Concreting the cattle crush in place

[@Jwp714i]

Hi there really enjoy watching your videos and you explain things very well,just a few questions , how many acres do you farm and how many cattle do you keep ? I was brought up on a farm myself and my father and mother sold up back in the early 90s, our farm was only 145 acres and would be classed as a small holding now a days , i still have farming in my blood and love watching videos like yours , weĺl done 😊😊😊

[@OllieLove4255]

Hi John. thanks for your kind comment. Glad to hear you like watching my videos. Our farm is just over 220 acres in size but that is Donegal acres ie it includes the good ,the bad and the ugly. The outfarm where i'm building the cattle crush was purchased almost 10 years ago. Its 85 acres but only about half of that is grazing ground. The rest is trees, shrubs, rock and moss. Quite a few farmers walked the farm when it was up for sale but they turned their noses up at it as they thought it wasn't good enough but when we seen it we fell in love with it straight away. I guess beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. As far as cattle numbers are concerned we have decreased from around 200 when we were in dairying to around the 160-170 mark today but with agriculture coming under environmental pressures we intend to lower those numbers to 120-130 in the coming years. Keep less but keep better is the objective.

[@Jwp714i]

That's so interesting, I should have said my father's farm was similar to yours as out of our 145 acres 45 of that was rough ground ground that could not be ploughed but the cattle and sheep grazed but for some reason the folk who purchased the farm back in the early 90s fenced off the rough ground for some reason ? Anyway the cows always liked to use the cover of the "whyn bushes" when they calved outside and many a time i would help my parents looking for them and hopefully finding both well . Take care wether been terrible up in the North East of Scotland last few weeks 😢