Sheep flock move across road with several hundred baby lambs = excitement.

[@robertduffy5805]

Thank you for the laughs guys.

[@MrNardo1238]

Greg, I play your videos on my way to and from work. It's like having you in the car telling stories of the farm. Keep em coming, Sir!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

That’s awesome!

[@petereldracher5660]

Getting five katahdin lambs in August. Going to start breeding them I hope. Thank you for all the info and inspiration, I would die in a factory, office, feedlot, etc. You've shown me what I want to do.

[@SvenGreenHill2174]

Lambs are tricky to herd during their first few months of age. Particularly if one is trying to get them into a holding pen or barn... Lol

[@samworthington6928]

Greg Judy mentioned poison hemlock in the southern part of the state or south of you. But you hadn't seen it in your area yet. I have a question, could a goat be trained, conditioned or managed to eat poison hemlock at a different stage of its growth without ill effect to the goat to manage its spread?

[@outbackrak6093]

do you have any dogbane in any of your pastures and can sheep eat it?

[@julieduchinsky3822]

Well at least they are across. Funny sheep 🐑

[@platoalwaysknew8703]

Hello, Greg neighbor told me to add 2 male goats that are fixed to my 6 sheep is that a good idea, and what is the reasoning behind that idea thank you so much moving near Dixon MO. is that close to you?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Not sure why he said to mix two male goats? I would ask him?

[@savageairsoft9259]

Do yall confront many snake? Especially poisonous ones in the tall forage? I have a good pair of knee high snake proof boots. I mainly don't like to be surprised by them

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

I’ve never seen a poisonous snake on our farm

[@rosalieroku3818]

That's the problem. You never see 'em!

[@marvinbaier3627]

Thanks for the video! I will probably sort my sheep sometime after I get my neck brace off which will be July 12. They will be 13 weeks old for the oldest sheep. I will have to go back and watch one of your videos to see how you wether your rams or sell them as rams for meat. I’ll need to look into that because some people like a ram where others like wethers.

[@WhooSRK]

Will need good directions to the albino catfish pond, and a schedule when y'all won't be around!!!

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

I hear that, just watch out for the guardian dogs😊

[@willeverett7230]

Hello Greg. I know this is not on topic of this video. But I would like to know, with a closed flock how does inbreeding work? Do you bring off farm rams in or do you keep your own? If anyone has a good source to learn more on this that would be great appreciated! Thanks

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

We have 3 other producer flicks that we bring rams in from. These producers got their start from our flock years back.

[@willeverett7230]

Thank you for getting back with me so quickly! How often do you bring in new rams? And do you have any suggestions on how to learn how to managing blood lines? Or could you do a video on how you do this?

[@RegrenativeBeekeeping]

Do you still run sheep with cattle?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Our sheep follow the cattle

[@dutch1999]

Greg I have sheep in northeast Arkansas and we have perilla mint here (perilla frutescens) and it's poisonous to ruminants but is different from the plant you showed us in the pasture which leaves me wondering what plant that is? Did you say it is "pearl mint"? Tried looking it up and didn't find it.

[@elizebethparker5412]

Love the sheep videos!

[@rosalieroku3818]

A bit off topic, but when you had deep snow last winter, did that cause any fence shorting problems? Do you keep it energized always?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Snow does not effect a strong charger. Always keep it energized or your fence will be dead when you turn it back on

[@izzardcoteel5539]

Do the sheep work their way through the cattails to get a drink or is there an opening?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Yes

[@leelindsay5618]

I'm surprised you let those young men pick those plants.... I guess they haven't learned to let the sheep pick it. Lol

[@eltonmau7412]

Greg, I have poison hemlock here in central Illinois and poison ivy. But I’ve killed more sheep with red clover than anything else.

[@rickayers3150]

Interesting, I didn't know red clover was hard on sheep. Were they in a field of it? Or just small amounts?

[@eltonmau7412]

@@rickayers3150 It was 2 weeks after I’d baled the field and the regrow that was short, young and succulent. They just ate the leaves and bloated. If it had more growth on the plant the stem would be longer and they would have eaten more of the stem and that would have help prevent bloat.

[@josephmoilliet8194]

Same here. We've had Water Hemlock (which is even more poisonous than Poison Hemlock) growing in one of our pasture creeks for generations. We may have lost 1 or 2 over the last 100 years from Hemlock poisonings. And yes, we've lost more sheep from clover excess than any other plant.

[@ryanroberts7771]

How many sheep can you run per acre on your rotational grazing system? Thanks

[@rainey4035]

It’s so variable there is NO answer to that question until you go find out.

[@rickayers3150]

No number, as many as you can own. Question is how long before they eat it down?

[@janlindoo506]

Find what your local grazing rate is for where you are at. Usually you get that in cows, say maybe 1 cow per four acres. Convert that to sheep by multiplying by 5. You can graze five sheep on those same four acres. As your pastures improve you can graze more sheep on the same acres.

[@french-canadianfarmer5049]

In working with or moving sheep it's definitely "all or nothing".

[@danielgodin8242]

Greg sent email awhile ago and haven’t heard back yet.

[@rainey4035]

He does not have time for all your emails. Try again and keep it to the point.

[@susanbrobst3186]

What was the name of the weed? The one that is poisonous.

[@r0bh0lmes]

Perilla mint

[@dutch1999]

@@r0bh0lmes Except that's not perilla mint that he was looking at in the pasture. The formal name of Perilla mint is "Perilla frutescens". If you look it up it's different from what he was showing which makes me wonder what that actually was in the video.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

It’s definitely Perilla Mint. My nose can certainly sniff mint. Sheep will not eat it unless you force them to by not moving them occasionally

[@thethrill04]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher Sir, that is 100% not Perilla Mint. I believe that is Slender Mountain Mint which is native to Missouri and actually edible even to humans. Perilla Mint leaves get the size of your palm and will get a purple tint to them and turn purple. Have the boys get the Nature ID app on their phone and identify the mint plant in your field, but I'm pretty sure its Slender Mountain Mint.

[@stormy1363]

“All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way…” Even more so with lamb left behind by their mothers! Fun video with Ike & David!

[@stretch34318]

sheep make so much noise

[@izzardcoteel5539]

Not for most of the time they will settle down they are just worked up cause the move.

[@SvenGreenHill2174]

The ewes and lambs are locating each other to regroup with their prospective family unit. (The ewes are locating their young and the lambs are locating their mothers)