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  1. Kiwi Pete

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

    :oops: Eh up! The idea of starting a thread about Holistic management has been on my mind for ages, if I am honest. Lets start by me putting my cards on the table - I have NO formal training, NO books, and NO interest in starting big wars on which way is best. I do, however, completely and...
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  2. Kiwi Pete

    Working around 'disabilities'

    As above - following on from the sheep-dagging thread really. I'm Pete, 37, a smallholder, contractor and stay at home parent.. Also: colorblind, left-handed, and "too bloody bright to be a farmer" to quote a few.. I'm sure there are plenty of others in TFF land who are similarly afflicted...
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    Sowing peas...!!

    As above.. I'm intending to sow a couple of old scruffy paddocks here, into peas. Now, everyone will say "just don't" :ROFLMAO:(y) which, after seeing folk trying to get them up and into a combine - I completely understand! The intention here, is to cut them at the budding/flowering stage, as a...
  4. Kiwi Pete

    A weird woody tongue..

    Have a steer that I noticed a few days back, with a swollen beak and some dribble issues So, I called a local vet out for a diagnosis, as I've seen plenty of abscesses and this didn't really look like one to me! We took a tissue sample for lab testing, and it is Wooden Tongue. Just thought I'd...
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