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bob charles wrote: »

well we had to put the stones somewhere so that we could find the earth in the fields. the higher the walls the bigger we could make the fields.

As for roads, remove the dust of topsoil that blew over the rocks and you will have a harder surface than under the M50

You must be farming worlds apart from us poor peasants down here

No need to over do it Poor Peasant two adjectives rarely used to describe you I'd say.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer though

fishfarmer wrote: »

Always wondered how you stop them from falling over. Seen stone walls that were fairly thin. Do ye just build them a few stones thicker at the bottom or something?
I should really just ask the old fella, he's mad for building them, purely for the craic.

Ya, the single stone walls are harder to build than these, as they have to balance perfectly. Handy enough to build these are they are being filled inside as you work your way up and the stone is supported.

limo_100 wrote: »

theres notting nicer than snow white charolais calves. are you happy with with your LGL calves have you only got the two of them?

Very happy with them, only the two straws, ai'd same day - calved the same day, 2 white bulls, both fired them out.. younger cow put the calving bed out though after which mesmerises me as i never saw an easier calving and that to happen

A handy little heifer calf a 3 year old springer threw out yesterday, looking grand and content for herself this morning.

Feel bad posting this after that last picture :o
Lovely pasture there Zetor..

We made a weedlicker a few years ago to do battle with the rushes.. On our low lying land there is little drainage and no further room as we're in the bottom of the valley and downstream drainage is very slow..

Anyway... here's a meadow where we can travel 3/4 of it when the going is good.. You can see we had some success beating the rushes back into the last 1/4 we can't travel... there's a bog hole in there somewhere !! 3 years ago the whole field was like the last 1/4, and while a good regrowth of rush is there I'm happy with the progress to date.. Another run of the licker when its grazed should go a long way..



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Lovely evening kids playing hurling in the paddock cows starting to settle for the night enjoying a cup of coffee in the garden. Well when I say garden that's what it must look like for Communion on Sun week

quadboy wrote: »

How long did it take to get it looking like that and did you only lick them no cutting? I have fields that look like that last 1/4 and want to sort em out

Spring lick, graze., mow. Graze and lick early autumn.
Gallup at 100:1 in the licker.

They can be licked without mowing for regrowth. We go out with the licker whenever the ground is good. Unfortunately, that's not often enough !

Clever cow

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

10 day old lim bull calf out of MBP and a 36 month old second calver

We wouldnt have the best of cows . Alot of aax and that bull is bringing the best of calves from them I must say

delaval wrote: »

1 twine we use to activate auger if we have a short row

2 cow pulling

3 Jackpot

had one like that, used to feed herself, let herself and her comrades into into the parlour one night and fed them all, in the end she got stomach ulcers from too much feed, her own fault really:D