pauld
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17 degrees here today. Went to check sheep and heads down grazing and hadn't touched hay put out yesterday. Too soon to get complacent though.
More than a fresh tinge here, got about an inch across the whole farm, it very tempting the get some ewes of the Somme, I mean beet to graze it.It's got a fresh green tinge on the fields around here, well the fields that aren't just mud and fecking water that is!
Eating a lot of haylage here in cumbria... dont think ive ever known them as hungry, bit of grass available aswell away from the mud!17 degrees here today. Went to check sheep and heads down grazing and hadn't touched hay put out yesterday. Too soon to get complacent though.
Get it grazed before the cold winds robs it!More than a fresh tinge here, got about an inch across the whole farm, it very tempting the get some ewes of the Somme, I mean beet to graze it.
Get it grazed before the cold winds robs it!
Unfortunately here I’ve tried leaving a nice bite on if February when I’ve housed the ewes. Had a cold March and it’s taken the lot off!Nooooooo! Grass needs a leaf to grow in the Spring, otherwise you end up moaning about late Springs like all the other sheep farmers that have stock wandering round on their grass fields all winter.
What February grows march mowsUnfortunately here I’ve tried leaving a nice bite on if February when I’ve housed the ewes. Had a cold March and it’s taken the lot off!
Everything west facing gets decimated here by winds, you can build a 6” wedge of beautiful grass and clover and it’ll be gone in 6 hours of salty winds so we hammer these down to nothing from October onwards, take ewes off mid feb and their back on them with lambs early march.Unfortunately here I’ve tried leaving a nice bite on if February when I’ve housed the ewes. Had a cold March and it’s taken the lot off!
Lucky you, mine has never really got going! Hoping to get a bite from it in the spring.Got some prota plus going for it ,
hasn't stopped since it was sown !
Been brilliant stuff considering the start it had , sown start may , cold wet every day on it in May but it soldiered through and not stopped growing, near enough continously grazed till Nov, then on and off since .should fly again soon hopefully.Lucky you, mine has never really got going! Hoping to get a bite from it in the spring.
How did you establish it? No spray, power harrowed, rolled, drilled, rolled here. May was bloody cold and dry which didn't help.Been brilliant stuff considering the start it had , sown start may , cold wet every day on it in May but it soldiered through and not stopped growing, near enough continously grazed till Nov, then on and off since .should fly again soon hopefully.
Finished grazing turnips in April, then chain harrowed things level abit as they were finishing grazing ,How did you establish it? No spray, power harrowed, rolled, drilled, rolled here. May was bloody cold and dry which didn't help.
I was trying to be a bit more regenerative and didn't use the round-up. Wish I had really, as what was there got away in front of the prota plus due to the poor conditions for germination (I think). It's come in much better where there was less competition, where there were ring feeders over the winter particularly. It was a stemmy mess by August and I ended up topping it which the annual clovers didn't like. It's been shut up since mid-November and I'm hoping it'll provide an early bite for the ewes, at least.
Everything west facing gets decimated here by winds, you can build a 6” wedge of beautiful grass and clover and it’ll be gone in 6 hours of salty winds so we hammer these down to nothing from October onwards, take ewes off mid feb and their back on them with lambs early march.
Grass grows at 4*C, clover at 6*C. Fields I thought would last 3 days have done 6 days and still not eaten down when looking this morning