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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="davieh3350" data-source="post: 6362874" data-attributes="member: 52292"><p>I've watched Hebridean sheep walk round a field when they were moved in and go around hauling the leaves off docks ignoring the grass completely. (Interestingly, it was a field that was completely blackened with pigs in very wet weather, not a trace of greenery to be seen, never seeded but is a dense carpet of grass. The cows love it)</p><p>Seen an Hebridean nip off a ten inch long young bracken stem and consume it earlier this year and I've also watched two Tamworth sows go around a field targeting and digging up the scotch thistle and eat the tap root before they looked at the grass.</p><p></p><p>You only ever see woody dock stems left in the bottom of a ring feeder, and whether he was right or not, the farmer I did some silage work with in New Zealand said he would rather there were thistles in his silage (chopped) as they were full of sugars and were a benefit <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davieh3350, post: 6362874, member: 52292"] I've watched Hebridean sheep walk round a field when they were moved in and go around hauling the leaves off docks ignoring the grass completely. (Interestingly, it was a field that was completely blackened with pigs in very wet weather, not a trace of greenery to be seen, never seeded but is a dense carpet of grass. The cows love it) Seen an Hebridean nip off a ten inch long young bracken stem and consume it earlier this year and I've also watched two Tamworth sows go around a field targeting and digging up the scotch thistle and eat the tap root before they looked at the grass. You only ever see woody dock stems left in the bottom of a ring feeder, and whether he was right or not, the farmer I did some silage work with in New Zealand said he would rather there were thistles in his silage (chopped) as they were full of sugars and were a benefit (y) [/QUOTE]
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