[Nat(wasIxy)]

oh yeh, they now want us to pay for privilege of them culling our animals aswell 😡

[Nat(wasIxy)]

all I can say from England where every cow has a passport and eartags and we have movement restrictions and have to tell the government EVERY time we move a cow and get prosecuted if you dont comply – FIGHT THIS AS HARD AS YOU CAN! 😡 🙁

[Nat(wasIxy)]

great! I have always loved camels, they seem to be so grumpy butthey do get the job done. I had no idea there were different breeds of camel!

question – do they graze, or browse, will they eat hay/silage do you know? I’m asking because I wonder if they’d live with my oxen 😮

[Nat(wasIxy)]

Just had to join this forum – it’s amazing! very few people in england are interested in oxen so it’s reallygreat to find so many people chatting so knowledgeably together!

I just had to join when I saw this thread – I have a simmentalX ox, he lived on wheat straw and a couplea kgs of pellets a day over winter and maintained condition perfectly – although he was only 12-17months old and not doing any work. feeding straw wont kill the ox; maybe if you fed only straw and worked it hard you would be effectively starving the beast to death. They say good barley straw is better than poor hay.

I even found that given the choice, Angus (the ox is question) would gobble up the wheat straw and THEN move to the hay, which was horse quality. Which is why i ended up giving him a small bale of straw a day as belly filler and the pellets to complete the diet.

His younger brown swiss companion did not do so well at all – he was still growing and in need of more food, but if i separated him from Angus, even with a low partition, he completely refused to eat at all 😮 and with angus, he ate too slow and angus got it all – i ended up having to tie them up in order to give the brown swiss extra. Luckily the spring grass has come through just in time and he has now piled on the weight and is looking much better. can’t beat grass!

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