I'm drooling over the machinery (tractors) and the flat land even in the mountains of Idaho. Reminding myself all my girls will be older and more capable of helping soon too. We are getting there. Thanks for putting video to the concepts.
I just put a 5 gallon of water 💦 🪣. And the next day when you go to the next paddock I get another 5 gallon bucket, I have a 50 gallon blue barrel I fill up in the close area. That will get me thru a week of filling the 5 gallon buckets.
How much extra time will you spend mowing around the unused fences so they don’t short? Or will you only be energizing the ones that contain the animals?
How do you guys keep your fences so tight and in such great shape? I also have the Premier 1 fencing just for my chickens, and the most I have gotten out of it was 2 seasons. I find the fence almost gets stretched and then the horizontal "hot wires" end up on the ground, and ground the fence out. No amount of rearranging the fences seems to help keep it tight and those wires up off the ground.
I just packed away that type of netting recently. I've had a rabbit and our pet cat get entangled in it and boy, what a job to get them out! It wasn't electrified.
I picked up 2 Gallagher smart fence at a local farm sale. Great condition and 40$ each. Our 3 acres pasture is divided down the middle. I've been wanting to do this for years but the cost held us back. I started this week. Using the mower to make the path from top to middle. Planning to hopscotch. We dry out in the summer so I'm hoping this will help. I spread manure/local barley straw all winter on the fields. I'm pretty excited. Started weaning the lambs with my maiden ewes this week. So far so good. For the grass present looks like I can do the rotation weekly. Thank you for all the videos and advice through the years. It's really helped to get to this point.😊. God bless.
PS. I have the 3 momma ewes rotating around the yard grass using the netting I've had for years. It's nice because I can still have flower beds and garden veg without getting destroyed.... also very little mowing.
One trick I think is hidden in all this is how the fencing gets rolled up at the end of the season. I've seen so many videos of people trying to unroll their fencing in the spring only to get frustrated because it comes out as a tangled mess.
Have you noticed any issues on super rainy days, the animals tromping down the grass before they can get their nutritional fill? Tearing up the land while it is boggy?
I'm currently doing something similar with hopscotching my lanes, one to the next. With setting it all up ahead of time, how do you keep the fence from grounding out once the grass starts growing? I find that trying to weed wack around to be very frustrating and destructive to the netting.
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I'm drooling over the machinery (tractors) and the flat land even in the mountains of Idaho. Reminding myself all my girls will be older and more capable of helping soon too. We are getting there. Thanks for putting video to the concepts.
Love to see the boys working with dad, Josh.
'Regenerative Farming' with 'rotational grazing' is what every farmer should be doing..
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Excellent information Josh! Love your videos! Thank you for sharing all of your hard work and experience with us.
Really enjoying Josh’s outdoor videos- animals and systems!
You are amazing!! What a great family project
How do you keep water accessible to all the animals as they move through the paddocks?
I just put a 5 gallon of water 💦 🪣. And the next day when you go to the next paddock I get another 5 gallon bucket,
I have a 50 gallon blue barrel I fill up in the close area. That will get me thru a week of filling the 5 gallon buckets.
How much extra time will you spend mowing around the unused fences so they don’t short? Or will you only be energizing the ones that contain the animals?
How do you guys keep your fences so tight and in such great shape? I also have the Premier 1 fencing just for my chickens, and the most I have gotten out of it was 2 seasons. I find the fence almost gets stretched and then the horizontal "hot wires" end up on the ground, and ground the fence out. No amount of rearranging the fences seems to help keep it tight and those wires up off the ground.
Thank you for sharing such efficiency on fencing and grazing.
Great job! And thank you for explaining it so well.😊
I'm excited for this one!
I just packed away that type of netting recently. I've had a rabbit and our pet cat get entangled in it and boy, what a job to get them out! It wasn't electrified.
Would you all do a video on the charger set up and how you run the electrical side of electric fencing?
I picked up 2 Gallagher smart fence at a local farm sale. Great condition and 40$ each. Our 3 acres pasture is divided down the middle. I've been wanting to do this for years but the cost held us back. I started this week. Using the mower to make the path from top to middle. Planning to hopscotch. We dry out in the summer so I'm hoping this will help. I spread manure/local barley straw all winter on the fields. I'm pretty excited. Started weaning the lambs with my maiden ewes this week. So far so good. For the grass present looks like I can do the rotation weekly. Thank you for all the videos and advice through the years. It's really helped to get to this point.😊. God bless.
PS. I have the 3 momma ewes rotating around the yard grass using the netting I've had for years. It's nice because I can still have flower beds and garden veg without getting destroyed.... also very little mowing.
One trick I think is hidden in all this is how the fencing gets rolled up at the end of the season. I've seen so many videos of people trying to unroll their fencing in the spring only to get frustrated because it comes out as a tangled mess.
Did you determine where your Roundup poisoning came from?😊
Do you have a video of your barn/stall setup? Can't find it but very interested
Does anyone know if goats can be rotational grazed without providing dry hay? We have 5 acres of woods and 5 acres of pasture.
Yes, they can!
@@HomesteadingFamily such good news! Thank you! You just saved us soooo much money! I've been afraid to try it because Google lol
Have you noticed any issues on super rainy days, the animals tromping down the grass before they can get their nutritional fill? Tearing up the land while it is boggy?
My biggest concern in doing a rotation is water. How do you set up a watering system for your animals?
We kept having to pull up fencing to mow or string trim because the fence was shorting out.
I'm currently doing something similar with hopscotching my lanes, one to the next. With setting it all up ahead of time, how do you keep the fence from grounding out once the grass starts growing? I find that trying to weed wack around to be very frustrating and destructive to the netting.
When will your book on freeze drying be on the market?
We have our book: Freeze Drying the Harvest: Preserving Food the Modern Way available for pre-order here: homesteadliving.com/freeze-drying-the-harvest/?FDH-PO-2024
Great concept but not with our rocky ground
It’s premier one netting and what are the poles?
Do you know if the netting comes with the poles like he shows?
@@authentichomestead That’s what I wondered
@@authentichomestead the netting comes attached to the poles.
No reply to my question