Rotational Grazing

Rotational grazing makes for happy healthy sheep and healthy soils growing beautiful grasses.

The health benefits for sheep rotational grazing are numerous. By only grazing on a certain pasture for a few days at a time, this provides the animals with a new environment of fresh grasses which not only gives them optimal feed, rotational grazing proves particularly beneficial for sheep by helping control internal parasites, ultimately leading to healthier and more productive sheep.  

Not only does livestock benefit from rotational grazing for health reasons, the soil is rejuvenated by having manure spread evenly around, plant life is able to diversify and the plants develop deeper root systems that protect the soil from weathering, and topsoil is built up further than any other method. Rainfall is able to absorb into a well grazed pasture more efficiently due to the how the soil fertility from the organic matter being distributed throughout it. The increased root systems of plants helps the soil to become more drought resistant. For every inch of soil that roots can penetrate the plant has a higher capacity for available water.

This pasture pictured below that the sheep are in right now has not been grazed by livestock in many years. It is very overgrown with thick grasses, thistles and these are cutting off growth for other grasses and plants. The sheep will help work this mess up helping by eating the tall grasses and taking the weight off the smaller grasses being decomposed under them.

I can’t wait to see the pasture after the sheep are done with it. All without chemicals and improving the pasture and growing our sheep.