2023, Waiting on Lambs!

secuono

Herd Master
Joined
Oct 16, 2010
Messages
8,550
Reaction score
11,734
Points
623
Location
Virginia is for Pasture Farmers!
Love it. Ha - it’s like one of the math word problems in grade school! 😊
You could go with fewer paddocks and see how it works, adding paddocks when you know more what will work for you.
I never want to touch another roll of fencing after this. I do it all alone, by hand. I'm more than sick n tired of it. 😅 And it's very hilly, all fence lines will be going up, at various amounts of steepness.
I have a tractor for wood posts & moving equipment, but tposts are fully by hand, so is unrolling fencing. Well, the hill will unroll them at least. Lol.





I'm thinking 12 paddocks...I don't want to keep growing the flock, way too many rams I'll be keeping for dog food. And people are too weird about what they want, with all of the liars breeding & selling mutts, so it's no longer worth it to keep growing. Might sell some other sheep this year, too.

If I do 12, then the 7 paddocks by the barn change to just two. So, those fence rolls & tposts will be pulled and reused.
 

secuono

Herd Master
Joined
Oct 16, 2010
Messages
8,550
Reaction score
11,734
Points
623
Location
Virginia is for Pasture Farmers!
Omg, this is impossible...
I guess next year I can sell carrier ewes that have ewe lambs.

If Lucia has a ewe by Mag next year, Lucia will sell.

Think I should list Bayley this year.

Sugar I'll sell next year and hope she has a ewe lamb. Same with Raichu.

After that, almost the entire flock is home grown & codon RR.
 

SageHill

Herd Master
Joined
Aug 27, 2022
Messages
3,005
Reaction score
11,218
Points
463
Location
Southern CA
I never want to touch another roll of fencing after this. I do it all alone, by hand. I'm more than sick n tired of it. 😅 And it's very hilly, all fence lines will be going up, at various amounts of steepness.
I have a tractor for wood posts & moving equipment, but tposts are fully by hand, so is unrolling fencing. Well, the hill will unroll them at least. Lol.
YOWWW -- yeah I get that for sure. 12 might be the way to go then esp if you are downsizing (is that even possible :hide;). So many ways to do it, no wrong way (short of the obvious). I was thinking do big ones that you could split with a single line of fencing - but that means going back later which isn't in your plan.
 

secuono

Herd Master
Joined
Oct 16, 2010
Messages
8,550
Reaction score
11,734
Points
623
Location
Virginia is for Pasture Farmers!
20230524_200417.jpg
 

secuono

Herd Master
Joined
Oct 16, 2010
Messages
8,550
Reaction score
11,734
Points
623
Location
Virginia is for Pasture Farmers!
207 went to the vet for his travel papers.
115 should be leaving soon.
20230526_120059.jpg20230526_170545.jpg20230526_170636.jpg

Tatiana sale failed, they're just getting one lamb instead. But I found the dog attacking sheep I needed. And Seadra also stomps at him. So, that's good. Now if only the rest would get with the program!
20230526_170641.jpg20230526_170659.jpg20230526_172157.jpg20230526_172844.jpg20230526_163048.jpg
 
Top