rev.hodl on Nostr: Buying time while the winter turnip pasture matures by using the sheep to heavily ...

Buying time while the winter turnip pasture matures by using the sheep to heavily graze an area of weaker pasture.

With all the lambs off to the butcher, except for a handful I will process here at the homestead, we are focusing our attention back on the ewes.

There hasn't been a hard frost yet, so the winter turnip field is still able to continue growing. We put the sheep in a paddock in a pasture that wasn't very high quality this season. The idea is that they will over graze it and put some heavier impact on it so it can be reseeded. Once they finish a couple bales of hay they will move in to the turnip pasture.

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quoting nevent1q…scn8

The lambs have entered their finishing stage as the first butcher date approaches



We are trying something new this year finishing the lambs. Because we are slightly over stocked, the butcher date is earlier and the lambs were a bit below average weight, we are feeding all the pasture we have left exclusively to the lambs. Along with the pasture I'm feeding them tree leaves by pruning the trees at the edge of the pasture.


Because we put up a new hard fence in the maple sugar bush and we managed to score some discounted hay we decided it would be best to build a small paddock for the rams and let the ewes have most of the woods. We are feeding hay for now but once the lambs are butchered, we will be moving the ewes back on pasture or putting them on the turnips we planted across the street at the neighbors. It's always interesting what challenges and opportunities each season provides grazing the sheep and producing lamb. Especially as the homestead travels along its natural path of succession.

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