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lemonjelly

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lemonjelly

StevieJ is about! Whassup fella! Long time no see!

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's pretty much impossible to do anything in the smallholding at the moment. Every step you take the grass cuts up and it's almost like you're walking on quickmud.

I just brough the geese in .....earlier than usual. Trying to out speed un willing geese on terrain that suits them better than me is rather a funny experience.


I'm actually really impressed at how our land is holding out.

tomterm8

I'd say that our land is really NOT holding up well this year. It's the soggiest that I've ever seen it, and basically unworkable. Put a spade in a dig half a foot down and you're at the water table in the bottom field.

We've put our sheep into our driest field but until the last couple of days they were limping away because the ground has been too wet and too cold for over a month...

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

The people who invented the diet didn't reckon on the sheer amount of food I can eat in five hours:D

LOL ..... so true

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's pretty much impossible to do anything in the smallholding at the moment. Every step you take the grass cuts up and it's almost like you're walking on quickmud.

Maybe you need something like snowshoes, but for mud.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

This shocked me:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/fred-deakin-of-lemon-jelly-joins-university-of-the-arts-london/2010379.article

What surprised me was that Lemon Jelly meant something.... I thought it was just your name and you liked lemon jelly .... the yellow wobbly stuff. I've never heard of Lemon Jelly, a band.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'd say that our land is really NOT holding up well this year. It's the soggiest that I've ever seen it, and basically unworkable. Put a spade in a dig half a foot down and you're at the water table in the bottom field.

We've put our sheep into our driest field but until the last couple of days they were limping away because the ground has been too wet and too cold for over a month...

Wow, its cold where you are? We're wet but really mild. Bad sheep foot weather sure, and the horses have thrush ion their feet, a cold spell would be very useful for us. But......I expect the horses to have some thrush in their feet in winter.

We are still having some grass growth. I'd expect with this much water to be a sea of brown, but really, we're doing really, really well. I keep saying I'm going to pull them in for a few days but ...not doing it, because .....they'll have wet feature in and wet feet out and unless I keep them off all winter its not going to make much difference out there.


Its incredible its held up so well as there is standing water in places, and we are on clay. The previous clue of winters its been much worse. And the horses have been in a LOT more.

They have been cold, despite mild weather, because of the wet and wind. Horrid weather for them.

tomterm8

We haven't had many hard frosts compared to most years, but we're getting them now.

"Too cold" is relative... actually, if it was colder with hard frosts and therefore dry feet during the night the sheep would be doing better. Sheep fleece can deal with very low temperatures but it can't really deal with the kind of rain we've been having and the wind chill.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

We haven't had many hard frosts compared to most years, but we're getting them now.

"Too cold" is relative... actually, if it was colder with hard frosts and therefore dry feet during the night the sheep would be doing better. Sheep fleece can deal with very low temperatures but it can't really deal with the kind of rain we've been having and the wind chill.

Ah, yes, I see. It must be extremely draining carrying around a cold, saturated fleece too. Poor souls.