the daydream fund challenge thread

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: sorry to laugh but id love to have been a fly on the wall when you rewrote the english language when that happened....:D
iv done stuff like that so many times :rotfl:

I may have used an old Anglo Saxon word!!

alfie_1

well its raining and blowing a hooley here again... it was sunny and dry till about 3pm then it went black,rained and was VERY cold !! quite a few trees down after last night around here...
i rugged up barney about 3 weeks ago. its a medium weight rug but really cosy. he has another quilt to go underneath but like LIR, im holding off till its REALLY cold... poor old barney is very thin even tho hes on a good mixture ...im waiting for my hay delivery at the mo, thought it would be last week ! ive opened up another field full of longish rough grass for all 6 minis,barney and rubes together now. iv shut off the bottom 8/9 acres, give it a chance to try for hay next year...wasnt enough to fill a sack this year !! ruby adores lori the yearling mini and they really "play" when they reunite ! its funny to see as lori runs underneath ruby yet they are same age !!

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

iv shut off the bottom 8/9 acres, give it a chance to try for hay next year...wasnt enough to fill a sack this year !!!

Does it take that long, then? We'll take hay from our fields, but the sheep will stay on them till March, by which time they will be cropped even closer than now.

I suppose it makes a difference when the hay is cut too. Ours didn't get done till July, though I reckon it could have been taken a few weeks earlier.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Does it take that long, then? We'll take hay from our fields, but the sheep will stay on them till March, by which time they will be cropped even closer than now.

I suppose it makes a difference when the hay is cut too. Ours didn't get done till July, though I reckon it could have been taken a few weeks earlier.

traditionally you rest from december/early jan.

here we did and the cut was too light for hay, gave it away for silage and a favour. In a place I had in south somerset we grazed until april and cut in late may /early june (mega grass!).

generally, and early cut is lighter but ''better''(seed head on mean higher protein, but the early cut means a lighter cut.) it dries quicker as a result, and though you get fewer bales in the cut you might get another cut in July...still better than one cut hay but this stuff is better for goats and ponies than race horses and cows. Very few people in UK do two cuts of hy because the machinery gets used twice and thus its not as economical. when I was a lot younger I did it a few years and it WAS better, but we had the right land for it. here I'd never get the early cut and the turn out, and the turnout is more important if not more profitable for me.

Itismehonest

I want to know why haymaking always comes right after shearing. Hands get nice & soft from lanolin & then get ripped to shreds
Someone upstairs didn't quite get the calendar right

Davesnave

Thanks for that. I can't rest mine then, but then it doesn't matter too much to me as I'm not the one who has the hay anyway. I'd like to see the sheep gone by February though....

EDIT: I've just checked, and they left in February, not March, so that's not so bad.

lostinrates

rural payment pay day for me I think...i got my letter, but can't log in to check bank account.

decisions decisions.....fencing or a start on a tiny corner of a barn reno.......

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

I want to know why haymaking always comes right after shearing. Hands get nice & soft from lanolin & then get ripped to shreds
Someone upstairs didn't quite get the calendar right

our sheep are sheared twice...march/april then again in august ,mind you they are very densley coated legs of mutton !!:D
tatty head !!:D

Itismehonest

We don't even start lambing until April. No new grass before then.

alfie_1

i like to have the fields empty by feb at the latest, then we wait ! when it looks good enough we chop it. totally depends on the weather for growth...

im sat here mystified ?? i can here almost a continuous thundery sound and moffled bangs. first i thought a plane going over [often sounds louder in bad weather] then i thought the wind hitting the house, then i thought the generator was in trouble, poss chimney fire again as that rumbles ! NOW im not sure at all .....so im just off for a snoop outside....