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 Topic: British White Cattle |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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 Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Fri Jan 27, 23 10:14 am Subject: British White Cattle |
| Will be sheep netting / barbed wire. Just acquired a load of cherry, damson & apple trees to plant out the dead space. |
| Topic: British White Cattle |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Thu Jan 26, 23 7:57 pm Subject: British White Cattle |
| Will use it to extend my orchard, want to steer well clear of grants & schemes. |
| Topic: British White Cattle |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Thu Jan 26, 23 12:08 pm Subject: British White Cattle |
| Ah yes access. The fields have a PoW at the top which I am going to fence off from the pasture, will mean losing about 1/2 an acre of useful ground but would rather than than allow muppets to wander a ... |
| Topic: British White Cattle |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Thu Jan 12, 23 4:09 pm Subject: British White Cattle |
Seems the notification didn't work so missed the replies.
I am (was) used to dealing with Frisian/Limousin cattle in my youth, Limousin steers are a bit barking from experience, deffo want a calmer ... |
| Topic: British White Cattle |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Thu Jan 12, 23 3:48 pm Subject: British White Cattle |
There used to be someone on here that kept them, was he called Steve? I think he was keeping them semi wild. might be worth seraching
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| Topic: British White Cattle |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Dec 31, 22 5:01 pm Subject: British White Cattle |
| Anyone have experience of the breed on here? Looking for a breed other than the go to Dexter for beef suckler cattle for our smallholder, before I pester the nearest breeder to me wondered if anyone h ... |
| Topic: Ford 1100 Compact Tractor, rotavator & mower |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Sat Dec 31, 22 4:52 pm Subject: Ford 1100 Compact Tractor, rotavator & mower |
| Ford 1100 2wd compact tractor ~1982. Good tyres & hydraulics. Comes with a nearly new 1m wide rotavator (done about 5 hours work, bought Jan '22) and a 4ft finishing mower. Based on Cheshire/Shrop ... |
| Topic: Apple press & mill |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Fri Aug 23, 19 8:57 am Subject: Apple press & mill |
Have upgraded so my 3 season old Hydro press & mill are up for grabs - £2300
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163828166554
Voran RM 1.5 apple mill with both single phase/220v motor (currently fit ... |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 24, 18 8:03 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
| got impatient, just tried one, not enough co2 yet, but it fizzed when opening and it tastes good, expect it will only improve, almost barley wine, quite sweet for a stout and 9.4% |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 17, 18 9:25 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
I have invented the tripple chocolate stout  |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 17, 18 9:24 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
| may leave it a couple more days and prime the bottles |
| Topic: prime beer bottles or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Mon Dec 17, 18 6:33 pm Subject: prime beer bottles or not? |
Beer is down to 1.003, however was loaded with sugar syrup to get the original gravity up (1.073), needs bottling now and is still slightly sweet to taste.
Is 1.003 enough sugar for a secondary ferme ... |
| Topic: Apple juice, filtered or not? |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Thu Oct 11, 18 9:05 pm Subject: Apple juice, filtered or not? |
What do people prefer? does the sight of little bits of apple in your juice put you off?
I don't filter mine at the moment, however someone who wants me to do pressing for them have asked if I could ... |
| Topic: Stainless steel tanks |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 18 11:08 am Subject: Stainless steel tanks |
Doing more juice so these are kind of redundant, the smaller batch cider is going into 120l barrels so have 2 x 300L tanks and 1 x 530l tanks for sale. All variable capacity lids.
£225 for the 300 ... |
| Topic: Cider fermenting |
Old-Chads-Orchard
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Wed Sep 12, 18 10:56 am Subject: Cider fermenting |
Interesting, May get a batch running now with the windfalls from the cider apple trees to provide a starter. What %age starter do you put in your juice?
Temperature in the shed is constant, was aro ... |
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