I totally agree but hope we don’t all go off onto a vegan rant again.I can never get my head round the vegan desire to eat burgers and sausages and bacon made of plants. If you want to eat plants, eat plants. If you want to eat bacon, eat bacon. What ever you eat, eat it for what it is and stop kidding yourself!
I really enjoyed watching this one
I think this more 'Permaculture' type of operation is where we want to be pointing, here; it just makes more sense.
I've just watched Rebecca Hosking's "A farm for the future" mentioned in your linked video.I really enjoyed watching this one
I think this more 'Permaculture' type of operation is where we want to be pointing, here; it just makes more sense.
...and, he's right...I've just watched Rebecca Hosking's "A farm for the future" mentioned in your linked video.
Richard Heinberg: "We've created a way of life that is fundamentally unsustainable"
I'm not familiar with colleges in the east but are there any agriculture ones close to you? I'm not far from Olds College and tease myself with their continuing education courses. One of them is butchering wild game, another is sausage making... I don't think either are online though.Where can the rest of us( who live far from you) learn some of this stuff? I direct market all my beef, lamb and veal but I am sadly lacking in actual meat knowledge, I know a few things but not the details. As a result I don’t properly instruct the butchers on how to cut ( I just do the basic cuts) and don’t always give clients satisfactory answers. My Mum grew up in France before the war and there every housewife knew all her cuts of meat, from nose to tail, and how to prepare them. I missed out on that lesson
looks a nice place for little calvesFor some reason I haven't been getting alerts for this thread again Caught up again now, interesting stuff
I had a friend come to help play farmer yesterday and they were amazed by this little trick, it makes life a lot easier, and you don't need to turn the fencer off for it. Its a easy way of making corners too.
View attachment 686236
In an attempt to reduce the effort required to rear calves I threw them outside at a few days old this year. I haven't had any disease problems (so far!) and they are doing very well on 6l+ of yoghurt. They have stripped all the seedheads off the grass and picked at leaves off the trees, which is quite interesting. They were happily cudding at about a week old.
View attachment 686238
looks a nice place for little calves
You feed them yogurt? Is it waste from somewhere or you actually take the milk and make it into yogurt?
Or is yogurt Cornish for milk
Do they not need it to be as warm if it’s yogurt? I’m also seeing issues with frozen yogurt in winter
Not too bad really, I have no trouble with it blocking teats on the feeder. Helps if you chase it with a little rinse-water.
My feeders are those semi-circle ones with 10 teats, clip on a gate, a bag and a half of powder is all they get each, and maybe 2 dozen surplus eggs? It all goes in diversity of protein at an early age IMO is good for them.
yep they love hiding away, much better than in a shedIts a very steep bit of field, which was planted with nut trees under HLS, so theres loads of shade and its not a huge amount of use for anything else.
Its a very steep bit of field, which was planted with nut trees under HLS, so theres loads of shade and its not a huge amount of use for anything else.!