Plan Pasture Layout and Water Sources

let's talk about this gate this is a double gate that we put in between two pastures now you don't see a pasture up there yet we are building a first generation farm here guys so this is our first two cows on our first generation farm and this all this whole hillside down here will be cleared off in the future videos so we'll take that from what was forest old scrubby forest and we're gonna smooth it out stump it and plant grass and have more pasture establish that'll be about 25 acres and there is the start of a pond right here that I started building I guess early in the spring now we're going to finish that pond up sometime I guess mid year next year but it's going to raise the level all the way back into here and we'll have a water source way up I this is the highest point on the farm so we can gravity feed water to the cows and keep them out of the creek all right so we've got all the gates closed now and we're gonna go down and wait on my stepdad his name is Barry he spent a lot of time with me and he's got about 40 cows he's been foolin with cows and raising cows and farming cows for probably thirty plus years so he was my resource for going to these auctions and he and I enjoy this kind of thing so we rode out to a couple cattle auctions and we got to see what different parts of the country had to offer so while I got you here let's do a little pasture ology so we just rode down past the land that we have behind our house and it's about I'm gonna say close to 35 acres of fenced land behind our house now eventually we'll have a lane that comes out right up here at this gate this is a where our dogs stay most of the time there's a lane that comes out that's a cool dog house by the way we'll help we'll build a lane where the cows can be moved down here and we're going to be putting new fence up right here and the new pond we just built if you follow the vlog it's right there so we're right here in the front yard of the house so there'll be a passenger here and this is approximately three and a half acres and then there'll be another one about an acre across the driveway and we'll rotationally graze these cattle for now we're just putting two cows in a 30-some acre field so there will be plenty of forage out there but we're building our herd we're building our stock another