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Headless chicken

Headless chicken

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West Wales
Beef farmer said:
You housed early for service? We housed 2nd 11th. Looking for sub 100 but happy with 120 days
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Weather turned pretty sh!t here early on. With more water troughs and a couple extra tracks we should’ve been able to take 30 days off that I hope. And we’ve better/ more staff now and more replacements coming through meaning we’ve more time for on off grazing and we can afford to push cows a little harder.
Beef farmer said:
Looks dry, would you be able to send cows out everyday and graze beet?
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Been frosty snf windy so it soon drys up. Quite possibly but unsure how deeper soil you’d need? We grazed turnips before but found it a pain as you needed a long narrow fence really to get the most of it.
 
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lazy farmer

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Location
som/dor border
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Wire and stake removal complete before the builders move in.
 
Sid

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Cows 'n grass said:
Not that hard to work out why though is it. I seem to remember that St Endellion and Salcombe have the highest proportion of second homes in the country. Half of London were in the south hams over Christmas and I suspect that North Cornwall was no different.
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No its not.

Just makes going to the shop high risk!

About time they shut down these movements!

Imagine if it was Foot and mouth and you could move between holdings like that

Edit nearly 20 years ago now
 
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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
the ability of cows to suprise us, we had a bought cow calve 2 months early, full term calf, and had some money back, bloody thing had several bottles of calcium, went down, lifting etc, came right, then a DA, pnc day today, cow calved 21 august, and the vet rechecked very thoroughly, 120 days in calf, how or with what, not sure, jer bull with hfrs, fr elsewhere.
But our very elderly hol, had re-absorbed, pity, but calf no 10, would have finished her off, taken the temptation to keep her away. 96373 litres @ 4.01 fat and 3.15 protien, don't think she will make a 100,000 litres, hell of a cow though.
 
LTH

LTH

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Livestock Farmer
som farmer said:
the ability of cows to suprise us, we had a bought cow calve 2 months early, full term calf, and had some money back, bloody thing had several bottles of calcium, went down, lifting etc, came right, then a DA, pnc day today, cow calved 21 august, and the vet rechecked very thoroughly, 120 days in calf, how or with what, not sure, jer bull with hfrs, fr elsewhere.
But our very elderly hol, had re-absorbed, pity, but calf no 10, would have finished her off, taken the temptation to keep her away. 96373 litres @ 4.01 fat and 3.15 protien, don't think she will make a 100,000 litres, hell of a cow though.
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Big Friesian bullock was 2 weeks prem as a calf but just grown like a weed turned out better than limi out of Holsteins that we’ve bought in past. it’s mother had a big Friesian bullock last year. Blue was 1060 but that was bought as a calf out of a Holstein I’d say, don’t really bull to blue.
 
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