YOU DO not need 8 barbs for sheep = Check out Charles Massy Regenerative Grazing Interview with Tim Thompson (KZfaq) to see how he is using a few plain wires (not hot) to hold his sheep in Australia = PROVEN

Lol going to have to look that up. We run Kangals for animal protection. But llamas? Made me smile. Will check.

Do they attack guard dogs?

Thanks!

Hey Garrett! Adding sheep has been a good experience for us so far, and you are right, there is a ton of info to cover. We are working on lots of new things. In the mean time here are a few interesting articles that might be of a little more help. www.noble.org/legacy/going-where-no-sheep-has-gone-before/ www.noble.org/regenerative-agriculture/producer-perspectives/7-lessons-we-learned-when-we-added-sheep-to-our-regenerative-ranch/ www.noble.org/regenerative-agriculture/livestock/how-to-set-up-your-ranch-to-diversify-species-and-income/

YOU DO not need 8 barbs for sheep = Check out Charles Massy Regenerative Grazing Interview with Tim Thompson (KZfaq) to see how he is using a few plain wires (not hot) to hold his sheep in Australia = PROVEN

@ Garrett Nichols..hi I know I'm catching this month's later but I follow a channel called The Shepardess.young lady is doing it with her sheep and I watch salad in..lol I'm waiting to find land big enough 😄

Thanks Kevin!

Thanks for the great compliment Joe, we have a staff video specialist that is working on producing this series.

@@NobleResearchInstitute It’s been a very long time, since I’ve seen something produced this well in OK. Maybe my time in Cali has changed me, but the production values are stupid good. Will there be Seasons or running episodes.

@@JoeCinocca Hey Joe! Again, thanks for the compliments! We have a couple more episodes to release yet before the end of the year, but we plan on continuing the series into 2023 for sure.

@@NobleResearchInstitute YES!!!!

Agree this was really well done. Thought I was watching a PBS show.

Hey Brett! Thanks so much!

Thanks!

Good goals to have!

Hey Thanks! We utilize a no-till seed drill to plant all of our cover crops. The same can be used for commercial planting as well. We are actually going to be testing a new method for cover crop planting in an upcoming cover crop video this fall! Stay tuned for that!

@@NobleResearchInstitute Would this include wheat crops etc?

@@ethimself5064 yeah John Deere makes no till seeders

@@cacosta6294 Fk John Deere

@@ethimself5064 I hope you inherited the family homestead.

Thanks! 👍 Much appreciated!

Hey great questions! So those perimeter fences with the 8 strands is a huge safety for us. They are next to a cliff drop off and so we wanted to make sure nothing would squeeze through. We have seen goats easily jump over our three strand polywire fence that stands about 3 foot tall. We do have some pastures that have barbed wire but most of them are perimeter fences. All of our paddocks are built just using a single strand of polywire with a charger. Some we use portable chargers and some have supplied power. Both work great. If you can buy sheep that have already been trained to single polywire fences, then that is a great way to go. If not you will want to put them in training pins and spend some time training them to it. Currently we don't have videos on that yet, but something in the works for next year. Right now we have found that we can build pastures that will last them a week and then move them to the next one. Realistically the single strand fencing is a mental barrier. They can and do get out on occasion and most of the time go back with the flock. With the single strand we have seen that they will duck it rather than jump it, so lower is better. We have ours around 18(ish) inches off the ground.

YOU DO not need 8 barbs for sheep = Check out Charles Massy Regenerative Grazing Interview with Tim Thompson (KZfaq) to see how he is using a few plain wires (not hot) to hold his sheep in Australia = PROVEN

Yes they are! They have been pretty impactful in helping us utilize the forage that our cows won't eat.

Another great question! The biggest decision maker between the two is to determine what available forage you have. Goats eat more brush and forbes (weeds) and a little grass. So if you have brush that you want to get control of, that is what would work best. Sheep do not utilize brush very well. Their diet is probably 50% grass and 50% forbes. So if that is the type of forage you have available, sheep would work best. We will have a video about our goats but it won't be till later down the road.

I have cattle and goats and added some ewe lambs in August. Goats are harder to keep in. They also have different nutritional needs which, if not met, do create health problems. If you have a lot of brush you may want to start out with mostly goats with a few sheep and as the goats clean out the brush (it doesn’t take long) you will have an adapted sheep flock ready to take over.

Ours are usually sold for meat.

@@NobleResearchInstitute like to farmers markets or to stores or something?

Hey Deborah, our sheep are dorper sheep which are a haired sheep that shed themselves. Much lower maintenance level than wool sheep.

Are sheep are dorper.

@@NobleResearchInstitute Ah! White dorpers.

After we moved them down to our Red River Ranch, that is what we have been doing for the most part. It has been working out great. It also allows the cows to trample down some areas that the sheep may not venture into before, but the cows create some paths for them.