I recently bought an acreage which has been unmanaged forest for the past 30+ years, do you have any videos describing/showing how to go about reclaiming some forest for pasture?
Thank you Greg. Did you say you had 4 Rams or 40 Rams? What do you do with the green timber you cut? Some for your logs to set bales on I imagine? Anything else?
Do you have to do anything to keep tree stumps from resprouting? Or just crazing few more times the year after cutting with sheep will clip off any regrowth?
I do hope that you are letting a few seedlings grow up in your pastures to replace the oaks that will eventually die? Just fence them off with a pallet trio or other barrier and let them graze around the seedlings. After they are 10 foot tall, you can reduce your care of them.
I was wondering the same thing James. I have some Savannah like pastures now but no trees to succeed the current ones if they die. I may have to plant some trees.
Excellent, I see changes coming to my woods.
Great video!
A Dorper ram is a handsome animal
Good information.
Looks good
I recently bought an acreage which has been unmanaged forest for the past 30+ years, do you have any videos describing/showing how to go about reclaiming some forest for pasture?
Yes there are some video's covering that topic.
Thank you Greg. Did you say you had 4 Rams or 40 Rams? What do you do with the green timber you cut? Some for your logs to set bales on I imagine? Anything else?
We use the green logs to grow shiitake mushrooms on. Logs for bales as well. That was 4 rams.
Thank you Greg.
Do you have to do anything to keep tree stumps from resprouting? Or just crazing few more times the year after cutting with sheep will clip off any regrowth?
Everytime the tree leaves grow back, that is more forage to graze again!
and after the stumps start to die is when we get mushrooms, oysters and otherwise in my area.
I've always read green acorns and oak shoots are poisonous to sheep so now I'm confused.... Seems like you don't give it a second thought.
I do hope that you are letting a few seedlings grow up in your pastures to replace the oaks that will eventually die? Just fence them off with a pallet trio or other barrier and let them graze around the seedlings. After they are 10 foot tall, you can reduce your care of them.
I was wondering the same thing James. I have some Savannah like pastures now but no trees to succeed the current ones if they die. I may have to plant some trees.
No squirrels in your area? They do a heck of a job replanting a forest.
James Kniskern I like the pallet trio idea.
Yeah sheep love most seedlings...
If you're going to market the standing timber, you'll be sorry you didn't leave some young trees to grow, rt?
No predator problems with leaving this four rams alone?
SasquatchBioacoustic He uses livestock guardian dogs to protect them iirc