Recent content by Jim Wale

From the outside it always looks like you need less stock to make a living, how is this in practice

looking for some advice from the Brits on here who have moved to France. We have a small farm in west wales 20ac owned 60 rented, we are living in a static caravan and with baby number 2 on the way decided we need to reevaluate things. With savings and a large mortgage we could just about...

That's great thanks, have been looking at a lot of the Amish kit just currently looking for some secondhand stuff to get us started

we are just starting to use heavy horses on the farm again and wondered if anyone had any old tack sat in the barn or old carriages/drays Anything appreciated Jim

Got paid this morning, small grassland farm, not moorland but fairly high, we are back around 30% anyone got any idea how much the young farmer top up is going to be?

we are going to cook over gas and then just put some logs in at the end for the effect, was thinking of making a frame to wire and bolt each half to. Can't see why it can't be done, done a lot of pigs and lambs so only a much bigger scale

Haha no I know how stupid an idea that is Managed to find one that's been used as a bowser for the last few years so hopefully the smell of sh!t should of washed out by now

Ok so I'm getting married next year and planning on spit roasting a cow, I'm in the process of turning a slurry tanker into a giant spit roaster, it's taking a bit of trial and error but I'm starting to get my head around it, I'll post some pics as I go along, but for the time being I'm after a...

Found a pic on the Internet

Haven't got any pics but we put a length of soil pipe all the way along the back of the pens with both ends sealed and then cut holes in it for each pen. We just fill it with the hose a couple of times a day

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just wondering if there are any goat milkers on here who could give some information as this is something we are considering venturing into. Some pictures of your set ups would be great Are you on contract or do you make your own products Is there a good margin How many head/acre etc... Thanks...

How many you after Ben?

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