- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Serve everything to friesian
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
Holsteinfriesian90
Member
- Location
- Cornwall
And breed some crap?
Thanks, would save some time swapping from bucket to grab, but would want to try one for a few days first ideally
Headless chicken
Member
- Location
- West Wales
Feels like real spring has finally sprung here today.
Last whiffing of n being dribbled onto silage ground to eak out the growth today
Foliar feeding and dock spray some later silage ground tomorrow.
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
I used that Hereford bull from LIC think it was called shimpton Hill, weighing it at 500kg+ grass fed as steers I'll get some photos later on.
Another shed?
Accidentally in frame
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Not a lot of choice when tb ravages everything
And there is some fantastic cows in the herd
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
If your building herd numbers with no or little money put everything to dairy rather than a beef calf which is gonna get sold for pocket money
Was just going to comment the same, done exactly that here
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
You can put your best semen on your best cows but it doesn’t mean your calf will be any good
Milked for a bloke along time ago who used test bulls of of Somerset cattle breeders ,paid £5/6 a straw and had a better herd than his brother in law who picked and chose different bulls for each cows and paid big money for the semen to do it
Milked for a bloke along time ago who used test bulls of of Somerset cattle breeders ,paid £5/6 a straw and had a better herd than his brother in law who picked and chose different bulls for each cows and paid big money for the semen to do it
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
When you get numbers where you want them then you can pick and choose your best semen for your best cows
Same shed, same roof
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Reworded for you
Surely not. Mate finished his roof, took 3 years!
Headless chicken
Member
- Location
- West Wales
A modest extention to allow more space for current stock and to cover yard
Same shed, same roof
No old one got as far as purlins being on before they buggered off. This one we only managed a frame
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
All this mob are sired by LIC Hereford, think they will leave as much or margin as a heavy corn fed continental.Ah fat fingers, Shrimpton Hill
Yorkshiregrazer28
New Member
We used shrimpton hill on the tail ender generally calved between 5-7 days early and calves sold for between 300-350 at 6wks old, very easy calving as well. Just shows everyone’s cows are different I spose.
We've used Netherhall bulls for five year (flying herd here) calves 10 days earlier, calf easy best bulls £400 at sedgemoor and all heifers sold off farm, unfortunately down with tb and having to start a waiting list for when we go clear in June, as we're supplying hill farms with replacements were shrimpton hill aren't for breeding.
