Grazing Sheep in Winter

Welcome back to Perseverance Pastures. My name is Victoria and we moved our sheep this morning back to our small one acre pasture. I'm pretty excited about this, mostly because I think I will sleep better at night because they're now in a pasture that has a proper perimeter fence. We built this with our neighbor this spring, and so this pasture is a little more secure versus our other grazing pasture. That pasture doesn't have a back fence, so we had a temporary hop fence along the back, mostly to keep potential predators away. So we moved them over here to this pasture. I'm pretty also happy about it because there is so much more grass in this pasture because we haven't grazed it since August. I'm still in learning mode about grass, our needs for the grass in winter, for stockpile, along with the nutrients that they're getting. Toast just realized that the flock had moved on. So they'll be in this paddock for one week, and then I'm moving them to this one, and then I'm actually about to prep for a third week, but I got distracted because I just love watching them eat so much. So that's what we're up to today, just preparing for winter. I added some removable walls to the sheep shaw so the sheep can have a wind break, and we did get some snow. Sheep did not care about the snow. They went under the sheep shaw, but I think as a novelty, not really a, oh, we need this. We've had one really windy day, and that day they utilized the sheep shaw, but other than that, the flock is doing well. We hope to have some lambs in May. That's the hope. I'm pretty sure Toast is pregnant. I don't know about Chai. I don't think she's gone into heat yet, but that's all we've got going on here. I'm gonna get back to it. I just wanted to show off our sheep and how they're doing, and I always love seeing them on green grass. Our other pasture, it was just, it was waning pretty bad. I think we kind of overgrazed it, but this is still very much the learning curve that we're on, so that's all right. Thank you so much for watching. Bye!