If you strip in wet weather you may think you are doing well by saving what's behind the fence. However they will plough up and down the strip wasting it.
Given a bigger block sheep will make their own tracks like they do in grassland.
Animals move around a lot less in a block, although you can get problems with trampled crop compared to a strip if you can make it narrow enough (although more of a problem with cows)
What I usually do is set up my long fences and then split the long strip into blocks, with one major fence move Once a week or so. The rest of the time it's just a short fence to move, which saves a lot of time.
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