About two months ago, March 12th, 2024, I took the cattle off of the sacrificial rotation and hay, and starting rotating them through the pasture. The grass wasn’t great, it was very high in protein, and I decided that in 2025 I would have enough hay to last until mid April, no matter what. And… Continue reading The Results of the “Sacrificial” Areas
My Thoughts on “Total” Grazing
Ben at Grazing365 has been doing this longer than me and recommends tight spacing with aggressive grazing. He has done more research than me and has more experience, so I am considering his advice carefully. His distinction is “selective” vs. “non-selective” grazing. Selective Grazing is when you allow the cows to pick and choose, and… Continue reading My Thoughts on “Total” Grazing
Rams and Lambs
We moved the rams and the bottle lambs into our backyard. The rams will stay until November, when they will breed. The lambs until they are weaned. I have about half an acre in my backyard, which should be able to feed, easily, 4 sheep. I haven’t setup a rotational system yet, but I plan… Continue reading Rams and Lambs
Doing the math, sheep vs. cows in 2024
Alan Westerfield is asking for people’s math on sheep. He said he made his money raising sheep, and he’s heard some crazy numbers by “blowhards.” I think he is responding to this recent video by Birchfield Farming: But maybe he’s talking about my videos too. Now, if you ask people who do rotational grazing, almost… Continue reading Doing the math, sheep vs. cows in 2024
If you get the Avian Flu from cows, you are going to drown from snot
https://web.archive.org/web/20240506034403/https://davidseaman.substack.com/p/bird-flu-has-infected-humans-in-texas In short, this guy got some allergies and thinks we need to shut down the entire country because his eyes turned red. It’s all nonsense. It’s COVID 2024 — because Trump might win an election.
Let’s look at the future by looking at the past
I’m going to pick videos from last year in the upcoming weeks to highlight what I can expect in my pasture. May 2nd, 2023: May 9th, 2023: May 16th, 2023: At this point, it looked like we were in for an extended spring. The weather wasn’t too hot and things were going well. May 23rd,… Continue reading Let’s look at the future by looking at the past
The history of sheep on my field (part 2)
Previous post With 3 new lambs, I was talking to my neighbor about his sheep and he said he was getting out of the sheep business. A commentator recommended I buy his sheep since he is close to me, and I thought that was a fantastic idea. So I approached my neighbor but he was… Continue reading The history of sheep on my field (part 2)
The history of sheep on my field (part 1)
As I get more sheep, I thought it would be a good idea to go over the history of sheep on my field. 2022 I bought 4 sheep on May 30th, 2022. There were two ewes, an older ewe (EWE 0001) and a yearling (EWE 0002). The older ewe had 2 ram lambs. RAM 0001… Continue reading The history of sheep on my field (part 1)
May 1st
Here’s May 1st, 2023: At the time I was doing a 21-day rotation (3 weeks) so the cows were getting a lot of ground and not eating much grass at all. I had only 5 sheep at this time, two ewes, a ram, and a ram and ewe lamb. All of them are purebred St.… Continue reading May 1st
2024 April Month in Review
I sold two bulls. I bought a south poll bull. The grass really started growing around 4/5. Near the end of April, I started to see bermudagrass! Some of the cows start limping in the latter half of the month. I assume it is due to too much protein in their diet. Monday 4/1 Tuesday… Continue reading 2024 April Month in Review