Our neighbor has cattle and needs friends to come help him bring the cattle in from the field and push into the cute for worming. We simple stand at the gate and send a dog.
We can load sheep onto a trailer simply by having a funnel around the open trailer (parking the trailer next to a building, or using a fence line, or using gate pannels) and then have a dog bring the sheep to the mounth of the funnel and then push them onto the trailer. A trained dog makes managing our sheep so much easier.
Lately we have been "strip grazing" a pasture using portable electric fence. There is no water within the strip, so we use a dog (or two) to move the flock (about 180 ewes & lambs) from the strip to a water source, back to the strip, and from the barn yard at night and the strip during the day. Google maps show our strip grazing from last summer:
Strip Grazing Meadow You can see at the map marker the most recent strip and then to the east you can see two previous strips where the grass has greened up.
