Rotational Grazing and Regenerative Agriculture with Livestock

By moving animals across land you also lessen the pressure of internal parasites by a lot. Mixing species is also brilliant for this.

Your animals look nice, calves off to a good start, but your most valuable livestock herd is the soil life under your pasture

Once in a while you may want to sell excess forage to the guy with the 120 sheep. Nice-looking pasture species

do you have to clean the poop?

Greg Judy say don’t mow . In a month you put them back on it after chickens
Cattle first
Goats or sheep next
Chickens
25-30 day rotation.

No mowing

With People like you Ann the future of our world is certainly positive... kindly consider myself a volunteer or an extra pair of hands willing to work if ever called upon...thank you

May I ask how much property are you now sitting on in Tennessee?

Terrific vid! Gonna check more out. New sub :)

Can you do this without a lawn mower? Or what would be a more natural way to replace that?

How do you seed yourself pastures for multiple animals?

Woo! First time I heard a very good explanation of rotational grazing!!

My wife has me do this over modt of the year & then we feed them hay over winter. They fertilize the land. Our property was a dry, dusty dirt patch. Now, with the help of animals & clover, it is now flourishing with plants that the goats love to eat & the chickens enjoy being in too.

How much land do you rotate graze on?

Is that a Maremma? Great dogs, huge personality, and very little use for human direction! Ours is a character and I’m pretty sure she’s decided we’re her penguins. She’s more of a spare adult in the family than a pet. Smart as a whip and dedicated to watching over her family. There have been discussions about the normality of wheeled conveyances, particularly prams. She saw one get closed to keep rain off the baby inside and seems to believe it ate the baby! It was an interesting conversation. She was only 7 mos old, and yrs later she is still distrustful of them. Babies should be free range apparently. Stay well and safe.

Thank you, as always very positive! Anne, how are your bees, have you brought them to a new place?

How fun are you. I'm new here and if OK, I'll live vicariously through your knowledge and the work you're doing. God bless you.

It takes at least 21 weeks for the parasite cycle to be broken. If you have 23 paddocks then it means you rotate through not only the parasite cycle but also the grass area changes during the worse times of the year (if you are in an area that doesnt get a lot of snow). Joel salatin and also permaculture bill Morrison and Geoff lawton are excellent references to learn from. Also look into hay making.... it takes 10 -16 weeks to grow grass tall enough to make hay..... which you can use during winter if you have to put the animals up in a barn. Also look into harrowing the paddock just after the animals have left the paddock to accelerate the breakdown of manure.
1 animals grazing
2 move animals
3 harrow the field they just vacated to spread manure (chickens are awesome at this and really help keep down the fly population but you can buy small drag barrows for utv, horse drawn or a tractor)
4 let grass grow to hay height
5 cut grass and dry to make hay for feed over winter (silage is apparently better than ordinary hay but I am still looking into that process and how it could work on a small scale)
6 give grass time to recover for 3 months or so until you cycle through the paddocks and return back
7 rinse and repeat.

i am from austria and rotational grazing is practiced everywhere since forever. most farms are small.

Does anyone know how much land it takes to make the feed for 1 animal in a feed yard. Is it closer to the 80 days per acre or closer to the 400 days per acre.

It seems like the US has optimized cattle production to require fewer people, with no care about how much land is needed for each animal. The concept of rotational grazing flips that on its head and looks at how many animals can be maintained on each acre of land with less worry about how many people it takes to maintain the heard. This definitely sounds like the direction we need to move as the population of the planet approaches 10 billion.

Does this type of fencing keep coyotes and other predators away from your birds? Just lost a duck today to a coyote but I would like to still free range. I'm not sure what to do right now.

So good and was fun to see the animals frolicking, especially baby June!

I could do that too if I were as smart as you.

This is so cool!!!!! Can't wait to implement this on my land in the future!

I did like the video but wtf is that title. Its the whole other way around. Rotational grasing was implemented which had the benefit of lowering the feedcost. "I stopped buying food for my animals, and THIS is what happened!" just screams clickbait in this context. :/

Anne, how many acres you guys have there? Love all your videos btw

How many acres do you have?

Very interesting and informative video, thanks. What is the box with the solar panel that was next to the fencing used for?

"and you’ll never believe what happened..."
oh Anne, didn't expect a clickbait-ey title on this channel...

but i do believe this is how animals should be raised, not in &^%$@ factory farms....

Anne you've got to tone down the clickbaith titles a little bit.

Another great video but my 17 mo. old granddaughter asked me to ask you to post more videos of the animals. We get to keep her two or three days a week and it is mandatory that we show "Baby Fever" and Milk Dud. So, for my granddaughter, can you please do more animal videos. Thanks.

What about the alpaca?

Nice video Anne! Thanks for sharing it with us!💖👍👌😎JP

Truly awesome stuff - thanks for sharing.

I feel like we need to plant more kinds of food for animals, like carrots, and other vegetables that both humans and animals like. And trees for shade, and nuts for the pigs.

nice, I just got an old farm here in Canada about 5 acres of grass , trying to figure out what to do with it ... grazing period is way shorter here probably 7 month

I was wondering how much land you have. I am the granddaughter of a sharecropper in SC, who died in 1959. He had 40 acres of cotton, tobacco, corn etc. He never had a tractor but plowed with a mule or horse. He raised pigs and chickens. He had a milk cow he milked. They raised 7 kids on the farm.

I'm sure there's good info on here, but I'm not gonna reward the click bait title.

Great video thank you for share. We rotate our pigs and already in one year we see a difference.

Do the same, but I mow high (I go for 6-8 inches, lower can cut the cotyledons off some of the grass species too low and dry out roots (a concern in Sequim/Blynn with our dry season and high-drainage glacial till). Great work Anne! Check out the new Regenerative Organic certification (even if you don't intend to get certified, really cool new idea coming).

I’ve watched lots of your videos over the last four years or so - this is your best one yet IMO - you’re really onto something transformative that could easily turn into a showcase there - take care of yourself in your busy life

Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you? (You might need a grandparent to decipher that.)
Once you said ice cream, it all made sense. One of your best and informative videos.

Çok guzel olmus...🖒🖒

Love your animals,, wish I had some of them here

How do you get water to a rotating pastures?