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som farmer

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used limo semen back in the 70's, had massive calves, and hassle, with cows going well over time, in the end we would jab them 1 week before due date, might have lost a calf, but we didn't lose any more cows.
Bought a lim hfr, as a suckler, who most definitely had several screws missing, lost her for 6/8 weeks, knew roughly where she was, she had returned to wild status, fully, cunning as hell, in the end we shot her, .347, 400 m, over the river, and through a gap in 2 hedges, a professional stalker did it, he said he had 1 chance, before she ran. The worst thing, as we hung her up, for the freezer, she had been living on oil seed rape, tainted the meat, we had to curry the lot, curried steak, isn't anywhere near 'proper' steak.
The 2 together, finished limo's on this farm, anything since, has come out of bought in cows.
 

som farmer

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thought yak semen was a fad to bring back cows into the block, 8 month gestation period.
went very quiet, so presumably a failure.
NZ were developing a short gestation hfrd, haven't heard much about that either, is that successful, or not ?
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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