TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Not cheap, but as @Cows 'n grass says, you can take them with you and they will hold some value. Great way of rearing calves.
All things Dairy
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Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
Those JFC ones are about £1000 now. The calf-tel ones through intershape are 20% smaller but only £550.
- Location
- somerset
getting right out too, sad to see.
food inflation, is the current buzzword, and we see it happening, and we know its going to increase.
How will that effect the organic milk mkt ? There is no longer the 'premium' price for some, and if food inflation is correct, demand will decrease, perhaps not from the 'die hard' organic group, but from the 'trendy' group. One could see the whole organic market, contract, when prices become an issue, to the consumer.
But, its quite shocking how quickly the whole food mkt, has changed in the last 12 months, and how it might change, in the next 12 months.
TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
4 calf group hutch with basic penning system was about £1000 last year when I got quotes
edit: https://www.suppliesforfarmers.co.u...f-hutch-and-penning-system-ch230-p-20376.html
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
I did consider it but I have a couple of reservations, mainly how to keep then dry, when I had them in straw pens with a tarpaulin over the top I was using huge quantities and couldn't keep them dry? Are hutches any better as it's the same concept but plastic instead of straw?
But mainly it would cost me £30,000 in hutches for 100 calves and I can't help but think a well designed shed would be a better investment especially as it would have other uses throughout the year?
Also how long does a hutches last? 10 years? Just trying to see how often they would need replacing in comparison to a shed which shouldn't ever need replacing?
The shed would go up at dad's so don't have to worry about tenancy
I'm snatch calving and using half a big square bale of barley straw a day to bed down a 45x20' area with 1-4 cows in it
Grassman247
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Parafor works, we rear 300 on one farm and 700 on another, no crypto on the 300 cows but we can’t stop it on the 700 and it’s all down to space, it’s cheaper to use the parafor than build more sheds on a tenant farm. If the parafor ain’t working you haven’t got it in early enough or it ain’t crypto
TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
How many in each hutch? Would you mind saying brand and what they cost too?
Calf-Tel hutches from Intershape but through our H&L dealer up here with H&L teat buckets that are great. Two calves per small hutch and 5 in the group ones.
- Location
- somerset
2 of our vets are leaving, 1 a partner, want's to do something 'different', the other, swapping over to midwifery. Not sure some find it as 'interesting' as they thought.whose chief in there now? I don’t know half of them these days
Some of the lady vets starting, seem pretty good, more female than male vets training.
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Over 90% women at Nottingham vet school
Would be the same at all vet schools, we have vet students through out the year and only had 1 bloke in 6 year's, have a female this year for calving and offered her a job, 10k more than she would make as a young vet.
Next-door had a male vet from harpers for lambing, arrived on Friday, had to go home by MondayMale vets in demand!
Poor dab was worn out before he got on farm!Next-door had a male vet from harpers for lambing, arrived on Friday, had to go home by Monday
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
I guess it’s whom everyone you prefer. For us it’s our very learned Israeli friend.whose chief in there now? I don’t know half of them these days
funnily enough I saw Lucy earlier up at the bluebell woods. Very strange seeing vets in civi street!
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Cracking day but a thin wind. Dare I say a damp night would help the grass
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
What vets are you using???
The last 150 meters of water pipe in Every Field on the farm now has a 32mm pressurized and buried water supply. The difference in flow from the 20mm mains supply is night and day. Not much moisture in the ground trench was dug yesterday afternoon.
