Sheep flock tripled in 14 days!

[@elizebethparker5412]

I love watching the lambs eat a few bites then call for mom and eat a few more bites. Morning and evening chores are my favorite times of day.

[@riverflyswatter]

Living on the farm vicariously Thanks!

[@chantaln6843]

I absolutely love seeing how the dogs & sheeps work together

[@jh5131]

It really is pretty amazing

[@savageairsoft9259]

They are beautiful! Greg and Jan enjoy your trip. Y'all have a great crew at home to keep the animals moving. 👍

[@marvinbaier3627]

Thanks for the video! Sheep are so funny. They want their mom’s but they rather eat instead of finding them. I notice on our small flock there is always one of the ewes always watching the lambs. They take turns. I feel if people watch animals on how they want to nurture their babies this world would be so much better off!

[@markpiersall9815]

10:00 Ticks are hosted by small warm blooded mammals, like rabbits and especially rodents. They also act as a reservoir for diseases. Install a Barn Owl nest box. A nesting pair will eat more than 3,000 voles in a season.

[@nathanahern3278]

1,000,000% agree on the Parvo shot, it's a must.

[@peterclark6290]

Another thing the trampling is doing is building a Humus layer which in Mother Nature's principal means of soil protection. Always good to see your commitment Greg, thank you.

[@allonesame6467]

My Goodness! So wonderful to see sheep eating a diversity of grasses, forbes and shrubs! Thanks for sharing!

[@donaldgastineau6330]

I admire your management of the resource in your area. Your perilla mint looks a lot like our mountain mint in eastern Kansas. Thanks for the video!

[@HansKeesom]

I am using this channel as an example for Dutch farmers so they can see different ways to do things!

[@maxpalmer514]

Can't wait to see how many sets of triplets you have this year...

[@naturalgramma7907]

Love watching them! Nice flock!

[@pederjohansen2029]

Safe travels. I hope you enjoy your semi- holiday. It's a beautiful part of the world.

[@robinwhitlatch4497]

You have had quite the population explosion of lambs and they are big!! The yelling lamb had me laughing. The lambs with color sure are pretty.

[@quailjailss]

Love those red and whites. They will sell better than a solid white, too.

[@BaseReality]

If that ram has a similar 'high score' next year, would you consider removing him, to make sure your flock isn't dominated by a smaller set of genes than it could be? i.e. to avoid any potential inbreeding problems in a few generations?

[@fishythom5910]

So cute!

[@vikingmountainranchlife7447]

That is so really cool! Big congratulations to you you raise healthy happy animals! You are inspiring we have been watching you a few years we just started our own ranch up in the Ozark Mountains!! We have goats and cows just planted Alfalfa and lespedeza!!

[@tangle70]

Lambs kill me. They make me smile everytime.

[@tracyfavre3254]

so glad to see your success! Well done!

[@julieduchinsky3822]

Oh my!!! Babies everywhere 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@markwinblad5867]

Have a well earned European working vacation!! We'll look forward to your return.

[@jonathanbohl]

I wonder how many sheep per acre Greg runs and how long the rest period is of the fields.

[@sebastianbroich8458]

Right now my forage is as high and dense as yours and I guess the sheep eat 20 percent and trample 80. They really trample alot.

[@leelindsay5618]

Looks like those lambs are eating their way to mom.

[@chaoh8958]

Wow. Very impressive. Great job!

[@billquantrill4960]

Greg, do you guys ever have issues with chiggers? If so what do you do to avoid them? The sheep look great by the way.

[@dutchmiller704]

How did you determine the size of your flock. Land , market or time?..

[@J_bar_S_Photography]

HELP! i just had one of my momma sheeps through a lamb yesterday morning and my guardian puppy has chewed a hole on the lambs head where the horns would grow??? the dog is still a puppy so i think she was playing BUT in case she wasn't what do i need to do with that dog to keep her from doing that in the future?? and what kind of salve can i use to treat the hole??

[@VikingGrazers]

HI Greg, My grass got away from me and now my next paddock is around belt high with grass with seedheads on. There is white clover, patches of thistles, Dock, Nettles, Yorkshire fog grass and other grasses I'm still learning, all going to seed. I'm giving my Icelandic sheep a new subdivision of paddock every day or two, but they're leaving a lot of standing grass with seedheads on and around the thistles. Any idea what I should do about the mass of thistles? I've tried tighter pens for flock impact, but no luck yet on the thistles. There is a lot of trampled grass though! If you're passing Chester / Frodsham when you're in the UK, you're more than welcome to pop by for a cuppa!

[@swamp-yankee]

I’d hate to not have my grass “get away from me” as they say. Right now my flock is on chest deep forage. 70 ewes with lambs, and a quarter acre a day feeds them. The meadow their in now had a legacy gully that’s gotta be atleast a hundred years old judging by the fencing around it that was still ripping a little at the top. The side hill where it sits has grown up to woods. It’s 15 feet deep at the bottom where it drains in the creek, and about a hundred feet long. It has stopped ripping into the field with two years of laying down grass stems with the flock. For thistles I’d say your best off mowing. Or if their biannual ones maybe you could get away with ignoring them, and making sure when they set seed there’s a good sward growing that won’t make a decent seed bed.

[@chancevicino3270]

@@swamp-yankee why would them being biennial allow you to ignore them? The cycle is interrupted easier? You seem to know what you're talking about so I'd like to understand.

[@dominionwithoutdollars8593]

@@chancevicino3270 biennial thistles naturally die sooner than perennial thistles, so you may be able to wait on them. But either way, thistle seedlings take advantage of bare ground, so like Joe said, thick existing forage at thistle germination time (in the fall, generally) will help to prevent them.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Thanks for the invite!

[@MrOrcslayer]

How do you keep the ewes from breeding back after lambing since you don't pull the rams out until July?

[@swamp-yankee]

They don’t breed back right away when they’ve got lambs. Some of the northern breeds won’t breed back til the light is right. I bought a little flock of Klefa icelandics for cheap last year that had a ram in all season and lambed at the beginning of April.

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

Our ewes do not breed back that early

[@lcostantino7931]

Beautiful..... NAMASTE......

[@graydonturner]

I noticed a few of the ewes haven't shed yet. Do you have a date in mind where if they haven't shed they're shipped out?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

As long as they give us healthy lambs, we don’t care. Some folks do cull on that reason though.

[@mkin62]

let me tell you a story about parvo. about 9 years ago I bought a puppy from a man selling them out of the back of his truck at the back of the wal mart parking lot. they were a mix of his two pets. the daddy was a registered corgi and the mama was a registered min pin. I took the only one that looked like the mama. the man took my number so he could check up on the puppy. the day after I got her she was sick. she wouldn't eat or drink and she had a fever. I gave her three or four droppers full of colloidal silver throughout the day and just held her on my lap as much as I could. that night before putting her in her kennel for the night, I shoved a capsule of activated charcoal down her throat. the next morning she was bright eyed and bushy tailed. she ate, she drank, she played and was happy. the next day I got a call from the man I got her from. he asked how she was doing. I told her she was fine and that she had been sick the day before and what I did. he told me he brought all three of the other puppies to the vet because they were sick the same day and the vets did everything they could but they all died. isn't that interesting? a highly trained vet couldn't keep them alive but a little nobody like me, who talks with God managed it. I still have my little Miss today. she's never been sick again. she'll be 9 July 1st. you may want to check out the power of colloidal silver as well as activated charcoal. two amazing remedies for all sorts of ailments, both for humans and animals.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

That’s really awesome that you were able to save your dog with folk medicine and lots of TLC! But, these are farmers whose livelihood depends on healthy dogs, and that’s why they depend on science and preventative medicine.

[@mkin62]

@@C.Hawkshaw I had replied to your comment hours ago and came to see why I hadn't received a reply and found it has been deleted. I won't try to say everything I said before but I just want to say that I raised my eight children the same way, with natural remedies. I've also, in my nearly 60 years, taken in every stray dog or cat I found on the streets and nursed them back to health. many many times taking them from near death to thriving. it's how everybody used to live, before modern medicine. maybe they won't delete this one

[@StoneE4]

_“Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work?... Medicine.”_ _-Tim Minchin_

[@brennagarten317]

at time 6:56 in your video, that spear-shaped leaf is not perilla mint. Perilla leaf is shaped like spearmint or coleus or like the spades in a deck of cards.

[@granjaalvator1481]

One breeding question: with the number of heads you manage,, What is the ratio male-females? And how often do you change the rams?, does it work better to have them all together than separating in smaller flocks? Thanks in advance

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

1 adult ram to 30 ewes. Every year we add a new ram to our existing ram flock and sell an older ram. Rams are removed July 7th and put back with the ewes December 1st. This gives us May 1st lambing on green grass and warm weather. You do not want to be winter lambing.

[@granjaalvator1481]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thanks for your answer i Will try to follow that, i need to figure out the months i Will take out the males, in my case winter is not an issue the cold is 60 degrees, the heat is more something to consider we can pass 100 with high humidity.

[@granjaalvator1481]

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher one more question the yearly added new ram is choose from your flock or is coming from somebody elses flock?

[@hoggettfarmer9652]

When do you lamb?

[@gregjudyregenerativerancher]

May 1st

[@vitomilillo8566]

Inventory problems!!! High class problems 😍😍Travel safe Master💪💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@rharrell1]

Terrible news about the thousands of cattle which died in Kansas and Nebraska according to reports it was due to the combination of heat and humidity. According to a Vet this can occur on feedlots where there is no cooling at night and the cattle accumulate heat from one day to the next.

[@mithall4198]

Makes you wonder why we don't hear about tens of thousands dying from heat in the southern states, all at the same time............

[@tow5384]

Your coyotes are better "trained" than the ones here. Here, they're not afraid of dogs (or people). They kill several pets a year here in our community.

[@wallacewimmer5191]

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