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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 11 10:50 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Sadly, my electric fencing is in use elsewhere.

Is it a real issue, and should I try and avoid it in future (how)?

Buy some sheep

Or some more electric fencing... (you can never have too much electric fence)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43773
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 11 10:51 pm Post subject:
rappa have sold me nice kit

arvo

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Posts: 3321
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 12:25 am Post subject:
Just don't eat it. Oh wait that's snow.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 8:36 am Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Could`nt you have made some Silage bales on the field in the Autumn?
Or grazed it then with your cattle?

Dunno, I'm new to this.

Cattle were grazing elsewhere. I have more land than I have cattle for, for current grazing.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 8:37 am Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Nick wrote:

Sadly, my electric fencing is in use elsewhere.

Is it a real issue, and should I try and avoid it in future (how)?

Buy some sheep

Yes, thank you Robert. See me after school.

crofter

Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 2252

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: Yellow grass.

Nick wrote:

As aids, I have a tractor & topper, a chain harrow, cows, and an orse.

ETA and two chickens, part time.

cows.

Maybe you need to drain it as well. Or lime. Soil sample would be a good idea, but cattle would graze off the old grass. Is the field fenced?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43773
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 11 11:16 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Could`nt you have made some Silage bales on the field in the Autumn?
Or grazed it then with your cattle?

Dunno, I'm new to this.

Cattle were grazing elsewhere. I have more land than I have cattle for, for current grazing.

wanna buy a cow ?

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 11 2:44 pm Post subject:
Fertiliser.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 11 3:35 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

Nick wrote:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Could`nt you have made some Silage bales on the field in the Autumn?
Or grazed it then with your cattle?

Dunno, I'm new to this.

Cattle were grazing elsewhere. I have more land than I have cattle for, for current grazing.

wanna buy a cow ?

Yes. I have these beans...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43773
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 11 10:52 pm Post subject:

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 9:13 am Post subject: Re: Yellow grass.

crofter wrote:

Nick wrote:

As aids, I have a tractor & topper, a chain harrow, cows, and an orse.

ETA and two chickens, part time.

cows.

Maybe you need to drain it as well. Or lime. Soil sample would be a good idea, but cattle would graze off the old grass. Is the field fenced?

Missed this. Am using the cows.

It's a very damp field, as we're in, and sometimes under, a flood plain here. Not a lot can be done, I suspect, on that score. The field is so well fenced that Dexter's have only escaped once from it. I have since installed machine gun towers, more barbed wire and a cooler. No further escape attempts have occurred, although there is the beginning of a tunnel under trough #2...

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 9:16 am Post subject:
More chickens. Clearly.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 9:20 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

More chickens. Clearly.

Dogs killed 50% of our flock last week. Other 50% is being rehomed today. We are henless.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9020
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 9:22 am Post subject:
Hope the dogs can be dealt with-and the owners

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 9:25 am Post subject:

gz wrote:

Hope the dogs can be dealt with-and the owners

My dog, I'm afraid. Never done it before, and I think her arse still hurts from my wife's boot.

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