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Micko

  • Joined Jan 2010
Rape Straw
« on: August 15, 2011, 03:15:40 pm »
Thought we'd plan well ahead this year and get our wheat straw in in bulk for the winter. A few phone calls later and the farmers round our way in Northumberland are saying that much of it has been sold off the field already and that its been a particularly bad year.

One farmer suggested using rape straw as an alternative and a quick bit of searching in the net suggests that it would make fine bedding for pigs but would be too sharp for piglets.

Anyone had any experience of it???

Cheers - Micko

benkt

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Cambridgeshire
    • Hempsals Community Farm
Re: Rape Straw
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2011, 03:36:00 pm »
Not directly  - I have been lucky enough to get my year's supply of straw direct from a neighbour's barley field. But I've been keeping pigs in what was a field full of rape. They seem keen enough to eat it whilst green and make nests of the straw out in the field and even on occasions drag bits back to their arcs to make beds so I'm guessing they are perfectly happy with it.

 

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