Guarding the sheep from wolves. (Farming The Alps #4)

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hello everybody it is a beautiful day today imagine that there's no rain pretty awesome the cows are all sitting here waiting to go outside but the field they're in right now is too small for them all so we're just grazing them half a day and then later on they'll go to their other fields let this small group out

we need some extra nets for the field we're going to so we're taking these ones down the Sheep grazed it pretty well and they've moved on to a New Pasture and next we're going to be growing hay on here so we don't need them here anymore we're all loaded up here we've got everything but we got to get this fence done because the Sheep are going to go up there tomorrow

this is probably the Farm's steepest sheep pasture and it's probably one of the fields with the highest wolf danger there's a pretty good Forest up above us there the majority of it used to be metal netting but we're switching all to Electric in the second episode I mentioned that Eric had gotten new Nets and I said that these new Nets were for the Wolves this might surprise some but there are wolves in Switzerland when I first moved to Switzerland I knew that there had been wolves in the past but I was pretty surprised to find that they were still here when I think of a place that large carnivores like wolves would live I think of a vast area of wilderness like in Alaska or Canada Switzerland's not that there just isn't that much Wilderness here I mean everywhere you go in Switzerland there are people and there's restaurants on the top of like every mountain now of course not every Mountain but you get my point it just really doesn't seem like a place wolves would live and for a while there were no wolves in Switzerland by the 1950s they had been hunted to Extinction later on laws protecting Wildlife including wolves were put in place then in the 90s a few wolves crossed from Italy over to Switzerland and started Living in 2012 the first wolf pack was documented here the Wolves were back and the return of the Wolves is kind of a controversial thing in Switzerland there's some Swiss that really really like the wolves and there's some Swiss that really really don't now I don't think that wolves are this evil animal that needs to be wiped from the face of the Earth but I think when we sit down and look at the numbers there's some good reason for concern according to Cora an organization that tracks wolf activity in Switzerland in 2012 there was just one wolf pack made up of a few wolves as of 2022 there are 18 wolf packs and another five on the borders with other countries there are 240 wolves living in Switzerland and the problem isn't the number of wolves the problem is the livestock they kill in 2021 wolves killed 853 Livestock in Switzerland alone there is no official number for 2022 but some are saying it's over a thousand that's a lot of livestock it's mostly smaller animals like sheep and goats but there have been some calves and smaller cows killed as well just hit lunch we're gonna move around the cows real quick bring these ones in and these ones in and let the other ones out kind of do a little rotation there