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October 19, 2021
On a recent farm tour we moved 400 sheep and 24 cows onto fresh pasture in 1 minute.
It was pretty impressive and you really have to see it to believe it.
My favorite part is the little jump that many of the sheep do right as they go onto their fresh pasture.
Its like they have so much pent up joy that they just can't help but do a little celebratory jump!
Check it out-
Because we practice planned regenerative grazing on our farm we are moving cows, sheep, and chickens to fresh pasture nearly every day!Each animal has its own unique characteristics behaviors. For instance, the sheep tend to form a tight herd and give a little excited jump just as they go through the gate. The chickens flap their wings in excitement and the cattle well when they get really excited they do little happy charges and jump.Yep you read that right. The cows have some curious habits when they get really excited. I took a video of me moving the cows just the other day and they didn't disappoint!In fact at one point I had to make sure that one of them wasn't going to accidentally run into me ( I should add it has never happened as they are in incredible control of themselves even during their happy dances haha. Unfortunately I got a phone call right as we got to the gate to go into the fresh pasture and it cut off my video....But the cows arrived to their fresh pasture and were quite thrilled!The cows are handy too as they will readily follow us across several fields if necessary to reach our final destination - just as long as we keep calling them that is. Haha some find it quite amusing what we trained our cows to come to. I hope you enjoyed hearing our top secret cow call in the video :)
