Recent content by JHC

carted countless thousands with a chillington! happy days.

how many of us are in a scheme? 20,000? RPA could employ 80 capable people to look after 250 farmers each. Yearly inspections plus on call for problems. Same person every time to develop trust etc. Pay them 50k plus a year, they will soon recoup that by exposing those abusing the system. Surely...

anyone see the bit on drought? that bloke has an embarassment of grass. they should send the cameras to essex if they want to report on lack of feed.

anything up to date?

Got 4500kg in shed. Got to be an investment, hasn't it?

More food producing land wasted on AD.

Late weaning and no flushing keeps us down to about 150% most years. Mostly texel crosses lambing outside during april.

Not really bothered about nettles, thistles are the real problem.

those lambs are a few days old ,not newborn. badgers are a menace.

Essential to get the root as will certainly grow again.

black and white vermin.

Agreed. Since switching to outdoor lambing several years ago seem to have far fewer malpresentations.

They will only appear in undergrazed or deferred grazing in old pastures. Apparently the ants will make the hill to the grass height,incorporating the stems for holding soil in place.

It went through ours 2 years ago just after lambing. Treated about 200 of 600 ewes but no lambs affected at all.

A really nasty ailment in a sheep flock which can cause chaos. Got to identify and treat as early as possible.