Whats a simple way to provide shade for summer pasture rotation?
We’ve tried a couple different things, but the easiest and least expensive is simply a tarp attached to fence poles using leftover pieces of baling twine. We tie the grommets of the tarp (sized according to the size of the flock typically in that pasture) to fence posts, along the side of the paddock which borders the next paddock the sheep will be moving into. Two more posts are set at a distance from the fence to tie the other corners of the tarp to. When it’s time to move the sheep to the next paddock, the ends on the fence remain tied, the tarp is flipped to the other side of the fence, and the posts for the free end of the tarp are pounded in and the tarp tied to it.
