- Location
- Co. Antrim
Some heifer calf’s brought in today rest in tomorrow only leaves far away in calf heifers outside starting to feel like winter 
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Im assuming you have high, open modern housing. The weather is really mild for bringing stock in. Have cows in at night and 20 beef in for finishing Nov.Some heifer calf’s brought in today rest in tomorrow only leaves far away in calf heifers outside starting to feel like winter
This has been best year ever for me. Cows went out 19th Mar and stayed out( no snow in April). In theory we are into the eighth month of grazing!
Finished next week
..no more grass. Have to keep a wee bit for next March.Should have made loadsamoney. Feckin fertiliser!
- Location
- Co. Antrim
Open sided shed beside the sea never have problems with them being too warmIm assuming you have high, open modern housing. The weather is really mild for bringing stock in. Have cows in at night and 20 beef in for finishing Nov.
This has been best year ever for me. Cows went out 19th Mar and stayed out( no snow in April). In theory we are into the eighth month of grazing!
Finished next week
Should have made loadsamoney. Feckin fertiliser!
- Location
- East Tyrone
Glanbia 47.15ppl up 0.25
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- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
Some great slurry weather out there, I thought we'd taken back control
- Location
- Northern Ireland
You haven't seen the forecast for tonight then!
Fertiliser at £1000 a ton, think I'll keep the slurry for March.
Happy at it
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- Location
- NI
I can't understand how people who can talk about being careful with thier slurry, and not to waste it etc with the price of fert. Plenty if things I'd be short of, but never slurry.....
I give slurry away every year in return for silage ground and paper acres, even they don't really want it in October. Plenty of storage is no bad thing.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Any suggestions for best to go to for matting slatted pens?
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- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
sorry no advances here since the invention of the bucket
Why are you matting? Teagasc did trials and found no difference in beef cattle performance,matted v concrete. If it's for dairy stock, surely you don't want to encourage them to lie on slats? Been in a few pens with green plastic mats. Very slippery.
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David Johnston castledawson direction
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- Northern Ireland
I wasn't aware of a trial on mats. General purpose, dairy heifers or beef. I'd have thought it's bound to help thrift in young cattle.
My heifers are in cubicles from about four months until calving, except for a short period mid way where slatted pens are the only available housing. It doesn't seem to affect them in terms of training, as I've only had one lier in the last ten years that I can remember.
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- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
I've seen 4 month calves introduced to cubicles, fully trained in hours, when they come back in again after summer its straight into the cubicles again, we used to train them at 12 months, what a mess, turning off the scraper fir a week
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Going to finish the month out at about 120mm of rain on this farm, with two rain-free days. That's after 120 in September. Oh well. At least the three months of summer were good!
Oh well. At least the three months of summer were good!- Location
- Co. Antrim
The rain up here last night/ this morning was unrealGoing to finish the month out at about 120mm of rain on this farm, with two rain-free days. That's after 120 in September.
- Location
- Co antrim
Unreal is a gooa aul northern ireland sayingThe rain up here last night/ this morning was unreal
- Location
- Northern Ireland
It's putting the tin hat on the grazing.