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@didierfertil6334 Ай бұрын
What is the nutrition value of your switch grass?
@georgebob25 3 ай бұрын
We have 4 cattle 3-4months old on pasture now. But I have sectioned off the 3.5acres into 8 sections. I believe they won’t be able to keep up to the grass growth especially right now in the spring. Should I cut the section once there done on it? Maybe when it starts seeding?
@TheFaithful1234 3 ай бұрын
Two options. Option one is to squeeze rhem on tighter paddocs ny dividing your current 1 thru 4 into 8 or ten and then bushhog current 5 thru 8 compeltely. When they get thru the first half, you flip it. Option two, bushhog nehind them and dont force them to eat it down. They are very young, so they need a lot of ice cream. You may want to have them in paddock 1 and bushhog 8 now. Let them take two weeks to get to 8 and it should be wonderful quality by the time they get to it.
@georgebob25 3 ай бұрын
Okay so they are on paddock 2 now so I’m going to go cut down paddock 1, I had them on there for 5 days and thought about continuing that schedule. What’s your thoughts on that? Should I go cut ahead? Also in a couple weeks I will have turkeys on the same pasture running 1 paddock behind the cattle.
@tb1401 4 ай бұрын
Great idea I was planning on doing this but I had never seen nobody done. It makes a whole Lotta sense. Instead of pulling up putting down pulling up putting down just leave. Thank you for the video.
@TheFaithful1234 4 ай бұрын
Thanks ks for the comment. This is easoer said if you have a source for a ton of free poly. I find side jobs often and one was dismantling tens kf thousands of feet of poly rope and wire that had been used for only three years before the landlord sold the farm for development. One recommendation: dont buy thick poly rope. Buy a thicker poly wire. It goes further than straight poly rope and holds up over longer distances than poly rope. It is much stronger than polywire.
@user-xn7uu9jt9q 4 ай бұрын
How would Red Devon's cross on Shorthorns?
@TheFaithful1234 3 ай бұрын
Devons cross very well on almost anything. If you are a grazier, you are more looking for the correct grass phenotype in your breeders. If you are unsure of what I am referring to, look up Jan Bonsma.
@user-dg9vf3yz2x 6 ай бұрын
A very very good ideas!!! Thanks!!!🤝🤝🤝
@OnePieceTractor 7 ай бұрын
The government tries to get you to kill off all your cool season to establish warm season and I've been sitting in the grass into my existing cool season pastures for the last six or seven years and been pretty successful. Even have some Eastern gamagrass in the middle of cool season doing good. Red clover out there with those natives really compliment each other. I really think I'm going to use some switchgrass this year all about 6 acres and get it started there and see how I like it
@triciahill216 9 ай бұрын
We have a similar situation with a field we broadcast clover seed and bale grazed (rolled out round bales) after corn was taken off. We also rotationally graze beef cattle and hair sheep. We could definitely use the field to feed our livestock but are worried they might bloat or get ill. Which stock would you think could better survive in a field of mostly clover, the cattle or the sheep?
@mr.skeptical3071 Жыл бұрын
How has the pen held up? Any escapees? Also, do they tend to poop in the same spot? I hear that can make it stink
@GK-er8cw Жыл бұрын
Very cool to see the pond progress! Thanks for being a great example of stewardship/ dominion. That should be our new slogan: “get out of our way and let us farm!” As long as the bureaucrats hold us down the earth and its inhabitants will keep suffering. Keep promoting and living this great cause.
@TheFaithful1234 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the support!
@mahmoodreza2309 Жыл бұрын
آفرین ❤🇮🇷👏
@GK-er8cw Жыл бұрын
Great video. Really cool to see how your operation and ground has changed over the years. We’re moving onto more ground this summer, going to continue with pastured poultry and move into sheep. Long term goal is to get into cattle. Anything you wish you knew back when you first started?
@TheFaithful1234 Жыл бұрын
Where would I begin... never plant fruit trees right into crappy ground during a drought when you have no water infrastructure, no mulch and no protection. During your buildout phase, focus on making chores easy. You don't have to move animals 3 and 4 times a day to regenerate soil. Yes, that is faster but it is also faster to burnout. Water infrastructure pays dividends in time and money. Buy animals from farms using your same production methods. Do whatever you can to not borrow money to pay for any depreciating asset like a tractor. Get away from the farm every once in a while. Have a core group of people you cab call during livestock breakouts or medical emergencies.
@GK-er8cw Жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the information. I appreciate it.
@romaricvincent7616 Жыл бұрын
Which cultivar do you have? We plan to test the Dacotah type, and want to do pasture cropping in it. Do you think its a good idea to direct-drill winter cereals in a switchgrass pasture? The physiology seems more sod-like than tussock, as such it would simplify sowing.
@TheFaithful1234 Жыл бұрын
I believe our cultivar was the standard cave-in-rock. I know a lot of progress has been made toward palatability with some of the more modern varieties. Regarding extending your grazing season and putting in cereal Rye... I would say it might be better for everybody if you went through and broadcasted cereal Rye during your last switchgrass grazing rotation. You would then use the animals hubs to push it into the ground. Trying to drill through the switchgrass while there is still quite a lot of vertical height may prove quite unsuccessful. And if you bush hog it down the Sach maybe too thick for the drill to get through. I know everyone's situation is different but long-term I would see if you could establish cool-season perennials to complement this warm season grass.
@romaricvincent7616 Жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 Thanks a lots for the infos. Our main activity is to harvest grains of winter crops, thats why perennial cool-season grasses is not an option. We try this year to direct drill cereals in pastures with mixed legumes and plantain, but we think we miss perenial grasses, as you say. Switchgrass could be the warm-season one, and winter cereals drilled every year would our « kind of » cool-season grass. Our 6m direct disk driller can power through quite dense vegetation, lets see with swithgrass. But I take note of the broadcasting+trampling option, I like the idea of having lighter techniques which are often less expensive.
@romaricvincent7616 Жыл бұрын
Thanks heaps, that is very interesting to us! We are doing "living mulch cropping", we direct-drill winter cereals in legume pastures... we would like to diversify the pasture with C4 perennials such as switchgrass, which should provide little competitions to teh winter cereals, hopefully. You give us very good tips on how to balance the switchgrass/legume equilibrium! Greetings from France, Romaric Vincent
@elizabethblane201 Жыл бұрын
Greg Judy spreads hay on the ground and he knows a few things.
@TheFaithful1234 Жыл бұрын
Yep. He is one of the reasons we started doing this a few years ago.
@KilimoNaBiasharaTz Жыл бұрын
Thank you brother. Welcome to Tanzania 🇹🇿 in East Africa
@wncwaterfalls Жыл бұрын
I would think mulching the trees would keep the grass at bay
@juliamichell1 Жыл бұрын
Love this thank you. My small pig demands food but he’s a whole field of clover. He’s not underweight.
@MrAlexkoe Жыл бұрын
Hi, great video!!! If you don't mind me asking. how big is your area for 4 chicken tractor movements. And how often do u move them?
@MikeBius Жыл бұрын
Why not 75 birds per tractor like Salatin? And why move twice a day when Salatin does only once?? Thanks!
@bernardfranciszekkowalczuk9904 2 жыл бұрын
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I get it right, You keep your animals on the pasture for the whole year long and do not provide them with the typical shelter like a barn or a shed. If that's so, I would have a couple of questions regarding this this type of managing the livestock (especially in terms of sheep). First of all, what about the difficult weather conditions? In my case, most of my pastures are in the middle of wheat and corn fields where there is no shelter like tress or bushes. For me, it would be much easier to leave the sheep on the pasture for the night and then just let them in into the new paddock in the morning, but for now I'm bringing them back to the barn when it's getting dark and every time there is a bad weather (e.g. thunderstorm, extreme heat or when it's raining for most of the day). I'm not sure I would be able to provide them with some kind of portable shelter (I have a heard of up to 100 sheep) and I'm worried to leave them in the open field just like that. Next thing that bothers me is the fence. I have bought 600 meters (2000 feet) of electric netting which I use for building temporary paddocks, but do I need some kind of permanent fence around the whole pasture as well or is not necessary? The idea of rotational grazing and such things is quiet new to me but seems very rational and I'm willing to learn more. And by the way, sorry for commenting on the old video, but I thought this one would be the most appropriate.
@TheFaithful1234 2 жыл бұрын
No worries at all; I love to help people get into or advance their grazing abilities. First, a perimeter fence is almost a must have but when we first started, it was a couldn't afford and let's risk it. We knew there would be escapes. Hindsight could have prevented the escapes with a much stronger protable charger. Ours was only two joules. Starting out, yes,we only used net fence and eventually worked up to installing our perimeter. One amazing thing about our perimeter is that we installed a hi tensile electric wire all the way around. So not only do we not need as much net when the animals are near the perimeter but we also can use a plug in charger near our house and jump power for the nets.
@TheFaithful1234 2 жыл бұрын
As for Winter, we are fortunate enough to rarely have any polar vortexes. That is the only time I will attempt to drag some sort of shelter out there and tuck them into a tree line. Another situation many will run into in Winter without grain is how fast they lose condition without good stockpile and hay when it is 34 degrees and raining and or when they are soaking ert and it drops below freezing and winds pickup. The best survival tool for sheep in winter is a getting them nearly overfat in the fall.
@bernardfranciszekkowalczuk9904 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 In terms of electric netting I used quiet strong charger right from the beginning (which was march this year), and after two days the sheep have learned to stay away from the fence. They did not try to escape ever since that time, even when sometimes I forget to plug in the charger. Regarding the grain, I was planning to stop feeding them with anything other than grass or hay, but maybe You're right that in autumn they should gain some extra fat for the winter season (probably that's what they'd do in nature as well). But what about the summer time? On one hand it gets extremely hot and on the other, there are thunderstorms. Are you always able to provide some trees on the paddock or do You use some portable shelter as well (like big piece of canvas or something like that)?
@jasonwright3009 2 жыл бұрын
How are your sheep doing on the switchgrass? Is it causing sensitivity to the sun?
@kalebesseskew5525 2 жыл бұрын
Good job sir
@k.r.5400 2 жыл бұрын
So cool!
@journeyfortwo5211 2 жыл бұрын
I would love to make mine lighter but concerned about blowing away. Do you get much wind where you are?
@TheFaithful1234 2 жыл бұрын
We do get the occasional 50 -60mph gusts. Generally, the tarps aren't strong enough secured with bungees to act as a sail. There is enough play almost regardless of how tight it is. Unlike securing metal to the roof and having metal sides. If wind gets in one of those, it has to go somewhere. These tarps don't go all the way to the ground on sides.
@danno1800 2 жыл бұрын
You are doing a really good job!
@MyVisualRomance 2 жыл бұрын
Where are you located? I wonder if switchgrass grows faster in the hot humid south verses up north?
@TheFaithful1234 6 ай бұрын
We are in Southern Ohio. But yes, our got humid Summers are intense.
@rochrich1223 2 жыл бұрын
I hear you can use a 50/50 mixture of dry dog food and peat moss, moistened, to feed them when breeding dung beetles. A terrarium with a few inches of sand would work well. Very important to have a cover to keep the beetles in the terrarium and out of Mom's way.
@briansdogs 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the effort and information!
@denniscliff478 2 жыл бұрын
Always love the videos. I’m always learning something. Keep up the amazing work !!
@TulipAcres 2 жыл бұрын
Oh! That’s exactly how friendly our big ram lamb was. I hope his babies come out just as nice.
@TulipAcres 2 жыл бұрын
I’m going through all your videos to see lambing stuff! We will be lambing soon.
@TulipAcres 2 жыл бұрын
This makes me feel better with feeding hay on the ground. I’ll be more selective of the type of ground I’m putting it on now too!
@johnscarboroughregenerativ7240 2 жыл бұрын
What breed of sheep do you have? And do you have any for sale for this year
@TheFaithful1234 2 жыл бұрын
They are all katahdins. We adore them. We have been in the process of selling them but trying to stay local. As we dont want to go through all the vet inspection and paperwork for interstate transfer owing to the fact we have no handling facilities. We never "work" the animals. We just move them. A lot.
@johnscarboroughregenerativ7240 2 жыл бұрын
Where are you located at I would be interested in buying some from you this this year
@TheFaithful1234 2 жыл бұрын
We are an hour east of Cincinnati. Do you know how many you would be looking for?
@johnscarboroughregenerativ7240 2 жыл бұрын
What state?
@TheFaithful1234 2 жыл бұрын
@@johnscarboroughregenerativ7240 we are 30 min east of Cincinnati Ohio
@SgtSnausages 2 жыл бұрын
You don't even need the potato. You can, literally, snap that off and plant just the sprout. It *will*, in fact, grow. The magic is you can then still plant the potato eye. We double our seed production that way. 1st succession is peel off the vine. Plant the vine. Put potato back in storage. In 3 or 4 weeks the potato starts sprouting again. Now cut it and plant it as per normal. There is no difference in vigor, heatlth nor yield between the sprout grown and tuber grown. *** Old timers during The Depression would break the sprouts off, plant those, and then eat the tuber with dinner. Food was scarce. Why waste it.
@douglaswatson3638 2 жыл бұрын
great video
@TheFaithful1234 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you kind sir!
@rexsupreme515 2 жыл бұрын
i searched “flerd” and found this, thanks for an interesting perspective on a farm’s symbiotic relationships
@denniscliff478 2 жыл бұрын
Looking good man! I need to bring the family out and see all the changes. It’s been forever.
@hemaccabe4292 3 жыл бұрын
I love watching goats eat.
@natestandifer 3 жыл бұрын
What do you do in situations like a hurricane. I live in Florida and that is a concern of mine.
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Well I don't have hurricanes to contend with so my guess is not worth a lot. I would seek out other producers in Florida and along the coast and see what they do. Simply putting cinder blocks on top may prevent the tractors from blowing away but not prevent flooding. Our bigger problem is snow and hard frosts but may have the same solution: we put loose straw inside really thick when it snows. If we know heavy rains are coming a few days in advance, we try to get the tractors on a slope or on high ground. Good luck!!
@TheWoodhatch 3 жыл бұрын
Im new to sheep. How do you tell just by looking at your sheep that they may have a worm problem?
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
Some of the things we look for is scouring or poop tails (could be coccidia), emaciated sheep (tape worm, babrer pole) and the worst: bottle jaw- a collection of fluid under the jaw of a sheep caused by a very serious infection of barber pole worm.
@TheWoodhatch 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 thank you!
@jennykackley4315 3 жыл бұрын
who is the idiot who can't focus a camera?
@Idiotbait 3 жыл бұрын
do you sell the chickens or keep for your own use?
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
We sell the meat birds. We take them to a Mennonite USDA inspected butcher about 2 hours from our farm. They are by far our most profitable enterprise and a fantastic way to fertilize the pastures.
@Idiotbait 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 that's awesome. I always wondered how hard it would be to sell the chickens and who you would sell them to. Was it hard to find people to sell them to I actually have a lot of Mennonites around where I live to oddly enough. I guess they mostly live out in the country anyways
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
@northgadent, for clarification, my own farm, SGR, doesn't sell the meat birds. These are for Turner Farm where I work. Turner already had a large following and very active on farm market. Last year, we sold 1650 chickens worth of chicken sausage, ground chicken and all chicken parts. This year, we are raising 7 batches of 300 to be butchered every 5 weeks. We will see if we exhaust our on farm market's ability to move product. Butchering at the USDA facility, we have the option to sell to restaurants with a simple additional permit, we can raise more than 1000 birds, and we are able to sell very rare foods like sweet Italian chicken sausage or tomato basil chicken sausage or chicken bratts.
@Idiotbait 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 very cool thanks for the info
@smittys19daytona Жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 little confused so 7 runs of 300 in one year, and you butcher at 5 weeks as possessed to 8? also curious how you get your buyers?
@yoopermann7942 3 жыл бұрын
you just answered my question! i was hoping that it could be used as a forage, what do you think bout sweet clover both the white and the yellow as forage? great tips/info and great video!
@yoopermann7942 3 жыл бұрын
your doing what i want to do, ranching sheep and other live stock! great video.. thank you for the tips
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! All we want to do is help people help our world.
@yoopermann7942 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 that is what i am try to set up and do
@TriMattTV 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you great exploration and the share! New been this season and getting ready for spring. Just put in a new winter patty a few weeks ago and will do sub next month with your tote method!
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
If you have the ability, I would use pvc pipe to create pathways into the tote. Or you could use a large board hanging over at least 8 inches on every side so rain doesn't get in. We lost a lot of bees to that last year, even with the structures for them to use.
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
Make sure to keep an eye on the patty for small hive beetles. I stopped putting them in the hives because they are such an easy way for a few Beetles already in the hive to multiply quickly. One trick is to put an unscented swiffer sheet on top of the patty. It traps the beetles. You may lose a few bees but it is a small price to pay.
@TriMattTV 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 Thank you!!!I have some traps in the hive
@MsMars. 3 жыл бұрын
Wish u had good closeups of your burger and of the food. The food is the star. Show us how you mix the panade into the raw meat so that we can see how it needs to be distributed throughout the raw hamburger. Also would have liked to have seen you grilling the burgers and seeing the whole burger done in the bun before you ate most of it. LOL.
@Journey_of_Abundance 3 жыл бұрын
Bro, you're exactly right about the water. I'd always get cross looks from people when I told them that they prefer to eat snow, and I don't battle a freezing water trough all winter. Most people just don't realize how amazing and efficient these animals are, especially the hair breeds!
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
I know many concerned about animal welfare will be appalled watching this but I took the video to prove the concept. They are a huge advantage over cattle in Winter in that regard
@andrew-rp7uy 3 жыл бұрын
What breed of Cattle do you have?
@andrew-rp7uy 3 жыл бұрын
Are those straight katahdin sheep or mixed with other hair sheep? and do you have a closed herd? Thanks Stay Warm :D
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
Dorper
@andrew-rp7uy 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFaithful1234 is their anything you vaccinated against? Do you have any worm problems with the dorpers compared to katahdins?
@TheFaithful1234 3 жыл бұрын
@@andrew-rp7uy We used to vaccinate against Tetanus and Clostridia when we would castrate (not at the same time). This dorper is our lone survivor. The others had foot problems and worms. She has been katahdin like with her hardiness.