I love watching your fascination with the texture of a manure pat, I have determined the health of my farm animals and pets by their manure for years. I’m nearly 65 years old and my grandpa taught me this method of determining health and nutrition for the animals that you are responsible for taking care of to the best of your ability. My motto for years has been the animals that I have stewardship over only have one bad day. Blessings to you and Jan, Greg. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. 40 Shades of Green Farm, West Tennessee
INDEED it is! I joined a couple of sheep groups on FB and it was horrible how much trouble these folks were having. I had to get off the groups. They're doing all the wrong stuff according to Greg (with whom I'm in full agreement) and thereby where having big issues and complications and sick sheep and dead lambs, etc. It all is the effect of the unnatural way conventional ag tries to dominate Nature. Nature refuses to be dominated. We have to bend to her Breeze for best results. Learn from winners. Greg is winning!
Greg did you ever try fall (october) calving? Where you have a mix of green grass together with dry grass (balance of protein and fiber) to keep rumen balanced and no runny tails + nice fresh weather with less parasites/flies/mosquitos, and higher pregnancy/breeding rates if you turn out the bull in january when its cooler for a cows/bull body vs July when the heat makes it harder on both
Hey Greg. I've watched most of your videos over a couple years. Could you explain in more depth your business model? I get how you acquire, feed, and grow, but I don't recall an explanation of how you dispose of your cattle (except for bulls) and bring in revenue. You've disparaged cattle sale barns in the past, so I don't think you dispose of them that way. Same for sheep if you don't mind. That would be a useful video. Thx!
Some go to the sale barns. But some go tova processor, he doesn't want bad generics being passed. His steers to the processor. He is primarily a breeder now. But he has been there done that with custom grazing and all sorts of things. Over these two years of drought and getting new land we have seen how he will auction off and cut back. Now if he gets a lot of early spring rain, maybe we will see him buy some.
Oh I've been reading the pats for a couple if years now Greg, since you taught us about them here on your channel. Any time I'm crossing a cow pasture, I point out to my coworkers what's wrong with the nutritional situation on the herd using that field... They don't care, but it's fun for me. We're surveyors, we "trespass" for a living.
Thanks for the video! I bet you had earthworms going through the manure pats in February because I saw earthworms going through our manure. The crazy thing I saw a honey bee flying in February too. I wish I wrote it down but I didn’t. I’m thinking it was February 9.
I'm trying to do it your way with hay problem I'm having is the 14 foot snow drifts in the fields I'm not able to move them around during the winter as much as I would like
Can you do this same type of video for sheep? I dont have cows yet, but i do have sheep and i keep looking at poop piles when i move them every day, but i don't know what the different piles mean. I can only go on their body condition and famacha scores to determine health
Greg I have been doing rotational grazing for 5 years. Sheep for 3 and 2 with Dexters. All grass but the dexters are still pooping 4 and 5 inch piles. Live in SW MO. ON fescue. What’s wrong?
Could be a lot of things. But to narrow it down, stacked poo is a sign of incomplete digestion. This could be that your feed is too lignified. Or you are feeding hay too, your dexters may not be very efficient at choosing a balanced plant… without knowing the details it is very hard to tell exactly. But o matter the feed is not being broken down satisfactorily by the rumen.
So, what I hear you saying is, feeding hay doesn’t only cost you on the front end of the cow, but also on the back end…? That’s been my experience, my cows never have the well formed poops when I feed hay. And for me, unfortunately I usually am feeding hay for a couple months right before calving.
Can you do this same type of video for sheep? I dont have cows yet, but i do have sheep and i keep looking at poop piles when i move them every day, but i don't know what the different piles mean. I can only go on their body condition and famacha scores to determine health
Man I’d love to see that old picture of them and the barn when it was new.
I love watching your fascination with the texture of a manure pat, I have determined the health of my farm animals and pets by their manure for years. I’m nearly 65 years old and my grandpa taught me this method of determining health and nutrition for the animals that you are responsible for taking care of to the best of your ability. My motto for years has been the animals that I have stewardship over only have one bad day. Blessings to you and Jan, Greg. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. 40 Shades of Green Farm, West Tennessee
Always a pleasure listening to your agricultural insight Greg. You get my vote for who should be on next on the JRE podcast!
Absolutely!
getting excited about cow pats - I love it !
More sheep videos please!!
Your sheep content is the best on RUclips
INDEED it is! I joined a couple of sheep groups on FB and it was horrible how much trouble these folks were having. I had to get off the groups. They're doing all the wrong stuff according to Greg (with whom I'm in full agreement) and thereby where having big issues and complications and sick sheep and dead lambs, etc. It all is the effect of the unnatural way conventional ag tries to dominate Nature. Nature refuses to be dominated. We have to bend to her Breeze for best results.
Learn from winners. Greg is winning!
Good morning, thank you Greg!
Lol I love how excited you get about poop 🤣🤣
Greg did you ever try fall (october) calving? Where you have a mix of green grass together with dry grass (balance of protein and fiber) to keep rumen balanced and no runny tails + nice fresh weather with less parasites/flies/mosquitos, and higher pregnancy/breeding rates if you turn out the bull in january when its cooler for a cows/bull body vs July when the heat makes it harder on both
The condition on the cows, all things considered, is impressive. Greg sure is lucky to get so much more rain than his neighbors do.
Hey Greg. I've watched most of your videos over a couple years. Could you explain in more depth your business model? I get how you acquire, feed, and grow, but I don't recall an explanation of how you dispose of your cattle (except for bulls) and bring in revenue. You've disparaged cattle sale barns in the past, so I don't think you dispose of them that way. Same for sheep if you don't mind. That would be a useful video. Thx!
Sells some as breeding stock. You need to know YOUR market.
Some go to the sale barns. But some go tova processor, he doesn't want bad generics being passed. His steers to the processor.
He is primarily a breeder now. But he has been there done that with custom grazing and all sorts of things. Over these two years of drought and getting new land we have seen how he will auction off and cut back. Now if he gets a lot of early spring rain, maybe we will see him buy some.
Oh I've been reading the pats for a couple if years now Greg, since you taught us about them here on your channel. Any time I'm crossing a cow pasture, I point out to my coworkers what's wrong with the nutritional situation on the herd using that field... They don't care, but it's fun for me. We're surveyors, we "trespass" for a living.
That was David Henry Thoreau's mode of operations too!
Great video, Greg. Are you concerned at all about herbicides used in the production of the hay you feed?
Nope, my hay contractor does not use any.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thank you for your response!
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Thanks for the video! I bet you had earthworms going through the manure pats in February because I saw earthworms going through our manure. The crazy thing I saw a honey bee flying in February too. I wish I wrote it down but I didn’t. I’m thinking it was February 9.
I'm trying to do it your way with hay problem I'm having is the 14 foot snow drifts in the fields I'm not able to move them around during the winter as much as I would like
Wow that is some serious snow drifts!!!
Maybe check out Gabe Brown in Bismark, ND or Steve Kenyon in Canada for dealing with lots of snow....
That right there is a proper Sir Mix A Lot cow! 😅
Can you do this same type of video for sheep? I dont have cows yet, but i do have sheep and i keep looking at poop piles when i move them every day, but i don't know what the different piles mean. I can only go on their body condition and famacha scores to determine health
Can you get a video of the boys or yourself standing next to the cattle to get an idea of there size, Please.😊
Can you look at a sheep's manure and tell how they're doing?
Greg I have been doing rotational grazing for 5 years. Sheep for 3 and 2 with Dexters. All grass but the dexters are still pooping 4 and 5 inch piles. Live in SW MO. ON fescue. What’s wrong?
Could be a lot of things. But to narrow it down, stacked poo is a sign of incomplete digestion. This could be that your feed is too lignified. Or you are feeding hay too, your dexters may not be very efficient at choosing a balanced plant… without knowing the details it is very hard to tell exactly. But o matter the feed is not being broken down satisfactorily by the rumen.
Make smaller paddocks, move them faster.
I saw a different youtuber talk about the poop from young cows. He said the poop piles higher from young cows. Can you comment on that?
Younger animals have much smaller circular piles that have ring patterns in them.
Fermentation tank on stubby legs
So, what I hear you saying is, feeding hay doesn’t only cost you on the front end of the cow, but also on the back end…? That’s been my experience, my cows never have the well formed poops when I feed hay. And for me, unfortunately I usually am feeding hay for a couple months right before calving.
Perhaps if you had more stockpile grass, the cattle would be able to digest the hay better with having some stockpile grass available.
Protein tub required
poopoo
Can you do this same type of video for sheep? I dont have cows yet, but i do have sheep and i keep looking at poop piles when i move them every day, but i don't know what the different piles mean. I can only go on their body condition and famacha scores to determine health