Recent content by A1baz

I'm pretty sure you can do it in the parcel with the shine feature, just not on the shine feature, e.g. if it only covers 1 ha of a 12 ha field you can drill round the SHINE feature.

I was looking to claim for a rotational SAM3 and had a tiny bit of SHINE overlap from a neighbour in one field and a huge 12ha chunk across 2 others. I contacted the Humber Archaeological society and asked whether they could be a bit more precise with their designations as I could potentially...

That’s a good point, we bought our mixer knowing the conveyor was knackered and cost ~£2.5k for the part and was a pain to fit. No idea how long it will last.

We still get too many of those I’m afraid.

Horses for courses I suppose, you sound happy with that but that sounds like a nightmare to me. On a weekend I’m done by 10:30 with just 30 mins at 18:30. Just thinking about disappearing out of the house that often would land me in divorce :LOL:

I make my cows clean up, maybe chuck one or 2 shovel fulls out if I’m feeling inpatient and they’re knocking out 850kg of solids. I don’t think they’re underfed but I think they’ll do more if they didn’t have to work so hard to reach the bottom of the trough. Last year they quoted me £350 each...

Currently feed our cows in an old brick trough built against the wall of the shed. The current trough is way too high and they struggle to eat the last 25% and feeding inside the shed is a PITA. Planning to pull the trough and wall out as part of some shed upgrades and put some locking yokes in...

Wasn’t quite suggesting that. Just think it’s worth checking the odd load per year to make sure you’re using a feed company who is able to produce an accurate ration.

This is the main reason I tested the feed. The buying group I used to purchase through happened to publish some test data commending one supplier that always produced an accurate ration and another that did not. I don’t doubt there will be differences in ingredients but some still manage to...

I changed feed companies in the summer after receiving some sub-standard feed. I wouldn't have been to bothered had the company taken the complaint seriously but they didn't. After using the new supplier for a few months, I noticed milk disappearing. I'd gone from some cows giving over 60L to...

Feed pipes into the machine are still copper :rolleyes:

That’s genius, thanks! Funnily enough I was just wondering what to do with my old cluster flush dosatron yesterday! That never crossed my mind!

I started milking through a robot in June and am finding identifying mastitis through conductivity a bit hit and miss. Since fully housing on straw a month ago mastitis cases and cell counts have gone from 1 case a month/cells of 150 to over 5 cases a month and cells in the 300's I'm looking...

Did you ever get an answer to this? I’m 5 months with a Fullwood and really struggling with mastitis no I’m housed. Heard Lely guys use straight peracitic but Fullwood Engineer told me not to be so daft. They set me on with a lactic acid based spray on the rollers (Progiene 7:1) but don’t think...

Frontier wheat price dropped £3 overnight 😒