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Shift Animals to Another Paddock - PEP BB animal.sand.paddock

BB animal care - sand badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Animal Care.

In this Badge Bit you will shift animals over to a new paddock, move their shelter, and check they have water and minerals.



Here are some articles on it.
 - Raising Chickens 2.0
 - Stock Grass Farmer Report on Paddock Shifting Pigs
 - Pasture Post Pig Grazing
 - Advanced Cell Grazing
 - Paddock Design and Stockmanship Part 1
 - Paddock Design and Stockmanship Part 2







To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
  - move animals to a new paddock
      - make sure they have good water and minerals
      - move the shelter

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must:
 - post a 2 minute video (sped up) of you doing this
      - moving the animals to a new paddock
      - moving the shelter
      - checking their water and minerals
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This is my first time completing a BB. I’m missing something please let me know.

Below are a few videos of us moving our guinea hogs to new pastures and checking on their food and water. Selenium is the deficient mineral here and we have it added to the food directly.


https://photos.app.goo.gl/F3tvhXeVUUnFMJDE9

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1ndmDWwn1EEZEjT36

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gcLRuAcdZ5pCqNKK7
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I certify this BB complete!  FYI, one combined video of 2 minutes or less is more likely to get quickly certified (easier on the certifiers).

 
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Would moving a large chicken tractor/chicken dome count for this BB? Or does it need to be a larger paddock?

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No, that wouldn't count.  You're moving them from one paddock into another and also moving their shelter to that next paddock.  I don't think Paul's particularly keen on chicken tractors.  Unless you tractor is as big as a paddock...

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I shift my sheep from paddock to paddock monthly, but their run-in barn is split so that they have a separate shelter for both paddocks. Could I still get this badge bit without the shelter-moving aspect? (I used to subdivide the paddocks further for a more intense/frequent rotation with a portable shelter and solar-powered electric fence, but the greater labor input and reduced rough-housing-space for the animals wasn't worth the benefit of the marginally fresher grazing.)

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And along similar lines to Harmony's question - I rotate my cattle through eight 1 acre temporary cross fenced (single strand of electric poly) paddocks every 3-7 days during the grass growing season.  Each paddock is arranged to each have their own single island of 1 or more giant evergreen trees that they use for shelter during severe weather conditions.  So there is no moving of a constructed shelter, just opening access to the next paddock, calling them in, then closing access to the previous paddock.  Each paddock has continuous access to a water trough and a mineral block via cross fencing alleyways.  Does this arrangement meet the requirements?

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I just checked in with Paul on these.  Harmony, your approach definitely doesn't meet the requirements since your shelter is not moving.  R, yours is closer but Paul still wouldn't approve it since your shelters (trees) aren't moving.  The idea is that the manure and diseases are spread around so the next time the critters are in that paddock they aren't hanging about in the same place as the previous time.  Ideally the shelter is put in an area that needs some fertility.

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Ok, that makes sense, thanks for checking Mike.

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Video of moving our ducks from one paddock to another. I'm learning so it's a tad over 2 minutes. My apologies

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