regolith
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greggy said:And it has not really started yet. But oh is that so true, how the tune would change if anyone became one of the "numbers" that reqd. help.
I will be honest, a large chunk of our cases came from the US...
There is no acceptable loss in my family or my stock for that matter, this will get ugly real quick for us and the US.
If simple measures can help, and it takes 2 weeks of my life to change some habits, then, so what....I would give that up to help save anyone on CT, anyone related or even friends of CT, be nice, to be honest, I would do it if it helped save your cattle .....and I am selfish natured person.
It is like saying....I wont fix that fence cause only 5 of my 1000 cattle will wander onto tge road, and only 2 may be killed when hit.....acceptable if you can fix the fence in half a day ?
There are some crazies around greggy. I had a car go through one of my roadside fences just before calving and ended up fixing it by delaying milking about three months later.
During that time a consultant who was on the farm at the bequest of Dairynz who were concerned about the amount of grass available to the cows, instructed me to put up a polywire on the roadside and graze the affected field.
Every single time I put up a polywire, hot or not, between 1 and 8 cows are on the wrong side of it when I fetch them. Once or twice a month it's the entire herd. Naturally, the hole in the fence was on a tight, blind corner of the road.
Consultant had that information. And I rejected her advice to graze the paddock while the road fence had an unrepaired hole in it.