Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Atleast 6 months but ideally 12 months for me.
Johnes lives for a long time, I only have 2 red cows (one of which is going as cull this month) but I wouldn't risk it, especially for calves
All things Dairy
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Johnes lives for a long time, I only have 2 red cows (one of which is going as cull this month) but I wouldn't risk it, especially for calves
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Always one!
- Location
- South Molton
1136 here
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
- Location
- South Molton
Here....there.......or any bloody where!837 here, known as 'Hedgehunter' after the steeplechaser. Bloody good milker, which she should be, as she always has fresh grassbut now a barrener. 14,003 litres in 447 days and still giving 23 litres at 4.6/3.88 so she will be here for a while yet.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
- Location
- somerset
used to put an old cow chain on the persistent ones, with part hanging down, when they put their heads down, to go under, they achieve a better earth, and therefore a better shock, worked well. Bought a hfr 8 wks ago, she was a bugger, till she got a shock of the 'big' mains fencer, reading 9 on the tester, she has been in, ever since, funny that.
final pd session today, bulls been out 6 wks, wanted to calve 100 in 8 wks, achieved 97, very few aut calvers empty, jabbed the feb/march calvers 10, AI for a week, then bull back in, very pleased, even 3 aut no hopers +ve, bonus, with cows at high prices, all 3 giving 25+
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Is that spring wheat?
Well, for the first time ever, PKE prices (and every other concentrate) have reached "uneconomical to feed" levels (in my opinion). Urea is too expensive to bother with (not that I ever used much anyway). Lets not mention fuel prices.
There's not going to be much milk in the vat this season.....mind you, hungry cows are profitable cows, it could possibly be my most profitable season yet?
There's not going to be much milk in the vat this season.....mind you, hungry cows are profitable cows, it could possibly be my most profitable season yet?
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Yeah spring wheat undersown with grass for wholecrop. First time I’ve grown it usually done barley in the past.
How's the grass? Wheat would be a more open crop to help the grass i would think?
Grass is coming away fine, aye am told the wheat will give the grass a better chance later on. Barley last year was tremendous crop and we’re grazing that block now but there were patches of grass under pressure when the crop came off.
frederick
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- Location
- south west
If everyone's cows are hungry milk is short?Explain the hungry cows being profitable cows please. When mine are hungry, they just break the fence.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Best go and buy some feed then !
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
He’s in new zealand
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Trouble is with cake nobody knows what it produces. 1:1. 1:5. 5:1 nobody has a clue