Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
Chain.Nice try girls, unfortunately you picked the one day I was out for the evening
Last field on the driveway would have been a fun morning trying to find them!
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Opened the pit, this is really dry cow feed, mixing a bit of protein blend left over from winter with it.
Hopefully it will balance out with this high clover grazing.
grass is growing and we keep getting odd bits of rain. But growth isn’t keeping up with demand and we are going to cover the platform far too quickly 🫤 best of all, it looks like grass will run out just in time for me to go on Holliday
could do without leaving the guys to cope with that. On the up side. With start drying off the autumn block tomorrow.
Hopefully it will balance out with this high clover grazing.
grass is growing and we keep getting odd bits of rain. But growth isn’t keeping up with demand and we are going to cover the platform far too quickly 🫤 best of all, it looks like grass will run out just in time for me to go on Holliday
could do without leaving the guys to cope with that. On the up side. With start drying off the autumn block tomorrow.Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
The chain was on the floor! Can just make it out in the second picture, reckon someone had been in there and not chained it up properly
footpaths are not fun We're the same @Tim G, full winter ration yet?
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Cake in the parlour and silage being fed in the field. That's as full a winter's ration as it gets here! Luckily I've been given a load of haylage that was bought for horses but was too wet for them. Cows are enjoying it.
Yesterday the BBC weather app was saying with were in for 12hrs of rain today but that has just been a light mist.
- Location
- North yorks
Bit of an experiment, some old perm. pasture next to the buildings has been ready for reseeding for ages but never get chance to plough it out. Bulling/in calf heifers been on it (because it’s next to the race and crush) but done a final pd on them this week and got them moved to the other farm. So flail topped the thistles and rubbish grass, then direct drilled some grass seed I had left from last year, mixed a few kg’s of stubble turnip seed in too.
Will see what grows, it’s had nearly 24mm of rain since drilling.
Not sure if I should put some N on or if that will encourage the old grass too much at expense of the new seed?
Will see what grows, it’s had nearly 24mm of rain since drilling.
Not sure if I should put some N on or if that will encourage the old grass too much at expense of the new seed?
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The chain was on the floor! Can just make it out in the second picture, reckon someone had been in there and not chained it up properly
Attach electric fencer to the gate, that'll teach them, both cows and walkers.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Until he forgets……
- Location
- somerset
spent 5 hours chasing cattle friday, 26 split into 2 lots, managed to get 21 into a neighbours field, half mile away, via a field of maize, the other 5, in another paddock. All due to come home, for TB test, so hauled them home a week early, some idiot left a wicket footpath gate open.The chain was on the floor! Can just make it out in the second picture, reckon someone had been in there and not chained it up properly
Yesterday, 3 from another lot out, they were easy to get back. Went right around that block of land, they either jumped the fence, without leaving a mark in the hedge, walked over the cattle grid, or some ##### left a gate open, first 2 very unlikely, gate the likeliest cause, and other walkers would shut it.
There was 1 wicket gate open, in the second lot, but cattle didn't find it.
2 things spring to mind, school holidays, and 'normal' holidays, different people walking the foot paths. Ground is adjacent to a village, so paths get a lot of use. The village people are 'nice' and we chat/wave to them, they also realise cattle getting out, through open gates, is not our fault.
Its surprising how many times, we get told they have put a 'couple' back, because 'someone' left a gate open. Thank goodness they have that attitude.
All field gates, and foot path wicket gates work properly, wicket gates all have springs on them, which don't always work as they should - gate can be pulled to far back.
But, its a decent sized block, close to home, at a very reasonable rent, we couldn't replace it, anywhere so close, it would be double +
Happy at it
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- Location
- NI
Always had thought how nice it would've been to move to a square of land in the south of England, where larger scope was available with less rainfall to make more grazing possible...... starting to appreciate home more seeing the bother that comes with right of ways and people etc...
Yep not a bad wee part of the world we live in. Should have cut this field but silos full and plenty of bales made, so decided to let the cows at it.
- Location
- somerset
to be fair, we don't normally get to much hassle, and the locals understand its not our fault.
incredibly lucky there, we have been offered 30 odd acres, in the next village, there attitude there, is somewhat different, we know who had it last, and why he is coming out, firstly he has found a nice job, driving milk tankers, and secondly, sheep, footpaths and dogs do not mix.
Its handy to home, and we don't have sheep. It would work in well, with the other block.
incredibly lucky there, we have been offered 30 odd acres, in the next village, there attitude there, is somewhat different, we know who had it last, and why he is coming out, firstly he has found a nice job, driving milk tankers, and secondly, sheep, footpaths and dogs do not mix.
Its handy to home, and we don't have sheep. It would work in well, with the other block.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
I love living down here but the tourism is an absolute nightmare, makes living down here a pita at certain times of the year.
It's not just summer holidays anymore either as you get the young lot coming down before the summer holidays and then the old lot afterwards. Christmas has also become noticeably busier than it used to be as well
- Location
- somerset
mate, now retired, used to drive the mobile library van around the north Cornwall area, he has a few tales about traffic !I love living down here but the tourism is an absolute nightmare, makes living down here a pita at certain times of the year.
It's not just summer holidays anymore either as you get the young lot coming down before the summer holidays and then the old lot afterwards. Christmas has also become noticeably busier than it used to be as well
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
I love living down here but the tourism is an absolute nightmare, makes living down here a pita at certain times of the year.
It's not just summer holidays anymore either as you get the young lot coming down before the summer holidays and then the old lot afterwards. Christmas has also become noticeably busier than it used to be as well
9 mile queue on the new stretch of the A30 yesterday apparently.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Is that all?9 mile queue on the new stretch of the A30 yesterday apparently.
be good when it's finished though, I still maintain they should make it 3 lanes and then atleast its future proofed...
Just need a few herbs and we would be laughing. Docks gave up 3 weeks ago.
Once it rains, that paddock will be as good a paddock as any, can you abuse lucene and chicory like prg?
Even your church spire is wilting!
Normally the church fate brings the rain.
Don't think they are having one this year!!!!