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  1. bendigeidfran

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Took a few photos over weekend and thought i might share a few, top one is were sheep are grazing now. Noticed how yellow (dead) the grass looks under wire, it was last grazed early october but not that hard so they left grass by wire. Going to do a couple of trials next year to see how long...
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    Today NOT at work

    Walked up Cadair Idris by dolgellau today, very windy at the top , walked in my wellies 😆 . Good workout need to keep fit now im a bit to old to play sport.
  3. bendigeidfran

    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    I took some ewe lambs to crymych today, ( 25 to 32kg avg 28 ) got £71 Happy with that, they were nothing special.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Took my own lambs to dunbia this morning £5.60kg, booked some from work going tomorrow evening £5.50 and fieldsman said the could be down again by monday.🙁
  5. bendigeidfran

    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    6.30 for welsh 6.25 gb in Llanybydder. Had a tex yesterday, first for months Saw buyer today at local show and i said you must be short of lambs, He said that they were for next week.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    That's what i would call " lawn syndrome" I do top some rushes but nothing else.
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    Easycare sheep experiment

    What did you think of the wool sheders next to the easycares? I liked the look of the Australian white rather than the NZ wiltshire.
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    Easycare sheep experiment

    You claim your texels improve maternal ability? Logie ewes are Lleyn with some texel in them. I allways think form follows function.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Grandfather was made to collect nettles to feed the calves when he was a child and gorse for the horses. They knew that it had something exta to go to the trouble to feed them. Dug a gate post hole 3ft deep by a clump of nettles, so i mesured the roots, how deep did they go? No prizes, just a...
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    things that make you smile

    Had a small inheritance £1300 from a great Aunty, the note with the comformation letter said " spend it on something that will make you happy". She lived to a 101 that sums her attitude to life.
  11. bendigeidfran

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    I wouldn't want to be anywere else in the world either, i was thinking that after Holwellcourt's post about a milion setting you up very well abroad. Id rather 10 acres here than a thousand any were else. There is one quote by a Lic grazing consultant told me year after i left school, " just...
  12. bendigeidfran

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Got two ponies here, wife never talked about horses ever and out of the blue she rang me one november and said she's got an early christmas present for the children. Could tell by her voice might not like it, got home and there was the pony, o well happy wife happy life. Thing is by spring she...
  13. bendigeidfran

    cow joke. help please!

    What do you get when you milk a really forgetfull cow? Milk of amnesia
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    cow joke. help please!

    Why do some cows wear bells? Because their horns don't work.
  15. bendigeidfran

    Today NOT at work

    No, Rowlands Bryniau mawr.
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    Today NOT at work

    Bungalow by the mast used to be grandparents home, lot of fond memories of going down to the beach and Arthurs table.
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    I have fond memories as a child of taking sows to the boar and the owner was a lorry driver for mr kipling, he had a shed full of out of date cakes and i could fill my boots as the saying goes. He fed the pigs with them, boxes and all.
  18. bendigeidfran

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Get the spade out and dig a few holes to see if there is as much difference underneath.
  19. bendigeidfran

    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Good job youv'e got your own thread, can't really boot you off here🤣. Unless you were abusive which i very much dought, why boot you off just because you had another way of grazing? I do try hard to have an open mind about most things and stay curious.
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    Fertiliser

    Drunk or sober, buy in october.
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