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Some days I get so fed up of living on an organic farm
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 879752" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Wow. I can just imagine filling buckets with rats... I've filled buckets and buckets of snails in the garden of one of my previous farms.</p><p></p><p>Biodiversity we has it - rats, stray cats, big flocks of crows, slugs, grass grub, a magpie that likes to swoop down every time you pass his tree, just about every other bird that's native, big green moths.</p><p>The moths are quite something - the green ones yes, but there's brown ones not quite so huge that fill the air during night milking.</p><p></p><p>I checked the guidelines months ago and rat poisoning using the usual precautions is allowed. The house and garden were over-run with them, now it's just the rest of the farm to deal with.</p><p>I don't know what the deal is with this farm. Pasture looks healthy but doesn't grow, bird and insect life is remarkable, fungi sprout from the soil all over the place - it's been farmed organically for at least ten years, nearer twenty. I only started a few months ago.</p><p>Previous operator does not believe in poisoning stuff. Will endeavour to not let him notice bait station.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 879752, member: 9267"] Wow. I can just imagine filling buckets with rats... I've filled buckets and buckets of snails in the garden of one of my previous farms. Biodiversity we has it - rats, stray cats, big flocks of crows, slugs, grass grub, a magpie that likes to swoop down every time you pass his tree, just about every other bird that's native, big green moths. The moths are quite something - the green ones yes, but there's brown ones not quite so huge that fill the air during night milking. I checked the guidelines months ago and rat poisoning using the usual precautions is allowed. The house and garden were over-run with them, now it's just the rest of the farm to deal with. I don't know what the deal is with this farm. Pasture looks healthy but doesn't grow, bird and insect life is remarkable, fungi sprout from the soil all over the place - it's been farmed organically for at least ten years, nearer twenty. I only started a few months ago. Previous operator does not believe in poisoning stuff. Will endeavour to not let him notice bait station. [/QUOTE]
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