David Hare-Scott wrote:
Farm1 wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
After two years of La Nina and plenty of rain we haven't had
significant rain in three months. But clever people still want to
burn their pasture

????? Is that how it started or was it a farm burnoff? The only
people who I've heard of seen who still burn stubble are the odd
wheat farmers out west.


I am in a beef cattle area where there are many landholders who still do
things the way that Grandpa did. Every Spring just before the expiry of the
burn-without-permit season they burn their paddocks. They overstock and use
set stocking in big paddocks and don't mind if their bulls cover their own
offspring. It's a time warp.

if the genes are weak then the inbreeding will make
it obvious.

i don't understand the burning thing though, as it
puts nutrients into the air instead of into the cow.
perhaps they breathe it in like people who smoke
herbal cigarrettes for their health...


....
As well as bushfires there are some local wildlife and garden shots
here too.

http://s1086.beta.photobucket.com/us...%20of%20Spring

Comments welcome.

Nice photos as usual David. Have you done your fire survival plan
yet?

Yep. I put the house in the centre of a 5 ha paddock with no forest nearer
than 150m and no tree nearer than 60m and I paid for steel/hardieplank
instead of wood and I mow all round. During this episode, which was mainly
on a neighbour's place, I was taking pictures not waving a hose and
worrying. Should freak conditions arise where fire might cross the gap I'm
staying to defend. I have enough water to soak everything for days.

sounds sensible in a brushfire area. congrats.


songbird