Looking Forward to Summer

Spring in NE Texas seems to be too short. It starts later than you’d think and ends earlier. In terms of grazing, I typically see the grass really start to grow sometime in mid-March, but spring grazing patterns can’t start until mid-April, when the grass is tall enough to sustain the animals. The early growth… Continue reading Looking Forward to Summer

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Some notes on statistics

I won’t go into detail in this, but I wanted to point out the meaning of the word “significant” when it comes to statistics. Say you had 10 animals. You feed 5 of them a supplement, and the others you leave alone. If all 5 animals that had the supplement survive while the other 5… Continue reading Some notes on statistics

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Baby Chicks are Here!

We got 10 Barred Rock baby chicks from the feed store up in Commerce TX. I have them setup in the shop with plenty of food and water. I’ll check on them in the morning.

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Some notes on weather and such

A viewer asked me to elaborate on why average temperature is useless and what I think about the extreme weather events. I’ll try and summarize what I said. First, temperatures don’t add like masses or velocities. They don’t multiply or divide in any meaningful way either. This is because the temperature is not a quantity… Continue reading Some notes on weather and such

2025 Grazing Plan

Now that the weather is warming up, it’s time to get ready to implement the 2025 grazing plan. I keep notes in a Google doc and refer back to them often. I’m not comfortable with sharing all of them, but I will share the highlights. Goals Why am I doing rotation grazing? To develop soil… Continue reading 2025 Grazing Plan