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What a night but hardly Aussie. The forecast for later today is worse telling us to expect hurricane possibly. We are going out. What a wind up. There's been a bit of hail/snow & it is really cold but hardly snowed in as they told us. Hope they've got it wrong.
Goats are very distructive & will bark trees but if you want the milk & wool then they are handy otherwise I wouldn't entertain them. You would need to enter into all the tagging malarky & castrate the males if you are breeding them. If you ever get behind the herds of wild ones here - the smell is incredible. You need electric fencing as if they get out they will destroy a garden in a really short space of time. I know of people who want to kill their neighbour because of 'goat issues'.
Still trying to hunt down lavender pullets. Spoke to a guy who has blues - don't know the difference & neither does he but I'll see him at the rare breed sale in March.0 -
milk & wool then they are handy otherwise I wouldn't entertain them. You would need to enter into all the tagging malarky & castrate the males if you are breeding them. If you ever get behind the herds of wild ones here - the smell is incredible. You need electric fencing as if they get out they will destroy a garden in a really short space of time. I know of people who want to kill their neighbour because of 'goat issue
Thanks for this. I actually already have goat electricIts their destructive nature I'm counting on actually....I'm thinking of our brambles! The bits we've cut through are going to start growing back an if goats can help us keep them at bay....say we got two...I don'tthink they'd find themselves without a job for a long, long time!
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The nature of goats is a nibble at this & a nibble at that. You need the roots out & the best way to get them out is either by hand, use pigs to root or chemical & I personally wouldn't use chemmies. A goat will do a bit of light pruning for you.
Well it's pretty horrendous here - just back from Ullapool & the roads getting bad over the Thane - past a broken down snow plough & a gritter went the other way with nowt coming out of it. So back to the usual. Saw poly-tunnel with its skin flapping about. A temp lamb shelter we built last year for the orphans we took on is half way across the top field. The next 12 hours are supposed to see it peak & then ease off - I do hope it doesn't get any worse. The road here is okay but it'll block over by - glad we headed home when we did.
There was a new born goat ambling about with Mum when we came back - early but have known it as early as Jan 17th. Now they are toughies. Minutes old and they're ambling up slopes. Cute as pie.0 -
The nature of goats is a nibble at this & a nibble at that. You need the roots out & the best way to get them out is either by hand, use pigs to root or chemical & I personally wouldn't use chemmies. A goat will do a bit of light pruning for you.
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I really hope you survive the weather without any more damage!
The plan is, ATM, to get diggers in to scrape and terrace it, then to maintain it from than position. Very sloping ATM...and even when terraced its not ''pig friendly'' I'm hoping the goats could help maintain...there will be plenty there for them!0 -
The lamb shelter was only temp & has stuck together - amazingly, just tumbled half across the field. This morning a 'Heatmaster' tea pot on the shelf was poised to tip - don't know how it hadn't - it was more off the shelf than on. It was poised above the printer. It would of taken it out & it would of been my fault for leaving it up there.
If you get a good digger driver it is amazing - they make it look so easy that the arm looks like another limb, so natural. If they are having a scrape you should get the majority of roots out. You need out the knuckle roots. If you terrace it'll look great. Will you have retaining walls?
All the !!!!! willow buds are on the trees. I thought it was dew drops at first but it's the buds. Well I can't be bothered but I'll have to go out & feed sheep, take the up some hay into their byre & retrieve their water buckets & put rocks in them.0 -
Will you have retaining walls?
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I think there is a lot of dumped clay earth round there which will hold without support on sloping terraces. They kind of clay I'm guessin the pond (old slurry pit) is lined with. I'd like to keep to that and native planting I think ATM....naturalistic. In later years when we have more money will become garden...but for now....its just another area needing to be tamed and kept in check.
I'm really i,pressed with the people here this week...like you say its skilled...almost pleasurable to watch.0 -
I got a banking made & have planted it up but it is the hardest thing to keep weed free whilstthe plants get established - It gives me back ache! So I let it get a bit away from me last year but it sort of suits here - being so wet, it lets the water run off.
The gales are awful, really noisy - just watching Potillo's railway journey across the West Coast Highlands & a beautiful Summer's day - seems impossibly green & bright. Almost forgot how lovely it is - why we live here.:rotfl:0 -
i posted but it hasnt appeared ??
i hope you are all well.
i let RUBY out tday, she flew across the field [,although she had a hissy fit as i was walking her from the stable and i got a hoof across the back of my leg ....ouch!] she so shocked the minis they all took off after her but im sure they didnt have a clue what/where/why...:rotfl:
Barney was most indignant and immediatly set about herding his "kids" away from her which had the result of making it look like they were playing musical chairs !!
the sheep just stood watching it all having learnt that it was just too much like hard work !
i am so pleased with ruby, she virtually danced across the field , tail up and the most beautifull paces...:)
i did video it on my camera [a little bit anyway as i was limping and couldnt keep up !!] not sure if i can put the clip on here?
DAVESNAVE....your the one to ask...:A
p.s. good luck with the weather CHOILLE.
LIR... glad your "diggings" been succesfull.0 -
DAVESNAVE....your the one to ask...:A
No I'm not! ....But I don't recall ever seeing video on this site. I think you would have to upload the file to You Tube, or something similar, and then link to it from here.
You Tube dominates, but a quick Google shows there are others:
http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/sites-similar-to-youtube/
On a completely different tack, I'm pleased to say that another brace of pheasants found their way here to day and were duly swapped for a large winter squash.0 -
hi, iv finally figured it out .... iv put the clip [albeit pretty amateur, forgot to push the stop button so it rambles on at the end and pictures a hedge !!] on youtube , so if you can be bored for a minute or two then you will see ruby, at the end of her turn out day ,so not so fast.... put in the search box..... alfie172470
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