Best of grazing to you!

i dont mean to be off topic but does anyone know of a method to log back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly lost the login password. I love any tricks you can offer me

@Corey Stefan Instablaster ;)

@Alijah Tate I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm in the hacking process atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.

@Alijah Tate it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy! Thanks so much, you really help me out !

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Brent that is great news that our sheep and dogs are working out good for you. I know what you mean about the dogs. We sold a big male dog last week, he looked like a big bear, heavy as one to!

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Ha, yeah I have not weighed Salt and Pepper but they are gloriously huge. I have a 115 pound Weimaraner and they make her look like a medium sized dog. (not that I've let her go anywhere near them, lol)

@@Digger927 send my a couple pictures of them if you have some. Love to see what they look like now that they are grown up!

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Will do tomorrow. I also have vids of them on my YT channel.

I have several videos on my channel on our lambing practices.

Sheep are the lowest maintenance animal on our farm. They are amazing creatures.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher That’s wonderful. Thanks for the tip!

They get water in all seasons except winter. They don't drink water in the winter even if it is offered to them. This is only true when they are grazing stockpiled forage. If you give them dry hay, they need water.

Zero the dogs are bonded on to the sheep

We direct market all of the sheep.we raise. Stay out of sale barns, set your own price that you need to make a living on your farm.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Ah, makes sense. Do a bit more work myself to market them but make more money. Thanks for the quick reply!

We use extricate poly tape temporary fencing down in the creek area. When the livestock are moved off that area the poly tape is rolled up.

We do keep our house dogs away from the guardian dogs.

Thanks!

I have both hair sheep and goats. I can tell you that it is sooooo much easier caring for the sheep. The sheep are less expensive to feed. They are great at grazing, even in the winter time. I give them a little cracked corn everyday just as a treat. Sheep have less health issues too. Goats are extremely vulnerable to barberpole worms, which are deadly and can kill a goat in just a few days. I have never had one of my sheep get ill. They are super friendly, especially if you raise them from babies. I bought a bottle lamb ( ram ) from an auction and he is the sweetest ram I have ever seen. He knows his name and would never ram me or get aggressive with me. My female sheep are also gentle and friendly, in fact they are the first ones to come running and get loved on. It is hard to fence in a goat, they will pass through a electric fence ( you need a lot more strands of electric fencing to keep goats in ). Sheep are easy to fence, they dont test the electric fencing and dont try to jump fencing or push down the fencing. Hair sheep dont have to be sheared either. If you are raising sheep/goats for auction, sheep bring more money ( at least where I am , Indiana ).

@@Laurie_Tinsley What are hair sheep? I thought they would be the kind raised for their wool. No?

@@wendyscott8425 Hair sheep arent raised for wool. They actually have hair closer to a goats hair. There is a little bit of wool, but nothing like a typical sheep has. I have one Katahdin and two dorper sheep. They dont require sheering. Hair sheep are mostly raised for meat. I dont raise mine to eat though. In my experience with hair sheep, they are more friendly than a typical wool sheep. They are also more resistant to parasites and disease.

Laura Thanks for the explanation. I’m still just learning the language of farming since I got interested in holistic management in September. I’ll never be a farmer, but I do now support them by buying grass-fed meats and dairy. What I can’t understand is why we have such a hard time finding lamb grown in California that way. Does it all have to come from New Zealand??

@@Laurie_Tinsley Wool sheep was a mutation 8000 (?) years ago, the wild sheep have hair like the hair sheep...

There are 8 more guardian dogs in the sheep flock. Any predator that dares come within sight is in trouble.

Depends on the predator but some will learn to just jump over it. Yotes can clear our 6 ft walls here. 42 inch electric netting is nothing. They have to learn to test it though. Some people have reported as long as they keep it charged the yotes get a sharp zap at a sniff and keep going to easier prey. This all 2nd hand info. Haven't tried it myself.

Yes no problem

Dogs go to ponds and creeks to drink

Our sheep do not eat hay, they work thru the snow to get their dinner.

First of all do not buy an atv when you first start out. Use that money to buy more animals. Later when your cows are generating income, they can buy the atv. We used custom grazing to generate income which then was used to get us out if debt. Then we used custom grazing to buy our own cow herd.

Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher my husband can not understand how more than one animal can graze on a pasture even when the pasture has had a day or two time to recover. What percent of body weight do sheep eat a day? Also if starting on bare old crop land, you’ve mentioned getting clover seed, what other seed should you add? How many old bales of hay per acre?

An animal unit is 1,000 pounds. The stocking rate is based on that number. So on average, 5-7 ewes equals 1 one thousand pound cow. You just add or subtract from there depending on the actual average size of your flock/herd.

@@zadokmotorfreight2423 Thank you, I am interested in having cattle, possibly just enough for my family's consumption at first.

@@zadokmotorfreight2423 one thing, repeatedly Greg says his cattle are 700 to 900 pounds, and he is talking individual cattle, not stocking rate.

@@tomcondon6169 the animal unit is based on 1,000 lbs, so if you have a cow that weighs approximately 1,000 pounds, that would be equal to one unit. If you have a ewe that weighs 150 pounds, it would take six or seven ewes to equal one unit. Greg is just saying that you can support a larger number of sheep on a certain land base than cows. So if you have 10 acres and you can support 5 cows that weigh around 1,000 pounds, you can support roughly 30-35 sheep that weigh 150 pounds. It just gives you an idea of what you can support on a given piece of land. Hope this helps.

Self feeders, that are sheep proof.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher what does it cost to feed 11 dogs for a year?

1 ram to 40-50 ewes

try a breeding pair, and two younger neutered males.

Getting them fixed certainly takes their minds off of reproducing.

in winter

Rams are turned in with the ewes December 1st. This gives us spring lambing on green pasture when its warm.

Keep two well trained guardian dogs with your flock and leave the coyotes alone. If you start killing coyotes, you will have a wreck on your hands. Coyotes mate for life and when you kill one, 8 more come in and try to establish their area. Now you have real predator pressure!!!

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I'm curious to ask. Can you interchange a herd dog from sheep either to or from cattle (or goats)? Or do they not adapt or share the same working bag of tricks from 1 type to the next?

We had 7 rams eaten in one night by predators in their ram pasture. I thought rams were fine as well by themselves. Don't do it, give them a guardian dog or they will end up in the belly of coyotes.

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I'm sure you are right Greg, in Greece they use the same breed of dog you have, except they call them something different that isn't really printable here. But when you get those mountain sheep in the abattoir it's a whole different ball game than the low land sheep.

When starting out your flock, take the crutch out from under them and see which ones perform. Sell the ones that don't do well without being babied. Your well on your way to a profitable flock!