2025.07.02 – Livestock

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2025 is the year I take the plunge into full time farming, by the end of the summer, I need to have enough livestock and vegetables to feed me and my family over the winter, enough hay stock piled from the fields to feed the animals, and whatever I can’t produce here, I have to be able to buy with the excess livestock I can barter or sell off.

The first challenge is making sure I have the enclosure to contain the animals and not lose them immediately. So here I am getting the Chicken run enlarged to house sheep overnight.

Ground boards to protect from Coyote’s digging under the wire.
Fence supports. While I don’t have major dug posts, I use electrical wire. These supports keep the grounding mesh upright and stable.
Fence supports. While I don’t have major dug posts, I use electrical wire. These supports keep the grounding mesh upright and stable.
Fence supports. While I don’t have major dug posts, I use electrical wire. These supports keep the grounding mesh upright and stable.

I have made the first trial paddock out in the meadows for the sheep using recycled bison fencing from my buddy Grant. This paddock will be enlarged this week as I have another 60 posts and 1000ft of mesh coming to setup. This will be large enough for ten sheep and three goats over the summer.

Pasture fencing(to be updated and enlarged)
Pasture fencing(to be updated and enlarged)

Here we have the new shelter for the sheep!

Inside
Back side
Other side
Side view
Shelter all done!
Building the shelter for the sheep.

And the feeder basket!

Feeder basket

And finally the sheep! We only have the two boys for now, these boys will supply one coat each and then be prepared for food for next year.

please don’t get too attached to these boys. I am trying not to as well.

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