We've moved both our grass fed sheep and our Brahma chicken flock to graze in a new pasture.
On the right in the back, you can see the chicken ground cages surrounded by electric fence and little white dots that are our birds. They're about four months old and we hope to start getting some eggs by sometime in September or October. It takes a lot of feed and time and to raise a pastured poultry flock until the point of laying.
To the left and in the foreground, you can see our night pen for our sheep. In the very back and middle, the little white dots are our flock of 19 sheep grazing under the trees. You might also notice the blue wading pool in the sheep pen, which is for our LGD pup-in-training to cool off. We use the deep bedding system in the sheep night pen to keep it clean. We also run chickens through it a few times a week. The night pen is fairly simple to take apart and move, so we do that about once every month or two, which helps keep the parasite count low and also gives us some well fertilized areas full of hay that we can later use as gardens or in which we can simply let our hogs root around and clean up.
- Trisha
On the right in the back, you can see the chicken ground cages surrounded by electric fence and little white dots that are our birds. They're about four months old and we hope to start getting some eggs by sometime in September or October. It takes a lot of feed and time and to raise a pastured poultry flock until the point of laying.
To the left and in the foreground, you can see our night pen for our sheep. In the very back and middle, the little white dots are our flock of 19 sheep grazing under the trees. You might also notice the blue wading pool in the sheep pen, which is for our LGD pup-in-training to cool off. We use the deep bedding system in the sheep night pen to keep it clean. We also run chickens through it a few times a week. The night pen is fairly simple to take apart and move, so we do that about once every month or two, which helps keep the parasite count low and also gives us some well fertilized areas full of hay that we can later use as gardens or in which we can simply let our hogs root around and clean up.
- Trisha
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