frederick
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- Location
- south west
Butterfat will compensate
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jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
9.52% solids at 13.1L
Or a fag paper either side of 40ppl
There's worse situations to be in
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
The previous 282 days were still more enjoyable and profitable though. Mine have been in one night and the straw blower dropped it's bed chains on the floor this morning.
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Have spent 282 days scraping up by hand
Only 3 days scraping up with a tractor and I'm fed up already, and I even have auto scrapers in cubicle passages
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Yeap lost half a penny in two days
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
What cow type have you got ?
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
What sidjon said
Cheap and under 550kgs
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Cross bred ?
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
I thought you meant the milk went up 1 litre per cow!
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
The only good thing about December is that I start to bring heifers over to the cows as they get closer to calving. Here are a Nymoen x Skyhigh Patrol and an Oblique Focus (Ayrshire)
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Mostly
Few pure jerseys but they're fading out
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
We’re you expect your bf and protein % to be higher ?
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
What are yours doing now?
Nice mongrels!
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Just grass silage and floor sweepings in the parlour
Yes I'd like to be in the 10% club, but my aim is to be over 1.2kgms till dry off so I'll take it any which way
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
5.77,4.37 here doing 16.5 litres so 1.67 solids but I am feeding more than sweepings !
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Don't you just love it when the scraper tractor stops working again 
Only saving grace today was I had finished scraping and was on the way to wash it off so atleast no hand scraping!
Found our what's wrong with it as well though, about 4-6 months ago my then work chap filled it up with diesel and lost the cap, didn't tell me and decided to stuff a load of used bale plastic in the hole
by the time I got to use it and took the plastic out a nice chunk of mud and part of the plastic had been sucked in which is now causing fuel blockages. 
Only saving grace today was I had finished scraping and was on the way to wash it off so atleast no hand scraping!
Found our what's wrong with it as well though, about 4-6 months ago my then work chap filled it up with diesel and lost the cap, didn't tell me and decided to stuff a load of used bale plastic in the hole
by the time I got to use it and took the plastic out a nice chunk of mud and part of the plastic had been sucked in which is now causing fuel blockages. Attachments
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
Don't you just love it when the scraper tractor stops working again
Only saving grace today was I had finished scraping and was on the way to wash it off so atleast no hand scraping!
Found our what's wrong with it as well though, about 4-6 months ago my then work chap filled it up with diesel and lost the cap, didn't tell me and decided to stuff a load of used bale plastic in the hole
Sell the classic, buy a modern skid steer.