"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

[hendrebc]

Surely if the kids spot that, it will become a permanent resident?

I just said the same thing to him on messenger

 

[Samcowman]

Surely if the kids spot that, it will become a permanent resident?

One for the freezer .
We have 3 pet lambs in the freezer one of them was called snowman. The kids weren’t too sure about getting them done but are happy about it now.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Definitely a keeper

 

[Woolless]

One for the freezer .
We have 3 pet lambs in the freezer one of them was called snowman. The kids weren’t too sure about getting them done but are happy about it now.

My mum still talks about Grandpa putting her pet lamb in the freezer and that would be 60 years ago!

 

[Woolless]

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Definitely a keeper

I think that lamb needs a nice bottle of warm milk and some TLC

 

[Henarar]

Were we discussing inbreeding on this thread?
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First tricolour lamb I've seen in a long time

AAAAAAAAAaHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[texas pete]

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Definitely a keeper

That lamb has an odd look about it...I'm reminded of this Kiwi Classic...You have been warned.

 

[Henarar]

 

[Henarar]

1927

 

[som farmer]

My mum still talks about Grandpa putting her pet lamb in the freezer and that would be 60 years ago!

lambs hand reared for freezer, were lamb chop, and mint sauce,
pigs, were pork chop, and apple sauce, kids reared the lambs, and picked the pigs
only problem we encountered, was when daughter dressed up as little bo beep, with a lamb, called lamb chop, teacher asked her about the lamb, name, and what was going to happen to it, as it grew up, 'in the freezer, and we will eat it', was definitely not the right answer, we had to 'discuss' with teacher, all i said, fact of life, and the kids know it, no problem !

 

[som farmer]

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i can remember a text from ?, saying that in the 20's and 30's, when ag was at it's worst. The farmers, who left the hedges and ditches, with only minimal 1st aid, tied the fences up with string/wire, and spent nothing, came out of the recession, geared up, ready to go, those that kept everything up together, either failed, or were not in a position, at the end, to rapidly move forwards. Basically, dog and stick farming coped well, proper farming, got hammered.
Interesting though, as to cope with the next few years, our policy, is nudgeing that way.

 

[Crofter64]

i can remember a text from ?, saying that in the 20's and 30's, when ag was at it's worst. The farmers, who left the hedges and ditches, with only minimal 1st aid, tied the fences up with string/wire, and spent nothing, came out of the recession, geared up, ready to go, those that kept everything up together, either failed, or were not in a position, at the end, to rapidly move forwards. Basically, dog and stick farming coped well, proper farming, got hammered.
Interesting though, as to cope with the next few years, our policy, is nudgeing that way.

when you’re making no money you should be spending no money. Takes quite a bit of discipline nowadays with easy credit.

 

[ShooTa]

haha - pets - i ended up having first pet of mine as my first meal when i went to uni ...
made the other half do the same with hers last year.. as a fence escaping hogget.

 

[Woolless]

haha - pets - ..
made the other half do the same with hers last year.. as a fence escaping hogget.

I'm sure it would be better than that other student staple, a pot noodle

 

[Poorbuthappy]

We had a calf, totally blind either from birth or a few days old. Reared on bucket and subsequently out to grass. She got christened Spaghetti for some reason (normal odd names from our kids).
Gone in freezer now at 30 months old.
Daughter's veggie house mate at uni is not impressed when asking about cooking spaghetti and she holds up a bag of mince and says "I've got some Spaghetti!"

 

[Henarar]

i can remember a text from ?, saying that in the 20's and 30's, when ag was at it's worst. The farmers, who left the hedges and ditches, with only minimal 1st aid, tied the fences up with string/wire, and spent nothing, came out of the recession, geared up, ready to go, those that kept everything up together, either failed, or were not in a position, at the end, to rapidly move forwards. Basically, dog and stick farming coped well, proper farming, got hammered.
Interesting though, as to cope with the next few years, our policy, is nudgeing that way.

why is dog and stick farming not proper farming ?

 

[Loadabullocks]

why is dog and stick farming not proper farming ?

I took it to mean 'prim and proper' ie... conventional, textbook way of doing things

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

why is dog and stick farming not proper farming ?

It's frowned upon by the supply industry and generally discouraged because you don't need to buy so much from them.

 

[bendigeidfran]

i can remember a text from ?, saying that in the 20's and 30's, when ag was at it's worst. The farmers, who left the hedges and ditches, with only minimal 1st aid, tied the fences up with string/wire, and spent nothing, came out of the recession, geared up, ready to go, those that kept everything up together, either failed, or were not in a position, at the end, to rapidly move forwards. Basically, dog and stick farming coped well, proper farming, got hammered.
Interesting though, as to cope with the next few years, our policy, is nudgeing that way.

Read something similar years ago in the farmers weekly, it stuck in my head for some reason.

 

[exmoor dave]

Big believer in keeping up maintenance on fences, gates, sheds etc up together when there's even a little bit of money about, so you can Afford to stop spending when a crunch happens.
Worries me when I see places with very run down fences etc, if we were to get a prolonged agricultural depression, those items are only going to get worse to the point its costing money in terms of unmanageable livestock, or worse stock going missing permanent via straying