- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Don't forget blaming the public for paying too little for their food
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
- Thread starter Kiwi Pete
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- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Maybe it's because the public need to buy 8 oranges to get the same vit. C their grandparents got from each orange?Don't forget blaming the public for paying too little for their food
Volume aint the answer, if it was the answer then farmers today would be reaching unprecedented levels of financial security and the public would be the healthiest and happiest generation yet.
I don't see it.
Poor form self-quoting, I know but...
Who can guess where I am on my hols this year?
Soorry for poor resolution, they were far away. (Or were they very small? I couldn't really tell.)
Gloucester?
ShooTa
Member
- Location
- Denbighshire - In the vale of Clwyd!
Very far from any coos?
RushesToo
Member
- Location
- Fingringhoe
Wild guess Alsace, otherwise Cork
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
That was my best guess too...
- Location
- Derbyshire
Looks a bit French to me - Normandy?
Like your thinking, but no.
Half right.
Wild guess is pretty much bingo!
Was in the Vosges, the mountains in the/to the west of Alsace. Apparently, they're Vosgiennes.
Vosgienne — Wikipédia
They were behind a temporary wire, now you come to mention it. And the perimiter fence had springs in it à la Technograzing.
Water availability seemed to be the limiting factor, as usual.
RushesToo
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- Location
- Fingringhoe
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
It usually is limiting... wintertime is great, I find I can get away with giving cattle the odd quick move to a cell without water and leapfrog it ahead of them, and they hardly make a bee-line for it when they have it.
or, I just fill a long toboggan type trough that I use for seaweed with water, and put that out for them. Stacked them on the roadside for a couple of hours yesterday
and then away.
I'd planned to graze them at the start of the month but the snow modified the plan for me. Will hopefully get all 3 sections grazed during the week.
ShooTa
Member
- Location
- Denbighshire - In the vale of Clwyd!
can we see the seaweed toboggan inaction sometime? please.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Yeah, sure, I may even make it down to the beach this weekend for a wee gather, and I'll get some photos.
(it's slimy as can be once you've had it wet again, and the last thing you want to do with those hands is pick up the phone or smoke ?
Gave up smoking cigarettes so ..
I really want to sun-dry more of it as I reckon an electric shredder/chipper would handle it OK in that state - I usually battle away at it with a sharp Victorinox skinning knife and pre-cut it onto an old bit of concrete path, then use an old pushmower (I stand on it, and The Boy works the mower).
Fires it into the catcher pretty well, but I think it would just about be better for sheep if it was properly chopped up (you could always soak it to juicy it up again).
It's just one of these lightweight plastic troughs, I like it because I can tow it with the 2 wheeler, I have about 2 metres of dog chain on it in a loop which means I can stick it over my shoulder, drag it full of electric fencing stuff, and move all my stuff from paddock to paddock without turning a key or getting too pudgy
(it's slimy as can be once you've had it wet again, and the last thing you want to do with those hands is pick up the phone or smoke ?
Gave up smoking cigarettes so ..
I really want to sun-dry more of it as I reckon an electric shredder/chipper would handle it OK in that state - I usually battle away at it with a sharp Victorinox skinning knife and pre-cut it onto an old bit of concrete path, then use an old pushmower (I stand on it, and The Boy works the mower).
Fires it into the catcher pretty well, but I think it would just about be better for sheep if it was properly chopped up (you could always soak it to juicy it up again).
It's just one of these lightweight plastic troughs, I like it because I can tow it with the 2 wheeler, I have about 2 metres of dog chain on it in a loop which means I can stick it over my shoulder, drag it full of electric fencing stuff, and move all my stuff from paddock to paddock without turning a key or getting too pudgy
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Still yet to find one...
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Perhaps we should share a small old precision chop drag forager when we get down there.Yeah, sure, I may even make it down to the beach this weekend for a wee gather, and I'll get some photos.
(it's slimy as can be once you've had it wet again, and the last thing you want to do with those hands is pick up the phone or smoke ?
Gave up smoking cigarettes so ..
I really want to sun-dry more of it as I reckon an electric shredder/chipper would handle it OK in that state - I usually battle away at it with a sharp Victorinox skinning knife and pre-cut it onto an old bit of concrete path, then use an old pushmower (I stand on it, and The Boy works the mower).
Fires it into the catcher pretty well, but I think it would just about be better for sheep if it was properly chopped up (you could always soak it to juicy it up again).View attachment 828369
It's just one of these lightweight plastic troughs, I like it because I can tow it with the 2 wheeler, I have about 2 metres of dog chain on it in a loop which means I can stick it over my shoulder, drag it full of electric fencing stuff, and move all my stuff from paddock to paddock without turning a key or getting too pudgy
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I'd love to feed a heap of it into a belt-baler, preferably someone else'sPerhaps we should share a small old precision chop drag forager when we get down there.
Would be really handy to just have a bale of the stuff sitting there, although I suspect it will be a bit redundant once we get the dosatron set up.
That's all dragging, too, still waiting on quotes, unfortunately from the big suppliers that will have the best prices, so I am prepared to wait for them (with a gentle hoozle-up)
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
I bought an inline feriliser injector in order to mix liquid kelp and apple cider vinegar to the animals but haven’t used it yet as I am worried about putting anything but water through my water lines. I wonder if I could end up havingunwanted bacterial growth.I'd love to feed a heap of it into a belt-baler, preferably someone else's
Would be really handy to just have a bale of the stuff sitting there, although I suspect it will be a bit redundant once we get the dosatron set up.
That's all dragging, too, still waiting on quotes, unfortunately from the big suppliers that will have the best prices, so I am prepared to wait for them (with a gentle hoozle-up)
Is a dosatron anything like this?
