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Robert MoonShadow
ParticipantWelcome to you & your daughter – it’s cool to see a mother/daughter team (I think perhaps the first on here?). After the barn, but before the horses, may I suggest getting…a shovel? 😉
ParticipantBeautiful, beautiful baby!
Need sunglasses from viewing that big ol’ smile of yours! 😮ParticipantHey Geoff – we’re burning down here, too = 25,000 acres just jumped the Slate Creek & road…can’t see across the Salmon River. Idaho’s burnin’, brother, and that’s a sad fact. Hope you & yours are okay?
Participant@sickle hocks 36456 wrote:
robotic mule video…
Why in God’s name don’t they just learn how to use mules????Simple: ‘Cuz some mega-corporation can make bazillions from this robo-mule, but not so much from a live one.
ParticipantBaystate: Sounds like you’re into a lot of the same stuff I custom-graze my goats on. One of the tricks with using electric netting is to try to have enough netting ( and goats) to surround the entire targetted patch of nasties. I use 4 rolls (165 ft, per) which gives me close about 3/4 acre at a time…stocked with 12-15 goats. I’ve got a pair of loppers and a strong weedeater for when I need it, and when I move them about, I always leave one side in place (only having to deal with 3 sides, then). It can be a pain, at times, but depending on the browse, I usually only move them once every 7-10 days, and charge $10/day…not bad for me goaties eatin’ and poopin’. That’s compared to the larger operations around here, that charge $50+ per acre – I do the small sets tht aren’t worth their time.
Andy – It sounds to me, (based solely on what you described, of course, so I might be off on this), that you didn’t leave the goats on each set quite long enough…with the fence hot, they’ll stay in & eat or trample just about anything in there…including the bark off of a lot of things, especially wild rose. What’s left can then easily be reached w/ a chain saw…or, (my personal preference), a chain hooked to a draft animal, like me donks.
this is just based on my own experiences in the last 5 years out West here, so take that into consideration, too.Participant@Donn Hewes 36370 wrote:
In the places I am hoping to go I think it will be much easier to put in a temporary fence for cattle than for goats.
Electric netting for the goats.
Participant@Demented Donkey Dame 36358 wrote:
Geoff…. how do I find you???? Describe your team….. color of shirt you’re wearing… a hat???? Anything special about your harness… I will try to locate you…okay? I’ve got short grey hair will be packing a camera and a tripod to video some of the action. Probably will be in green shorts with lots of pockets…hope we meet up! OH I also wear ankle braces that look a little different.
Oh, and sometimes, when speaking, her voice settles into a small bray…comes from hangin’ out with so many donkeys, methinks! {her ears under that hair are starting to grow a bit longer, too!
August 6, 2012 at 5:45 pm in reply to: Peas? found in the crop of raning chickens: what are these? #74654ParticipantCheck with your local county extension agent.
ParticipantFor the past 4 years (since I started the gardening), I’ve fed my donkeys (and, at the time, my boss’ mules) just like Jen says she does…they love it, and it seems to be good for them. The donks are also getting this year, a whole bunch of pigweed along with the stunted corn stalks I get a lot of in this heat.
Participant@dominiquer60 35845 wrote:
Robert,
There was also a small version of the Shipshe made by GateWay, instead of a front roller it had a pair of skids then S-tines and a back roller. There was no platform to ride on so it was lighter weight and cost less money, it may be right up your alley. Here is their info, they hosted the HPD this year.
Gateway Manufacturing
7836 E Colonville Rd,
Clare,MI 48617
Phone: (989) 386-4198Thanks, Erika! I’ll contact them – I couldn’t get the link you posted to open – it says it’s “unavailable”?
This is another example of why I love this forum: someone clean across the country can check things out at HPD or somewhere, and related info can get to those of us who need it – ‘Thank you’ to Carl for starting this place up, and to those of you who keep it going!ParticipantYeah, Carl – gotta love havin’ an intelligent & active dog to help out, huh? My hound spend a lot of the night chasing off coon & deer, Tugboat goes after the deer and the skunks, and the border collie cross keeps getting the mice that I feed to the chickens…a good airedale would probably replace all three, but I really dig me dogs, so I’m stickin’ with me partners, even if Tugboat does carry an excessive aroma around…at least she loves layin’ in the river, so that helps.
Participant@Rod44 35801 wrote:
Robert – I would say good standard sized donkeys should be able to pull the mower with a 5 foot bar. All day long in heavy alfalfa??
Oops! I was meaning the s-tine/crumbler unit. I was thinking that they’d only handle a 4-foot bar on a mower (which are hard to find out this way), but have never mowed, so you give me some encouragement, with that.
ParticipantDid anyone that was there happen to see if there were any of these suitable for a pair of lg. standard donks?
Participant@Jen Judkins 35684 wrote:
George, While I agree with all the comments made so far, I’d like to just add….owning a tractor is not that big a deal…karmically speaking. Like Mitch says, I work my horses because its important to my sanity and it always will be. But I have a thousand irons in the coals and sometimes getting something done in ‘x’ span of time is important to my sanity too:o.
I admire those who do it all with horses…serious admiration. I just don’t see how I could do that, the way my farm is set up. Maybe its a mental block, or a physical weakness (us girls have wimpy upper body strength) or maybe its because I owned a tractor before I owned my first draft horse, I’m not sure. But I run a small John Deere sparingingly. The big risk with a tractor, in my mind, is that when push comes to shove, and you are in a tight spot in regard to time, you will bypass the horses and put the key in the ignition. Happens to me a lot. Just last week, my nosey teamster neighbor caught me in the act of dragging my riding arena with the tractor. I’ll not live that down for some time.
You say that as if “sanity” is important…:p
ParticipantThank you, Erica, for the info.
Tristan: I’ve got the same set up – haven’t used it yet…didn’t know that it’d raise it up that well – I got it for the cultivator, more than the potato plow on it. If it works that well in my soil, then the 1/2-cord of red fir I traded for it is an even better deal than I thought! Mine’s all metal – including the handles…gonna wrap leather around the grips before I use it in the triple-digits we’ll be getting soon – I also tend to leave my truck door open all day for that same reason!- AuthorPosts