Grazing pictures

[Rob R]

There's nothing I like seeing more than a herd of Dexters at summer grass - please share your photos and see how many herds we can get. I'll kick off with a couple of photos of ours almost 'lost' in a field that wasn't cut or grazed last season, due to flooding.

[monica a waltho]

Great pics Rob- I know dexters are small but thats impressive grass

[Broomcroft]

Here's a pic from a few years ago. I show this one because those 5 beasts were on a tiny 1/4 acre field for about 2 months, the grass growth was amazing.



And one with the local power station way in the background...

[Rob R]

It looks like you have a bit more altitude Clive - where they are in our pics is less than 7 feet above sea level...

[Broomcroft]

Yea, we're about 500-600 feet Rob.

[PorcPrunus NL]

This is a picture i took last week.
Our cows in a 'nature' pasture. I think you call it conservation.
This is the 3rd year: no fertilizer, no manure, only what the cows leave.
Year zero we have mowed all, the year after a little stroke. Now it is what you see.

This is what gouvernment wants: rough pasture mowed by funny cows.
Before this ground brought 8000 kg weat a year, good clay without stones or wet spots.
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We are thankfull that we can let our little Dexters graze. But for this 2,5 hectare of good land there has to be cut 5 hectares of primeval in South America?!

On the background you see my stable for my fattening pigs. That's my job. My girlfriend Annemiek grows cherry's.

[PorcPrunus NL]

a picture of our old bull (Mauhin Oakley) and the new one (stuyvenberghof Poldark)

[ann]

Nice photo's they all look very content

[DarrenFeely]

Just having a chat......

[Rob R]

Some nice pictures so far

[Rob R]

Today we went down, just before it got dark, to see how the cattle's summer grazing is looking now, and here it is;

[Saffy]

OMG Rob that is not good! We have a fair bit of water here but not that much.

Stephanie

[victorfirst]

Rob

I have heard of injecting chicken breasts with water but is that nnot taking it a bit to far

[Rob R]

It's OK, this is normal as it's a grazing floodplain & it's naturally like that at this time of year, the problem was last year when it came up in October while the cows were still out - they were grazing there up to Christmas Eve. But it does illustrate why we don't outwinter.

[Rob R]

Just updating this thread for 2014 with a short video of our herd out at grass today.