>>893562>>893563My issue with layouts like this is the way pasture is allocated. If you keep your sheep/goats on the same browsing area for a long time, parasites will start to build up. So you need to rotate your pasture space to break the reproductive cycles of the parasites (ie so they'll hatch while the animals are in another pasture space and die for lack of a host).
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>>893562 one has what I think is far too little browsing space for the sheep/goats at the top of the picture, then compounds the error by having no provision for rotating it, and having the space adjacent to perennial crops that would be browsed unless carefully fenced away. Sure "large animals" might not be sheep/goats... but the parasite issue applies no matter what kind of animal we're talking about.
The one here
>>893563 does have pasture rotation... but only for cattle. Goats and sheep have one big plot. And if you keep a billy and a ram, then each of those need to be kept from the others and from each other (rams will seriously injure the goats if there's a fight).
To me, it seems smarter to have your home, then the truck garden up close, and then your pens and enclosures, and then if you're going to have big red meat animals at all, give them broad pastures that you rotate among, probably the areas separated in part by your fruiting trees. All these sites IMO drastically underestimate the amount of room you'll need for pasture, except if you're planning on depending primarily on commercial feed.
