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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: jinglejoys on July 06, 2012, 04:09:59 pm

Title: Too much rain!
Post by: jinglejoys on July 06, 2012, 04:09:59 pm
I think maybe all this rain is making things grow like Triffids! ;D
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y190/jinglejoys/Goats/PeekabooTabitha.jpg)
Title: Re: Too much rain!
Post by: plumseverywhere on July 06, 2012, 04:23:11 pm
Oh that's brilliant, JJ!!



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Post by: katie on July 06, 2012, 04:35:06 pm
Yep. We have nettles like that! So strange after last year when nothing grew at all.
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Post by: Bionic on July 06, 2012, 04:47:57 pm
mine looks much the same, minus the goat that is
Sally
Title: Re: Too much rain!
Post by: plumseverywhere on July 06, 2012, 04:57:16 pm
we cut and wilted a load, fed them to the sheep and goats next day (when we had some sunshine!) now they are grown back again, 10 times as many and twice as high!!
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Post by: Bionic on July 06, 2012, 05:01:08 pm
Will pigs eat them too?
Sally
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Post by: katie on July 06, 2012, 05:08:39 pm
I'm drying them for winter feed.
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Post by: tizaala on July 06, 2012, 05:23:36 pm
Yes Sally, pigs love em dryed :thumbsup:
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Post by: jinglejoys on July 06, 2012, 05:37:35 pm
I'm drying them for winter feed.
You've had DRY weather!? :o
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Post by: katie on July 06, 2012, 05:40:10 pm
The polytunnel has! ;D
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Post by: plumseverywhere on July 06, 2012, 05:50:34 pm
haha, poor jingles is panicking that 2 miles down the road there's drier weather!! I think the Avon is about to creep onto our local roads some point very soon!!
Title: Re: Too much rain!
Post by: jinglejoys on July 06, 2012, 06:09:57 pm
Wouldn't know about that I'm on the other side of the hill ;D  FIFTY flood warnings?!
Title: Re: Too much rain!
Post by: plumseverywhere on July 06, 2012, 06:11:29 pm
50?


I've got to trek back to offenham at 7 to drop Milli off for youth  club.....might get the dinghy out... ;D
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Post by: katie on July 06, 2012, 06:12:46 pm
Sorry, I'm borrowing it first!
Title: Re: Too much rain!
Post by: plumseverywhere on July 06, 2012, 06:16:19 pm
Sorry, I'm borrowing it first!


I'll have to go on the lilo then  ::)
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Post by: Brucklay on July 06, 2012, 10:01:46 pm
Not bad here yet ........ and on a hill so will hopefully run away - have to say a winning picture there JJ
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Post by: jaykay on July 06, 2012, 10:03:27 pm
Ha, it looks like that round here too, I can only detect my 10 week old goat kids by seeing the docken moving  ::) Never mind, I collect my scythe tomorrow  ;D
Title: Re: Too much rain!
Post by: smudger on July 07, 2012, 12:24:31 am
Are they pigmies or normal sized goats :o
Title: Re: Too much rain!
Post by: jaykay on July 07, 2012, 06:56:08 am
Both JJ's and mine are Old English. So not as big as the big dairy breeds but certainly not pygmies.