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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: feldar on September 05, 2013, 04:19:58 pm

Title: my girls
Post by: feldar on September 05, 2013, 04:19:58 pm
my girls don't look too bad considering they have just standing dead grass to eat! bring on the rain
Title: Re: my girls
Post by: Bionic on September 05, 2013, 04:34:05 pm
Wow, my grass is green but then I guess thats livin in Wales for you.
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Post by: Dogwalker on September 05, 2013, 05:01:05 pm
Used to live down there on the south coast, I've had to relearn all my gardening now I'm in Wales.
Completely different climate. ;D
Title: Re: my girls
Post by: SteveHants on September 05, 2013, 05:28:15 pm
Bloody awful innit?


I feel like I'm farming in a desert.


Having said that, I have one normally boggy 10ac (ish)field on a water meadow that has been dry all summer and has grown enough grass to keep 73 ewes from March-now.  :excited:
Title: Re: my girls
Post by: ZaktheLad on September 05, 2013, 05:35:03 pm
They are looking good  :thumbsup:

I agree - bring on some rain!
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Post by: in the hills on September 05, 2013, 06:04:13 pm
Cor, that looks dry  :o


Very green in Powys and just starting to rain.
Title: Re: my girls
Post by: feldar on September 06, 2013, 09:11:55 am
peeing down today  :raining:
yipee!
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Post by: Shropshirelass on September 06, 2013, 09:43:52 am
What breed are they? Cluns or Shropshires - they look like Cluns to me but I may be wrong. But very nice looking flock x
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Post by: SallyintNorth on September 06, 2013, 10:31:25 am
Sheep are looking very well - can't say the same for the grass!
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Post by: Tilly on September 06, 2013, 11:03:06 am
Hi Feldar
...... your ewes look lovely :thumbsup: ,
..... we graze mashland, which is as hard as a rock at the moment ! :-\  , but I must say, the cattle and sheep do still look well ,...... :thinking: I guess the dry grass must still hold a good nutritional  content
Title: Re: my girls
Post by: Mammyshaz on September 06, 2013, 11:39:21 am
Lovely looking flock  :love: gosh, you have had a dry summer compared to us   :o
Title: Re: my girls
Post by: feldar on September 06, 2013, 12:27:54 pm
What breed are they? Cluns or Shropshires - they look like Cluns to me but I may be wrong. But very nice looking flock x
They are Hampshires, but there is a couple of open faced ones in there so they do look like Shropshires!