Hi All,

Great to join this forum. I am a full time employee working in IT industry however due to my love for the farming I am planning to start a small farm (along with my full time employment). I am looking at buying in Whittlesea Vic north of. Any Whittlesea members who can help will be greatly appreciated.

I am planning to start small 3-5 acre. Starting with cattle (basically buying small cattle) raising and fattening them and then selling them. Any advice in this regard would be appreciated. My main concern is

Hi- we are a small operation with ~ 50 white dorpers. We are currently manually handling our sheep (flipping them) in the yards to tend to their feet (clip nails) This is exhausting !! We have been looking for a sheep handler/crate/cradle that will flip sheep. We are happy to pay ~$2000-$3000. We are after something that manually flips them ie/ not pneumatic/air compressor.

Hi,

I have been living the dream for the last 10 or so years on our 25 acres in Southern NSW, we have about 10 dorpers, a couple of alpaccas, two dogs and a couple of kids (the human kind).

We love the lifestyle of growing and eating our produce and would not swap it for anything.

We look forward to browsing this site for new ideas and also to see what other people are doing on their patches.

Our interests are sheep, alpaccas, dogs, fruit trees, the vegie garden, photography and a casual lifestyle.

Cheers,

DarkRanger

Is there a way to improve the soil for grazing without using products containing mercury etc. is there an organic fertiliser that we can add that will start healing the soil, and start a positive regeneration process for the long term benefit of both the animals (mostly cattle) and the land?

I’m not really sure where to start but here goes.

I am located in East Greenmount approx. 20km south of Toowoomba. I live on 55acres with 15 mixed breed breeders and a couple of horses. My paddocks are bare and I need an alternate to buying grain and hay in. Driving into town there are a number of farmers who rotate and strip feed their cattle on varying sized paddocks. (Some smaller than a house block). Their cattle are healthy and well fed looking.

Hi all, I've be been doing a lot of googling and reading on the small breed cattle, now I would like to meet the breeders and their animals. My question to those in the know is, will there be any opportunities to to see these guys in any of the shows around the Northern Rivers over the next few months or is there an event over the border (Qld) might get to. Cheers Jk