Blessedfarmgirl's Journal

[Baymule]

It’s dry here too. With some rain, the winter grass would grow, but no rain. I have a 50# sack of rye grass seed, but no use scattering it with no rain.
East Texas Seed Company is in Tyler, we bought lots of seed there. I sowed Kentucky 32, non endophyte fescue and the sheep loved it. Also sowed white ball clover, both reseeded and came back. You might want to check it out for winter grasses.
Here I have a type of brome, it gets about a foot tall and goes to seed in late spring. But no rain!

Your sheep are looking good.

 

[SageHill]

Your grazing season is ending and mine is about to begin (once we get some of our fall rain). Too funny - my sheep get mad and hunger strike (as much as they can, because well they are sheep) when I put them in a dry brown pasture.

 

[blessedfarmgirl]

Wonderful behavior on your dogs' part! Your dogs charging without making a sound is normal for livestock guardian dogs. The other dogs were charging at you and were a danger. Your dogs knew that and responded approriately. LGDs don't bother barking when attacking a predator. Why bother barking? Barking is to set boundries. Since the predators had already crossed the boundary and were about to attack you, they were prepared to just attack and kill them. If the neighbor's dogs had not retreated onto their own property, your dogs would have tried their best to kill them.

Great behavior on their parts, and the recall was wonderful.

Thank you for explaining all that! I was thinking that, but it makes sense why they wouldn't bark.

It’s dry here too. With some rain, the winter grass would grow, but no rain. I have a 50# sack of rye grass seed, but no use scattering it with no rain.
East Texas Seed Company is in Tyler, we bought lots of seed there. I sowed Kentucky 32, non endophyte fescue and the sheep loved it. Also sowed white ball clover, both reseeded and came back. You might want to check it out for winter grasses.
Here I have a type of brome, it gets about a foot tall and goes to seed in late spring. But no rain!

Your sheep are looking good.

I don't know if we'll do winter grass this year, but that's a good idea! I planted one of our pastures with clover last year, and we do have one big perennial rye pasture that I use every spring before the summer grass comes in. I might be planting a couple more areas with rye in February or so. I didn't know fescue was a winter grass.

Your grazing season is ending and mine is about to begin (once we get some of our fall rain). Too funny - my sheep get mad and hunger strike (as much as they can, because well they are sheep) when I put them in a dry brown pasture.

Mine don't necessarily hunger strike, but they do yell. A lot. But then when I leave they go back to eating the dry grass. They are so dramatic, one would think I starve them.