Rotational grazing on one acre?

[JamesEscapes]

Will some kind of rotational grazing be possible with just one acre? Perhaps just with a few sheep? Or maybe with chickens?!

I only have two acres in total. One of the acres I'd like to devote to veg, and bees. The other acre, I'd love to do some rotational farming, but I guess it's probably nowhere near enough space?!

Apologies if this is a very dumb question.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

You can rotationally graze any size area, chickens turkeys would probably be more profitable options TBH.

 

[awkward]

Some few pigs also. Crate around them daily moves.

 

[Frodo2]

Not sure what animal, or if anything is legal, but on that scale tethering would be as easy as electric fences.

 

[JamesEscapes]

thanks for the tips.

I'm also trying to find out if it will be possible for it to be 100% grain free. Can chickens just be fed on food scraps? I saw a video about this on youtube... not sure how feasible it actually is!

And with sheep (and pigs?), I'm wondering how many I could have on about 1 acre, having them purely grass fed, grazing rotationally...?

 

[Blaithin]

Chickens are omnivores and very opportunistic but their gizzards are made for seeds. Keep that in mind.

My chickens eat much less grain in the summer when they’re out foraging but I do still offer them seeds. They’re currently loving foraging for the grain in oat and barley silage bales.

 

[BobTheSmallholder]

thanks for the tips.

I'm also trying to find out if it will be possible for it to be 100% grain free. Can chickens just be fed on food scraps? I saw a video about this on youtube... not sure how feasible it actually is!

And with sheep (and pigs?), I'm wondering how many I could have on about 1 acre, having them purely grass fed, grazing rotationally...?

YouTube has some very good videos on the chicken thing, the only well-known operation raising chickens without grain is a huge commercial composting operation and his egg laying operation is merely a sideline that is terribly inefficient.