**The sheep at the homestead are on the 5th grazing of the pastures, looking good!**
This is the best the pastures have looked at this point in the season since increasing the stocking density to push the limits of what it can sustain. There are a couple changes which lead to the improvement in pasture quality late in the season, even with the unfavorable weather this year.
First some fellow permies with a goat dairy, lent out their roller crimper for about a month, so after each paddock was grazed the roller crimper followed behind working the stemmy unpalatable grasses and weeds into the ground. This allowed the grass to recover shockingly well, even in droughty conditions.
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The other large contributing factor to the success of the late season pasture was the new approach to selling the lambs. The focus was on selling feeders and breeding stock rather than selling whole lambs for butcher. After selling 5 feeder lambs, a katahdin ram lamb for breeding, and a East Friesian dairy ewe lamb, the number of sheep in the flock was greatly reduced allowing for more available food in the pasture for the rest of the flock and more time for the pasture to recover.
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