Their manure contains phosphorus, which, when it rains, runs off into lakes and estuaries, depleting oxygen, killing fish, stimulating algae overgrowth and emitting greenhouse gases. ___. Pigs provide more dietary protein, more cheaply, to more people than any other animal. Northern Europe still...
In those early years, we didn’t have a skid loader to clean it out with, so we did it the old-fashioned way – doing it by hand with manure forks. And Joanne and I gladly did it, we were so thankful to have our own farm to serve the Lord on. Oftentimes in the fall and ...
699 Manure Incorporator, shallow seedbed 2000, 30 ft. wing fold Heavy Duty coulter harrow, 4" blade spacing, single point depth control, spring cushion hyd. control disc gang, tandems main and wings, 3 bar tine single spiral roller. Exceptional tillage in high residue for no till seed bed...
I like to spread at least one load of composted manure on the field for each wagon load of hay we remove. Usually it is a mix of brooder litter, pig bedding, horse manure, cow manure and whatever else I can scrape up topped off with a layer of crushed limestone…all loaded by hand ...
Lupins– great green manure crop, where I was supposed to cut them down before they got to flower stage…nah, just couldn’t do it. I loved seeing bees on the flowers. Marigold– again not at the good end of flower colour chart but still a favourite and easy to generate more seedlings...
or something fast-moving is going through the herd. One of the jerseys was unexpectedly runny for a couple of days last week. But the white calf clearly isn’t feeling well. She gets up, she eats, her ears are up but she looks a little gaunt, has been laying in manure and her rump...
This amounts to a giant round area that is a swamp of hay, poo and pee – Garden Fabulousness! We are scooping up all that manure, hay and compost goodness and relocating it to the future tomato site. See those rows of beautiful compost! This is where the plants will go. I am not...
clean. I am milking a cow that is on some pretty lush spring forage, is refusing to eat any hay and has loose manure…some of which splattered on the hair at the tip of her tail…the part that beat me on the head as I milked so we dang-near give her a sponge bath before ...