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Thanks. I didn't notice but now that you say it, I think you might be right.

It will be a month before the sheep finish their rotation. When they do, I'll merge the ewes with the cows and the calves. I'll separate out the steer I plan to finish to be with the bulls.

I'm going to merge the ewes with the cows and I might do back fencing. I'm finding that if I graze more densely, the manure is enough deterrent to avoid back grazing.

Done. I should've done this a while ago. I'll be posting videos with thinner rows soon.

Wonder how similar the CJB and your translation are...

I'll have to check it out as I hadn't heard of it yet. I grew up on the KJV but with heavy footnotes with better translations for various words and phrases, so I'm familiar enough with it I don't get too confused.

I'll check it out.

Not yet. The manure still looks good.

Given the drought that killed the hay crop 2 years ago, I'm going to stockpile some hay every year.

Do you have any recommendations?

No, last i used such things was as an intern at Peace Valley Nature Center in suburbs of Philly in the 1990's. You would want something good for your local plants.

I'm going to keep them until April or the hay will run short.

10 kV and 5 kV. The two wires are oppositely charged so if an animal touches both it gets 15 kV.

I seem to have inadvertently trained my calves to jump the wire. I caught one leaping over not to long ago...

Yeah, I can't keep them in the pen for that long. I think keeping a fence between the two for a few days seems to be enough though.

Yep, I was watching storms go right around us all August. Our spring was a little too wet but it's been a dry summer.

NE Texas -- 2hours east of Dallas

NE Texas. We're a lot closer to the Red River.

@@lazycowfarms3322 Im in Hopkins County , Sulphur Springs area , We need rain .

Good question. I try not to compare too much, but there are a few continuously grazes pastures. They are a golf course turning brown with a lot of dead dirt. They have been feeding their animals all year long so far as I can tell.

@@lazycowfarms3322 it is, hopefully, greener on your paddocks, even without much rain. In north central PA, we are blessed with dew more than we were in the suburbs of Philly and Allentown. I am amazed at a neighbor's improved paddocks the last 18 months since they began rotational grazing. Look back and compare your paddocks with when you first began recording. I bet you have improved. It is hard to see changes, when you see daily change. Like little children getting taller, those who see them once a year, really notice their growth spurts, while those who see them daily do not notice the changes as easily. That is where photos or videos can be very helpful to show progress.

@@Marilou-g5t I want to put together a website listing how the field looked on various days of the year throughout the years. I know that I have seen tremendous progress. I don't know that I am to blame for it all as we've had serious droughts the past 3 years, but I believe I had something to do with it. I hope one day to have deep, thick grass taller than the cows!

@@lazycowfarms3322 The neighbor's paddocks had many bare spots and weeds indicating stressed soil. Now their forages are covering the soil and there is a good variety of forages, not just the weedy patches. Comparing soil coverage, sward thickness, sward dry matter, sward variety (indicating varied nutrients available to herd or flock), soil temperatures, worm and dung beetle populations,... ...are some things to gauge progress of being more regenerative.

The rain comes fairly well distributed throughout the year. The last 3 years have been drought though. We got 1.5" on Thursday but otherwise August and most of July was dry as a whistle. This spring was exceptionally wet to the chagrin of hay farmers. You're in BC, right? If it's like the climate of the Pacific Northwest, you get a lot of rainy days but not a lot of rain. I recall that Seattle only gets 12" of rain a year on average. Growing up there, I only recall 2 or 3 days in nearly 40 years of significant rainfall. Down here in NE Texas, we get a storm like that 4 or 5 times a year.

@@lazycowfarms3322 West central BC averages 11" of rain, 76" of snow and 120 frost free days annually... very different circumstances for sure. thanks

I'm glad I chose this place to settle my family and raise animals. Even the hot and miserable days are good for me!

That's something I am going to have to do at some point. I've noticed that grazing west-east or east-west is hurting growth in the middle of my field.

@@lazycowfarms3322 it is like an exercise routine. If not changed a plateau will never be overcome.

Good comparison! By stressing the soil in different ways, we can encourage it to become more resilient to various conditions.

I've listened to a lot of Gerrish and Brown, but not so much Williams and Archuleta. I'll have to add them to the list.

They try to hide their true intentions. But you can tell what they want by what they are doing. If they had noble intentions they would come in through the front door.

The lead bull, the one I left on since July, turns 1 year old (12 months) in August. The backup bull that I brought in September is 2 years old and a few months. If the lead bull did his job, we'll find out in April!

The 2024 heifer calves I will take off are born 2/2 - 3/18. So I should be very safe.

Interestingly, Greg Judy actually recommends rolling the hay out (thin!) on your good pasture when you are starting off. His reasoning was you'll get better growth overall if you focus on improving the good ground first. This winter I'll be rolling out after the grass is all but gone. I'll try to get an even distribution.

I didn't think about mixing the meat and liver / kidneys together in a pie. I'll have to give that a try. I discovered something called "Scrapple" that is made from boiling down the bones and organ meats. I want to incorporate organ meat into my diet. I am told that liver and kidneys have tremendous nutritional value. Another dish I want to learn to make is haggis. I've never tried actual haggis but it sounds like something that would be good for you.

Thanks. I would like Snowball to breed, his puppies seem good, but I wanted to keep Hindungi's genetics too. Unfortunately Snowball was breeding with the dog I wanted Hindungi to breed with. I think she's too young though so I hope the breeding was unsuccessful.

@@lazycowfarms3322 Time will tell!

Yep, it would be dangerous to get between a bull and a cow when the bull hasn't seen a cow for a long time...

I turned my other bull on the cows just to make sure they all get bred.

True!

I think I am going to do that. I'll separate the heifers from the cows so that they don't get bred too early. I'll keep the steer with the bulls just in case.