You all sure do have a fine group of hardworking young men! Exactly how it should be. Real deal work ethic right there sir! Thank you Greg, Jan and team for sharing your wealth of knowledge! I so enjoy this channel. 💕 I am a big city girl with a small town heart moving towards a homesteading life. What I have learned from you all is priceless! 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you, thank you 🙏
We have elm, mulberry, cottonwood, and multiflora rose that my goats and sheep love to eat out in the pasture. They get great nutrients that aren't necessarily available in the other forage.
Love the synergy. Ventured out to the New Forest in England yesterday to search for the pigs that are let out to roam at this time of the year. They eat the acorns to prevent the horses from eating them.
Greg Judy you have wonderful videos and everything you post is everything future ranchers need to see. This being said, have you ever wondered about the weather being manipulated? I know droughts are normal, sometimes, but the laws of physics state, it must rain more on a warming planet. I just wondered if were aware of the geoengineering factor that has ranchers worldwide in misery. Keep up the good work
Looking great! I wonder if autumn olive grows out here. Our ram and dog that we got from you all are doing fine, perfect additions to farming beginners. Blessings
We love our sheep. Looking for a Katahdin ram to buy near North Arkansas or South Missouri if anybody knows of one close. Our dog from Greg and Jan does a wonderful job.
A really underappreciated topic. Saw many a fence line of low hanging hackberry, willow, etc branches get pulled down by Brahma & Brangus decades ago (on lush pastures, not drought stressed). I'm convinced it was mineral related and it was seasonal, iirc. Early summer, right after leaves were fully mature. Also, seemed non Brahma blooded cattle not so aggressive in 'browsing'. Could've been learned behavior though (calves observing cows) Wish you had talked more about deep roots bringing up minerals. Good choice to create shelter for ground dwellers. Definitely something to occupy coyotes attention. If resident coyote pair didn't hassle calves I let them be. But some guys just were just rabid about gunning them down. Funny how they ALWAYS had coyote predation....hmmm?
You are so right about predators. Leave them alone and you will have less predation on your livestock. Shoot one and look out, they go on a killing frenzy!
Thanks for the video! I fed my sheep mulberry tree trimmings this summer too. The sheep were so excited and our cattle do the same thing too. I think they learn from each other it’s kinda amazing what they learn. We hard something go through our temporary fence. I’m thinking a buck because the drag the wire couple hundred yards. They unwinded the whole spool and ruin the reel too. It almost seemed the someone drove in with a vehicle but I know they didn’t because there was no tracks. I know have to buy another reel again or get parts. I’m thinking a new reel because they handle, reel the holds the poly braid the one side is 3/4 missing. Oh well.
Must be pretty dry if they will eat Autumn Olive. Mine won’t touch it, normally. I make biochar out of my tree fodder remains and spread it back on my pasture. We use the simple burn pile and quench method. Less labor intensive than chipping, just got to get water to the pile.
Love the sheep and dogs. My few sheep are in electro net, but it will be impractical later so I will find a dog and use polybraid. For now I have a lamb on the loose, a faaaast runner apparently... He's on the neighbor's game came for a week now and the coyotes haven't gotten him, I just have to figure out how the heck imma catch him.😅🙈
Sheep are in top condition(I grew up on a New Zealand sheep farm so my opinion counts more than others!) In nz farmers usually graze with the sheep first to eat up all the leafy grass,then put cattle in after to clean up the longer poorer feed. What you are doing here is the opposite,but very good practice so the sheep are controlling the invasive trees and making good use of them.If the sheep were in first they would hardly touch to trees
Something I have observed when coppicing and then feeding branches to my sheep - When I leave the branches on the ground and continue on with the rotation it seems to grow more grass around the branches. II think because the branches cast shadows and allows the grass to grow better. Especially in a dry spell. It would be cool to see if you have done observed this too
Great management practice, you were able to cut out invasive species and provide feed at same time. Many people would have waited until winter to cut autumn olive and wasted the feed. I wonder if cutting them during drought will stress the plants enough to stunt regrowth?
Coppicing invasive autumn olives to provide tree hay fodder is an incredibly intelligent way to minimize the grazing load on the grasses that you will need for winter stockpile. I am curious if you will return at a later date to bush hog the stripped trunks into wood chip mulch? Have you ever considered purchasing a PTO wood chipper that would attach to your tractor, and allow you to chip up some of the brush that you now pile up into Rabbitat sanctuaries for birds & small game animals? I know that all of your trees that are planted out in the open, as well as the trees in your silvopasture areas would benefit from an occasional application of ramial wood chips to boost the mycorrhizal fungi in your soils.
We have wood chipper that goes on our tractor. It is a very time consuming job to chip branches when we can get wood chips delivered to us for free from power line trimming companies.
Just watched part of a video from Ontario, Canada. The Brock family farm grains, as well as run 500 head of breeding ewes for the commercial lamb market. Of course, these sheep require shearing, as well as hoof trimming, vaccinations, and worming. I can't imagine the amount of work that that entails on a yearly basis, compared to Greg Judy's simplified method of raising St. Croix hair sheep. No worming, no grain, no hoof trimming, no wool to shear. I've often wondered whether the yearly value of a single fleece is greater than all of the inputs required to produce an optimal fleece that brings the highest price. Since synthetic fabrics have virtually replaced wool as a material for human clothing, it seems to me that raising sheep for wool must be pretty problematic? Just my take on it.
Great video Greg. Love seeing sheep clips. So curious, as someone that runs sheep, who will them sheep do with a dog or 2 in the pin with them when none of them know what a dog is unless there in the pin up by house? How will they take to a dog that get turned in with them for the first time
When introducing a guard dog to new sheep we use sheep electric net. Put the dog in a portion of the electro net pen and let them get used to each other.
You all sure do have a fine group of hardworking young men! Exactly how it should be. Real deal work ethic right there sir!
Thank you Greg, Jan and team for sharing your wealth of knowledge! I so enjoy this channel. 💕
I am a big city girl with a small town heart moving towards a homesteading life. What I have learned from you all is priceless! 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you, thank you 🙏
We have elm, mulberry, cottonwood, and multiflora rose that my goats and sheep love to eat out in the pasture. They get great nutrients that aren't necessarily available in the other forage.
Love the synergy. Ventured out to the New Forest in England yesterday to search for the pigs that are let out to roam at this time of the year. They eat the acorns to prevent the horses from eating them.
Sage advice, as always. Thanks for sharing.
It's always fun to see what our sheep are interested in eating when we do our daily moves.
I look forward to buying some of your stock when I get set up.
Greg Judy you have wonderful videos and everything you post is everything future ranchers need to see.
This being said, have you ever wondered about the weather being manipulated?
I know droughts are normal, sometimes, but the laws of physics state, it must rain more on a warming planet. I just wondered if were aware of the geoengineering factor that has ranchers worldwide in misery.
Keep up the good work
Looking great! I wonder if autumn olive grows out here. Our ram and dog that we got from you all are doing fine, perfect additions to farming beginners. Blessings
We love our sheep. Looking for a Katahdin ram to buy near North Arkansas or South Missouri if anybody knows of one close. Our dog from Greg and Jan does a wonderful job.
A really underappreciated topic.
Saw many a fence line of low hanging hackberry, willow, etc branches get pulled down by Brahma & Brangus decades ago (on lush pastures, not drought stressed). I'm convinced it was mineral related and it was seasonal, iirc. Early summer, right after leaves were fully mature.
Also, seemed non Brahma blooded cattle not so aggressive in 'browsing'. Could've been learned behavior though (calves observing cows)
Wish you had talked more about deep roots bringing up minerals.
Good choice to create shelter for ground dwellers. Definitely something to occupy coyotes attention.
If resident coyote pair didn't hassle calves I let them be. But some guys just were just rabid about gunning them down. Funny how they ALWAYS had coyote predation....hmmm?
You are so right about predators. Leave them alone and you will have less predation on your livestock. Shoot one and look out, they go on a killing frenzy!
Thanks for the video! I fed my sheep mulberry tree trimmings this summer too. The sheep were so excited and our cattle do the same thing too. I think they learn from each other it’s kinda amazing what they learn. We hard something go through our temporary fence. I’m thinking a buck because the drag the wire couple hundred yards. They unwinded the whole spool and ruin the reel too. It almost seemed the someone drove in with a vehicle but I know they didn’t because there was no tracks. I know have to buy another reel again or get parts. I’m thinking a new reel because they handle, reel the holds the poly braid the one side is 3/4 missing. Oh well.
Wow that was a heck of a deer!!!
Greg, when things got dry, do you think your grass held up longer in your silvopasture areas?
Must be pretty dry if they will eat Autumn Olive. Mine won’t touch it, normally. I make biochar out of my tree fodder remains and spread it back on my pasture. We use the simple burn pile and quench method. Less labor intensive than chipping, just got to get water to the pile.
Love the sheep and dogs. My few sheep are in electro net, but it will be impractical later so I will find a dog and use polybraid. For now I have a lamb on the loose, a faaaast runner apparently... He's on the neighbor's game came for a week now and the coyotes haven't gotten him, I just have to figure out how the heck imma catch him.😅🙈
Sheep are in top condition(I grew up on a New Zealand sheep farm so my opinion counts more than others!) In nz farmers usually graze with the sheep first to eat up all the leafy grass,then put cattle in after to clean up the longer poorer feed. What you are doing here is the opposite,but very good practice so the sheep are controlling the invasive trees and making good use of them.If the sheep were in first they would hardly touch to trees
Something I have observed when coppicing and then feeding branches to my sheep - When I leave the branches on the ground and continue on with the rotation it seems to grow more grass around the branches. II think because the branches cast shadows and allows the grass to grow better. Especially in a dry spell. It would be cool to see if you have done observed this too
Definitely agree with rab-habitats. Keep the coyotes down in the draw. But also keep the mice holes and mice 🐁 diseases out of the fields.
Great management practice, you were able to cut out invasive species and provide feed at same time. Many people would have waited until winter to cut autumn olive and wasted the feed. I wonder if cutting them during drought will stress the plants enough to stunt regrowth?
The sheep hope it doesn't
Autumn olives will be back!!
Coppicing invasive autumn olives to provide tree hay fodder is an incredibly intelligent way to minimize the grazing load on the grasses that you will need for winter stockpile.
I am curious if you will return at a later date to bush hog the stripped trunks into wood chip mulch?
Have you ever considered purchasing a PTO wood chipper that would attach to your tractor, and allow you to chip up some of the brush that you now pile up into Rabbitat sanctuaries for birds & small game animals? I know that all of your trees that are planted out in the open, as well as the trees in your silvopasture areas would benefit from an occasional application of ramial wood chips to boost the mycorrhizal fungi in your soils.
We have wood chipper that goes on our tractor. It is a very time consuming job to chip branches when we can get wood chips delivered to us for free from power line trimming companies.
Just watched part of a video from Ontario, Canada. The Brock family farm grains, as well as run 500 head of breeding ewes for the commercial lamb market. Of course, these sheep require shearing, as well as hoof trimming, vaccinations, and worming.
I can't imagine the amount of work that that entails on a yearly basis, compared to Greg Judy's simplified method of raising St. Croix hair sheep. No worming, no grain, no hoof trimming, no wool to shear.
I've often wondered whether the yearly value of a single fleece is greater than all of the inputs required to produce an optimal fleece that brings the highest price.
Since synthetic fabrics have virtually replaced wool as a material for human clothing, it seems to me that raising sheep for wool must be pretty problematic? Just my take on it.
Do cows eat them?
have you thought about a wood chipper
We had our month and a half drought in June July. We know what you're going through.
What breed(s) are you using?
Do you ever get cockleburrs in your field? If so, how do you get rid of them?
Watch Greg's previous videos:
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I pull every one I see! They are not hard to pull. Then pile and burn.
Sorry, what breed(s) of guardian dogs are you using?
Most of his are half Maremma, quarter Anatolian and quarter Pyrenees
Why do some of the sheep have poopy tails and rear ends?
They are pigging out on the huge crop of acorns this fall. Runny stools is the result
Why not harvest the autumn olives and make it into jelly?
Cause , meat is more healthy than jelly.
Great video Greg. Love seeing sheep clips. So curious, as someone that runs sheep, who will them sheep do with a dog or 2 in the pin with them when none of them know what a dog is unless there in the pin up by house? How will they take to a dog that get turned in with them for the first time
When introducing a guard dog to new sheep we use sheep electric net. Put the dog in a portion of the electro net pen and let them get used to each other.
Do you treat the autumn olive stumps to prevent resprouting?
why?..this is food...
Because they’re invasive and will take over if not controlled.
He's coppicing, not eradicating
where do you keep your goats?....