What does that cost an acre?
The cheapest form of dock control
- Thread starter Headless chicken
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No idea, will have to come back to you when I'm at the office and I remember to look.
Half thinking that it was £1000 ish to do 50ac last year. Can soon spend some money on sprays as a part time arable farmer.
20 quid.better allocating a bit less each break and make em eat them....Hmm. Probably not, losing a litre a cow on one feed would cover the cost of the spray. And you'd have a tidy farm which I know makes even you happy.
- Location
- East Sussex
Not on silage ground you won't.
- Location
- South Molton
Never seen so many seedlings here on overwinter stubbles.
Disced and ploughed to hopefully get rid.
Disced and ploughed to hopefully get rid.
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Got some kind of beetle here eating docks
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
As in intentional or just accidentally or are they the white sort that eat all of the grass too?
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Goats actually select to eat docks. They're browsers not grazers.It absolutely kills me to say it but cheapest dock control is ; sheep
We'd got down to 2 goats but numbers seem to be going to go up again. @TripleSix
Spray wise I use a bit of Minstrel on cow pastures, which is generic fluroxypyr.
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
They don't eat grass, or clover
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
How do I get them?
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Hmmm what's the goats to cow ratio??
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
When i was a lad i had a couple of goats, they loved the docks that the cows didn't eat out of round bale silage
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I do... even heavy chain harrows in both directions gives them a hurry up. Once they've had theirAbsolutely not
I've said this time and time again on here but no one believes me
then even lambs gobble them up, best if you can get them eaten and get those nutrients in the cycle.. thats why I don't spray at all; waste not=want not
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
I'm really starting to get tempted now. Only trouble is they won't stay where I want them as were on single strand electric everywhere. They surely wouldn't go far? Would llamas eat docks? Would quite like one of them.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
We had 100 goaty sucklers on 30 acres, very few cows and too many horses.
Farm had been a riding stables, looks much better now, apart from the bottom 4' of the hedges.
It's all about grazing pressure.
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Are Lammas not bad for tb? Or is that alpacas I'm thinking?
You need to go organic, then i can get you some doc eating beetle
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
Very few docks here except one field.
The sheep keep them in check, esp when we dry up in the summer, there ain't much else to eat so they clear the docks &nettles.
I'm turning ewes and lambs to some fields 4 miles away and around the sheep pens are some fair docks like this
Went down today and the docks the ewe's can get at have been eaten right off......&they've got tons of grass so they choose to do it!
Pity they left the nettles
The sheep keep them in check, esp when we dry up in the summer, there ain't much else to eat so they clear the docks &nettles.
I'm turning ewes and lambs to some fields 4 miles away and around the sheep pens are some fair docks like this
Went down today and the docks the ewe's can get at have been eaten right off......&they've got tons of grass so they choose to do it!
Pity they left the nettles
Something in that .We have them ,really check them in summer cows eat them the rest of the time!
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