Weasel
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- in the hills
Yes without a doubt. No need for messed up ground if their out wintered on the hill tho, make a hard stand
Where's all cattle gone?
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Yes without a doubt. No need for messed up ground if their out wintered on the hill tho, make a hard stand
yes I know but we were talking about low input and that's why I put [whatever that is] in my first post
I spose you have to start from no input, we have some grass every year that gets nothing at all done to it but a cut of hay taken from it, this has been going on for the last 30 maybe 40 years, I don't think you can get much lower input than that, so when is it not low input,
what if you don't have a "hill"Yes without a doubt. No need for messed up ground if their out wintered on the hill tho, make a hard stand
march and April often as bad as January /february up here. Winter usually starts end of October, sometimes get a lovely October or a week in November . I went down south in January once, they had grass, it was warm, yet they all had rugs on their horses and everyone wearing wooly hats, Mad, I was in a t shirt. Its another world
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Grow crops.
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
When the subs go the correct stock for the farm will follow there will be no room for error there.
they tried that here for the war ag
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
They didnt even try here and they tried some sh!t stuff so tells its own tale !
Cowcalf
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- North of Scotland
reckon more like the wind blew it off the tops and filled the low bits for 20 feet
Why not? It's what I've been doing. (I try keeping them off the roads though)
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
i stand corrected
....i thought there was an age limit on cows..or has that been done away with
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
This reminds me of a farm sale me and dad went to in Colchester in about February time, when we were looking for a tractor....set off at 4am and it was cold up here woolly jumpers the lot, when we got down there we were in our t shirts, the local farmers were looking at us like we were mad as they were dolled up like like were going on a polar expedition
as far as I'm aware over 30 months to some age or another.. needs boned out by butchers, older beasts (haven't actually got a clue what age) need boned out at the slaughter house.i stand corrected
Not done a cow, oldest has been 36 months
CharcoalWally
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- Location
- West of Scotland
Don't know of any houses round here, but remember on the news a house in N Ireland that was completed covered in snow which then froze solid so that the young couple who lived there were trapped inside for the better part of a week. And they had a young baby too. Scary.
Wouldn't they have ran out of air
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Id have t see it to believe it
CharcoalWally
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- West of Scotland
Not long in the door here and it's a very cool evening outside. You wouldn't stand around blethering in your t shirt for too long.Agree March is still very much winter up here, it can be one of the hardest months, June has been like winter this year stove on most nights and average day time temp of 12degrees!!!
Weasel
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- in the hills
Exactly
Weasel
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- Location
- in the hills
Totally agree
M-J-G
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It's easy for us to speak loosely about payments coming off when we are so close to populated areas, but it could lead to a lot of the Highlands and Islands becoming unsustainable in their ways of life. You may be looking forward to such things, but this potential down side is not be something that I would like to see happen.