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Saw this thread and Knocked off ploughing so I could put my 4 year old son to bed, read him is favorite dinosaur book and watch the lambs playing around the field out of his bedroom window. Best decision I have made all day.

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We use Suffolk with a bit of NZ in them from Ant Glaves, lambing 700 NEM ewes selling some as gimmer lambs then 200-250 off grass depending on the year and the rest wintered on fodder beat 30% get fit on it, but we do bring lambs in to fatten in at 39-42 kg when you weigh them after the lambs...

We have north of England mules to either Texel or Suffolk Rams the Suffolk lambs, consistently kill out at least a kilo heavier. I only started to get to grips with this when we bought a EID weigher through the productivity Grant Suffolk lamb 45 kg R3L = 22 kg dead Text lamb 45kg R3L = 20.5 kg...

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This is our mix for N.Emules start feeding them 6 weeks pre lambing wintered on grazed fodder beet and hay also has extra iodine in the mix

Hi we are on our second season of a claydon drill we are high above sea level and near the coast have plenty of pig muck so seam to grow a good crop of osr so don’t want to drop it, we get slugs after rape even when sumoing and combi drilling, the claydon dose a brilliant job of taking out the...

A cupple of years ago we really struggled with mule ewes prolapsing on fodder beat around 3 weeks onwards before lambing, tried lots of things like reducing feed, eventually we found out they were low in iodine, we drenched them with KI home mix (thanks to help from the farming forum) now we...

It was an old lay not been reseeded for year, It was grazed right down had 1 dose of roundup and mucked , the grass and clover has grown back. I put some slug pellets on and sprayed it once for flea beetle.

Hi after a lot of looking at different posts on The Farming Forum that have been a massive help and given me the amthusiasm we bought a Claydon SR I really like the idear of feeding up the livestock and then managing to drill 50/60 ac ..... we are up in the hills of North Yorkshire not many...