Recent content by Derrick Hughes

Probaly irrelevant here but very small leaks of electric curent that we cant detect can make cows agresive when housed

They dont want farmers out protesting during an election do they They can hit them harder after

Depends on land and soil type If its good free draining land , apart from the fences and hedges value woukd drop slightly but not by a big margin On the other hand marginal land if not farmed would see a vast drop in value equivalent to putting the land into a bunny hugging environmental Scheme

And if i cut the stems at the base with it kill or or will it feed off the tree

Does ivy harm trees

Double chops used to scalp the ground if it wasnt perfectly level , i spent years usng one and rapairing it , One of the good old things better forgotten

You have to laugh at life to get through it I was around quite a few infected cattle working on farms in the early years before anyone knew what it was Trying to calve cows that were trying . to kill me Ive no idea if im infected , my family think ive always been mad anyway lol

Depends on the seed though , ground is wet underneath on a lot of farms , grass seed seems fine but brassicas dont like the compaction if soil is damp

Cambridge works well , I always rolled but last year cought me out after getting a weeks rain after rolling with a heavy flat ,it puddled the surface , never came the same

Do they test for it in hospital

The older diet feeders did not work well with longer chop , but a Kid Double chop waz just to slow ,if yiu pushed them to hard you had the ball ache of unblocking them

It does survive better than Chicory here , in a long wet winter but tack sheep here realy do bite it down

The Fattening Lamb mix has a lot of Red Clover and Chicory, if you graze that to death all winter in a wet winter in will be gone almost Look at NZ Rocket fuel mix I was also taking sheep as the op asked ,cattle dont graze as hard But it is hard to give avice with limted info ,we dont even...

Hybrid or Tertaploid Ryegrass ,with Clover Plantain and Chicory for lambs , Chicory and Clover will not be that early though so if you want early boost up the Ryegrass a bit Chicory and Clover like a bit of room so do better with an upright grass But forget Clover and especially Chicory if...

Minstrel or Hurler is just as good as Dockstar at a fraction of the cost, but its been said by many loads of times Getting them at the right stage is the important part