a move, not "mulched" like in mob grazing. Plus cattle are generally better at the mob effect (in my experience) than sheep. I want a mix one day of cattle and sheep for that reason though! Thanks!

Do you have to worry about water?

Is this possible with two or three sheep and half an acre of pasture?

@mihacurk

Жыл бұрын

I think that even with very good pasture that would be too many sheep there.

Do you need to feed anything other than Grass .. ?

Do you get much more sheep per acre the more often you rotate them?

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

The more you increase the protein and quality of your feed, yes.

What is the size of each paddock and how many sheep in each paddock.

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

The paddocks change depending on the season. Sq footage is not always easy to measure but were using three or four 164 nets at any given time so they can be around 18,000 sq ft and up to 26,000. We have 13 sheep. Our pasture can habdle 18 but we are hoping in a few years that the grass will improve enough for more!

Do you seed or it grows naturally ? Coz that look pretty good.

@sycamorefarm

6 ай бұрын

Doylulime0togelpcontrolweeds?

@sycamorefarm

6 ай бұрын

Do youlime to ehelp contolweeds

do they sleep outside?

id make thinne strips so they stamp on more grass

Terrific vid! Did you sow the grasses or let them develop naturally? Also, I understand your no-till approach, but did you maybe till the first time at seeding? or? Thanks in advanced

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. We did not sow grasses, though I have sown clover over a few places where there is the invasive lespedeza. But yes, a one time tillage of minerals and compost into the soil is sometimes necessary to get soil organic matter increased or simply because you are transitioning. Depends on soil type and what it needs!

Rotational grazing versus mob grazing is it basically the same?

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

So rotational grazing is basically a genre. In other words, mob grazing is a type of rotational grazing but rotational grazing doesn’t necessarily mean that person is mob grazing. Someone can rotationally graze between just two or three paddocks, which is a very different thing than mob grazing. What we do isn’t quite mob grazing though, it’s more Management intensive grazing. Both of which are rotational grazing styles. That make sense?

@sleepybearpermaculture1936

3 жыл бұрын

Mob grazing generally entails a lot of weight on a very small acerage for a super short duration. Look up Greg Judy, he does this maybe better than anyone. He sometimes moves his cows and sheep two times daily, or at least once when using this “mob” method.

How much land do you have that you working with

@donaldpedigo296

3 жыл бұрын

... 00:52 ... he said he has about 6-acres of pasture that he uses for the Sheep ..

I'm vegetarian and wondering if herding sheep just for milk and wool is a feasible business model or even sustenance farming model. I am also wondering if sheep would actually eat hemp if it was sowed and if they would produce milk containing CBD.

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t know about the hemp or the CBD in milk though probably when it is young they would eat it. And yes, with the right business plan sheep can be profitable. For milk is tough. Sheeps milk is generally is a cheese milk, so there would be that extra bit of processing or finding a cheese maker. There are societies who drink it but I think the yields are fairly low? Local wool is in high demand, though you would have to either be a killer spinner or have a good source of someone who can put it in skeens.

@sebastiencormier4306

5 жыл бұрын

There's no non textile use for unspun wool? Sheep milk makes the best ice cream ever and great yoghurt. These are not as complicated as cheese making. I think sheep milk would be popular if people were aware of it's per volume nutritional superiority to cow and goat milk.

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

@@sebastiencormier4306 agreed! I think so too. And as for non textiles yes. It's used for insulation and maybe other things? Not sure the profitability there

@jaimetello9487

4 жыл бұрын

Omg really vegetarian eat meat.... Whats the big deal are u trying to save a tree cuz sheep cows bears are not dummy

@user-wc5ol8ov7k

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, in middle asia people dont feed a sheep for one day, than give it hemp, and afterwards, they take the shit from the sheep and smoke it! It becomes way stronger than hemp originally was.

What type of grass?

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

As many different varities as can grow locally mixed with legumes!

@vinay4182

5 жыл бұрын

Rough Draft Farmstead I am from India.pls tell what type of grasses u r growing..how much yeild will come per acre in a year.

@notillgrowers

5 жыл бұрын

Yield depends on the quality of your forage, climate, type of animal, etc.. I can't be much help there. As for grass types, we have wild vetch, clover, Timothy, johnsongrass, grease grass, orachard grass, and at least thirty other varieties. Plus lots of wildflowers. I recommend researching indigenous grasses in your area and sowing poor pastures with clover and perrenial legumes. Quality of forage may take time to improve.

@vinay4182

5 жыл бұрын

Rough Draft Farmstead thx

Have you thought of using a dog to help you? They can help you when they escape! I use working Aussies on my flock

Any predator's you have to defend from

Where your address?