Setting Up our Fences for Rotational Grazing
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Learn how we, as homesteaders, can become an asset to the land and not a drain on the resources by utilizing multi-species rotational grazing, even on a small homestead or in a backyard setting!
In this video, we're setting up our fencing for the summer for our rotational grazing system.
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'Regenerative Farming' with 'rotational grazing' is what every farmer should be doing..
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Love to see the boys working with dad, Josh.
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.
Really enjoying Josh’s outdoor videos- animals and systems!
Excellent information Josh! Love your videos! Thank you for sharing all of your hard work and experience with us.
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.
Would you all do a video on the charger set up and how you run the electrical side of electric fencing?
Thank you for sharing such efficiency on fencing and grazing.
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.
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.
Great job! And thank you for explaining it so well.😊
I'm excited for this one!
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.
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
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?
We kept having to pull up fencing to mow or string trim because the fence was shorting out.
My biggest concern in doing a rotation is water. How do you set up a watering system for your animals?
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.
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
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