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Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
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Wouldn’t mind, you free to cover for a week? I’d love to put my feet up and graze some deferred grass, but it all looks like this:
Not exactly appetising.
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Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Posh eh ! I have a Robinson so just have gates .
that ised to be 99% rashers and bull snoots .How many cm2/psi of hoof pressure/ac/minute did it take to sort it?Posh eh ! I have a Robinson so just have gates .
View attachment 1170181You should get some like mine ….
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Sam Carey has converted a sheep and beef farming in North Wales to dairy with no reseeding, just grazing.
It's a rented farm utilising all paid labour. Really interesting chap and well worth listening to.
I make fun, but I’m genuinely interested in it all, would love to get into more of a managed grazing system with the sheep, think it could be done, but the money required for infrastructure would be very difficult to tease out of the man that owns the place. Can’t help but think to stand a chance of having grass to turn out on you’d need to be looking at housing the ewes to give the place a rest dec onwards.
Sam Carey has converted a sheep and beef farming in North Wales to dairy with no reseeding, just grazing.
It's a rented farm utilising all paid labour. Really interesting chap and well worth listening to.
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- Scot Borders
Or use a field that needs reseeded to plant a crop of brassica to feed in the energy gap (jan-March), leave grass to recuperate. Daily electric fence shifts are great for checking on sheep. Bales set out on field last summer as well just move ring feeder daily too.
Had 450 multiple bearing ewes on stubble turnips since 5 jan here. Grasss fields greening up nicely ready for set stocking for lambing early April.
This has been the hardest winter doing this for 7 years, but we have come through it and ewes are in good nick
A major problem here is that many of the fields don’t just need reseeded, they need full renovations, with proper drainage installed, a lot of stones picked from old walls/buildings, ridge and furrow levelled in places etc. you’d need a lot of time with a digger, it’d be huge, I’d absolutely love to do it, but it’s a dreamOr use a field that needs reseeded to plant a crop of brassica to feed in the energy gap (jan-March), leave grass to recuperate. Daily electric fence shifts are great for checking on sheep. Bales set out on field last summer as well just move ring feeder daily too.
Had 450 multiple bearing ewes on stubble turnips since 5 jan here. Grasss fields greening up nicely ready for set stocking for lambing early April.
This has been the hardest winter doing this for 7 years, but we have come through it and ewes are in good nick
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- North Yorkshire
Is it your place? Owned/long term tenancy? The sooner you start, the sooner you benefit and the longer you get the benefit for.
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- North of Perth
Your not alone.
I wish, and I would, but no, it’s a farm kept in hand by the local landlord, I’m in an employed position.
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
It cost 4 times more to fettle as to buy put it that way !
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For those of you who reckon I’m to hard on our kid.
how the hell he’s done this I don’t know, he’s not made any attempt to clean them up, not rung me to ask me to come clean up. The only reason I know is I was sent the screenshot by a friend. I do dispair at times
how the hell he’s done this I don’t know, he’s not made any attempt to clean them up, not rung me to ask me to come clean up. The only reason I know is I was sent the screenshot by a friend. I do dispair at times
Good clean carrots #Kenyon Brothers...For those of you who reckon I’m to hard on our kid.
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how the hell he’s done this I don’t know, he’s not made any attempt to clean them up, not rung me to ask me to come clean up. The only reason I know is I was sent the screenshot by a friend. I do dispair at times
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Just had a run in with the police on the M6
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In lamb ewes leader follower on forage rye. Multiples in the distance on fresh feed. Singles in the near ground chewing through left overs.
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Were you in a tractor? Or chasing escaped livestock?
livestock 1
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They reckoned the wife was doing 95 to 98
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Were you chasing her?
I'm trying to imagine you ploughing & generating a seedbed for a crop of turnips............you'd just about be retired before you'd gathered all the stones...................you'd be better off opening a quarry