Yes very dry straw this year.
Every time I chop straw it seems to be windy,don't mind dust blowing away,not so keen on my straw disappearing.
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Every time I chop straw it seems to be windy,don't mind dust blowing away,not so keen on my straw disappearing.
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Well loaded there old son, owd blues sitting low [emoji23]
Skintagain
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- Perched on the Pennines
RIght load
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Attempt at staying TB free again after 18 months of being shut down after our electric fences got smothered by weeds/grass once we converted to organic and couldn’t spray them.
organicguy
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- North East of the south west
Only 3 IRs today, good result!!
Sad when thats a good day.
Princess Pooper
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- East Mids
TB / badgers make so much blooming work. Pre-turnout checks on 3 fields have revealed TWO new latrines which we will have to fence off.
Turned the milkers out today, always a nice day but tainted by finding those latrines and also a nice 3rd calver aborting her sexed semen heifer calf that was due right at the start calving in August.
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Princess Pooper
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- East Mids
Just found she has had another one - so it was twins.Turned the milkers out today, always a nice day but tainted by finding those latrines and also a nice 3rd calver aborting her sexed semen heifer calf that was due right at the start calving in August.
Best end,there nothing but trouble.
Princess Pooper
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- East Mids
yeah, especially as I was wrong she's in her 4th lactation now so it would have been her 5th calving - the bull is in with them so hopefully he can get her back in calf to calve before we pull the plug, usually have a cut-off point about first week in March. She's always been a really fertile cow, comes bulling quick and held first time every year, one of only 3 of her cohort that survived our explosive TB breakdown in 2015 as an in-calf heifer. She is also expert at standing at the front of the parlour after being milked to knick a bit more cake.
Mr Mackay
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- HMP Slade , Shropshire
Yes , but nice when you get 2 live heifers , like we did 3 months ago pure Brown Swiss by Brookings , although the cow had a suspected DA, operated on her to find uterus full ,and suspected Clostridia !!
Shes just about ok now but it knocks the hell out of them !!
Sorry to hear about your cow PP
Badgers are an interesting problem. There are 30+ Badgers on 140ac here and currently TB free, despite all my neighbours being down and don't have to fence off latrines or anything. In a way a large population of healthy badgers are currently my best protection from TB. That could change very quickly though, and probably will.
Homesy
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- North West Devon
I thought that. We had over 50+ on our farm. Fine until they get infected. Then you have a massive reservoir of infection and the inevitable breakdown follows.
Dead Rabbits
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- 'Merica
Whats your Tb situation got to do with weeds under your electric fence .??
Tbh that will be the least if your worries .Get a strimmer with a hedge cutting head sorted!
Good tracks .Don't think I could get away with it quite so narrow!
pine_guy
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- North Cumbria
I think he’s fencing out the badgers so the wire is low to the ground, the track is so there is no vegetation to grow where the fence is.
But @Scholsey what kind of energies we are you using. A good powerful one should burn of any vegetation I’d of thought.
organicguy
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- North East of the south west