Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

[Bill dog]

Was contemplating getting a little trailer load of beet as there some available not too far away but was unsure how the young ewes would get onto it as never had it for a few years.

I just scattered a couple of loader buckets of them in each lambing field and drove forward so that some could get smashed up, and hopefully get them eating . Seemed to work !

 

[Anymulewilldo]

We’ve not fed anything like the roots that we normally do to the in lamb ewes. Too wet to get on and where we did get it went to black deep mud before they’d half eaten the carrots. Perfect recipe for listeria I thought so we stopped and upped the corn a notch.

 

[Optimus]

The weather is total shyte really

Been dry here for 10 days now.

 

[jendan]

The weather is total shyte really

Bloody cold tonight but still dry here.

Got stuck in a gateway with the quad.Thought it had dried up enough.It hasnt. Had to pull the winch out and around a fence post to get out.

And a pedigree Suffolk ewe hogg with a single lamb has got an e coli mastitis in one side. Bloody marvelous.

 

[Blue.]

I haven’t managed to get any fert on grazing grass as hasn’t been dry enough and still isn’t.

I spread some today,I’m going to need to roll the ruts in if it ever dries up enough to do so

 

[Anymulewilldo]

It’s rained at some point every day here. Even if it’s been a dry day, it’s been raining when I go out for night checks.

 

[livestock 1]

Been dry here for 10 days now.

Hell it’s rained at some point most days since July with us
Has your ground dried up fairly fast or not?
Looks like it will take ages with us

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Been feeding beet in the field to ewes for over a month. It’s noticeable this week that instead of intake going down as you would expect by now, they’re actually eating more!

 

[Bill dog]

Been feeding beet in the field to ewes for over a month. It’s noticeable this week that instead of intake going down as you would expect by now, they’re actually eating more!

At least you have it to feed them , and it’ll be a damn sight cheaper and handier to feed out !

 

[Optimus]

Hell it’s rained at some point most days since July with us
Has your ground dried up fairly fast or not?
Looks like it will take ages with us

1 farm is bone dry.where am is drying now but plenty of wet bits.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

At least you have it to feed them , and it’ll be a damn sight cheaper and handier to feed out !

They are still getting some cake as well but that will stop soon. The lambs are starting to take creep and do look quite good. The idea is to get them weaned early and away and give the ewes time to recover

 

[livestock 1]

1 farm is bone dry.where am is drying now but plenty of wet bits.

Wet bits are fine in some scenarios not great for spreading fert though

 

[Bob the beef]

Contractor mate told me the other day that the wet areas in cropping fields are seriously wet, but folk are looking at the date and needing grain in the ground so firing on and just leaving areas all over the place.

 

[Optimus]

Contractor mate told me the other day that the wet areas in cropping fields are seriously wet, but folk are looking at the date and needing grain in the ground so firing on and just leaving areas all over the place.

Yes there's a few wet patches been missed around here.soil is still cold underneath too.

 

[sheepwise]

Contractor mate told me the other day that the wet areas in cropping fields are seriously wet, but folk are looking at the date and needing grain in the ground so firing on and just leaving areas all over the place.

Old boy told me yesterday, the tilth is more important than the time. No point in hashing it in to poor seedbed especially with spring barley.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Think of the money poor gecko could have made if he had gone with his plan.

C'est la vie.

As it turns out, the shed was unavailable anyway.

 

[Bob the beef]

Old boy told me yesterday, the tilth is more important than the time. No point in hashing it in to poor seedbed especially with spring barley.

Absolutely. Some of the best crops of barley I ever grew went in the ground in early May.
Does make a later harvest though

 

[Cowpoke82]

 

[Tsa115]

Its Dryed a fairbit here in the last week to get some slurry out,

 

[Gulli]

Finished lambing this morning with 2 live lambs out of a quad, weaned the oldest orphans and kicked them outside they've done ok this year