Mulling things over … now I love farming ( mostly) and as some of you know, I’ve said it’s all I ever wanted to do .
But times are changing and with the weather on top of poor ground plus my age and aches and pains, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to say enough
Part of me feels guilty as if I...
Had our tl100 for coming up 8 years , in that time we put a clutch in as it was very heavy and like an on / off switch
Despite me cursing the thing it’s never let us down however it’s getting a bit tired , loader slow , bit of rot around the cab etc etc Tractor is a year 2000 on a W and...
Just wondering, one block of farm with main buildings and sheep yard .
Normally bale the 15 acres ( 12+3 )and also a 4 acre field of the bit marked 16.
We get nice short cut sweet green hay but not so much of it , so you wise sheep men and women … to buy in fodder and rotate the sheep or to make...
Something I’ve never done really, not sure where to start and what to record, we had our own ways of ear notching females and then picking the best to keep, occasionally ear tagging things such as twin females.
As an example, we just scanned our moor ewes and picked up on a hogg that was bagged...
As title , a bunch of shearling Cheviot x Welsh
Tupped to easycare ( from a reputable breeder)
147 sheep :- single. 97
Twin 29
Empty 21
105%
All in good condition, older inbye ewes same condition to Cheviot and texel tups...
I am fairly open about my non farming past, I like to think as time goes on experience grows but, I still have what you lifelong farmers may regard as dumb questions.., here’s one to start
We used to feed a lot of fodder beet , unfortunately transport costs killed it , however I recall some...
Just pulled up in farm yard and watched a stoat zipping around in the grass
Cheeky little feker tried to catch a Robin that landed nearby
Are they good as in mini ferrets that would take on rats or just another pest
Just about to do my dipping course and the disposal issue has been raised
We are currently on to the EA re licensing and also a few waste collectors.
Should we go down the EA route, how do we spread the dip ? We only have a side finger muck spreader , no tanker
Our place is now utterly saturated, so much so the tractor slithers about on what flat ground we have whilst feeding bales.
I moved the boss ladies cows and am now setting the big shed up ready for housing the in bye flock , typically the forecast looks a little more settled next week.
Anyone...
Anyone got a clue ?
I’ve looked at LG2 that I presume will cover our mowing ground ( I can max that as 41 acres or 16.5 hectares) that I presume is 16.5 x £151 = £2491.50
We only have 174 acres in total and to take edges or strips out of production etc is not viable
Keeping stock off areas...
We have a small (3acre) field , it’s handy for the buildings and has always grown grass fairly well .
Considering where we farm it’s about as flat as we could hope for !
We’ve just repaired a main drain that runs through and whilst the digger was here we used a pecker to break up loads of...
Here’s one for the collective minds to ponder,
35 acres two minutes up the road currently has 140 of my younger home bred sheep with two easycare tups
Home farm , as in round the house, 38 acres of mixed very steep and not as steep grass but a pig for feeding big bales, it’s so wet the...
Love reading the posts of winters gone by , I think 96 had a fair snowfall
At the time I was working “ away” on various short term contracts whilst still engineering, my son was born in the November .
I recall ( south lakes ) a real long spell of cold easterly weather , usually we got mild...
Can it pay ?
We are farming four blocks one is two minutes walk but two are 15 minutes by car
Chap on the phone to me was saying his tractor finance was over £600 a month ( plus vehicle finance, plus farm rent etc etc )
They cover ground up to an hour away yet he said to me , 500 odd sheep...
We used to be all cattle on our farm , only 50 Angus cross, wintered from nov to May they just couldn’t pay so we went all sheep.
Just reading various threads on sucklers etc and I can’t see how we could make them work, however we do have a 100 x 50’ shed plus a 90x30’ lean too, mrs L has a few...
For reasons due to circumstances and health I’ve a “ lot “ of tup lambs
Never going to be big lambs , Cheviot x Welsh, but some are looking good enough to send in to mart
Just wondering is it viable to feed the rest and draw bunches out now and again
We ( well the mrs) bought a few Romneys last year to see how they would do, long story short, two of the bunch must have been in lamb and lambed in early February
One had twins and one a big tup lamb which we decided to keep intact
Now we are looking at shedding tups across a bunch of our...
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