And what an amazing visit it was! The camera does not do it justice, but witnessing your precious sheep eating from the cedar trees on the hilltop surrounded by the majestic guard dogs with the snowflakes falling in the background was a winter wonderland moment in time we will cherish forever. Thank you for allowing us to share in this awesome experience! Talk to you soon, my friend. Sanga & Grace
Your lectures and YT videos over the years have helped me raise a small goat herd that requires no worming & no hoof trimming. Only approximately $300 in vet bills in 4 years & most of that was fecal labs and only ONE on farm visit. My accountant is always shocked at how low yearly vet bills are. Kidding scheduled for first week of June here in upstate NY and ON PASTURE. None of that kidding in the middle of winter in barns like EVERYONE in NYS seems to love to do. The goats themselves need almost no human intervention. All my free time is spent working on fence tho. lol. Thanks for the great info over the years, always look forward to new videos and I'm very excited that you decided bring goats back onto the farm!!!
Wow that is fantastic management with your grazing operation! Congratulations and keep up the good work. The goats are doing well mixed in with our sheep so far. They are super aggressive toward woody species. I live watching them eat a thorn tree, warms my heart ❤️
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks Greg!! That's means a lot to me and will remember your words of encouragement when working on fence this weekend. Glad to hear that your goats are doing well with the sheep and eating the woody species. I as well love watching them eat and what they eat here on the farm. It's amazing how they use their upper and lower lips and tongues to delicately select exactly what they want on one plant and then two steps later they are using their whole mouth, jaws and teeth to chomp on something woody. A lot of times when working on fence and they are close by I will stop working for a moment and just watch them and listen. It's the best and it too warms my heart!!! They have come to LOVE eating the Brown Knapweed seed heads, tender stalks attached to said seed heads and the small tender leaves on that plant. Big deal for me since it is very invasive here and will crowd out almost anything else. I found a good collection of articles about goat behavior recently. The book is titled "Goat Behavior A Collection of Articles" By Tamsin Cooper. It's a small book but if you don't have it I think it's well worth the money. If you know of any other good books about goat behavior I'm all ears!!!
Snowing in central Missouri-no snow in Northwestern Ontario but rain. A little unusual but we all need the moisture. Happy New Year to Green Pastures Farm.
I get people tell me Greg Judy's method doesn't work here in Michigan, it's too cold, it's too muddy... It's been 40s and 50s here and you have snow. I've been watching your channel for 5 years and I've seen you get some brutal weather. Thank you for being a star and don't get me started on the indoor sheep people.😅
Thanks Grace, Greg always does better with camera-angle-person. We have room for a million more regenerative farmers in TN (but we're getting workers/commuters/apartment houses and 500-home developments instead). I've seen exactly TWO. Hope to catch the one guy who is only two counties away sometime and have a chat. I joined some sheep "groups on FB" after getting enthused by Greg, and saw the most horrific awful sheep problems ever. Pretty much EVERY single person out there is doing all the stuff that Greg Judy says DON'T DO! I don't get it. It's not hard to find this information-at least it wasn't for me just a few years ago when I started studying. I would not plan to own grazers AT ALL had I not learned how much benefit there is from regenerative ranching. I'd seen all the conventional expense, work, degradation of the land for marginal returns...for so many years than I wanted nothing to do with it. I LEFT all those "sheep groups" because it was so heartbreaking seeing all the misery that conventional farming or just plain ignorance put those sheep and their owners through. OMG the goats eat sedge? Whoot! I've got a deal for them! 🤣
Thanks for the video! We got some snow today too. I noticed on our farm you need to move them less than 5-6 days. We had so much forage 2 years ago that we moved them about 6 days or so and we were having parasites problems. We moved them 4 days and didn’t have a problem. We had enough forage in our paddocks we could left them in there 2-3 weeks. We didn’t make them any smaller because it wouldn’t been unfair for the animals of how tiny the paddocks would have been.
I love the Cedar barn! I just saw a post on Season-Long Stockpile by Running T Farm. Looks like a great stockpile method, growing one pasture all season. I wonder if you ever tried it?
Yeah Greg I was watching this one TH-cam channel where this guy was naming off all these poisonous plants that you can't let your goats and sheep eat and he was telling me you can't let him eat boxelder or cedar or acorns or oak leaves or maple leaves cuz it's poisonous and it'll kill him and he tried telling me I was irresponsible by letting them have access to that stuff and I said Ivory sheep and goats for 30 years and I haven't lost one from eating a box elder tree I said it's because that's not the only thing they're eating they got a whole variety of stuff to eat so they're in so many different things that they can eat a poisonous plant and it doesn't affect them any cuz that isn't all they're eating and he tried to tell me I was irresponsible and all this and I thought to myself you look like one of these people that move from the city out to the country and you know more than somebody that's been out there all his life and I've been out there for six on the farm for 61 years we used to raise $125,000 turkeys a year $26,000 geese 300 head of Holstein replacement heifers and 100 sow Farrow to finish confirmed a thousand acres and you're going to try to tell me I don't know anything
In this video you say you are using polybraid and step in posts as a perimeter fence. I am going to fence in a acre or two that might not be real permanent for a few goats and sheep. I know you use high tensile most places and was surprised at the polybraid. Is that combo working out well?
I love your videos and am stating a farm this year. I would love to stay at your air bnb and potentially tour your farm if you had time. I can’t find it on Air bnb. Could you send me a link?
I live in Western Washington State. Does anyone know if goats will eat scotch broom & Himalayan Blackberry vines / plants? I wouldn’t mind getting a few whether goats to raise for meat every year.
Another piece of gold, given out for free. Thank you Greg.
Greg it's good to see you are getting more moisture even if it's in the form of snow for your pastures.
All of the very best. To all.
Isaac has made it to his passion. And with flying colours. Very well done. All!
RSA.
And what an amazing visit it was! The camera does not do it justice, but witnessing your precious sheep eating from the cedar trees on the hilltop surrounded by the majestic guard dogs with the snowflakes falling in the background was a winter wonderland moment in time we will cherish forever.
Thank you for allowing us to share in this awesome experience! Talk to you soon, my friend.
Sanga & Grace
All the best to you both on your next venture with raising sheep! That was a spectacular evening for sure!
Morning😊
I agree, we need to take control of our food supply.
Beautiful snowfall there.
Your lectures and YT videos over the years have helped me raise a small goat herd that requires no worming & no hoof trimming. Only approximately $300 in vet bills in 4 years & most of that was fecal labs and only ONE on farm visit. My accountant is always shocked at how low yearly vet bills are. Kidding scheduled for first week of June here in upstate NY and ON PASTURE. None of that kidding in the middle of winter in barns like EVERYONE in NYS seems to love to do. The goats themselves need almost no human intervention. All my free time is spent working on fence tho. lol. Thanks for the great info over the years, always look forward to new videos and I'm very excited that you decided bring goats back onto the farm!!!
Wow that is fantastic management with your grazing operation! Congratulations and keep up the good work. The goats are doing well mixed in with our sheep so far. They are super aggressive toward woody species. I live watching them eat a thorn tree, warms my heart ❤️
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Thanks Greg!! That's means a lot to me and will remember your words of encouragement when working on fence this weekend. Glad to hear that your goats are doing well with the sheep and eating the woody species. I as well love watching them eat and what they eat here on the farm. It's amazing how they use their upper and lower lips and tongues to delicately select exactly what they want on one plant and then two steps later they are using their whole mouth, jaws and teeth to chomp on something woody. A lot of times when working on fence and they are close by I will stop working for a moment and just watch them and listen. It's the best and it too warms my heart!!! They have come to LOVE eating the Brown Knapweed seed heads, tender stalks attached to said seed heads and the small tender leaves on that plant. Big deal for me since it is very invasive here and will crowd out almost anything else. I found a good collection of articles about goat behavior recently. The book is titled "Goat Behavior A Collection of Articles" By Tamsin Cooper. It's a small book but if you don't have it I think it's well worth the money. If you know of any other good books about goat behavior I'm all ears!!!
Snowing in central Missouri-no snow in Northwestern Ontario but rain. A little unusual but we all need the moisture. Happy New Year to Green Pastures Farm.
I get people tell me Greg Judy's method doesn't work here in Michigan, it's too cold, it's too muddy... It's been 40s and 50s here and you have snow. I've been watching your channel for 5 years and I've seen you get some brutal weather. Thank you for being a star and don't get me started on the indoor sheep people.😅
Beautiful
Nice you have such young people wanting to learn ❤
Thanks Grace, Greg always does better with camera-angle-person. We have room for a million more regenerative farmers in TN (but we're getting workers/commuters/apartment houses and 500-home developments instead). I've seen exactly TWO. Hope to catch the one guy who is only two counties away sometime and have a chat.
I joined some sheep "groups on FB" after getting enthused by Greg, and saw the most horrific awful sheep problems ever. Pretty much EVERY single person out there is doing all the stuff that Greg Judy says DON'T DO! I don't get it. It's not hard to find this information-at least it wasn't for me just a few years ago when I started studying. I would not plan to own grazers AT ALL had I not learned how much benefit there is from regenerative ranching. I'd seen all the conventional expense, work, degradation of the land for marginal returns...for so many years than I wanted nothing to do with it. I LEFT all those "sheep groups" because it was so heartbreaking seeing all the misery that conventional farming or just plain ignorance put those sheep and their owners through.
OMG the goats eat sedge? Whoot! I've got a deal for them! 🤣
WOW! We didn't get that much snow in SE Missouri!
Thanks for the video! We got some snow today too. I noticed on our farm you need to move them less than 5-6 days. We had so much forage 2 years ago that we moved them about 6 days or so and we were having parasites problems. We moved them 4 days and didn’t have a problem. We had enough forage in our paddocks we could left them in there 2-3 weeks. We didn’t make them any smaller because it wouldn’t been unfair for the animals of how tiny the paddocks would have been.
That is the best condensed information on how to raise sheep and goats ever posted.
Well done Greg!
Thank-you sir!
I love the Cedar barn!
I just saw a post on Season-Long Stockpile by Running T Farm.
Looks like a great stockpile method, growing one pasture all season. I wonder if you ever tried it?
Yeah Greg I was watching this one TH-cam channel where this guy was naming off all these poisonous plants that you can't let your goats and sheep eat and he was telling me you can't let him eat boxelder or cedar or acorns or oak leaves or maple leaves cuz it's poisonous and it'll kill him and he tried telling me I was irresponsible by letting them have access to that stuff and I said Ivory sheep and goats for 30 years and I haven't lost one from eating a box elder tree I said it's because that's not the only thing they're eating they got a whole variety of stuff to eat so they're in so many different things that they can eat a poisonous plant and it doesn't affect them any cuz that isn't all they're eating and he tried to tell me I was irresponsible and all this and I thought to myself you look like one of these people that move from the city out to the country and you know more than somebody that's been out there all his life and I've been out there for six on the farm for 61 years we used to raise $125,000 turkeys a year $26,000 geese 300 head of Holstein replacement heifers and 100 sow Farrow to finish confirmed a thousand acres and you're going to try to tell me I don't know anything
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I still miss Linda Gates
In this video you say you are using polybraid and step in posts as a perimeter fence. I am going to fence in a acre or two that might not be real permanent for a few goats and sheep. I know you use high tensile most places and was surprised at the polybraid. Is that combo working out well?
Yes it is working well.
I love your videos and am stating a farm this year. I would love to stay at your air bnb and potentially tour your farm if you had time. I can’t find it on Air bnb. Could you send me a link?
It is called The Scott House at Clark, Missouri
Fresh forage is the best medicine for all ruminants. Hay is a second choice. Grain is bad medicine.
I live in Western Washington State. Does anyone know if goats will eat scotch broom & Himalayan Blackberry vines / plants? I wouldn’t mind getting a few whether goats to raise for meat every year.
goats eat broom sedge, guess i got to get goats