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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 6077508" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>It depends what they're on, to a fair degree.</p><p>I would need a major f**kup to be making mud - and not just because it's dry here, but because of the sheer amount of litter on the surface they'd have to get thru to actually get to the soil surface.</p><p>Plus the water cycle here is very effective, infiltration (always room for improvement but) is pretty excellent.</p><p>I had no trouble with 430 hoggs on an acre last year with a few inches of rain overnight, and that was one shift per day.</p><p>It got slightly muddy, and the next rain washed it off. But decent cover and litter levels change the picture, I'd topped and then overgrazed to feckery after the dry spell we had <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite59" alt=":facepalm:" title="Facepalm :facepalm:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":facepalm:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite26" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure :unsure:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":unsure:" /> never again</p><p></p><p></p><p>But I guess it's always tempered by time, isn't it?</p><p>If we had all last years rain in one weekend it would all go <em>in</em>, and that never happens.</p><p></p><p>I watch the forecast during the wet and if it means halving breaks and time then I'd do that, or if we aren't about then I'd arrange someone to come shift them. It's when you have no thatch and park them for 3 days they bugger it up.</p><p></p><p>I have plenty of local volunteers that'd come, now it's so easy most of our mates have come out for a wander, so I'd have no qualms asking a mate to shift the stock. </p><p>Just tell them to grab a bucket and take some mushrooms and eggs home! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite61" alt=":hungry:" title="Hungry :hungry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":hungry:" /></p><p></p><p>I wonder how the mushroom pickers will deal with techno?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 6077508, member: 63856"] It depends what they're on, to a fair degree. I would need a major f**kup to be making mud - and not just because it's dry here, but because of the sheer amount of litter on the surface they'd have to get thru to actually get to the soil surface. Plus the water cycle here is very effective, infiltration (always room for improvement but) is pretty excellent. I had no trouble with 430 hoggs on an acre last year with a few inches of rain overnight, and that was one shift per day. It got slightly muddy, and the next rain washed it off. But decent cover and litter levels change the picture, I'd topped and then overgrazed to feckery after the dry spell we had :facepalm::unsure: never again But I guess it's always tempered by time, isn't it? If we had all last years rain in one weekend it would all go [I]in[/I], and that never happens. I watch the forecast during the wet and if it means halving breaks and time then I'd do that, or if we aren't about then I'd arrange someone to come shift them. It's when you have no thatch and park them for 3 days they bugger it up. I have plenty of local volunteers that'd come, now it's so easy most of our mates have come out for a wander, so I'd have no qualms asking a mate to shift the stock. Just tell them to grab a bucket and take some mushrooms and eggs home! :hungry: I wonder how the mushroom pickers will deal with techno? [/QUOTE]
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