Hello from Oregon, USA where Sitka spruce is a native on our coast. And, ironically, we plant Scotch pine for various land remediation projects, notably sand dune stabilization. Nice to see the sheep again. Loved their introduction video. Keep on keeping on.
Gotta say, I think I'd spend my days just cuddling the sheep and goats and getting very little else done. Great to check in on you guys. What an inspiration you are. Love the chestnut tree growth, amazing.
Thank you! Appreciation beyond words! Such a lovely farm, riveting fencing stuff again, no joke. Really beautiful how you film not only the goats but also Rosa enjoying the goats, what a wonderful loop of beauty and enjoyment!
I love your guys vlog! Bravo over there! I noticed you guys roll up your electric netting. This is contrary to every practice I have known. Have you tried this: drop the net from vertical, to laying on the ground, then you pick up the first pole keeping horizontal (parallel to the ground,) walk along and fold fence to next pole. Lay the pole in your hand, on the next pole, and pick both up. Fold next section as you walk along, lay on 3rd pole. etc... When you are done, you are holding all the polls, with the fencing in halved folds. When you get to where you want it, you can drop the whole thing, and simply pull the first pole, and the pile will unfurl beautifully. Or, walk backwards and let go of each pole, as the furl pulls out. Can you picture this? Anyway, thanks for being a source of light and grace on the internet, and good job farming!
Thanks so much for the kind words and your thoughts on the netting. It's Rosa that uses the netting most and because of her height and the weight of a 50m roll of poultry netting, she often finds it easier to roll the nets than carry them folded (we have a video somewhere explaining why we roll nets). The terrain here also makes it far easier to get a folded net snagged on the many obstacles that we have (oh for flat pasture!) as we walk across the farm. Many thanks again for watching.
Lovely to see your Shetlands and you are breeding them. Our ewes respect stranded e fencing, but once the lambs are bolder, there's always a few who work out how to get under 😁
A second to Ian’s comment. Gathering up accordion style is so much easier. We move sheep daily using 3-4 164’ rolls. Its the only way to manage electronet.
Thanks! Don't worry, sometimes we fold and sometimes we roll. There are many ways to skin a cat and, as I'm sure you know, it also depends on the situation, ones own necessities to choose to roll or fold and the terrain of each of our own farm and our personal preferences. There is a video from last year explaining our reasons to sometimes roll over folding if you want to watch it. Cheers.
Hey y'all, Do you harvest any of the sheep's wool? That was a great tour. I really like the videos where folks go on a walk about just show what is there and what is happening now. Maybe a bit into the future even. Many thanks to you and I pray for blessings and good fortune for your family. take care bye for now
the great thing about nut trees is that they are so abundant. Set aside a couple of chestnuts and hazelnuts that you don't coppice for the nut yield. That will also give you stock to propagate from if the coppiced trees should die.
Love it! Thank you so much for showing us around! What beautiful footage you captured! Loved seeing the sheep and hearing all the names you came up with. We are actually in the process of discussing sheep for our property... or possibly lamb. We'd like goats as well for the cheese. We have our hands full as it is... I think we are a glutton for punishment. LOL Keep up the good work!
Of course they have escaped before but I can count the amount of times on one hand, over seven years of keeping livestock, that it has happened. It's never been a problem getting them back or getting them used to the hot fence again, but thanks for your concern. Also, the whole farm is fenced and it's a small farm, so they wont go far ;) By the sounds of it you've had your fair share of sheep escaping on you perhaps?
