Subject: Re: lawn mowing (non-surburban style)

From: [email-masked] (David Prager)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 21:34:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>
>One way that they mentioned in the local newspaper is to buy some sheep. (!!)

>just to be sure you don't violate zoning or other things.  I have forgotten
>how many sheep it takes, but as far as cost is concerned, oddly enough after
>some finanacial analysis, they came out the cheapest for large areas of grass.  
>They might eat things you don't want them to, though.  The one major drawback is
>you'll have to buy hay in the winter and you'll need some kind of shelter (and 
>whatnot) to keep them.  
>

We have a pasture that I don't take care of like a lawn (I have enough lawn
thanks) but it needed tending. The horse is boarded out, and I didn't want
to go the brush-hog route. We elected to go with lambs. The above mentioned
problem of feeding hay in the winter is eliminated if one goes with lambs
rather than sheep. Availible as weanlings in the Spring, they keep the
pasture in control all summer and early fall. As soon as the grass gets
sparse enough that I would have to supplement, they make the transition
from pasture to freezer quite handily.

Pass the mint jelly!

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From: [email-masked] (James White)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1993 22:46:26 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (David Prager) writes:

|> We have a pasture that I don't take care of like a lawn (I have enough lawn
|> thanks) but it needed tending. The horse is boarded out, and I didn't want
|> to go the brush-hog route. We elected to go with lambs. The above mentioned
|> problem of feeding hay in the winter is eliminated if one goes with lambs
|> rather than sheep. Availible as weanlings in the Spring, they keep the
|> pasture in control all summer and early fall. As soon as the grass gets
|> sparse enough that I would have to supplement, they make the transition
|> from pasture to freezer quite handily.
|> 
|> Pass the mint jelly!

You better have darn good fences.  I have pastures that used to easily contain
horses that I now use for sheep.  I so this for just the same reasons stated
above.

I wish I could replace the four and five strand barb with woven, but I
can't afford that.  So I lowered the strands and tightened everything up.  Well,
they still found a place they just walk right through.  Barbed has no effect on
them.  Oh Well.

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James White