Posted in farming on 09/26/2007 12:42 am by Stephen
It’s now a preocupation. Pastoral farms are in the job of growing grass. You grow lots of good forage, and your animals will do well. The end of winter/beginning of spring is always the most difficult time when feed levels are at the lowest. While the weather had warmed up nicely, it was quite dry.
But now we have Rain! Beautiful rain! About 20mm has fallen in the last 36 hours, with more to come. This should mkae the grass take off like a rocket once the southerly passes and the sun comes back out. That will make both us and our herbivore friends happy.
Posted in farming on 09/26/2007 12:39 am by Stephen
The issues with the dogs has improved significantly. Whatever riot-act the dog control officer read to Richard, it seems to have worked.
In the first week or two after the complaint back in July he was still letting the dogs run wild as before. We would hear them barking, and go out and watch. I don’t know if it was because he could see us watching, but he started training the dogs about that time. Now they don’t hoon around and bark nearly as much, and their control levels seem to keep improving. (It might help that one evening he spotted me watching him from a position of concealment, he doesn’t want to lose his dogs and now can’t be sure if we are watching or not. It may keep him on his best behavior.)
We are happy for those improvements. He is still and idiot, but some progress is better than none. Now we just have to deal with the boundary fence. But that can wait a bit, while we work on other legal paperwork projects, like getting the consent lined up to have the conservatory rebuilt!