Thanks for the insight, Terry! I agree that building up the soil makes much
better since. We've been bringing in horse manure and doing some other
things to try to create a better soil. It will take some time, but I'm not
giving up. I did wonder when the rains came, if all was for not!
-Renee
Be aware,
using vinegar ismjust like using anyother herbicide--
if the day is not dry, warm, and sunny, you are
wasting the effort--
you kinda have to follow the directions of a the
commercial herbicides-- this from an arborist who
[refers to use "natural" mathods
Terry
--- Paul & Renee Bai
While what you say about only the best surviving difficult environments
has merit, I believe there are better ways to select for resistant
sheep than overcrowding them. Such as culling the ones that need
deworming or frequent medical assistance. I don't know the genetics of
all the sheep we h
We have very rocky terrain so thistles love certain areas of our property.
In the past, Paul has sprayed with Roundup, but I wouldn't let him spray the
areas the animals graze. Of course, now the places he sprayed years ago
looks greatand the animal grazing areas have thistles! Yes, my sheep
Keep the sheep in the thistle field and nothing other to eat.They dig even
the roots out
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From: "Nancy Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [blackbelly] thistle
> We have a field with allot of thistle in it. How do we get
Why do you think that the Barbados sheep are so fragile, as we see on this
list week by week?
Because the selection is very difficult if raised in small number.
Once the animal is raised in large number, only the best survive.
That's why the African sheep, always in contact with wildlife, are ex
> Another thing you could do disc/rototill the field, then plant
> buckwheat to smother out the weeds. You can mow or disc to kill the
> buckwheat, then plant more. You can get 2 or 3 plantings of buckwheat
> before the frosts come, then re-seed your pasture. This is what I'm
> doing this s
Last week, when we butchered our first lamb, I stupidly threw out all
that snow white visceral fat with the innards. However when cutting and
packaging, I got a brain and saved what was left. Rendered, it ended up
being 3 pounds of pure tallow - three pounds of grain, grass, hay and a
year's
At 02:31 PM 5/27/2006, you wrote:
>We have a field with allot of thistle in it. How do we get rid of it short
>of a shovel and hoe? without hurting the sheep. Is there a spray etc that
>can be put on it? Thanks for any ideas. Nancy
Well, 2-4,D should kill thistles while leaving the grass alive,
Nancy, can you mow it to keep it from going to seed? Thistle is an
indicator of several soil conditions, depending on what type of thistle
you have. Generally speaking it indicates a low to very low level of
calcium, high potassium, low humus, and a few other variables. If you
can get your s
Barb-- you need to join the "Living off the alnd list"
you have it down pat!!!
Soil health IS super important to OUR health--
The is an environmental re=term-- called "primary
production" which refers to the amount of energy
produced directly from the sunlight interaction with
plants. If the pl
Some of my sheep eat thistles. If they will eat it, it should be OK...
Cecil in Okla
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Subject: [blackbelly] thistle
>
> We have a field with allot of thistle in it. How do we get
We have a field with allot of thistle in it. How do we get rid of it short
of a shovel and hoe? without hurting the sheep. Is there a spray etc that
can be put on it? Thanks for any ideas. Nancy
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Well, why would you want to raise any sheep that are crowded and under
stress? There really is no reason to raise sheep that way.
Stephanie
On May 27, 2006, at 12:21 PM, hlang wrote:
> I read article of
> farmers with small and well protected flocks, how parasite resistant
> those
> sheep are.
Don't like to border too much with my writing.
But for years, and Carol remembers that, I tell one thing:
Blackbellies need much more copper, up to three times more than wool sheep.
For example, with a copper level where a BB just drives well, a Texel would
die in a time of three weeks.
Now, if
Very good information, thank you.
But:
They seem to
do better on forage that the woolies do not fare well
on.
Working with a few thousand hair sheep in different breeds, and on side a
300 wool sheep in different breeds, no way that the average hair sheep even
would come close to the production
I got sort of heckled off the Shedders list for bringing up mineral
imbalances as causes for certain health problems. I got scoffed at
because I might be reading Pat Coleby's books on natural animal care.
Well, I do read Pat Coleby and she was the one who alerted me to the
lack of copper in t
Whoa!
Are we not trying to breed out the influence of other
breeds in the BB? The AB, by accidental design, is a
mixed breed, with many of the physical characteristics
of the original BB. There are SOME AB breeders wanting
to breed for more than just trophy horns-- overall
structure, carcass qua
See, all my African sheep are resistant.
And that's enough for me to know.To follow a Government enforced scrapie
program, something very different.
Wait and see.Johnes disease, which is spreading in Mexico in large and
Caribbean breeds not able to cope with, much more important to look at.
Ca
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