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Dogs . . .
I'm thinking what you're thinking . . .Dogs . . .
Labrador! Or any other dog, if you can see both puncture wounds where the canine teeth have penetrated, put your thumb on one hole, first finger on second hole. Will give an indication of top jaw width and size of critter you are dealing with. Leave a dead one where you find it & sit down wind with gun, just before first light. Some folk use Stockholm tar on lambs necks, but if they are taken at birth then lead injection is best!A few days ago, I found a week old lamb in the field with injuries around its face and neck. I thought a fox had tried to take it away but it was too heavy. Yesterday I found a dead new born lamb with a hole its neck and blood on the skin. It can't be a fox as it would have taken it away. I am trying to work out which animal would do this. Does anyone know?
we had trouble with black and white fox taking lambs heads off a couple years ago, someone on here said Stockholm tar so we now put some on the back of the neck and some on the tail head when we turn them out and not had any more hassleLabrador! Or any other dog, if you can see both puncture wounds where the canine teeth have penetrated, put your thumb on one hole, first finger on second hole. Will give an indication of top jaw width and size of critter you are dealing with. Leave a dead one where you find it & sit down wind with gun, just before first light. Some folk use Stockholm tar on lambs necks, but if they are taken at birth then lead injection is best!
What an insightful webinar, even down to small fields. Very interesting indeed. Thanks
What an insightful webinar, even down to small fields. Very interesting indeed. Thanks
Jim Gerish is very good
I was fortunate enough to see him speak a couple of times at “Wilmot” early this year
What was the seed rate and when did you sow? Is it arable land or Pp? Looks really good. Too embarrassed to post a picture of mine this yearOrganic Mob Grazing Herbal Grass Seed Mix (Acre Pack)
12.50% PERUN Festulolium
20.00% ROMARK Perennial Ryegrass Late Dip
7.50% ORG RAGNER Timothy
10.00% ORG SWANTE Cocksfoot
12.50% ORG ROZETA Red Clover
5.00% ALICE White Clover
2.50% LIFLEX White Clover
4.00% ORG MAGA Lucerne
16.00% ORG Common Vetch
2.50% TONIC Plantain
2.50% Burnet
2.50% Sheep’s Parsley
0.50% Yarrow
2.00% CHOICE Chicory
100% (12.50 kg per acre)
It's some poor hill ground next door to me I took on 3 years ago, grew bugger all, plough it limed it loads a dung then in to kale then in to this mix, very pleased with it. Especially as everything's drying up so fast.
What was the seed rate and when did you sow? Is it arable land or Pp? Looks really good. Too embarrassed to post a picture of mine this year
Thought of the dairy-farmers on here when I saw this pop up on FB. View attachment 883833
Might be something for @Whitewalker to try because a 15 minute shift isn't even going to need a water supply - they aren't gonna be drinking...
Rough guesstimate 360x550kg cows =200 tonnes
÷.39ha = 520,000kg/ha density, or about the same as what we're doing here with 13 tonnes on .025ha
But because we're using youngstock, we're getting them on it for quarter of a day not quarter of an hour. Don't need to worry about production on 4 meals a day.
to a point then you may as well not have bothered ?Interesting revelation about this no-till covercrop we tried this year. Had a couple of mates call out the other day to have a look and we established that where the crop is thinner, there's actually no less food in it than the "good bits" because of the grass that's come away.
Because it's so rested the quality has dropped off, but the DM has risen.
This is what I meant by "poorer stuff" BTW, other than a few oats and the odd radish or brassica, it's mainly just grass and vetch.View attachment 883886
That's what I thought when I read that post too!to a point then you may as well not have bothered ?
Depends what I think it's doing, purely from a "gotta feed the cows" perspective then it would be marginal.to a point then you may as well not have bothered ?