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Does anybody here keep sheep's around their fruit trees


Does anybody here keep sheep's around their fruit trees - Facebook

I was looking at babydoll sheeps and hear they don't damage fruit tree trunks like goats do and eat the grass so no need to mow.

Sheep in the Orchard (goats forum at permies)

If the sheep don't damage the trees in the pome fruit orchard, I plan to turn them into the stone fruit orchard, and use a portable electric ...

Will sheep damage fruit trees??? | BackYardHerds

They will eat all the leaves and strip all the bark. The general stocking rate is around 5 ewes per acre, but that depends largely on the grass.

Sheep with Fruit Trees | The Farming Forum

They will also pay towards tree protection (posts/wire etc). My original idea was to replenish an old apple orchard in a 6 acre field which has ...

Can I have sheep in an orchard/pasture? - Homesteading Forum

not without fencing around every tree about a minimum 6ft circle. My daughters sheep ate the bark off of all my mature trees (5 apple, 1 peach ...

The Benefits of Sheep in the Orchard - YouTube

Sheep don't just look good in the orchard, they improve vigour and yield too. Their faeces and urine feed the soil microbiome, which in turn ...

Farms with fruit trees and animals grazing beneath them in the US?

They will move the herd every few days, green crop is no longer mowed and fertilizer from animals helps trees. Usually animals are moved out ...

Sheep in Orchards: Smart Farming Hack or Risky Mistake? - YouTube

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Animals, fruit trees, and electric netting

Sheep and fruit trees · They keep the grass short, thereby helping to put more carbon into the soil, · Provide free nutrition for the trees, delivered exactly ...

Protecting Fruit Trees from Grazing Sheep in the Orchard - YouTube

Here we show how we are rotating the sheep through our orchard with pre-subdivided paddocks and polywire protecting each individual tree.

Small Ruminants as Mowers and Land Clearers

Sheep are also great for grazing orchards and grape vineyards. Sheep do like tree leaves, and evergreen needles, and will generally prune trees ...

Integrating Sheep into Orchard Systems - YouTube

Modern agriculture in the U.S. has normalized the separation of animal agriculture from growing crops, but many producers have found there's ...

Sheep and Other Fruit Trees Besides Cherry........

I was planning on turing our sheep into the orchard shortly, finally got it all fence in. I have apple, peach, apricot and pear trees planted.

What kind of damage can sheep do to my garden? Should I find their ...

Not just the flowers, they even love to eat bark from fruit trees. Our sheep once killed a fifty year old, big apple tree by removing the bark ...

Creative Way to Protect Plants from Animals

I still see rabbits in the clover surrounding the apple trees and in the ... Indoors you can put down aluminum foil to keep your dog away from something.

How to protect fruit trees from Sheep and Goats - YouTube

Comments4 ; Will Goats kill your trees, yes and no depending on how you handle them. Flanagan Homestead · 1K views ; How to Plant Fruit Trees: The ...

How Sheep Support Regenerative Agriculture in Our Orchard

Introducing sheep to an orchard may seem like an outdated practice, but it offers numerous benefits. First and foremost, the sheep will play an ...

Living With 74 Animals In A Food Forest! Permaculture Farm Tour

The sheep's main purpose here is to eat the grass around the fruit trees ... can avoid fruit flies and by fertilizing the soil of their poop.

Will Sheep bother Christmas trees? - Reddit

We've been grazing Shropshire sheep in our Christmas trees for five years now- it's fairly labor intensive to manage the pasture rotation, but ...

My sheep ate my trees - YouTube

Comments8 · Why I Feed My Garden More Frequently · Tree guard Mallee Mesh sheep guards · Watch this before you put fence around your trees!! · The ...