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As with everyone, we're trying to bring our feed costs down, we keep a lot things but not a lot of anything on our 40 acres, and would like to be mixing our own feed really- buying in bulk would suit us better. We keep cows, sheep & goats and pigs, and basically need an idiots masterclass in...

Hia all, got about an acre of land with 2 concrete buildings which we use for our large laying flock, the ground in which is dreadful where its been used for hens for a few year unrested. With last winter being an exceptionally wet one it was pretty bad, but it's already started to look wet...

A bit of a strange one- we recently invested in a replacement flock of 250 POL hens, when they first arrived I thought they weren't quite there with laying yet, but it turns out they're laying fine but in all the wrong places! They're on about an acre of quite thick vegetation, and they've...

Looking for a bit of advice, we've been asked to supply a pig for a hog roast- (specifically a Kune Kune, which works in my favour, a co worker bought some a while back which i've been itching to get rid of!) this time is a one off as it just so happens we have a few going spare, but definitely...

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Admittedly I do not! Working there was more like a farm park than working farm so the meat stock was a bit 'hooray Henry' (so to speak) as it wasn't a source of income. If i do try this again, I will put some together and report them back!

Was once picking out a Shire's feet, wall behind me, stood up and the Clydesdale had come up the other side of him to tell him to f**k off and he took a side step, squashing me (I'm 6,1 and weighed about 11 stone at the time, he did not have a clue i was there )- a few broken ribs and a lot of...

We had some Lleyn mules who had an early rendezvous with a neighbours Soay ram, still have a few of the female offspring, they grew on much quicker than the normal ones we'd have if they'd gone to our ram, grew well on next to nothing and they're pretty good shedders, we get our shearer to tidy...

Hi guys, I'm farming some land owned by the company I work for and I'm being faced with having to double fence every field and paddock around the yard. Outer fences are mostly ok but going to go around the inner space of all of them with electric and trying to price this up, we use a bit of...

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Got a few ton of rubble to get rid of, thinking of hiring a rubble crusher and mincing it down (can have it minced down almost to dust/grit to put in especially poached gateways or maybe leaving it a bit larger to spread and roll over to assist drainage, anyone got any experience/pointers?

Hi guys, Looking at buying sheep to cross for meat, and some pedigree for showing through work, I've heard Greyface Dartmoors and they seem to fit the bill but there isn't a great deal of info online about them apart from they're a meat/wool breed and they're pretty docile? I did read on a...

So, I've recently delved into the world of dexters, we supply a small farm shop but are also keen to get out showing too. Having bought 2 cows, and 5 more cattle arriving on the 27th of this month. The ones we're buying are registered already, and I'm just in the process of registering my 2...

Sorry I should add in as a disclaimer I’m not professing to have come up with the idea of rotational grazing chickens- I just thought maybe to help with the poaching! They’d only be on it for a couple of days at a time so would impaction be an issue?

Hi guys- cows have been moved off of it now anyway, but I’ve had an idea and it might sound a bit Irish but I’m thinking of giving it a go. As I say, the field is 4 acres and poached fairlt badly in places. we’ve got a flock of around 70 chickens, if I were to move them onto it and rotate them...

Hi Guys, I'm having a bit of a nightmare at the moment, one of my 4 acre fields in particular is really badly poached throughout, its only got 2 dexters running on it, I've only just taken this particular field over from someone who managed it before (not very well it seems!) I'm farming in...