Ooo I do need to check out that gully video. I have 3 gullies I will be running stock through. Just sheep though. No cattle here for awhile until I get a truck and trailer. Don’t see that happening in the near future. Does she ever (or did she ever lol) run that little steer through the fence?? I’d hate for her to get ahold of the sheep too

Hey man, any updates on the erosion gully?

Looks like you need to research and at least partially adopt silvopasture so your flock can have more shade and emergency forage from the trees.

How much land do you have

How did this work out for you over time? What do you do in winter?

How much land do you have

How much land do you have

How many acres do you need to do this stuff?

got educated...enjoying the flerd...great videos...

nice job

Very interesting. Thanks for showing this. I'm trying something similar with fescue up here in Kansas, using a little bit less hay I would say compared to you. Great stuff. Thanks.

Try inoculating the next one with something like wine cap mushrooms. That way you can harvest edible mushrooms.

Water hammer is the word. In a big pipe it can be pretty impressive and scary. There is two different ways for this to happen in that pipe. One is when the valve is opened rapidly it creates a bubble and a slug of water that slams the slug into the end. The other is as the water hits the end it compresses the air in a bubble over the top of the water to the other end of the pipe which then sents a slug of water and hits the end, the effect ends up looking like a slinky wave internally. Tears stuff up. We use air bleeders and control the valve operation speed on large lines. Your right those Plasson quick couplers are great. Bury the pipe and put each coupler below ground with a larger drain pipe around it and you never have to worry about freezes or hitting it with a mower and the water stays cool. You probably don't for the most part have to worry a lot about freezes, at least until this year. Use at least one regular screw type hose clamp on the barb fittings, preferably 2. I have also used 16 gauge wire wrapped 2 to 3 times and twisted, for one that give trouble like this I use 2 separated by about a 1/4 inch.

Need to cover that entire water line from where it come out of the ground to the pigs and/or insulate or shade all the pipeing up to the nipple itself. Here in TX the water can hit 160 deg coming out the hog nipples in the summer. Your hogs will end up only drinking from after midnight until a couple hours after daylight. Good setup , works well, burying the line up the verticle section then insulating and shading it works well. Hogs seem to organize to keep the nipples running so they can make a wallow. In the couple pens where we still use them my son and I always try to guess how many hours it takes them to figure out how to do it. The longest is 2 days, usually just a few hours. Smart they are.

The big framed thin ewe you are talking about is much older than the fatter one you compared he to. You can expect the older ewe to be thinner, especially with her nursing a lamb. Judge her by the lamb she weans, not by how she looks.

Better be careful. Mature jersey bulls have a reputation for unexpectanly getting violent and attacking people.

I'm doing this on my small herd but I am scattering 2string hay bales. I can really focus on the distribution with no follow up or thick spots. I'm not against round bales, but when I use them I roll them out. It's the difference between moving them daily(squares) vs moving them every 5 days(rounds).

Awesome

Great stuff, watching from northern Ontario Canada.

Great video

Great videos really enjoy them..

I would like to try sequence grazing with 3 or more different species. I think it would be powerful to be able to increase grazing pressure on land to stimulate high growth during optimal time of year. While not needing to risk parasitic inoculating from animals returning to the same block too soon.

When you dont pull off your tube for mor air flow ?

Hi. I ain't no farmer or even an 'murican (Finnish)... but I'd reckon that the best mineral source is still the plants for the animals even tho one can purchase mineral mixes because of the granularity of the minerals. In order for the cattle to be able to absorb the minerals they have to be in very, very fine trace amounts which I'd suspect that's not the case with those mineral mixes. In other words, the mineral sizes are too large for the animals' gut to be able to absorb them. I think that there's copper in the soil but it's not being brought up into the plants because of the lack of fungal/microbial action in the soil. I've read couple of pages of the three book series "Teaming with Nutrients/Fungi/Microbes" by Jeff Lowenfels and I think that the answer lies there, among other sources of that kind.

Just make sure you move them every 3 days or less and you shouldnt have worm problems and dont come back to that paddock for at least 4-6 months.

Lovely flerd

Great video. I am going to be building one of my own this week so thanks for going over your successes and failures.

I am on a waiting list for Greg Judy breeding stock. Yes, I too am "as excited as a girl at a Bettles concert."

love watching gregs vids but like the mixed herds better, keep them comming

Sorry if I missed it but u should drop a few handfuls of worms in there...

Good job with the grazing.

Sounds like you have this planned out well.

A wide variety of animals on your farm or ranch whichever you prefer.

Sounds like a good plan for the genetics for your area for the sheep.

What kind of bull will you use?

Great to see this system in another context working so well.

air will compress liquids will not. always leave valve open too bleed off pressure.

What kinds of hay do sheep eat? Thanks

you are doing what i plan to do this spring,, thank you for sharing your management on your flerd

The blessing and the curse of healthy and productive animals! I am interested in talking sheep with someone here in TX with similar environment. Would it be possible to contact you and if so how?

Aerobic not anaerobic. Anaerobic bacteria like no air.

Whole lotta lambing goin’ on!

Hola amigo, he mirado algunos de tus videos muy buenos, en que presio esta una acre???

yep follow Greg's intensive management pasturing method. I am on the Farm i work at and it works. Keep their heads out of the poop and flys. Notice what they eat.... they love broad leaf forage, notice they are eating the leaves of those small leaves. They love weeds so plant forbes if u have to.

Been looking at using polybraid for pigs. Seems like a good way to go. Nice video!

remember don't forget ... don't graze too low to the ground. that isn't the way they eat.