Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::

Muckit

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Pity snip him!

I don't know. He's the makings of a savage bullock. He'll carry weight

Limestone Cowboy

The treacherous pilgrimage to craggy island parochial house.

Pidae.m

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

The treacherous pilgrimage to craggy island parochial house.

First one is a phenomenol shot limestone

patsy_mccabe

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

The treacherous pilgrimage to craggy island parochial house.

Is that your road or a right of way?

Limestone Cowboy

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Is that your road or a right of way?

Was just giving a friend a hand to bring the cows home from the winterage. No its a private road.

Limestone Cowboy

Pidae.m wrote: »

First one is a phenomenol shot limestone

It is in fairness...cant take credit for it though, I didn't take it.

Parishlad

This is the lady that arrived yesterday...

May 9th.jpg

Say my name

Who knew seaweed put into an ibc tank with water for a while comes out pink?
Not me anyway.



Cheap champagne anyone??

(There was foodstuff in the tank and washed beforehand. In case the answers come back as diesel or petrol in the tank before. )

Flood jets on the sprayer now and ready to go.

Dinzee Conlee

Say my name wrote: »

Who knew seaweed put into an ibc tank with water for a while comes out pink?
Not me anyway.



Cheap champagne anyone??

(There was foodstuff in the tank and washed beforehand. In case the answers come back as diesel or petrol in the tank before. )

Flood jets on the sprayer now and ready to go.

How much seaweed Say My Name?

Are you mixing anything with it, or just spreading as is?

Say my name

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

How much seaweed Say My Name?

Are you mixing anything with it, or just spreading as is?

Half an ibc full of seaweed. Whatever weight that is? And topped up with water.

In the sprayer then at 10:1. And 100 litres/acre. Nothing else in the sprayer.

You're supposed to leave it really 8 weeks before using. I think it's now 6? But time is against me and I want to get it on silage ground the way I'll have it in the silage. To keep calving easy. ....Is the plan.

I'll use up all the liquid first around the place and then when near empty top up again for another batch in maybe 8 weeks time.

Edit: taking out the filters at the nozzles and putting in the flood nozzles has made it sooo much easier.

patsy_mccabe

I'll just leave this here;

"God made the world and seaweed made that field boy"

patsy_mccabe

Go to 4:20 on this;

Say my name

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Go to 4:20 on

Fierce lot of smoke there.
Poor Tadhg's eyes were nearly watering.


It's probably a banning offence.
But I'm taking inspiration from a poster from a different forum using seaweed juice in a similar way on their soil. They happen to be ten years ahead of me though and don't use any bag fertilizer. Seemingly their soil carbon has built up off the scale.

Edit: should probably add they use woodchip as well.

Never wrestle with pigs

Leave a strip or two of the field out and see if there is much of a difference. Be interesting to do a silage test on a bale of each later and also compare. That would tell you how it's going fairly quickly.

Say my name

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Leave a strip or two of the field out and see if there is much of a difference. Be interesting to do a silage test on a bale of each later and also compare. That would tell you how it's going fairly quickly.

I'm gone beyond leaving strips..

Ah no from using the commercial stuff last year it should increase photosynthesis fairly quickly (green it up) and unlike the commercial products it won't be caustic or pasteurized treated or mixed with molasses to bulk it out. It shouldn't do it any harm anyway.
If there is to be any complaint it may cause the grass to become too comfortable and not run to seed like untreated grass.

vincenzolorenzo

Seaweed full of iodine I think? Would explain the purple anyway

grassroot1

vincenzolorenzo wrote:

Seaweed full of iodine I think? Would explain the purple anyway

Does iodine turn purple in the presence of starch?

kollegeknight

Say my name wrote: »

Who knew seaweed put into an ibc tank with water for a while comes out pink?
Not me anyway.



Cheap champagne anyone??

(There was foodstuff in the tank and washed beforehand. In case the answers come back as diesel or petrol in the tank before. )

Flood jets on the sprayer now and ready to go.

Does it make a difference what seaweed you use? I’ve a few students who put it in their dungstead and swear by it.

I wonder what veg that would suit on a veg patch, I saw on river cottage Oz he was making a slurry with cow dung and nettles and using the liquid in place of compost.

Say my name

kollegeknight wrote: »

Does it make a difference what seaweed you use? I’ve a few students who put it in their dungstead and swear by it.

I wonder what veg that would suit on a veg patch, I saw on river cottage Oz he was making a slurry with cow dung and nettles and using the liquid in place of compost.

I wouldn't have a clue about seaweed.
I picked it up washed up on a beach. There was kelp, I think bladder rack?, and some other small pinkish weed which may have coloured the water.

It's nice to get feedback on what other people are doing.

I may just myself make up an ibc tank with nettles as well to add to the mix.
I put in a few litres of molasses to the diluted seaweed water in the sprayer today as I felt it needed a bit more...
You can over do it with molasses too as I found out last year.

I think you'll never really beat the carbon sources of compost for soil though. The liquids will get biology going but for sheer bulk I'd say it's hard beat.

Edit: on the vegetables. I'd say the obvious is potatoes. Carne in Wexford here and jersey queens from the channel islands were grown in soil fertilised in seaweed.

kollegeknight

Say my name wrote: »

I wouldn't have a clue about seaweed.
I picked it up washed up on a beach. There was kelp, I think bladder rack?, and some other small pinkish weed which may have coloured the water.

It's nice to get feedback on what other people are doing.

I may just myself make up an ibc tank with nettles as well to add to the mix.
I put in a few litres of molasses to the diluted seaweed water in the sprayer today as I felt it needed a bit more...
You can over do it with molasses too as I found out last year.

I think you'll never really beat the carbon sources of compost for soil though. The liquids will get biology going but for sheer bulk I'd say it's hard beat.

Edit: on the vegetables. I'd say the obvious is potatoes. Carne in Wexford here and jersey queens from the channel islands were grown in soil fertilised in seaweed.

Fair play to ya, great to see innovation like that. Also on river cottage Australia, a lad used a lone of bath tubs as wormeries and had plumbed the drain pipes to take the nutrient rich liquid as fertilizer for his pumpkins.

CloughCasey1

Grand day for it.☺

Lime Tree Farm

I knew an elderly man who didn’t have any farmyard animals. He swept up sheep droppings from the local mart into a canvas sack, which he tied at the neck, and placed in a barrel of water. This liquid was poured on the soil, with a watering can, to fertilise his vegetable patch and flowers beds. The results were very impressive.

Say my name

Say my name wrote: »

Half an ibc full of seaweed. Whatever weight that is? And topped up with water.

In the sprayer then at 10:1. And 100 litres/acre. Nothing else in the sprayer..

Well that wasn't the greatest of successes.
The mix with a few litres of molasses is fine and growing. But the seaweed only application is gone a bit yellow especially any younger grass.

A bit stronger and I'd have the answer to the round-up ban.

Reggie.

Say my name wrote: »

Well that wasn't the greatest of successes.
The mix with a few litres of molasses is fine and growing. But the seaweed only application is gone a bit yellow especially any younger grass.

A bit stronger and I'd have the answer to the round-up ban.

Too much salt?

Say my name

Reggie. wrote: »

Too much salt?

Too much something anyway.
I had it well rinsed with the volume washer before it went into the tank.

Aw sure it could have been anything. Too much chlorine, iodine, etc, etc or bacteria,etc, etc.

The grass should grow through the phase.
Dry weather wouldn't have helped either.

CloughCasey1

Smashing morning. No harsh breeze and a right good dew on the grass. Badly wanted.☺

Dinzee Conlee

Say my name wrote: »

Too much something anyway.
I had it well rinsed with the volume washer before it went into the tank.

Aw sure it could have been anything. Too much chlorine, iodine, etc, etc or bacteria,etc, etc.

The grass should grow through the phase.
Dry weather wouldn't have helped either.

When you say you had it rinsed - you mean the IBC or the sprayer?

Will you go again with it Say?

Very interested to see how it works out over time...

Say my name

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

When you say you had it rinsed - you mean the IBC or the sprayer?

Will you go again with it Say?

Very interested to see how it works out over time...

I rinsed out both. The stuff mixed with molasses in the sprayer, the grass never got checked. But the only seaweed solution did but with those bits of rain again these last few days it's come through again and greened up and growing.
I'm beginning to think I should be nearly letting it into the milking parlour slatted tank and mix and spread with the splash plate and drive on. Use my 1300 g slurry tank as a sprayer.

It'd be lovely if I had a book or guide where someone else has made all these mistakes.

Say my name

It might be hard to make out the colour differences in the pictures but it's the same field divided by a roadway reseeded over 30 years ago.
Where the cows are got the seaweed spray with molasses.
And the second one is seaweed spray only.
Both were roughly at the same growth stage with the cows one probably a few days ahead at spraying.
The only difference fert wise between the two is the cow one had added boron in the mix but the second picture the fert had more p and k.

High bike

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Smashing morning. No harsh breeze and a right good dew on the grass. Badly wanted.☺

theres more than dew needed around here the ground is like the road