Life gets no better than this

[Groverdog 0]

Beautiful Autumn day, colours amazing. Stags roaring their heads off 2 fields from house. Goose breast marinating for supper tonight, followed by pancakes with homemade rosehip syrup. Young cockeral coming on nicely and plump. Terriers doing good job keeping rats down round farm and gundogs 1st outing out tomorrow, if partner is on form may well bring home a birdie or two!

 

Sat on the farmgate listening to stags this morning and couldnt belive how lucky i was to live this but sadened at how there are those that would destroy this way of life plus very sad for the farmers who are struggling on through this F & M + Bluetongue.

 

Hope that in fifty years there can be people still saying how lucky they are.

[Kay 3,709]

Oh how beautifull, i woke up to the milkman hammering the door to be paid

[Guest bullterrier]

alright mate you are lucky here in liverpool early morning smackheads shouting and police car sirens you are truely blessed ...john

[Guest Frank]

Good on ya. I woke up to an argumant with the wife.

[ferret15 0]

i was thinking the same this morning when out pooh picking the horse fields sun shining dew on the grass horses happy to see me dogs of looking for rabbits my 9 month old son happily watching the world go by from the comfort of his pram. i moved my horses to theses stables three years ago with it came 60 + acres of permission and a apple, walnut, sweet chestnut, blackberry so many i cant pick it all, mushrooms , sloes, rose hip, etc etc all for the taking and its only me who picks it (and the horses who have taken to picking blackberry's with me they curl their lips back and carefully pick the fruit with their teeth. )

from the top of the hill i can see for miles and all i can see are trees and woodland to me this is total and utter bliss all i have to do now i persuade the farmer to sell me his house to go with the land and i will be in heaven

 

i have always said that being with the horses is my Prozac (spelling) no better antidepressant than the country ways

[Groverdog 0]

Sometimes the cockeral pushes his luck waking us up at 3am so not all idyllic! And in the winter storms a bedsit in Torry sounds just fine! Dosent matter wether we live in the country all of us appreciate our rural surroundings and want to protect our sports and countryside. And just to be allowed to do what we do without any fecking grief would be nice.

[Kay 3,709]

Sometimes the cockeral pushes his luck waking us up at 3am so not all idyllic! And in the winter storms a bedsit in Torry sounds just fine! Dosent matter wether we live in the country all of us appreciate our rural surroundings and want to protect our sports and countryside. And just to be allowed to do what we do without any fecking grief would be nice.

 

When i am woke up by a cockeral at 3am a dig in the ribs usually sorts it

[Groverdog 0]

depends what the cockeral was attached to

[Kay 3,709]

depends what the cockeral was attached to

 

Oh

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

this morning when out pooh picking the horse fields

 

 

 

Now that's interesting! I do that too. I regularly quarter the acre out there with a bucket ~ and my gloves on! ~ picking up the donkey shit. I wondered if I was mad or something, but see it as perfectly reasonable and just plain good husbandry. Never realised others did it

 

As for the rest? Yeppers. Gloriously sunny day out there. Just had emails which lifted the Sword of Damacles. Nothing bothering me now. I feel beter than James Brown and am just trying to decide what enjoyable task to set myself next.

 

Life is indeed sweet!

 

 

All together now: " Ditch lives in a house, in a derelict house in the countryyyyy! "

[Simoman 110]

I find it relaxing Ditch, part of the daily routine is wandering the paddocks poo picking after two donkeys. Forget the gloves though, I have a posh scoop

[ferret15 0]

this morning when out pooh picking the horse fields

 

 

 

Now that's interesting! I do that too. I regularly quarter the acre out there with a bucket ~ and my gloves on! ~ picking up the donkey shit. I wondered if I was mad or something, but see it as perfectly reasonable and just plain good husbandry. Never realised others did it

 

As for the rest? Yeppers. Gloriously sunny day out there. Just had emails which lifted the Sword of Damacles. Nothing bothering me now. I feel beter than James Brown and am just trying to decide what enjoyable task to set myself next.

 

Life is indeed sweet!

 

 

All together now: " Ditch lives in a house, in a derelict house in the countryyyyy! "

 

 

i too find it therapeutic but above that its a vital part of field management it reduces the worm count so less need to worm the animal i have a worm count done once a year from a pooh sample and have been almost totally worm free for two years now.

it also reduces the number of fly's and their eggs therefor worms,

and horses will not eat where they have poohed so if you dont remove the pooh your grass get horse sick (they wont eat it even when the pooh is rotted away )

i to have a posh scoop saves your back !! but find gloves work better in long grass

 

its also a good way to keep an eye out for poisonous plants

there is something about looking out across my fields and not seeing a single pooh