The sheep flock is eating everything!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- The sheep flock is eating everything! Once sheep get trained to moving with a hot wire, all parts of your farm are open to grazing. The key is to not let them get hungry. Check out my books on our website: greenpasturesfarm.net for more grazing tips.
Good job Mrs Green Pastures keeping Greg organized..
Thank you, felt like I was right beside the two of you on a nice walk.
Always a treat watching these scenic videos. Mad love from Sudan
Thanks Greg, I look forward to your video's
What sweet music!!! Every day I appreciate you more and more. I hope y’all have a great 4th of July God bless
Vito wish you the best on your 4th of July as well!
Jan & you make an excellent team… Bravo 🎉
Beautiful pasturing abundance, just love this work.
Can I just say, I felt so honored meeting Jan at the South Poll Conference? I know she was busy, but I was so pleased to have met her. Y'all talking together about the flock sounds like the kind of conversations Rog and I had about our cattle herd. Can't wait to get back to it again.
Natasha, we both felt honored to meet you and Rog as well. May our paths cross again one of these days!
Awesome episode on sheep!
Thank you. You are inspiring and helpful
So fantastic!! We just bought a bigger farm and as I'm learning all the different kinds of forage, I'm coming to realize we have alot of toxic plants- hemp dogbane, nightshade and some white snakeroot & buttercups. The hemp dogbane and the buttercups are the absolute worst. Super frustrating
Its lovely to see you and your Mrs interact. We don't have alot of farms here in tiny Singapore, but I do enjoy watching your videos. Love from Singapore.
Haha... I'm from Singapore too and I wait and see every videos from Greg's daily uploads since I started following regenerative agriculture... the conditions are different in this tropical parts of the world but I see big potential for arid regions in Asia like Australia, North India, Pakistan, Midlands Burma and perhaps Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia and many Stan lands in central Asia
@@GhanashyamGhimire absolutely works everywhere it's tried. Are you really from Singapore or are you teasing. Keep watching Greg
What an incredibly beautiful, hidden field corridor and bordering trees. I'd love to walk there. Those particular cedar trees look deep, dark and mysterious.... Like the sylvan folk of Middle Earth will pop out at the trees edge at any moment. Heh.
Always seems to be a black sheep in most flocks. Curious. I wonder why that is? I know we certainly have one VERY black sheep in our human 'flock'!!! I'd gladly trade her for a real sheep any day... LoL....
May I so honorably and humbly say....."first" LOLOLOLOL
Do you have a list for the best plants to spread them in my farm especially when we have little rain give me best mix for my goat, sheep and camel
Do they go into the woods durring storms? Im wondering if we should provide shelter for our sheep since we dont have woods in some pastures.
Beautiful.
What's your method for stickweed? (some say yellow crownbeard). High density?
I'm an idiot...I just get in from doing evening chores, checking cattle and sheep, sit down at the desktop and turn on youtube where Greg is showing sheep eating and I still can't help but watch and enjoy it. Uh huh, Greg's grazing school broke something in my head....probably when my head exploded during one of the pasture walks from all the knowledge transfer. lol
They look good Greg, very few problems here with mine. Not completely "problem free" but the few issues have been my fault from pushing them a little hard on mature forage. They've done really well so far. I sat a bucket down this evening for a second and somehow a ewe ended up with the bail around her neck....that was an adventure to say the least. She was running from the clanging bucket, the others were running from her and her clanging bucket and all she wanted was the safety of the middle of the flock. It looked for all the world as if she was chasing the flock trying to induce pasture wide chaos out of some sick twisted sense of humor. Then there was me, chasing her trying to get the bucket off from around her neck. Shoulda had that on video, viral video guaranteed. ROFL.
That would have made a great video!!
You'd me a millionaire if you had that on video lol.
Thank you for your video. I was wondering about your ironweed. Is it the one with purple flowers that is food for the painted lady butterfly? If so do you try rotating so that the flower forage was available for bees & butterflies? I am wondering about managing these wild flowers, because we need them to reseed - but there seeds are in there with everything else that needs to be eaten up. It's tricky.
Absolutely beautiful. Just outta curiosity, why don't you want to call forage 'feed?'
Some folks may be mistaken into thinking feed is "grain"!
I need to find a source for a few of these St Croix sheep. I’m just starting out on leased land.
Hey Greg love your stuff I need to buy your book. I just made some profit selling my home, moved to North Carolina. I keep looking around for land. About 40 acres where I am at the most. I’ve been in health care for 13 years really want to get out and start regen ranching I love the thought of it. So which book would you recommend for me to read and also I can’t for the life of me find any conservative estimates of how much I can make hoping into this, any ideas on how much one could make on 40 acres?
Is any particular animal known to be more profitable per acre? I know there are many differences, but wondering if one is more efficient in general. And how is the comparison between goats and sheep? I know goats love to test the fences.
Rabbits where I live.
Just wondering...do you have to do hoof maintenance or your cows or sheep ?
You answered in video. Thanx 😉🇨🇦
No we never trim any hooves on any animals. Our animals are walking a lot every day of their lives, hoofs keep worn down.
Is there a minimum amount of sheep a LGD needs in order for them not to wander and feel like they have a job?
Unfortunately you are 14 hrs from me. Do you have resources for a place to get a quality Ram? We would love to cross breed it to our katahdin sheep.
I believe you can get the same poly braid from Plastic Innovation (Timeless Fence). I got 12 rolls of it from them in the fall. It's besides polypropylene with the 6 as and 3 tined copper. I can attest, it's super stuff
I know you don’t like wooly sheep but what do you think of Texels ? Thanks I enjoy your videos
Do you have any video's on your castrating process for ram lambs?
awesome!!
Do you get trouble with ticks ?
We de-tick ourselves everyday.
If not dorpers, what would you recommend for a hair sheep for small homesteads.
Katahdin or St Croix breed
Do you ever have issues with ticks/lyme disease with the forage being so tall? Especially with the guardian dogs? I'm moving to a farm in PA that has ticks, wondering how to deal with it
We use Front Line on our dogs for ticks, works well. On ourselves we pick off ticks almost everyday. You have to be very diligent and really inspect every nook and cranny on your body!!
Are you gonna put goats in the flock? Maybe 10 or so for cleaning up brush?
Goats and sheep share the same parasite. Goats tend to wander off our farm. They woukd laugh at our 1 hot wire fence to keep them in. They will train our sheep to cross the single hot wire!!
There’s 2 types of goats. One that has gotten out and the other type is the one that hasn’t gotten out. We had a few goats and they were a pain because they liked to push, jump, and climb the fence. They work together so they can get out.
What do they NOT like there - I want to plant what they DON'T eat, for my open garden.
Looks like I need some of those weed eaters!! Our horses and cows only eat the sweet stuff leaving all the weeds to take over...
I'd love to be able to get some St Croix sheep it's impossible to find over southern Ohio
curious....do you feed your dogs or are they hunters?
No we have a self feeder for our guardian dogs. In this hot summer weather, they really cut back on what they eat. Cold winter weather, their appetite dramatically increases.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher do you think they might be hunting some rats or rabbits they find in the paddocks during the summer months? Or is it just natural for outdoor dogs to eat less in the summer. I know we burn off more calories in winter just keeping our bodies warm, but I wondered if the abundance of life during summer might impact your semi- wild guard dogs feeding habits as well.
I keep hearing about bloat. Is that as big a problem as I am seeing online?
We don’t have bloat problems, by keeping a diversity of plants in our pastures bloat is not an issue.
Do you check feet for breeding program?
Dose it hurt the sheep to give them a wormer as an insurance policy of sorts?
From what I've heard, the de-wormers will kill the life in the soil. That is not what you want to do.
@@danbusse4089 Also, you are creating sheep that are dependent on it
Think they would eat kudzu? I had some hair sheep, but bought a junk one that had foot rot it was all over with.
My St. Croix sheep love Kudzu. It is one of the first things they eat.
@@danbusse4089 I have a bunch of it! Its so invasive. I hear that foot rot bacteria gets in your ground and barns and takes awhile to leave. Its been a year since I had the sheep. Its a shame too I was up to around 30. My goal was to have around 100 ewes. I want that stuff to die out before trying again. Mine were the katahdin.
skoal022 I believe greg vaccinates his sheep for foot rot, but he also has enough land to keep his flock moving so that they don’t have to be in the same area. Sucks you lost your whole flock.
@@moavic5087 Yes, that's a very good to keep em moving. I have about 200 acres and 40 acres of pasture. Getting water everywhere is my problem at the moment. I have two ponds but thats not enough. I have to either build more ponds or drill a well and try pumping it. I kept my Jenny she was raised with the sheep. I don't know how she would act now its been a year.
WHAT PLANTS SHOULD I MAKE SURE I DO NOT HAVE IN A SHEEP AND COW PADDOCK ?
Make sure you move your animals regularly onto fresh pasture. Animals will not intentionally kill themselves. Its when animals get hungry that they eat poisionous plants. Don't let that happen.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thank you, I was just wanting to remove them to begin with.
Around me in Central Alberta just about everyone who has sheep grazes the grass right down like a golf course green.
People are sooo set in their ways. I hope enough people 'see the light' and change! Yeah, I used to think that, that was just what sheep do!!! LoL..... I was watching some videos of old cattlemen. There's no way to change them! It's "heritage".... Gotta educate the younguns and have 'em make a lot of money. That'll do it!
Have you ever come across a sheep/ goat hybrid?
Do you vaccinate your sheep for CD&t?
no
Sheeeeep!
They look like goats.
...in the book of Genesis...Jacob was separating from Laban and so they divided their flocks...there was a narrative about the feed of the sheep/goats...where Jacob took the spotted sheep...and prospered...this video had me reading my Bible for more education on genetics and forges in those times...similarity??
Think they would eat kudzu? I had some hair sheep, but bought a junk one that had foot rot it was all over with.
My Saint Croix sheep just love Kudzu. It is one of the first things they will eat.