Owen and Christine of Anthony-Masterson photography are an amazing couple who volunteer their skills to benefit the movement towards sustainable farming in Georgia. They’ve been out to the farm a couple of times now, and most recently, got some awesome footage of Ross wrangling our sheep for hoof-trimming. As we don’t yet have a proper handling facility built yet, this process can be a little crazy, involving electric mesh fencing as a crowding pen and a shepherds crook. As the video below attests, this makeshift system has its problems, but such is the way of things in a farm’s first year… humility and patience is the name of the game.
you make it look so easy!
Ahhahaha, well done, Ross! You show that sheep who’s boss!
Wow, that one only took 30 seconds to bring down! They should all be so easy, but I know better! Great soundtrack, too!
OK, I am one of those that still doesn’t have my permanent handling facilities built (yet), but in the meantime, I have just two words for you: bull panels. Cheap, and with four of them, and four t-posts, you have an instant pen. We have evolved to using 5 bull panels in a v-shape (one for closing the back), all v’d towards two hog panels about 24″ apart (like a run). Short panels on either end let you chase a group into the hog panel run, hold them there, work them, and then let all go. Sue bought me a sorting gate from Premier for my birthday last year, and sometimes we use that at the end of the run. This setup is a real time-saver, and I can put it up anywhere in the pasture. YMMV