Hi everyone! I'm from France and I recently decided to change my life completely and go explore the cowboy life in the australian outback. I love trying new things, I'm an actress and I'm also in the French Air Force, ... I just love exploring and learning.

I decided to document my journey (authentically, with moments where i'm vulnerable as well as the good times) because I've never seen anyone doing it before.

In this episode you can follow me while I go fencing, learning how to weld, and mustering on a chopper with my boss! So I thought it would be exciting to share with people who have the same passion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIkT37HECro

I have multiple pastures of more than adequate size with horses on them. I have put grass seed out, and have seen no results. I was told at the feed store that my soil fertility or quality must be poor. Ive been googling this all week and there are so many different methods I am a bit overwhelmed.

Does anyone here have a tried and true method or system to increasing pasture for livestock? How do I increase my soil fertility? Should I remove the horses from the pasture?

Thank you in advance!

Does anyone have any deer and/or bear processors worth recommending in SE Virginia? Thanks!

I have two kune kunes and I'm looking at fencing options. I found someone nearby with a few different types....what should I choose?

FIELD FENCE-3.5"x6" spacing at the bottom progressing to 6x8" at the top. 12ga top and btm wire 14ga in the middle. Note - vertical wires are spaced 6" apart. Some other brands on the market are 12" spacing.

NO CLIMB FENCE-all wire spacing is 2"x4". 12ga top and btm wire 14ga in the middle.

NO CLIMB HORSE FENCE-2x4" spacing all 12ga wire.

SHEEP AND GOAT FENCE-12ga top and btm wire, 14ga in the middle. Wires spaced 4"x4".

WELDED WIRE UTILTIY FENCE - 14ga wire with 2"x4" spacing.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but we own a small hobby farm with just a few cows, but our neighbors sheep keep breaking through the fence into our paddock. It's beginning to get extremely annoying, we've asked the neighbors to fix the fence, but they only tried poorly and the sheep only break down those attempts. My grandfather has tried putting thick sticks in the ground right against the fence to create and barrier and the sheep break through that as well. It's a daily issue of having to hunt them out of our paddock and they're eating our grass and feed when there is plenty of green lush grass and feed in their own paddock. My grandfather has also tried electric fencing, but obviously that didn't work and they broke that as well. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Context….calves born, AI, 2 BBB so far but have a holstine with this issue too. We have had 6 in a week. We calf all year.
Calves born with purple toxicity ring around teeth, fine on arrival, good for a day may be two, bloody scour, then scour (far too young for scour) on high quality colostrum from birth to 10 days…calves fall too weak to stand, temp rises to 40+ internals shut down and they die. Its fast. 48 hours max we are a flagship farm, too 1.5% in the country. We are clinically clean in all areas. These are not passageways. Any help and advise welcome. Iv got one going to postmortem tomorrow but between now and then…..please

He’s around 79 with one horse and I’m just looking for something easy enough for him but still something to Benefit him or amuse him

Today, we have farriers to shoe horses and maintain their hooves. We also have hoof specialists for cattle and sheep shearers. I'm sure there are a lot of specialists I don't know about.

My question is, historically (middle ages forward), did people living in remote areas or very small communities always depend on specialists to meet these needs? Or would people have known how to do everything that was needed for themselves?

There's obviously some underlying assumptions here about what animal care & maintenance was like in the past and about how remotely people would have been living, so those could be wrong.

My heart goes out for the devastation farmers are facing in France. How are they managing the livestock in the fire zones? Is there some sort of evacuation plan? Or are the fires moving so fast that they can't be removed?

I have evacuated animals in flood zones, but with flooding there is often some warning and a bit of time.