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Pastured Ducks, Sheep, and Electric Fencing

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What happens here

The host points out areas where ducks are pastured, grazing on grass. Further along, he shows a flock of sheep and lambs, accompanied by a livestock guardian dog. He explains that these animals are also moved regularly. The fencing used is Premier 1 electric fencing, identified as an industry standard for managing livestock and protecting them from predators, maintaining the farm's rotational grazing system. The host notes that the tall grass in these areas indicates effective grazing management.

Goal: The tour continues with a look at pastured ducks and sheep, emphasizing the use of electric fencing to manage their grazing and the role of livestock guardian dogs in their protection.

Tools and materials

  • Livestock Guardian Dog
  • Premier 1 Electric Fencing
  • Ducks
  • Sheep and Lambs

What they say

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here we've got some ducks so they've got ducks on pasture they're just out of your challenge out on grass honey watch out there's a big pile of poop right there yep don't step in that and we want to smell it for 5,000 miles so kind of just like our place except for the grass is a whole lot higher so they're moving them on taller grass and we're moving a moment we've been moving them basically around our yard to show you guys that you can do it on a small scale but I guess these are laying hens yep they're laying hens I think that might be a I don't know guys tell me what breed of chickens these are here's what they have for moving the coop you basically grab this handle and it's a pretty interesting concept it's just a wire it reaches around the bottom you grab this handle it's got some pipe on it and you just pull and move the coop and they've got a PVC pipe homemade chicken feeder you might have to try and make one of those on the farm this is their watering container which is very complicated and ridiculously awesome it just runs down to a dripper pretty cool I think when you run through tens of thousands of birds like this you just don't have time to make everything super duper pretty these things are probably beautiful when they first built them but they're like little rickshaws now all right we're walking up here to some sheep and lambs we've got a livestock Guardian dog right here and some pretty sheep and lambs are out here on pasture and they're using this premiere one fence it's kind of the industry standard for electric fencing for moving these critters so these are sheep these are probably face sheep

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