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Some pics over the last 2 months of the mustard& pheclia I sat in August, as can be seen the mustard grew pretty well pheclia only ok
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Ordered this bunker feeder yesterday from aktins delivered today just lucky timing with the delivery truck. Had planned just to have a normal head unit but had a Notion of doing something to keep the bales to the cattle as they ate instead of having to push it in. This seems like it will do the trick plus be safer and easier to feed in the fields by just putting inside the gate 20201110_165425.jpg
 
God no I've had my fill of outdoor winter feeding, into the shed on straw this year got a watson bunker feeder coming tomorrow so hopefully that will the silage feeding sorted. Just pulled the feeder out of the Ditch for the hedge cutter
Gosh if I was any closer I'd be offering sheep up to you to graze that off.
Criminal not to man!😁
 
Gosh if I was any closer I'd be offering sheep up to you to graze that off.
Criminal not to man!😁

I don't know if there is any truth in it but I heard one time that when there was headage on sheep they would transport them between Wales and Wexford on fishing trawlers to claim the headage in both places. Would any of the Wexford lads know if it was true or not
 
I don't know if there is any truth in it but I heard one time that when there was headage on sheep they would transport them between Wales and Wexford on fishing trawlers to claim the headage in both places. Would any of the Wexford lads know if it was true or not
😂😂 wouldn't put it past some lads!
 
Gosh if I was any closer I'd be offering sheep up to you to graze that off.
Criminal not to man!😁
I did think about it when it was getting so high even as just a way to trample it down before ploughing, but any thing I read about it said either not to graze it or it was just unpalatable so I left it at that. Will look better into it next year
 
Some pics over the last 2 months of the mustard& pheclia I sat in August, as can be seen the mustard grew pretty well pheclia only ok
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I am not a fan of Mustard particularly if it goes through the winter and I do not think it does enough under the ground . Some plants take a bit of time to get going and I have seen good results from thin cover crops . All my cover crops were short term this year and were sown with winter crops either wheat or oats . Unfortunately between straw and lack of time I did not get covers into where spring crops are going .
 
How’s the new Watson feeder going Funkeyfarmer? Thinking about purchasing one- I know I’m a bit late for this Winter but I perfer to think I’m early for next Winter!!!!
 
How’s the new Watson feeder going Funkeyfarmer? Thinking about purchasing one- I know I’m a bit late for this Winter but I perfer to think I’m early for next Winter!!!!
Sorry missed this. It's a great job very little waste compared with a to feeding with the round feeder. only downside has been loading the feeder I was using a spike bale handler and trapped the bullocks head with when the bale fell in looking at a bale shear for this year plus it will be safer and easier for the person feeding
 
Finally got this field reseeded today trying out goldcrops multi species mix Diamond Grazing + Plantain mix worth a try anyway. Though I did learn I'm never going to try ploughing that field again bloody stones and shallow soil. The lad setting had fun 😆 nice and slow at least he was comfortable, fine set up.
 

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I don't know if he ever considered it only ever seen him with a dust mask a few times i half think he just like being able to listen to the mechanical noises
An uncle of mine got the air con fixed on his baling tractor, and the lad that fixed it told him he'd be right now, he could keep the back window closed when he was working. He said if he closed the back window he wouldn't hear the pick-up turning. That was the end of the air con.
 
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