So, Was It Worth It? Greg Judy's Grazing School
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2022
- We spent two days at Greg Judy's Grazing School. What did we learn, and was it worth it?
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You two were great students and kept some great notes!! Thanks for being part of our beginners grazing school. All the best to you both in your grazing endeavors.
Thanks so much Greg! We learned a lot.
"He's in the freezer, he's never getting out again" lol
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Always good to hear a bit of feedback about the likes of Greg Judy and his green pastures farm. I’ve been following him for awhile👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺
Hi Mountain Block Moments. We have as well. We learned a lot and are very glad we went. Hope you are having a good day. 🙂
So glad to hear y’all enjoyed the trip! I look forward to watching you put into practice what you learned and seeing the results. You are improving your land and the quality of life for all who are on it every single day because of the hard work you are willing to put in and the education you continually seek!!
Thanks so much Lea. We are trying. We sometimes make mistakes but we are learning from them, or at least trying to. 😊
Great video my friends!
Thank you! 😊
You guys are doing great!! Proud of both of you!!!
Thank you so much Wild West Unlimited. We really appreciate it and you. 🙂
If you start watching Mr. Judy's videos every day, after a year or two most of what he talks about in those grazing schools, he will have gone over those topics multiple times. It becomes second nature.
And since he has years of his videos posted, you can binge watch them (at 1.5 speed, since he doesn't speak really fast) and get, say, the last 3 years watched in a month or two!
Notes: On Greg's operation he plans around a cattle stocking density of 1 head (bulk, steer or cow/calf pair) per 5 acres to raise 365 days on forage (with an allowance for some hay when necessary). _Your_ stocking density depends on your context. Some rich pastureland can support 1 head per acre, while some dry places are 1 head per 50 acres.
Greg will raise ~300 head on 1,500 acres (and another ~80 bulls + ~250 sheep flerd on ~800 more acres). However, for every 1 head of cattle (5 acres) Greg can raise 6 sheep/ sheep with lambs. 6 sheep could give him 20-30 lambs over two years that he can sell every year, whereas 1 cow will give him 2 calves that might take 3 years to sell them both.
It depends on your quantity and quality if forage. For 15 acres, you would be much better off raising 15-20 sheep vs. 3 cows. Or if you keep a bull, 1 bull and 2 cows.
His other recommendation is to get in touch with neighbors and lease their land to raise your livestock on! So you could go from 15 acres to 150 acres for $1,500 per year, enabling you to run an additional 25 cows or 150 sheep!
Hi Movin On, thanks. We learned a lot from his videos but for us there is nothing like hands on experience. We learn by doing.
Greg talked to us about all of that. 🙂 We are getting two cows for us personally, but we are definitely going to purchase more sheep. We have our eye on a piece if property just down the road from us. We are going to see if they will let us lease it. It is amazing how one can make money if they think outside of the box. Thanks for the advice. We have to make some silvopasture and then we can get more sheep on the property. 🙂
Advanced was awesome as well. Glad you guys gave this great review. Community extension was so valuaable. Yes 30 minute plus drives to the class. Like Billy suggested I met 4 people close to aea. Plan to trade labor and gain experience All value added to the class. Were able to connect two classmates. For local weaned pigs.Helped another connect to a classmate for two steers ready to butcher and a local bison meat supplier. Those are some of the hidden value of this type of class.
Thank you both again!
Hi Charles, very cool! Those connections are invaluable. We hope to take the advanced class some day. Thanks so much for the comment!
I’ve had cattle for my entire life basically, and think of Greg as a mentor.
Hi, thanks for the comment. We really appreciate Greg’s knowledge. His teaching is invaluable.
This was awesome guys. Y’all done such a good job sharing and explaining to us about all y’all learned that I feel like I’ve been to the class already 👍🏻😂🙌🏻 Y’all have some beautiful property and your positive attitudes and enthusiasm are so encouraging. We are looking to rotational grazing here as well. THANK YALL 👍🏻🙏🏻😇🙌🏻❤️☀️
Thanks so much Pastor Lon. We really appreciate you. Let us know if you need anything. Happy to talk more about what we learned. 😊
@@RenewedHomestead Thank y’all 👍🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻❤️😇
Your property is beautiful!
Thank you so much Neva. We are blessed to live in such a beautiful place.
I am definitely putting this on our to do list! Thanks for sharing!
You will learn a lot. 🙂 Thanks Two Old Crows Homestead! 😊
@@RenewedHomestead if I’m not mistaken, there is a friend of Greg Judy’s that does the same thing with his sheep that lives about an hour from us here in KY. I need to go find that video and look him up. Maybe we can visit his farm. 🧐
Just subscribed!
That would be a lot closer. Lol Visiting is always a great way to learn. 😀
Thank you justtom. Welcome! We are happy you are here. 😀
Awesome video really interesting content 🤗
Thank you so much John! We appreciate it. 😊
I just watched a video from The Shepherdess, titled; WHAT I DID ON MY RUclips BREAK. It answers a bit of your concerns based on Greg Judy's advice to pull your metal posts and switch to the great Timeless step-in posts. Check out what she did because of limited money.
Thank you! I really appreciate it. I am not familiar with her channel. 🙂
@@RenewedHomestead i think you will like her. She is like you in that she in a firm believer in Christ and researches everything.
Very cool. Christ at the center is critical. 🙂
Always love your enthusiasm!
If it weren't for my disability I would be doing exactly what you're doing! I have always wanted to farm. My family has owned 130+ acres for over 140 years & my grandparents were the last ones to farm the land since then it has been leased to a farmer and the property has grown up so bad. It makes me sick to walk out of the door everyday but living on a fixed income with with several health there's only so much I can do.
Anyway I love your channel and & can't wait for more content.
Thank you so much Rita.
That must be heartbreaking to watch that. I pray they do more to care for it, so you don’t have to see that.
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Thank you. 🙂
Such great enthusiasm! I know you guys have wanted to go for months now. So glad you made it and that it was all your heart desired. May you flourish even more as you put these things into practice.
I did not know that hair sheep tasted differently than wool sheep. I have never liked lamb so to me that=re is no such thing as a great lamb chop. Perhaps I can try.
Thanks so much Dwight. We are always eager to learn how to do things better. We found a soil tester that is better than the standard. We are going to test our pasture now and in the future. We are still trying to find a more detailed one that you mentioned a while back.
It definitely tastes better. I have noticed that the wool sheep has to be cooked right. When we get our Harvest Right going we can freeze dry some and send it to you if you want to try some. 🙂
@@RenewedHomestead It sounds like a great way to locate hair sheep. I raised sheep in while a high schooler over 55 years ago and we never ate them so that is how opposed to lamb I have lived my life.
Hi Dwight, did you raise wool sheep? There are people that don’t like sheep. Lol My mom doesn’t like beef or chocolate. I tell her she is crazy 😂
@@RenewedHomestead Yes, I raised Columbias. They are larger sized than most with great wool and high twinning percentage. In those days wool was still an important revenue stream to shepherds.
Columbias are such great a great breed at multi-births that one spring I had a 203% live lamb crop with only two bummers. It meant that I slept in the barn while still making it to school each day. I pulled a few placentas over the third of triplets in place of a still birth from a different ewe. It is really funny watching a mama running after a three-day-old lamb to lick off the placenta and claim "her" frisky lamb while still passing some of her after-birth. But the method really works. I have never failed to have a ewe adopt a lamb if she has licked her own placenta off it no matter the age of the lamb.
We likely didn't eat lamb because they were so valuable and my mother didn't like lamb anyway. My sheep were viewed as income not homestead abundance for the family. Not glamorous just the way it was in my family. Another reason is that I only had sheep while in high school and sold them all to go to college so every ewe lamb was added to my heard and every wither was sold for food bills. No one else in my family liked the idea of sheep as we were into cattle and other crops.
Wow, that birthing percentage is wonderful. We will have to remember the placenta trick. What did you do if the lamb needed colostrum? Thanks for the tip.
That is wonderful that you paid for college. We need more young kids willing to work that hard. I know it gave you a great education. Do you miss working with them?
You guys are great! I hope my husband and I can do this full time together one day. We are in NC outside of Charlotte... any ideas where we can find quality hair sheep?
Hi Tracey, thank you so much! Y’all are only a few hours away from us. 🙂
I don’t know of anyone down there right off. Our issues was finding some that had not been dewormed. If I find someone I will let you know. We will be selling some, but it will probably be a few months. Keep me posted if you find any. I would recommend not getting any at the auction because you don’t know their history.
Justin Rhodes? They may have some ready soon.
Thanks Movin On
I understand you don't want to use those Timeless fence post. I am going to use them there's nothing more tiresome and then chasing livestock. you're young you'll stay in shape little longer but you'll get tired of it.
Hi Dan, it isn’t that we don’t want to use them, it is a matter of money. We already have fence posts pounded in and we have the wire, so we are going to try that at first. On our homestead we will only have a couple of cows with our sheep. We don’t want them getting out. We spoke with several other people who have said it works, so we are going to try it. It is really about money at this point. We never said we will not have a fence, that is definitely a must. Thanks for the comment.
Saw y’all on Billy’s channel! I’m glad to have found ya! You mentioned a book your reading…. Gaia something….. can you please share the title and author?
Hi Cathleen, it is wonderful to have you! Thank you. Here is a link to the book I am reading.
tobyhemenway.com/book/gaias-garden/
@@RenewedHomestead thank you 🙏🏼
You are welcome. 😊