Hi All,
we've got 26 acres to play with, and certainly wont fill it all with pigs/sheep/goats. So, of the space that's left, what should we be growing to be able to fee our stock in a self sufficient manner?
fodder/sugar beet?
swedes/turnips?
oats?
one of the other cereals?
pumpkins & squashes?
We will have the following to feed:
Sheep (x50 perhaps)
Pigs (x 2 sows, 1 x boar, plus up to 20 piglets to fatten at any one time)
Goats (x 5 max - milk and cheese forthe house)
chickens (x10 or 20 max -dual purpose)
ducks (x10 max dual purpose)
Harder work than bagged feed, of course, but still....