Love your videos bro

thanks! clear figures, good info

@FreedomFarmsMo

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, and glad you enjoyed it and found it useful

Growing your own fertilizer this year is definitely a plus. Some fertilizer so far this year is up 400% and you gotta have it or people can't eat. Great and informative video. I think you did a great job. You guys take care and God Bless. Happy Easter.

@FreedomFarmsMo

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chester! They are sky high for sure. God bless you all too and happy Easter!

Hi mate thanks for the catch up , most ppl including me don't realise the cost involved thanks for sharing your journey and progress stay safe and take care till next time

@FreedomFarmsMo

2 жыл бұрын

Glad we are teaching others too. Sure am trying to keep it educational and entertaining. Thanks for watching Hulk! Take care

Incredible set up! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

@FreedomFarmsMo

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, we have come a long way since we started 5 years ago! God has blessed us to say the least!

Good job man,always good

@FreedomFarmsMo

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

@kenanibranovic6602

2 жыл бұрын

@@FreedomFarmsMo everything is so expensive now days unbelievable, here in Florida prices crazy on feeds

@FreedomFarmsMo

2 жыл бұрын

It's insane to say the least

All I know is that we can’t get too caught up in the money. We don’t live according to this world. When God spoke to my husband and I to stop looking for a job for him, take our kids out of school, buy a farm (with 0 experience!) and teach them life skills we were a bit freaked out at first but He’s NEVER let us down! We’re on year 3 with rabbits, chickens, sheep and pigs. We grow much of our own food and growing more each year. Follow your heart, build what God gives you and you’ll never get “behind”! 😉

@FreedomFarmsMo

Жыл бұрын

I agree don't get caught up in the money, but don't be irresponsible either. God always has a plan for us but sometimes we get ourselves in trouble and try to do what we want instead of following his path. Glad you all are doing well and keep it up.

How is the ventilation? Do you have fans to move air? How many times do you clean out the manure?

@FreedomFarmsMo

Жыл бұрын

There is no ventilation, the doors stay open on nice days, but are closed nearly the entire month of January. The floors are scraped every two weeks and fresh bedding put down.

thank you for the videos, very informative. I recently adopted four 3 months old Lambs (2 ewes, and 2 lamb ram). My intent is to keep them in confinement because where I lived there's Mt. Lion, Bob Cat, and Coyotes, so to keep them safe I opted to have them in confinement. I do have a question, since my lamb are still young, and I keep all four together, but in a couple of months I need to separate the ewes and the ram. I plan to build the ram shelter about 20 feet from the ewes shelter, do you think it will be an issue during breeding period because its to close to each other? I don't plan to breed my ewes til next season. Any information you give is greatly appreciated.

@FreedomFarmsMo

4 ай бұрын

You are very welcome, glad to see you are finding them useful. As far as keeping them separated during times you don't want them to breed as long as there isn't a way from them to escape you should be fine, for the most part if sheep are content where they are at they don't really attempt to escape unless they are missing food or water, or a lamb escapes. I think you would be fine honestly.

Why did you choose a pole shed versus a hope barn?

@FreedomFarmsMo

Жыл бұрын

Cost and longevity. It was far cheaper for my wife and I to build a barn than to hire a crew to erect and stretch the fabric for a hoop barn. Plus hoop barns need the fabric replaced every so many years. The metal is good for at least 40 years.

Can a person get just one sheep? I have an acre and a half, is that enough?

@FreedomFarmsMo

2 жыл бұрын

You really shouldn't get just one. They are a herd animal meaning they need more sheep to live with. An acre and a half can support 2 pretty easily assuming it is decent ground with grass growing on most of it. If you do not have multiple pastures setup though you will have lots of issues worms.

If you are making your own hay and spreading the manure back on that land, the only positive nutrient gain comes from the 12 tons of concentrate you purchased. When you export sheep and lambs from the farm, you losing a small amount of nutrients. Your concept of sheep in confinement providing fertilizer instead of having to purchase commercial fertilizer is not correct. You are only recycling what has been removed from your land with probably some loss. I graze my whole farm and purchase all the hay and concentrates. By doing so, I am importing nutrients on to my farm. The grazing sheep deposit manure back onto the land (granted it is not a totally even distribution) and manure from animals in confinement is spread on areas that have lower fertility. Sheep that are out wintered are fed harvested feed when grazing isn't available in areas where I want to increase soil fertility. Over a few decades of doing this, my pastures have a carrying capacity that is 3 times that of the Forest Service grazing land across the road.

@FreedomFarmsMo

2 жыл бұрын

If you listen closely you hear us say it minimizes the fertilizer inputs for our farm. According to soil tests which have not led us astray yet. We never said it makes it to where you don't need outside fertilizer sources. Your grazing setup is a great process to build and maintain soil. Our rotational grazing program the other 9 months of the year that the sheep are not in the barn has done amazing without us adding fertilizer to any pastures. We do add lime but that is it.

@therealsideburnz

Жыл бұрын

Also depends what you’re growing. If you grown a lot of nitrogen fixers in your fields you’re getting something from that as well

😂

@FreedomFarmsMo

Жыл бұрын

What's so funny?