SheepChaser
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More like a tombstone / message in a bottle / water world mash up.......
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Shalom.
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No mate. Just sadly got a lot to lose! And people to protect.
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We used to fatten pie train x saddlebacks. Lovely animals, amazing shape and growth rates with great taste from saddle back mum
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We milk on it mate and fatten on it. It’s rocket fuel if managed right
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Similar but it’s our own special mix from cotswold seeds. Heavy on the clover, chicory and plantain. Very good stuff !
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Check it those chops at the bottom !
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Some ‘grass’ is super grass ?
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Out biggest problem is competing with the digesters! Just had probably 300-400 acres chopped here a week ago, into ag bags and waiting to go to the burner.
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Most of our stock go onto cover crops in winter - oats and vetch, turnips, millet, stuff like that.
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Don’t really know mate, it’s all made in house so to speak.
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That’s one of the reasons why you roll the barley and oats, helps it be digested.
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Good whole crop maize silage is hard to beat.
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I try to limit the number of people who know I’ve got running dogs to be honest. A lot of folk think I go lamping with the rifle. Don’t really associate much with many non country people. Big dog never gets walked in the day light. Use technology to limit my exposure. Know my ground and where it’s over looked, the routes in and out etc. Have a routine with catches. Probably get a wee bit ott at times. On my hands and knees in the dark last night scrubbing out a blood trail with dirt ?
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We finish mostly fresians, and montbelliard, Angus and Hereford xs out of Fresians. The pure dairy’s deffo benefit from some grain, but the Angus and Hereford xs do well enough on forage. Forage fed is also not quite the same as grass fed, in that it allows you to pack more punch without grain. Permanent pasture isn’t going to finish much other than pure natives in spring and summer
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Wasn’t one of the eating awards won by a dairy cull cow lol
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We finish a fair bit if stock, several thousand lambs a year and around 600-700 cattle. The one thing you lads are underestimating is the effects the processing has on the meat. Butchering, hanging etc has a far greater impact on the look and taste or meat than folk give credit. Controversial opinion - but the stuff you buy in supermarkets is largely the same as folk buy from a lot of small farms. (Excluding random rare breeds).
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“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot ..........don’t it always seem to go that, you don’t know what you got till it’s gone ....”
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Sorry I wasn’t meaning to come across as a dick. I was just talking / thibking in the context of the thread - or how folk are getting the book thrown at them for dog work. The daily main version of coursing seems to blur with the f*ck wits who plague the countryside and who are causing these tougher laws abs more hassle.
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And yer probably different circles ? but don’t go coursing with anyone and when I was out yesterday afternoon dog on slip, looking for a hare..... the keeper came screaming across the field in his truck with his rifle ....... and asked me if I’d seen any fallow bucks lol
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Maybe you’ve missed my point. Roubd here people are beginning to passionately hate coursing lads, coursing dogs and coursing. Its getting silly and someone is gonna get hurt sooner or later. Wha people hare is the above - and by calling it coursing and coursers - they blur the lines and make the general public think anyone who likes a good chase with a long dog fits into that negative category.
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Here’s a screen shot from a thread on a forum used by farmers. Exactly like this one but the other side of the coin ......
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Yes I do as do you. But everywhere I go it’s “the f***ing hare coursers were out again last night, smashed three electric gates in and cut the fields up” and that’s a direct quote
