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 Topic: Layers pellets |
dolmen
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 Forum: Poultry Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 4:00 pm Subject: Layers pellets |
I think you'll find it's more likely they're getting lots of slugs & other bugs to keep them going, rather than the green stuff.
We've had to lock our girls up after a bad fox day & yo ... |
| Topic: Layers pellets |
dolmen
Replies: 32
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Fri Jun 29, 12 10:16 am Subject: Layers pellets |
I keep my own hens so I know the eggs are the best I can get. I would only be cheating myself by feeding anything less than organic (14.25/20kg) and letting the hens graze all day.
I find that they e ... |
| Topic: Wanted: not particularly smart phone. |
dolmen
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Mon Jun 25, 12 6:44 pm Subject: Wanted: not particularly smart phone. |
| Your brave HL, my old Nokia is only a phone! and gets funny looks when I park it on the table in front of me when out ... sadly I dropped it and the speaker now sometimes sounds a bit tinny? So of lat ... |
| Topic: compost toilet |
dolmen
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Fri Jun 22, 12 10:52 am Subject: compost toilet |
Personally unless I wanted a permanent solution, for multiple users I wouldn't go to such elaborate lengths.
A bucket under the seat & a bag of sawdust, plus two or three large plastic drums to d ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sun Jun 10, 12 12:27 pm Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
| Good points about future proofing the system. I don't have anyone following in my footsteps so it will be important to get it right, so that anyone (DW) can work the system without it killing them, or ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sun Jun 10, 12 12:20 pm Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
| I'd like to follow a system were they are on fresh grazing everday, but I've seen my ground so wet that it wouldn't hold me up, so would hate to tramp it as I want a low input system, which in turn me ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
Views: 37144
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sun Jun 10, 12 11:20 am Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
| We keep cows like Rob does. Dexters, out all year, rotated round. Totally grass fed. They come in for 5 days a year, for the TB test, and we keep them in for both tests, then send them out again fo ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sun Jun 10, 12 11:11 am Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
| I'd seen that video before Crofter, I felt the system needed a little tweeking to have it working better ... at the very least a yard to run the cattle into while room for a tractor along the back wou ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
Views: 37144
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Jun 09, 12 8:50 pm Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
Thats ok ... I was hoping to learn from this thread too ... If it comes to pass, I'm only going to get one chance to get it nearly right lol.
I thought there was more folks keeping cattle on this for ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Jun 09, 12 8:00 pm Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
Some questions then 
Are you planning to scrape out the dung every day/week; or to deep litter?
What are you thinking in terms of machinery (tractors etc)? They'll need to fit through any door ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
Views: 37144
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Jun 09, 12 4:41 pm Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
| I'm sure you've noticed ... no slats! I'd like to work with FYM not slurry ... though I'd thought about slats behind the cattle dropping to a dry manure containment area ... might save on scraping out ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
Views: 37144
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Jun 09, 12 4:36 pm Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
| interesting the different opinions, a fault I have is that I kinda live in the past, I see many things that have changed for the worse, even with all the modern slant put on it, thats not to say that ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
Views: 37144
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Jun 09, 12 10:29 am Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
Thanks folks, thats an interesting looking house, I think something less expensive would meet my needs.
I remember a small farm from my childhood, the cows were kept in a byre, perhaps 6 big cows it ... |
| Topic: Options question on housing for cattle? |
dolmen
Replies: 36
Views: 37144
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Fri Jun 08, 12 5:07 pm Subject: Options question on housing for cattle? |
If on the off chance I was ever able to get my hands on a few acres I dream about keeping perhaps 4 suckler cows and rearing their calves to beef ... on a less intensive system ...
how many acres (mi ... |
| Topic: Look what Chez did! |
dolmen
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Fri Jun 08, 12 11:21 am Subject: Look what Chez did! |
| I like it, a touch of tradition in a modern age ... |
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