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<blockquote data-quote="Grendelshooter" data-source="post: 3660184" data-attributes="member: 44870"><p>Oh I know what you mean. It would be easy to do, especially with the way things are going around the country the desire is to get everything ASAP…but we’re taking things slow.</p><p>We ended up having to buy hay for this winter. We have a 40 acre plot off toward Mountain View that has a lot of grass so we’re experimenting with making silage out of it and if we can make that work we won’t have to buy anything for next winter. </p><p>We may even expand our flock and move them permanently onto the 40 acres with a bunch of guard animals. </p><p>Next spring is going to be mostly developing a fruit orchard but I think we’re going to try a couple of acres of corn for feed to supplement the grazers.</p><p></p><p>We’re on a waiting list for some dairy sheep, hope to add a couple to our flock this spring, God willing. We really thought the sheep would be harder than they turned out to be so we started smaller than we would have liked. Now that we’ve got a routine with the chickens and sheep that’s manageable we’re looking into pigs. Probably start with a couple of gilts, and get used to having them before we start breeding them. At the rate they reproduce It may be worthwhile to entirely replace the sheep with grazing pigs, but we shall see.</p><p>Lots of stuff up in the air but time will tell-I just wish we had more of it (time).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grendelshooter, post: 3660184, member: 44870"] Oh I know what you mean. It would be easy to do, especially with the way things are going around the country the desire is to get everything ASAP…but we’re taking things slow. We ended up having to buy hay for this winter. We have a 40 acre plot off toward Mountain View that has a lot of grass so we’re experimenting with making silage out of it and if we can make that work we won’t have to buy anything for next winter. We may even expand our flock and move them permanently onto the 40 acres with a bunch of guard animals. Next spring is going to be mostly developing a fruit orchard but I think we’re going to try a couple of acres of corn for feed to supplement the grazers. We’re on a waiting list for some dairy sheep, hope to add a couple to our flock this spring, God willing. We really thought the sheep would be harder than they turned out to be so we started smaller than we would have liked. Now that we’ve got a routine with the chickens and sheep that’s manageable we’re looking into pigs. Probably start with a couple of gilts, and get used to having them before we start breeding them. At the rate they reproduce It may be worthwhile to entirely replace the sheep with grazing pigs, but we shall see. Lots of stuff up in the air but time will tell-I just wish we had more of it (time). [/QUOTE]
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