Thanks for the good word again...love it! Watching Greg Judy, he was saying that to bale graze it would require rolling the bale out thinly all over to add carbon to the land. Their is some "waste" but it turns out building the soil and helping faster regrowth. Haven't tried this personally but the theory makes sense. The cows would continue to spread their urine and manure while collecting dry matter with every bite, reducing the amount of fresh vegetation that is grazed. Thanks again and God bless
Thanks for the info. We’ve rolled out rounds as well. My favorite is just putting out what they need and turning all that hay into quality fertilizer. Thanks for watching & encouragement!🤠
@@birchfieldfarming they would be great, too. Our feed bags, now are the plastic "burlap" or plastic lined paper. Our corn silage and haylage was covered with the black/white ag plastic and tire sidewalls. We get empty boxes from the food bank deliveries and local cafe.
45 min video! You'll have to start rolling credits at the end of these short films... Great stuff. Interesting the set-stock cattle don't break through the 2 wire to get to the good stuff at the windmill. So the rams are separated May-Nov?
Yes on rams. You could leave them in for lambing and potentially up until about June-ish, but I don’t like watching my back when I’m dealing with lambs. Had a ram headbutt a new lamb one time, so I just separate now.
Thats really cool that you are looking to process your own lambs. I am interested in developing a way to do this. I think i will attend the rogue food conference in 2025. I have ideas, but want to get the system figured out.
Great content. We like how you intensively work your piece of ground. Interested to know how you are moving towards processing your own lambs for retail. I so agree with putting out just enough hay for them to eat and benefiting from the fertilizer coming out the back end as oposed to bale grazing or unrolling a bale. If you are ever so inclined, I know just where you can get an American Milking Devon bull to repkace Pete when that time comes.
@@itinertantparishioner8092 Thanks for watching and encouraging! With lamb processing, we’ll start where we always have, which is developing a process that feeds family first. We’ll tweak until it works in our context and may or may not ever go retail with the loads of red tape. I don’t want to say too much here, but I’ll leave it at this - those close to me will eat very well.🤠🌱 I refer folks to John and Bonnie all the time. I’m not sure you can talk me into another horned bull, but I won’t rule it out. Hope you both are well wherever you are across the country now.❤️🍁
@@birchfieldfarming Beefier looking, compared to other Angus. She probably looks like a table, lacking the tablecloth... Makes a GREAT cull cow for freezer beef! Our cystic Holsteins were the fatter cows in milk that we could not get bred back without a cystorellin (gnrh) shot. PCOS-poly-cystic ovarian syndrome is the human version of the same thing. Dr Casey Means discusses it a bit.
All those sheeps going to town on that sorghum sounds like a soaking rain in my headphones.
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Thanks for the good word again...love it!
Watching Greg Judy, he was saying that to bale graze it would require rolling the bale out thinly all over to add carbon to the land. Their is some "waste" but it turns out building the soil and helping faster regrowth. Haven't tried this personally but the theory makes sense. The cows would continue to spread their urine and manure while collecting dry matter with every bite, reducing the amount of fresh vegetation that is grazed. Thanks again and God bless
Thanks for the info. We’ve rolled out rounds as well. My favorite is just putting out what they need and turning all that hay into quality fertilizer. Thanks for watching & encouragement!🤠
@@birchfieldfarming my mom covers the garden with newspaper or cardboard and the worms
L❤VE it!
@@Marilou-g5t I’ve heard of that. We’ve just used our old paper biodegradable feed bags, works great as well.
@@birchfieldfarming they would be great, too. Our feed bags, now are the plastic "burlap" or plastic lined paper. Our corn silage and haylage was covered with the black/white ag plastic and tire sidewalls. We get empty boxes from the food bank deliveries and local cafe.
45 min video! You'll have to start rolling credits at the end of these short films... Great stuff. Interesting the set-stock cattle don't break through the 2 wire to get to the good stuff at the windmill. So the rams are separated May-Nov?
Yes on rams. You could leave them in for lambing and potentially up until about June-ish, but I don’t like watching my back when I’m dealing with lambs. Had a ram headbutt a new lamb one time, so I just separate now.
Thats really cool that you are looking to process your own lambs. I am interested in developing a way to do this. I think i will attend the rogue food conference in 2025. I have ideas, but want to get the system figured out.
Man keep me in the loop on what ur learning please!🤠👍
Great content. We like how you intensively work your piece of ground. Interested to know how you are moving towards processing your own lambs for retail.
I so agree with putting out just enough hay for them to eat and benefiting from the fertilizer coming out the back end as oposed to bale grazing or unrolling a bale.
If you are ever so inclined, I know just where you can get an American Milking Devon bull to repkace Pete when that time comes.
@@itinertantparishioner8092 Thanks for watching and encouraging! With lamb processing, we’ll start where we always have, which is developing a process that feeds family first. We’ll tweak until it works in our context and may or may not ever go retail with the loads of red tape. I don’t want to say too much here, but I’ll leave it at this - those close to me will eat very well.🤠🌱
I refer folks to John and Bonnie all the time. I’m not sure you can talk me into another horned bull, but I won’t rule it out. Hope you both are well wherever you are across the country now.❤️🍁
Mob grazing, interview of Bjorn Johanson on Richard Perkins yt discusses when and how linebreeing is ok
Thanks👍
Spinal cord would likely be not-permitted as consumable
Sure, but I should be getting back more than 3 lbs of bones from a 1200 lb animal, right??
Neighbor's cow is likely cystic. If heats are less than 17 days, i would bet on it. If she is beefy looking would be another confirmation.
The Angus are so tall and leggy compared to my Devon it’s hard for me to tell. You’re right though, that is the word he used - “cystic”
@@birchfieldfarming Beefier looking, compared to other Angus. She probably looks like a table, lacking the tablecloth... Makes a GREAT cull cow for freezer beef!
Our cystic Holsteins were the fatter cows in milk that we could not get bred back without a cystorellin (gnrh) shot.
PCOS-poly-cystic ovarian syndrome is the human version of the same thing. Dr Casey Means discusses it a bit.
Are the neighbors feeding grain?
Our Holstein heifers that were cystic were the fatter ones, until you got to a free-martin. They were the fattest!
@@Marilou-g5tYes, they feed grain
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