Letting nature take over

[peterhunter86 8,627]

  On 21/04/2018 at 19:11, scothunter said:

Wild tales of the village on BBC 4 nature thing about creature's living in a French village . Pretty interesting and in English lol

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That was brilliant I enjoyed that, I'll watch it again and probably again.

[scothunter 12,609]

Yea it was different eh . Liked the style and narrative.

That boar went through that fence like butter. 

[peterhunter86 8,627]

  On 21/04/2018 at 21:18, scothunter said:

Yea it was different eh . Liked the style and narrative.

That boar went through that fence like butter. 

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He made shite of that place, I'd say it took a long time to make.

[forest of dean redneck 11,776]

  On 21/04/2018 at 20:28, dogmandont said:

Always said when I win the lottery I’m going to buy a couple of hundred acres and let it go wild, graze it with a few pony’s and cows and live in the middle of it in bliss. 

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Yeah I’d love to do it, probably let some chickens or gamefowl loose as well.

[sussex 5,790]

Interesting for sure , I’d like to be in the position to let 3500 acres of West Sussex go wild ..if every farmer did that it would be fabulous but being on a waiting list for a joint of organic meat doesn't cut the must mustard when it comes to food production.

[forest of dean redneck 11,776]

  On 22/04/2018 at 08:12, sussex said:

Interesting for sure , I’d like to be in the position to let 3500 acres of West Sussex go wild ..if every farmer did that it would be fabulous but being on a waiting list for a joint of organic meat doesn't cut the must mustard when it comes to food production.

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Thats true , sadly there’s more pressure to produce cheap food to feed the population.

[WILF 48,056]

Good article that 

[WILF 48,056]

The article is REALLy interesting to me, I don’t like this idea I’d routinely medicating animals.....in fact I f***ing hate it.

I have found, to my cost, that the common breeds of farm sheep can’t survive without routine medication and I mean every 6 weeks.

That can’t be right.

And it’s heavy shit that you are pumping into them.......and you end up eating it.

I won’t have sheep again after this year......shame because they are nice animals.

Now, I have a couple of fields that could do with renovating but I don’t really want to spray them full of round up and plough, till, fertilise, more weed killer etc 

So, I’m going to do a test with pigs on about an acre......pigs will churn up ground like a machine and I am thinking they will fertilise as they go.

Then a quick flatten and grass seed or wheat then grass will bring the fields back and deal with a rush problem?

the thing that holds you back is EU regulations so I will have to work round that.

We will see.

[jigsaw 11,899]

  On 22/04/2018 at 10:30, WILF said:

The article is REALLy interesting to me, I don’t like this idea I’d routinely medicating animals.....in fact I f***ing hate it.

I have found, to my cost, that the common breeds of farm sheep can’t survive without routine medication and I mean every 6 weeks.

That can’t be right.

And it’s heavy shit that you are pumping into them.......and you end up eating it.

I won’t have sheep again after this year......shame because they are nice animals.

Now, I have a couple of fields that could do with renovating but I don’t really want to spray them full of round up and plough, till, fertilise, more weed killer etc 

So, I’m going to do a test with pigs on about an acre......pigs will churn up ground like a machine and I am thinking they will fertilise as they go.

Then a quick flatten and grass seed or wheat then grass will bring the fields back and deal with a rush problem?

the thing that holds you back is EU regulations so I will have to work round that.

We will see.

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you'll need another bull x to deal with the unsavory wildlife Wilf

[Blackdog92 2,047]

What a waste...

[tilimangro 1,013]

I have done this with my back garden but neither my wife or neighbours seem to share my enthusiasm 

[WILF 48,056]

  On 22/04/2018 at 10:46, Blackdog92 said:

What a waste...

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Be interesting to get an opposite point of view mate.......can you expand a bit more

[MickC 1,825]

Nature always finds a way. 

[forest of dean redneck 11,776]

  On 22/04/2018 at 10:30, WILF said:

The article is REALLy interesting to me, I don’t like this idea I’d routinely medicating animals.....in fact I f***ing hate it.

I have found, to my cost, that the common breeds of farm sheep can’t survive without routine medication and I mean every 6 weeks.

That can’t be right.

And it’s heavy shit that you are pumping into them.......and you end up eating it.

I won’t have sheep again after this year......shame because they are nice animals.

Now, I have a couple of fields that could do with renovating but I don’t really want to spray them full of round up and plough, till, fertilise, more weed killer etc 

So, I’m going to do a test with pigs on about an acre......pigs will churn up ground like a machine and I am thinking they will fertilise as they go.

Then a quick flatten and grass seed or wheat then grass will bring the fields back and deal with a rush problem?

the thing that holds you back is EU regulations so I will have to work round that.

We will see.

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Did you not consider rare breed sheep? The free roaming sheep up in the Forest of Dean wouldn’t be getting that much meds as their owners are to tight to pay for it that often ?

[WILF 48,056]

  On 22/04/2018 at 11:03, forest of dean redneck said:

Did you not consider rare breed sheep? The free roaming sheep up in the Forest of Dean wouldn’t be getting that much meds as their owners are to tight to pay for it that often ?

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It crossed my mind mate, but I also have to consider the best return on investment and while I really like my sheep () I only have limited space and the weather and ground conditions would still mean I have to medicate.....a lot !

Its just not worth it for a one lamb return.......my family will eat a whole lamb in about a week !

Thats a years work! 

pigs and cattle give a better return in input to output.

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it not that I do t want to pay for medication as it’s relatively cheap I just don’t want to be eating that shite.

I want everything as free range and natural as possible 

Edited April 22, 2018 by WILF