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Our sheep dig through snow for forage, no hay.

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Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher

Greg Judy Regenerative Rancher

Күн бұрын

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@prayerangel1
@prayerangel1 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the sheep vid, Mr. Judy!!! Always good to see how you manage your herd in the winter months and it's gratifying to see how well conditioned they are on your methods.
@roberthayes2027
@roberthayes2027 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for showing us about winter sheep on pasture. I've now seen how the big patches they can open in the snow will probably heat the soil if it's not snowing again for a while. It's good to see too how the "handful" pups can be helped to keep off the highways, etc. and get trained. I've never seen that sidewall sled trick before either. It's so nice to see the stuff that works.
@flyingpigpreserve8562
@flyingpigpreserve8562 4 жыл бұрын
Happy healthy Sheep. Your Pups will learn for sure. You have a great working farm system. God Bless and Peace Be With You ☮️🙏❣️
@Gustav4
@Gustav4 4 жыл бұрын
Love to hear more on the progress in Arizona, this humid environment is too easy for you.
@mrs.garcia6978
@mrs.garcia6978 3 жыл бұрын
Oh I love Big Boy, he looks like our Romeo. These sheep are amazing. I've never considered sheep before watching your videos. I'm going to need to do a taste test of your stock before I change gears in my plan. 😂
@damonmayfield5087
@damonmayfield5087 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the sheep video
@tomcondon6169
@tomcondon6169 4 жыл бұрын
I saw your, "Greg Judy mighty fine hot lead connector," looks a lot like what the old timers used to use on the San Francisco Municipal Railway, long poles with hooks like that, welding cable, and they would hook on the high voltage conductors to arc weld.
@Digger927
@Digger927 4 жыл бұрын
My dogs got out of the pen the other day while I was moving stuff around and took off across the farm. I had to run them down with my atv. I got onto them hard and they ran straight back to the pen as if I were shooting at them or something, lol. They haven't gotten out since that I know of. They went under a two strand polybraid fence. Pepper learned if she runs fast enough and gets her nose under it that she doesn't get zapped, Saltie saw her do it so she tried it. I dropped the lower wire a notch on the step ins and they both got zapped, hopefully that cleared it up. If they do that again, I'm going to figure out some way of fixing an antennae on their collars so when they go under the poly, the antennae is going to drag on that poly and zap them good.
@barryweigle1356
@barryweigle1356 4 жыл бұрын
Holy smokes your weather is worse than our in Eastern Ohio 😊. As always an interesting video. Thanks
@viscache1
@viscache1 3 жыл бұрын
How much are your dogs? I’m looking at Australian Cattle Dogs but they are pricey. The plus is they live 18-23 years. Also, how many dogs for 20 large breed sheep (very docile)?
@johnpeterson4868
@johnpeterson4868 Жыл бұрын
I get about three feet of snow in the winter and it's there from Nov to April so I think I would have to put them under some shelter and feed them hay half the year
@gregjudyregenerativerancher
@gregjudyregenerativerancher Жыл бұрын
Gabe Brown in North Dakota gets 3-5 feet of snow and winters them outside in pastures with cover crops and large round bales. No water needed for livestock with snow.
@Gustav4
@Gustav4 4 жыл бұрын
I follow Sandi Brock on KZfaq as well, and what a contrast, she just had her roof blown of the sheepbarn.
@swamp-yankee
@swamp-yankee 4 жыл бұрын
Hard to have that problem on pasture. If I tried farming like her I'd go broke imidiatly.
@prayerangel1
@prayerangel1 4 жыл бұрын
@@swamp-yankee I agree. Just not sustainable at all, with way too much overhead....literally and figuratively.
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 3 жыл бұрын
@@prayerangel1 And sheep don't care to be indoors in the first place.
@adammariage9471
@adammariage9471 23 күн бұрын
Would it be possible to get some explanation about back fence? Do you slowly open up the whole pasture to them? Or do you open a new paddock and leave only 1 previous paddock open?
@4KidsandaFarm
@4KidsandaFarm 4 жыл бұрын
We never see this behavior (we never have snow here in California) Greg, for sheep what electrical fencing do you recommend? We have 4 acres of pasture and 13 head of sheep. We are familiar with premiere 1 fencing already for our pigs and chickens.
@SasquatchBioacoustic
@SasquatchBioacoustic 4 жыл бұрын
Do you lamb on pasture? Looking forward to some lambing videos when the time comes.
@vonmajor
@vonmajor 4 жыл бұрын
SasquatchBioacoustic Greg has one where he touched base in lambing. In this case he stays his distance ( mothers at a very stressful time) so as not to scatter/separate the mother lamb combinations or risk abandonment
@StevenSmith-sn1xh
@StevenSmith-sn1xh 3 жыл бұрын
Great Video. I am learning lots with your informative content. I am more and more motivated with every video I watch. We are in Navarra, Spain, originally from Uk. How many months do you have snow on the ground?
@thaliahelene
@thaliahelene 4 жыл бұрын
I like your black sheep in this one 🐑
@chaplman6
@chaplman6 4 жыл бұрын
I know you said 30 days behind the cattle on winter stockpile, how close do the sheep follow the cattle in spring and summer?
@moavic5087
@moavic5087 4 жыл бұрын
chaplman6 sheep can follow cows immediately, or you can even graze them together sometimes, sheep eat what the cows don’t.
@SLFYSH
@SLFYSH 4 жыл бұрын
Greg, I'm thinking about adding sheep to rotational grazing with cattle. You advocate sending thr sheep behind the cows rather than the reverse? I ask because cows tend to trample quite a bit of feed, that could otherwise be eaten. It seems to me, from not having tried it, that something that focuses on brambles and seed heads to hit the field before a more grass focused animal comes in. Can you explain your methodology?
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 3 жыл бұрын
Greg likes running sheep with the cattle but doesn't because so many road moves with the cattle where his guard dogs would be "hard on" the neighbor dogs as they passed by with the drive. He puts the sheep in with the bulls you'll see. It does seem like a a good idea to let the sheep open up the snowpack for the cattle, maybe reducing hay needs. I too wonder if sheep could go in front.
@tommyroush575
@tommyroush575 2 жыл бұрын
I don’t know if sheep could dig through 2 feet of snow on a sunday morning here in northern michigan...z
@chelemichele1524
@chelemichele1524 4 жыл бұрын
Why do the work when the animals can for you😃 Have a great evening ☃️☃️☃️
@dakotaboysnomadicadventures
@dakotaboysnomadicadventures 2 жыл бұрын
Nice flock what kinda of sheep are those.. about how many acers is is flock on? How often do you rotate them?
@brandonderijk587
@brandonderijk587 4 жыл бұрын
a herd of cow and a flock of sheep bonded together is called a flerd
@emilmoldovan1789
@emilmoldovan1789 4 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful! How many sheeps do you have now?
@muchimi
@muchimi 3 жыл бұрын
it doesn't get 30 below in MD.
@brianoc7824
@brianoc7824 4 жыл бұрын
What kind of lambing % do you get on pasture?
@littleindian3050
@littleindian3050 4 жыл бұрын
Hey Greg, I've learned alot watching you. I want to get into sheep the way you are but have no experience with them. Besides your videos, what literature or other sources do you recommend for getting more detail on the way your doing it and learning about sheep?
@swamp-yankee
@swamp-yankee 4 жыл бұрын
I'm in my first 5 years of raising sheep. When I run into a problem I don't want to bother a more experienced farmer about I reach for Pat Colby's Natural Sheep Care. She uses both conventional medical treatments and herbal and mineral treatments, which I apreciate because a lot of people reach for the petrochemical wormers and antibiotics reflexively.
@swamp-yankee
@swamp-yankee 4 жыл бұрын
Greg's a maverick though. Ya might have trouble finding someone who does just it like him.
@swamp-yankee
@swamp-yankee 4 жыл бұрын
Greg, what do you feed your dogs? How long do you feed puppy feed? Saw a video where you filled a feeder from an unmarked paper bag. My vet said to feed puppy until they're going on two, and it's getting expensive seven months in.
@victorygarden556
@victorygarden556 8 ай бұрын
Akin Tulubas says if you get Turkish kangals that are aboriginal in nature they feed for one year then leave the dogs to eat the things they kill. Their dogs look good, I can see why they don’t need to feed em. Plus it incentivizes killing the problem instead of running them off. This is the Turks though and they have different predator density
@whitneyhodges2130
@whitneyhodges2130 4 жыл бұрын
Hey Greg I have some ewes due in about a month and was told to give them all a cdt shot and I’m new to sheep do you do that Thanks
@denverbasshead
@denverbasshead 4 жыл бұрын
No i dont believe he gives his sheep any shots
@lokomotive28
@lokomotive28 2 жыл бұрын
where is it located
@gregjudyregenerativerancher
@gregjudyregenerativerancher 2 жыл бұрын
Missouri
@bclaytz
@bclaytz 4 жыл бұрын
What is the role of the dogs? Why do you need / keep them? :)
@gregjudyregenerativerancher
@gregjudyregenerativerancher 4 жыл бұрын
Without the dogs the sheep would be eaten in one week by the packs of coyotes.
@bclaytz
@bclaytz 4 жыл бұрын
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Wow okay, I didn't realise coyotes were so dangerous to livestock. And I thought farmers had it bad in the UK with foxes!
@joelheidimetzger2035
@joelheidimetzger2035 4 жыл бұрын
Why are you unable to graze your sheep with your cattle?
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 3 жыл бұрын
Road moves that might put the guard dogs into conflict with the neighbors' pet dogs. He does put sheep in with the bulls sometimes. Keep watching videos.
@NYBirdman1980
@NYBirdman1980 4 жыл бұрын
By law are you required to give any vaccine shots to your sheep? I would like to see more videos about your sheep operations
@gregjudyregenerativerancher
@gregjudyregenerativerancher 4 жыл бұрын
The only law that is tied to sheep is that when you sell them, they must have your farm Scrapie ID tag in their ear to trace them back to your farm.
@NYBirdman1980
@NYBirdman1980 4 жыл бұрын
awesome, I live in East Texas on 32 acres, 5-7 acre heavily forest, 4 acres open oak trees and pasture and the rest is pasture. everyone tells me to get cows but I see Sheep will benefit more off my land than cows will. keep the sheep videos coming
@quailjailss
@quailjailss 5 ай бұрын
@@NYBirdman1980did you end up getting sheep? What are you grazing them on in TX?
@NYBirdman1980
@NYBirdman1980 5 ай бұрын
@@quailjailss I did, I got up to 33 sheep. I sold them last fall, the girlfriend would forget to turn the electric fence back on and they kept getting out. I may get some sheep again but I don’t know. For feed it was Bahia grass in the Sumer and a little bit of alfalfa hay in the winter.
@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962
@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962 4 жыл бұрын
Ever any shelter provided? For something like freezing rain?
@prayerangel1
@prayerangel1 4 жыл бұрын
He uses cedar trees for that and sheep carry their barns on their backs.
@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962
@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962 4 жыл бұрын
Mountain Woman I wish we had some wooded area on the farm. When it gets wet and cold I open gates and drop wire and give them a choices. Perhaps I worry too much.
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 3 жыл бұрын
@@kiddfamilyfarmllc9962 protect some saplings with pallets and let them get started, Nature will plant trees for you.
@FoodwaysDistribution
@FoodwaysDistribution 4 жыл бұрын
Provide some food and shelter for the sheep.
@prayerangel1
@prayerangel1 4 жыл бұрын
God did that already. Trees and wool for shelter, grass for food. Obviously his sheep thrive on his methods, maintaining good body condition and productivity throughout, so what's your beef?
@rickbarton9130
@rickbarton9130 4 жыл бұрын
Do you supply food and shelter for all the deer out in the country side?
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 3 жыл бұрын
You clearly haven't been paying attention. How is your herd?
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