Flytning - The Little Holistic Farm

16/3/26

It is not always easy to decide whether to move the animals to a new area. On the one hand, we must remember that the plants need enough time to recover, and therefore we must not move the animals too quickly, or else we must significantly reduce the size of the fenced-off areas. Just when plant growth picks up again, they are sensitive to frequent grazing.

From the looks of the gravel pits, it still didn't seem like the growth phase had really gotten going again. That's why we would have liked to let the animals stay there a little longer. There were still small patches of grass on the large grassy area.

On the other hand, the animals had grazed almost everything on a large part of the area, and in some places there was plenty of manure. The animals avoid these areas. Since our hay supply is already severely depleted, we didn't want to feed whole hay bales, but only the bare minimum, so that under any circumstances there would be some roughage available at feeding time.

Moreover, the goats in particular had already damaged a large number of the trees, and their chances of survival grew smaller with each passing day. Therefore, we decided to move the animals to the next area.

11/2/26

After it snowed last week, there's still a continuous snow cover outside. Our four Danish free-range hens, in particular, weren't thrilled at first and, in the morning, turned around on the chicken ladder and went back into the henhouse.

The temperature has hovered around freezing for the past couple of days. Johnny has driven the fence posts into the ground so we could move the sheep and goats. It doesn't yield quite as much because of the snow cover, but at least the area isn't too full of manure.

Besides, you can save a bit on the hay. The past few winters haven't been that cold, so we used less, but this year there aren't many bales left.

We hope the remaining balls will hold until the grass grows back. Otherwise, we'll have to buy more. We prefer Morten Korch balls because we don't have the equipment to handle the larger ones.

Sometimes they're already sold out by spring, and then we have to resort to the large round bales.

7/1/26

Your animals have been moved to the next pasture.
Despite the thin snow cover, they immediately began grazing.
Some even prefer the grass to the hay ration they received at the same time.

There isn't much left of the old piece.
If you hadn't fed them hay and our daily ration, it certainly wouldn't have been enough.
The sheep and goats didn't seem particularly stressed until the move.
Without extra feed, you would have had to move them after one to two days.