yeah so of those are a bit toeie, five or six have turned up calving, must been eight months old, another calved yesterday morning and think one more might still
New roof in one off your pic's Robo , seen it before to . Still abit of money in growing food . Surprised you guys are into hay so early , grass is very slow here this spring . Dry summer supposed to be on it's way as well .
robplum: no just trying to get the Couch off the paddock, they will be cutting lucerne in about a week, will be wrapped for hay-ledge
Grass hasn't stopped growing all winter here
Sheep would do that for you , pity they would also feed the district dingoes as well . Still very cold here for this time of the year . Had my coat jersy and knapsac on spraying gorse on Friday and still not warm . Are you able to fed that couch to stock after it's baled alright ?
no sheep wont eat it either, there are three hundred odd ewe here, but they won't eat it, when its green maybe but yesterday dumped 15 rounds in a gully to get rid of it. Trying to get rye and clover to come back, half the paddock i strip grassed then mowed and rye and clover has come back, however on sunday i mowed it as the rye just went to seed.
During winter couch dies off and leaves thick carpet smothering everything else. J had a bloke trying to plough a paddock with some couch in it for a guy a couple weeks ago the rotary sort of hoe like plough couldn't chop the couch, because its so thick
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