You can graze sheep with one wire once they are trained to it. I started with netting, then went to 3 poly wires, then 2 and now I just use one wire 30 cm off the ground. Makes life a lot easier if you are moving 1-2 times per day.
From what I learned from watching several other channels especially Justin Rhodes is that sheep should not be grazing down that close to the soil. That's how you get worm overload. Too many animals in one small space even though they're moved twice a day. Too many different manures concentrated to small area to force grazing. Scary. But that's none of my business. Good luck with your Intensive grazing techniques.
The sheep wont get worms if there is a long rest period for the pasture which is the whole point of this type of grazing. Also the mix of different animals will reduce the pest burden as for example sheep parasites cannot survive in cattle and vice versa.
No no, if you were watching Rhodes' videos from when he first started with his sheep to the time that they succumbed to worm load, you would've noticed--as I did--how he made a big mistake of going over the same are that was previously grazed about a month ago by those same sheep. That's how they got their worm loads; Rhodes forgot (or just didn't know at the time) to allow for a long enough (or longer than what he thought was "best") rest period to get those parasites to die out before the sheep returned again. Big whoopsie right there that literally cost lives. See, just as Forester explained, it's *not* the grazing down that close to the soil that is the problem. It's the **timing** as to when those sheep were last there, that's what counts. When they're going back over the same poop piles that were put there by them just three or four weeks ago, most definitely they're going to get infected with worms. But if a person manages their pastures so that those sheep aren't coming back for *at least* two, three, or four months (or much longer), then they're much less likely to get those worms and get infested. If I remember correctly, it was about 3 to 4 weeks later that the sheep were back grazing over where Justin had started to put them. In the back of my mind, I had an inclining that that was a trainwreck waiting for a place to happen. Be damned if I wasn't right on that hunch. (I don't believe he put the cattle on that same area either, which was another whoopsie he made...)
You can graze sheep with one wire once they are trained to it. I started with netting, then went to 3 poly wires, then 2 and now I just use one wire 30 cm off the ground. Makes life a lot easier if you are moving 1-2 times per day.
I really enjoy and find Jim’s videos useful!
Thanks, i also saw Allan Savary and Joel Salaton and Richard Perkins and this al makes sense for me.
Hello. I love the content with Jim Elizondo, more please. Where is Rocco's farm located?
From what I learned from watching several other channels especially Justin Rhodes is that sheep should not be grazing down that close to the soil. That's how you get worm overload. Too many animals in one small space even though they're moved twice a day. Too many different manures concentrated to small area to force grazing. Scary.
But that's none of my business.
Good luck with your Intensive grazing techniques.
The sheep wont get worms if there is a long rest period for the pasture which is the whole point of this type of grazing. Also the mix of different animals will reduce the pest burden as for example sheep parasites cannot survive in cattle and vice versa.
No no, if you were watching Rhodes' videos from when he first started with his sheep to the time that they succumbed to worm load, you would've noticed--as I did--how he made a big mistake of going over the same are that was previously grazed about a month ago by those same sheep. That's how they got their worm loads; Rhodes forgot (or just didn't know at the time) to allow for a long enough (or longer than what he thought was "best") rest period to get those parasites to die out before the sheep returned again. Big whoopsie right there that literally cost lives.
See, just as Forester explained, it's *not* the grazing down that close to the soil that is the problem. It's the **timing** as to when those sheep were last there, that's what counts. When they're going back over the same poop piles that were put there by them just three or four weeks ago, most definitely they're going to get infected with worms. But if a person manages their pastures so that those sheep aren't coming back for *at least* two, three, or four months (or much longer), then they're much less likely to get those worms and get infested.
If I remember correctly, it was about 3 to 4 weeks later that the sheep were back grazing over where Justin had started to put them. In the back of my mind, I had an inclining that that was a trainwreck waiting for a place to happen. Be damned if I wasn't right on that hunch. (I don't believe he put the cattle on that same area either, which was another whoopsie he made...)