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Post by aussiedarren on Feb 5, 2020 0:02:34 GMT
The sharp feet are a part of the process hence the development of the sheepsfoot roller came from using sheep to gley ponds back in the day. They packing and gluing caused by the addition of sheep and organic matter will have no effect if the soil is not capable of packing down, greater the natural grain size the less it will pack and bind, clays and silts benefit from gleeing as it will cause a hardpan surface the greater resists erosion and water penetration than the native soil. Gleeing has been down for ages by supplementary feeding sheep in a leaking dam with hay. the hay gets chopped and bound with the soil same as the organic matter from the beasts, and the hooves pack things down tight to form that hard pan.
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Post by cccindy on Feb 8, 2020 6:36:11 GMT
Thanks! Never know what I'm going to learn here!
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Post by tabitha on Feb 18, 2020 1:43:29 GMT
two pig stories.
About six or seven years ago, we were inundated with huge grub worms. size of my pinky. I spaded up garden beds, about seven to ten grubs to a shovel full.picked them up and put them in a five gallon bucket. It was too much... so I got two pigs. Patty and Petunia. Put electric fence aound the garden. I did it wrong though. I should have made small sections for the pigs to work. as it was, having the run of the garden, they dug holes big enough to plant a tree in, made a huge mess,,, but the grubs were all gone.
so on the other side of the village, a guy had a pond by the road. It never held a drop of water. He put a 'no swimming 'sign up in the middle of it. Someone told him about pigs and he tried it. Nice pond.
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