Fall Preparation

Our Dexter cattle grazing pasture as part of our pasture rotation system leading into the fall caving season.

As we inch closer to fall things are picking up around the farm. We have brought our 25 bred cows back from the lease farm to prepare for calving. We will continue to utilize rotational grazing to provide nutritious growth for our nursing cows and develop strong root system in our pasture to increase spring hay yields. We have four designated paddocks for grazing and will stock pile fescue in our remaining pasture field to be strip grazed once the growing season has ended. We are hoping to graze our stockpiled fescue into January. Our calves from 2017 and 2018 were returned to the lease farm to graze through the end of the growing season.  These calves will have half to the pasture ground available to them as we are renovating the remaining ground by no-till drilling fesuce. 

Our Katahdin sheep getting getting their daily grain in preparation for breeding season. Flushing our ewes is important to maximize breeding potential.

Our retained ewe lambs have been merged with the mature ewes for the first time since weaning. These ewe lambs have been managed aggressively to gain weight in preparation for breeding season. The ewes are on good pasture and receiving an additional half pound of grain each per day to maximize potential offspring. We will sort the ewe group into two separate breeding groups and place them on fresh fields to be exposed to our rams. We will be expecting lambs in the middle of February.