hey everyone Sam here auntie Angela with Green Acre Homestead so we are out in our
back yard today and we've been thinking about the Sheep because we need to get
some more hay in the next day or two and Angela had a good idea as far as using
some existing forage that's here on our property that we didn't think of until
today and it needs to be cut so why not feed the Sheep with it so what have we
got that we were thinking what are you thinking well we have our garden that is
very overgrown right now and a little spot beside it that we can easily fit
fenced in and let the Sheep get in it and it's right beside the sheep fence so
we don't have to like herd them anywhere to get to it so kind of like a chicken
run but for sheep right it's not gonna be a space they're gonna be in 24/7 it's
just a daytime playground yes because we will put them back in their pasture at
night all right so what kind of materials were using well we're actually
going to use what we have on hand which is the old garden fence that we took
down last fall and we have the t-post and everything from it cool so no money
no money sounds good
the goal is to attach the fence here to our existing corner post and then run
over to the back property line there's a five strand barbed wire fence back there
that parallels and does the entire property so we fill okay that the sheep
won't try and get under to the lowest strand but we're still gonna watch them
to keep an eye on first thing they do set some posts
you know like this way we yeah there do you want more that way
well I guess you can go more that way so I don't hit the roof
eight foot spacing 20
right on the tape
that went pretty easily there's a couple of routes over here I just move the
posts left to right a little bit found my spot all the posts are in now we're
gonna run the fence wire where the two fences meet up what I did was cut the
fence where it left the little fingers of the fencing open and I'm wrapping
around the vertical strands of our existing fence
watch me do when it'll make more sense I come down here real closer you can see
with the fence attached here it's a matter of just pulling this fence tight
and attach it to the post with clips
there's no particular science on how to attach a clip to a t-posts you just want
to hold in the fence tight against the post not over tight so you mess up the
wire and break it and not too loose that it doesn't do its job
that's my theory at least that end down there is done now we are here in our
more of our backyard spending guys around here in a second and we're going
to fence in this area given as much room as we can so probably what we're going
to do first is stretch out the fencing see how much of a bulge we can do and
then put the posts in and go from there so we have two strawberry beds here and
I don't want the Sheep to get to them so we're going to follow our old fence line
for the garden and bring the fence down as far as we can because there's some
really good grass down there
you can take a lot of it that way there's a lot down here go ahead keep
pull it on and I'll pull it back to where I want it cuz that's not gonna
unroll it
oh gee what no moose there it is there's moose so like we just did a little
rabbit alright let's just people get right yep I feel like we need to bring
it up this way to give a little more to catch it
hi boys Oh No so it looks like the fence is ready and it's time to let the Sheep
into their free-range paddock like we've never been allowed this way
Oh
well they look like they're enjoying it and they're getting all the big grass
down already so hopefully it'll last a little while we'll probably leave them
in here for a month or two like off and on to let them forge this while the
other grass grows in and to probably keep the haze that usage down thanks for
coming along as we did the Sheep paddock and gave them some more forage and we'll
see you guys next time bye
you