Justin RhodesAbundant Permaculture, LLC · Boss

Don’t leave your animals by the creek

Name: Don’t leave your animals by the creek
Uploaded: 2024-06-18T23:18:54+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Justin Rhodes
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker advises that allowing livestock temporary access to a creek for a few days is acceptable, but prolonged, continual…

18 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker advises that allowing livestock temporary access to a creek for a few days is acceptable, but prolonged, continual access can cause bank erosion. He notes that while creek access mimics natural water sources, it also means animals will deposit manure in the water rather than on pasture, which is undesirable for regenerative farming that aims to spread manure on grazing land. The speaker also observes animal behavior, mentioning that the animals explore, learn the terrain, and even mow the creek bank. Overall, the advice balances the benefits of natural water access with the drawbacks of erosion and misplaced manure, recommending limited, short‑term use.

Not best practice to have them on the creek, but just for a few days that this is going to take, I think it's just fine. If you leave them too long on a creek, continual access, they'll erode the bank. But it is really how they would get their water in nature, so I don't mind it from time to time. If you're doing regenerative farming, they in the creek, they're gonna poop, and you're not getting poop on your pasture, which is where you want it. So that'd be another drawback. Isn't that funny? That's the first place these guys went to. They're just exploring, they're learning the territory. Already mowing our bank.