This is fantastic! I live in an apartment I Houston but this has held my attention the whole time! Raised on my grandparents farm InThe summers! Love this soooooo much! Thank you!
Good video. Can't wait for the livestream! One tip for that style of bale grazing is that sometimes, if a pasture is really needing extra free grass seeds, is to find hay that was harvested when plants were a bit mature, and use that as a means to deposit seeds onto the land. Often green hay contains plants that were harvested before they had a chance to produce seeds; usually they're at or prior to flowering state. Not always, but most of the time. :) Also, there's another style of bale grazing that larger operations use which are basically putting a bunch of large round bales out in rows over several acres and allowing livestock to eat a row at a time--enough for, say, three days before being moved onto the next row. This is good for operations with +20 cattle, but I doubt it would work as well for smaller farmsteads. You basically have to know the average weight of the bales, average weight of the cows, and calculate how much a group of cows will eat per day in order to figure out how many bales they can have every three days, spaced out so that all cows have equal share, not just the dominant cows that want it all for themselves.
Hi, I am not a farmer and don't have any animals but if I was all that information was good and interesting. I hope that the winter weather doesn't get too hard for the animals and yourselves.
Great to c you back on film, when will we c new baby calf n gender ,not sure it was said or guessed at ... N when will we be seeing your new son n some birth info n pictures ??? Great vlog about winter grassing ...those coos looked awesome with the snow all over them
3 weeks is a great stretch on hay! I started with hay rings but with my animals and the number of mouths, the bales lasted just as long without the rings as they did with. Not to mention the larger animals just flipped the rings out of the way. By all means do what works for you and your animals, hay budget, time, etc. Even moving the hay ring from place to place will help spread out the litter and manure. Creating a little bit of distance between the hay and water source can also help spread that manure in a wider radius as the animals travel from hay to hydration. You could also do what I call a "rationed unrolling" - unroll the bale away from the animals little by little. Using a reel running perpendicular to the unrolling. Unroll a ration to match your feeding goals (enough for one day, three ways, etc). When they've finished their allotted feed, unroll more and more the line ahead of them accordingly. Or use two reels and leap frog them so they animals never get ahead of you while you set up the line. This would spread the impact further than feeding in place for 3 weeks at a clip. I hope that helps, please fire back with any further questions! Eli
How wide of a paddock do they recommend? I have more square shapped paddocks and am thinking about changing the shape to more narrow and long. Any advise?
Random but what do you feed your goats? I have two NG does. They are just a year old, not pregnant. I’ve been just doing alfalfa and a mineral block and I’ve had them for two months. I’m rethinking that. I want to get them in the best shape to breed soon.
Here in Ohio it very seldom gets cold enough to solid freeze the ground and the cattle would ruin the turf they sink at least 6” or more plus the erosion is terrible
I really Want milking robots to be possible with small scale homesteads and farms. How is it that almost Evert other machine is possible to make in a homesteads vertion but milking robots is not? Have anyone build their own??
