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 Topic: Rain |
SheepShed
Replies: 94
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 Forum: Land Management Posted: Thu May 05, 11 12:15 pm Subject: Rain |
And here, at least I assume that's what the colourless liquid falling from the sky is - it's been so long I'd almost forgotten 
Couldn't have come too soon, the pasture was really starting to s ... |
| Topic: Orphan Lambs |
SheepShed
Replies: 6
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Mon Apr 11, 11 12:39 pm Subject: Orphan Lambs |
| They had to be tagged with their holding of birth before they came to us. Would rather not have done but no choice - its the rules apparently when Ichecked with trading standards animal movements in ... |
| Topic: Orphan Lambs |
SheepShed
Replies: 6
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Mon Apr 11, 11 10:23 am Subject: Re: Orphan Lambs |
all ewe lambs and double tagged, had colostrum, treatment for wet mouth, ringed and 4 days old
You've ear tagged them at 4 days old ? Or have I misunderstood ? |
| Topic: Our sheep have arrived :) |
SheepShed
Replies: 15
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Thu Feb 17, 11 3:50 pm Subject: Our sheep have arrived :) |
and you've built a playhouse and swings for them as well  |
| Topic: May Need a New Chainsaw - Any Suggestions? |
SheepShed
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Feb 01, 11 10:09 am Subject: May Need a New Chainsaw - Any Suggestions? |
I'll echo the notes made about small bar chain saws. Don't be macho about it, you don't need a big bar to take on big jobs. 14" is often more than enough.
get two sizes of bar to fit the new machin ... |
| Topic: Giving permission to shoot deer |
SheepShed
Replies: 32
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Forum: Shooting and Trapping for the Pot Posted: Wed Jan 05, 11 2:33 pm Subject: Giving permission to shoot deer |
he brings me the warm liver for my menfolk
My imagination is running wild at the mental picture that conjures up  |
| Topic: Buying Livestock |
SheepShed
Replies: 69
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Wed Jan 05, 11 1:16 pm Subject: Buying Livestock |
Torwen/Torddu are real escape artists
We have a neighbour with Badger Face - we see a lot of his sheep, as does everyone nearby. I even saw a bunch of them by the bus stop recently, presumably attem ... |
| Topic: rod for my own back, looking for advice. |
SheepShed
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Fri Nov 05, 10 5:17 pm Subject: rod for my own back, looking for advice. |
| Dogs naturally live is a strict social hierarchy and youngsters expect have to behave themselves around older dogs outside of play learning. I've recently spent time with a perfectly well-behaved, con ... |
| Topic: Vegan Organic Farming |
SheepShed
Replies: 58
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Thu Nov 04, 10 5:15 pm Subject: Vegan Organic Farming |
| But do you so much want the taste of meat that you've convinced yourself that in the UK alone it is acceptable to unnecessarily kill 2.4 million farmed animals every day (100,000 an hour; 1600 per min ... |
| Topic: Vegan Organic Farming |
SheepShed
Replies: 58
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Thu Nov 04, 10 9:29 am Subject: Vegan Organic Farming |
| And the extraordinarily biodiverse meadow I remembered playing in as a child had been ploughed up and turned to a mass of much too vividly green seedlings( which I couldn't identify), and the once fas ... |
| Topic: Vegan Organic Farming |
SheepShed
Replies: 58
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Wed Nov 03, 10 5:57 pm Subject: Vegan Organic Farming |
How many (hobby?), sheep do you have, I wonder. And your farming neighbours, full-timers in particular, do any of them receive no subsidies for farming?
Free speech 'n' all that, but I'd've been ... |
| Topic: Vegan Organic Farming |
SheepShed
Replies: 58
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Wed Nov 03, 10 5:19 pm Subject: Vegan Organic Farming |
| So, pasture. Not very diverse, is it. I've not looked up any definitions, but make a distinction between pasture and grazing land, and consider pasture to be fields of grass, a mono-crop situation if ... |
| Topic: Vegan Organic Farming |
SheepShed
Replies: 58
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Wed Nov 03, 10 4:46 pm Subject: Vegan Organic Farming |
Tim-berrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!! Indigenous species for building, for biomass, for leisure, for employment, for carbon sequestration.... For generally returning much more of our land closer to the wa ... |
| Topic: Vegan Organic Farming |
SheepShed
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Wed Nov 03, 10 3:00 pm Subject: Vegan Organic Farming |
why not assume that removal of livestock from land and human diet would lead to a significantly increased variety of crops, sensible cultivation of which is bound to avoid increased mono-cropping?
Su ... |
| Topic: Orf |
SheepShed
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Thu Oct 14, 10 1:32 pm Subject: Orf |
you can't vaccinate every sheep that gets it?
You vaccinate the ones that haven't got it before they get it. |
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