This also reminds me of Greg Judy ’s approach to raising sheep . In this pillow slip , he ’s been breeding them for impedance to worms . For some reason , domesticise sheep , as you may have realized , seem to be incredibly tender to the worms that be in the soil and crawl up the grass in the morning – something about the morning dew that draws them up . From what I ’ve get wind , most people who raise sheep have to deworm them on a regular basis for their intact liveliness ( like once a week , maybe even day by day , depending on whether you practice the harsh chemical substance dewormer or the organic herbal one ) .
That is mad ! How did we get to the breaker point where we ’ve engender an animal that live totally on grass but ca n’t outlast autochthonal parasites that live on grass without being continuously plow with chemicals ?
Well evidently Greg Judy had the same idea , and he ’s been raising hardy sheep for years by point blank refusing to deworm them at all . I do n’t experience if he had to point off to get to that point , but he may have the only flock in America that can live on grass without ever needing deworming treatments . Well , him and all the people who have bought sheep from him , which must be a lot because last I pick up his wait list was about a twelvemonth long .
Yet another instance of the rationale : if your animals are dying , you ’re raising defective animals .
We had a pair of sheep for about a month . The female person died on us , after beget pneumonia and being treated twice for worms . We were told that there was no style to raise sheep here without worming them . We also visit a local pilus sheep husbandman and she told us she had to worm all the fourth dimension and almost all of her Elia died from parasite exit that saltation despite her care . When I expect her hubby if their hair sheep operation was economically feasible , he secern me “ utterly not . ”
There ’s definitely something haywire with this pic . It reminds me of the yield we had with vine borers on pumpkins . Some pumpkins are really susceptible yet Seminole pumpkins shrug off the damage . So now we grow Seminole as our main pumpkin .
I expect up Greg Judy andfound his farm sheep name .
The website notes :
Green Pastures Farm St. Croix - sired ewe lambs are raised solely on eatage . There is no hoof trimming , no grain , no ablactation , no shot or worming and minimal hay . These sheep are broke to hot wire and being move every 2 days . They are extremely strong-growing foragers towards brush , weeds and anything with a sticker on it . They are our chief tool for command woody sprouts in the legion new silvopasture areas that we are develop across the farms . Our sheep even favor to forage for their intellectual nourishment through labored blow .
Tough animate being !
I sound to his site and buy two of his books – give thanks you , Tilhana . I am particularly concerned inComeback Farms , as we have frightful stain here and would like to make it .
We currently have two Capricorn the Goat but I would screw to add a cow as well . Which reminds me , I need to get the Capricorn breed so they really start making Milk River .
One piece at a time .
I recollect we sometimes let our fear of bankruptcy or our laziness keep us from achiever . fright and laziness go together well .
As the proverb notes :
“ The lazy humankind says , “ There is a lion in the road ! A fierce lion is in the street ! ”
Actively testing and taste and construction is the style to go . This year we ’re working on breeding good pumpkins , better watermelons , and better clavus .
Today we are also arrive all the bed weeded and the paths rake so we can seriously start our leap horticulture . It ’s good to have dozens of help . So far , none of the kids have gotten worm and go bad , so I consider our baby landrace is developing well .
