Silage
By Léonie Cooper profile image Léonie Cooper
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Silage

In the afternoon I accompanied Charlie in his tractor rolling silage, but the tilts, left and right, and ups and downs were not great upon my stomach.

The silage hill has to be flattened to squeeze out air from potentially ruining this livestock food.

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Fifteen minutes in the tilting tractor I returned to the stability of a stationary car and waited for Charlie to finish his rolling.

Only one out of every 105,000 bovine births produces triplets; that's one in every 105,000.

After Charlie showed me a coos triplets, I walked up a lane to a weird tree then took some pictures.

Later we went to the 3rd grass keep to find the ewes and lambs had eaten all the grass! We returned this small flock to the regrown original field after they had been sheared.

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They were rounded up at the far end of the field, but a tree. Sheep are difficult in that the more you reduce whilst processing them, the more stressed they become to re-enter the flock.

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