Free grazing

[warksfarmer]

Isn’t really anywhere to post this but I’m thinking I might offer out 70 acres of mustard cover to graze in January. No charge but also no labour input from us. It’s a 60ac piece with a central pond for water and then a 10ac piece with no water. There’s no fencing so you will need to electric fence it and do the stockmanship. Both fields have stewardship that will need to be fenced around but it’s all boundary stuff so no issue.
This would be for 4 weeks only so looking for somebody who’d blitz it with max sheep numbers rather than drip feed approach.
It will be done via a cropping license. Post code area CV9. Message me if interested.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Isn’t really anywhere to post this but I’m thinking I might offer out 70 acres of mustard cover to graze in January. No charge but also no labour input from us. It’s a 60ac piece with a central pond for water and then a 10ac piece with no water. There’s no fencing so you will need to electric fence it and do the stockmanship. Both fields have stewardship that will need to be fenced around but it’s all boundary stuff so no issue.
This would be for 4 weeks only so looking for somebody who’d blitz it with max sheep numbers rather than drip feed approach.
It will be done via a cropping license. Post code area CV9. Message me if interested.

Why so short its not the best of stuff to feed either

 

[Al R]

@Mc115reed
If he doesn’t I know someone a bit further north of you Lee who would be very interested!

 

[Hunterway6830]

hi lee, i have grazing at shepshed (jon stanley’s farm) would be very interested. will have around 400 sheep over there on rye cover crop. text or call me 07506877471

 

[Mc115reed]

@Mc115reed
If he doesn’t I know someone a bit further north of you Lee who would be very interested!

I’d want it for longer than a month really not worth moving 1000+ lambs any distance for 4 weeks too move them back again sadly… don’t really know anybody close enough that would be interested in a quick in and out…

 

[neilo]

Doesn’t the first frost kill mustard, so unlikely to be there to graze come January? I’ve always grown it on the basis that it needs grazing before any frost.

I moved the lambs off mine yesterday. It was already flowering when they went in, so feed value had already declined. Whatever would be left there by January would surely just be fillbelly, at best?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Doesn’t the first frost kill mustard, so unlikely to be there to graze come January? I’ve always grown it on the basis that it needs grazing before any frost.

I moved the lambs off mine yesterday. It was already flowering when they went in, so feed value had already declined. Whatever would be left there by January would surely just be fillbelly, at best?

Thats what im thinking and big uset on their diet just for 4 weeks if they not been on it before

 

[Fendt516profi]

But its FREE

 

[Mc115reed]

But its FREE

It might be free… but the cost of transporting the number of sheep he wants there and back again isn’t… Mustard isn’t that good of feed anyways so the daily gains would drop… free isn’t always free

 

[d williams]

But its FREE

Nothing is for nothing only works if next door even then there’s work involved

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

I wouldn't entertain this for only a month. It takes the sheep a couple of weeks to get on it. I did graze some for a chap over the winter December to end of February which was a mixture with Radish and that worked ok.
When he grew only Mustard he regretted it as he couldn't plough it in and ended up putting a flail over it!!

 

[jack6480]

It might be free… but the cost of transporting the number of sheep he wants there and back again isn’t… Mustard isn’t that good of feed anyways so the daily gains would drop… free isn’t always free

Tell him you’ll graze it but he puts truck and trailer on to move em