Farm Photos

Ron19 · June 6, 2015

Re The horse .... Next time I am by the Agricultural supply store, on the other side of Samui, I will stop by and see if the have salt licks .... in the mean time, I will ask around!

Anyone have the Thai words for "salt lick" that might help!

salt lick - ดินโป่ง - din bpòhng

kickstart · June 6, 2015

Re The horse .... Next time I am by the Agricultural supply store, on the other side of Samui, I will stop by and see if the have salt licks .... in the mean time, I will ask around!

Anyone have the Thai words for "salt lick" that might help!

salt lick - ดินโป่ง - din bpòhng

Look at post #5516 I put the Thai spelling in ,thay are known as salt blocks or translated from Thai mineral blocks,but they are 98% salt 2% minerals.

samuijimmy · June 7, 2015

Thanks guys, re salt lick. I have it printed out.... the search begins!

Actually I will ask the guy here, he has sheep as well as Hydroponic lettuce... well read on things generally!

Getting ready for a new crop...

Ron19 · June 7, 2015

BSJ · June 7, 2015

Feeding pills to a horse is not easy! He spate it out a couple of times, even covered with a banana!

Son of owner of the 25 year old horse!

The horse is down the road from me, so will will keep an eye on progress and post improvements !

Jimmy, I'm late to the party here and I'm really enjoying all of the photos. This is a touch off topic but we always had horses when I was growing up and we did most of our vet work. As soon as we got a new horse or when a new born one was weaned we began to feed them a treat regularly out of a shallow plastic or metal dish. We kept some grain mixed with a little bit of molasses and they love it. We did that so that they would come to us even from far out in a field. We just called them and showed them the dish and they all came.

When we needed to give them a pill we just stuck it into the treat and they would eat it for sure after coming to us happily. The important thing is to never rip them off. If they come for the dish there must be the treat in it and then you can put a rope on them or whatever you need.

Cheers

Wish you had of told us that 55 years ago when it was my turn to bring in the horses at night! Dad figured out the horses liked molasses so he did some experiments with it in their feed. Looking back I think he learnt everything from the Farmer's Almanac and Popular Mechanics magazine!

I haven't got much to show. I did make a light bar for the tractor so we can see whats around us in the orchard at night.....but the little LED lamps are a bit underpowered, so will have to get some stronger ones. Can't wear a head torch comfortably with a full face respirator on so this was the answer.

Ron19 · June 7, 2015

Yes Slapout,^ some where I have a pic of hundreds of ducks all heading out to the paddies... Cannot put my hands on it right now!

But here's a few!

Quack!

Ducks Away.

https://www.facebook.com/tyrese/videos/1032231600137769/

gomangosteen · June 8, 2015

Salt farm, Pa Daeng, Chanthaburi

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Ron19 · June 8, 2015

samuijimmy · June 8, 2015

Re The horse .... Next time I am by the Agricultural supply store, on the other side of Samui, I will stop by and see if the have salt licks .... in the mean time, I will ask around!

Anyone have the Thai words for "salt lick" that might help!

salt lick - ดินโป่ง - din bpòhng

Well this word ดินโป่ง - din bpòhng I find out has two meanings This might be a bit rough on the tongue....

The guy at the hydroponic farm who might know, is away for a few days, at least the Burmese workers were busy packing lettuce Looks like a good party had too!

samuijimmy · June 10, 2015

Zillions of flowers on the Hydroponic Tom plants.. fruit just developing .....

Hope the supports hold!

Ron19 · June 10, 2015

Soy Bean crop under way

pigeonjake · June 10, 2015

https://youtu.be/mO24ltS1qJQ

hi shaggy and the rest of you guys,

a little video from me again im into these now i know how to do them,

this is the 33 little piglets we went and collected today, look out for the little hereford that mac picked,,lol

Dancealot · June 10, 2015

Soy Bean crop under way

I like to look at your field shot a lot, Ron. Mostly because I like the way the long shadows from the trees break the predictable farmfield pattern which would otherwise be less interesting to me.

You broke the pattern, Very nice!

pigeonjake · June 11, 2015

had the rototiller out this morning, we took the corn in yesterday, so its gone from that to this,

Ron19 · June 11, 2015

samuijimmy · June 11, 2015

Woolly grazers.....I saw them chomping on everything from Lemon grass to banana leaves and even weeds!

some not so woolly.... I guess old goats

Dancealot · June 11, 2015

The ironbuffalo-shelter., 5-support-leg-edition.^^

shaggy1969 · June 11, 2015

Rice seedling bundles.

Ron19 · June 11, 2015

BSJ · June 12, 2015

I got nothin'. It's as dry as dry could be. The BIL and the next paddie neighbour finished of the flood control gate. The BIL has finished the new old dunny! Otherwise it's zip!

Ron19 · June 13, 2015

Regrowth sugar looking a bit sad because of the time in between good showers.

(things should pick up after the downpour we had last night)

Dancealot · June 14, 2015

Ron19 · June 14, 2015

samuijimmy · June 14, 2015

Just to update all those lingering to know... I think I found a source of salt lick today, from the guy at the Hydroponic farm, he's going to order from BKK! For the old horse

Mean while a few more woolly grazers! I never saw sheep doing this in the Brecon Beacons...

and some old goats!