pork and lamb

[John Gryphon]

It can be a tough job farming in Australia .

Feral pigs are eating 99 out of every 100 lambs on this NSW property

Neville Mattick says feral pigs are eating the lambs on his farm in the NSW Central West, with fewer than one in 100 surviving this season.

www.abc.net.au

 

[John Gryphon]

and mice

Worrying signs another mouse plague could be on the way

The CSIRO is urging farmers to reduce opportunities for mice breeding this harvest season as the threat of a pest population boom looms.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Rafter]

Talking with my Grandparents about the Depression, their memories were of a boom in the pig population - and some years 80-90% lambing losses. Of course, nobody wanted to buy the lambs - but often the ewes were eaten too, especially if exhausted from a hard delivery.

They were breaking in the farm then, and so they would work during the day, then GDad would go out hunting in the evening and at night, while also putting detonators in potatoes, strychnine and phosphorus in carcases and similar lovely stuff.

Hard times.

 

[User00056]

and mice

I remember the videos of the last mouse plague. Hundreds of thousands of them pouring out of grain silos, and cascading over piles of loose grain was a sight to make you shudder. I believe I can remember some desperate measures being taken, including one chap with a silo conveyor belt and a 50 gallon drum filled with burning diesel. God only knows what the cost to farmers was

 

[User00056]

Found it

 

[John Gryphon]

Found it

ah that voice, her mother was a Harpy.

 

[User00056]

ah that voice, her mother was a Harpy.

Nice rack though