maintaining animal performance in a drought part 2

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  • @WholesomeFamilyFarms
    @WholesomeFamilyFarms 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great job George! All this talk is getting me excited for the upcoming grazing season! Have a great day!

    • @georgeheller2281
      @georgeheller2281  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks Jordan, was a good experience, and confidence builder. Have a great day.

  • @markodeen4105
    @markodeen4105 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks again for sharing George!

    • @georgeheller2281
      @georgeheller2281  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for watching

    • @jimsgardensandrabbitry
      @jimsgardensandrabbitry 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing, George. For me, the proof is in the animals that you raise. There were a couple main things that could have been brought up but could tell you were nervous. One important thing is and what I am trying to get a friend of mine to do, is stop using the hay rings. With the hay unroller, you avoid a huge pile that takes years to decompose and to start growing grass again. Also, using the unroller, you are seeding that whole area. So, with the little hay that is not eaten, manure, from the sheep and cows, a nitrogen source spread out along the pasture naturally, and broadcasting seed. Win, win.

    • @georgeheller2281
      @georgeheller2281  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks Jim, you seem to understand this type of management quite well. It is the way things were done in the past, for some reason in our infinite wisdom, we have lost our way, and now we need to find it again.

    • @jimsgardensandrabbitry
      @jimsgardensandrabbitry 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@georgeheller2281 brother, I love you in the Lord and I thank you for your concerns for farms of all kinds and size.
      One only has to stop and look at nature. The Creator founded this exact method you are using. When we till the ground. When we strip the vegetation from the top, what is there to feed the soil. When we stop and look at nature and how things are done without us getting in the way and changing things, it should awaken us.
      I worked dairy farms a good part of my life. I chopped hundreds of acers of corn. Hayed from the first of June through to, sometimes November here in Maine. Yes, we spread tons of cow manure and chicken manure that was trucked up from southern Maine, but where was the carbon? God fertilized with leaves and decomposing plant matter.
      Blessings to you and your family.

    • @markodeen4105
      @markodeen4105 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@georgeheller2281 Better living through chemistry!
      It seemed so cheap and efficient to just add an amendment rather than the "old way".

  • @marvinbaier3627
    @marvinbaier3627 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video! You did a great job. You got a lot of the highlighted topics covered in a very thorough and easy learning way. I need to do soil tests too. I like to see where I started and see the progress to get there. I did a few lick tubs just because the hay wasn’t the best I bought. This coming fall I think I found a great hay person. I was going to use him last year but he was worried of not having enough hay for himself.

    • @georgeheller2281
      @georgeheller2281  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Having a good hay producer is a good thing.

  • @joesphbarrington4703
    @joesphbarrington4703 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really appreciated this video. Timely too!

  • @SolarSolaceFarms
    @SolarSolaceFarms 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Good job George!

  • @french-canadianfarmer5049
    @french-canadianfarmer5049 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This would have been much better in person. You did a nice job. How many people were you speaking to?

    • @georgeheller2281
      @georgeheller2281  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was only about a dozen people, but was a good experience. Thanks for watching Guy.