Author Topic: my girls  (Read 4168 times)

feldar

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • lymington hampshire
my girls
« 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

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: my girls
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2013, 04:34:05 pm »
Wow, my grass is green but then I guess thats livin in Wales for you.
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Dogwalker

  • Joined Nov 2011
Re: my girls
« Reply #2 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

SteveHants

  • Joined Aug 2011
Re: my girls
« Reply #3 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:

ZaktheLad

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Thornbury, Nr Bristol
Re: my girls
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2013, 05:35:03 pm »
They are looking good  :thumbsup:

I agree - bring on some rain!

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: my girls
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2013, 06:04:13 pm »
Cor, that looks dry  :o


Very green in Powys and just starting to rain.

feldar

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • lymington hampshire
Re: my girls
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2013, 09:11:55 am »
peeing down today  :raining:
yipee!

Shropshirelass

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • South Shropshire
  • A country lass who loves it all!
Re: my girls
« Reply #7 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

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: my girls
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2013, 10:31:25 am »
Sheep are looking very well - can't say the same for the grass!
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Tilly

  • Joined Jan 2011
  • "Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing"
Re: my girls
« Reply #9 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

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: my girls
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2013, 11:39:21 am »
Lovely looking flock  :love: gosh, you have had a dry summer compared to us   :o

feldar

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • lymington hampshire
Re: my girls
« Reply #11 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!

 

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