Recent content by Boso

As promised, the EU rappa front mounted wolf pack.

You could make it yourself btw, maybe 100-200 euro in parts. Will take a few pictures of it on the bike

If it costs another £1500 in gear? I have it and don't rate it very highly. Makes the quad very front heavy, also makes it much bigger on the front and steering becomes a pain (apart from your fence not being as tidy as it could be).

Rappa Europe (DE) sells a front mounted unroller for up to 6 reels/spools. Works fine and would be very easy to duplicate (not worth the money to buy). However with a front unroller the result is less tidy= mor zig zagging.

Horn chunks are used over here on a commercial scale as well as an organic non leachable N.

Pay other farmers to do contracting stuff (seedbed prep, seeding, mowing etc etc). Always pay them on time and a fair price. Has helped me to get a lot of grazing from sept-april.

Netherlands

Thanks for your input, shame WBSH is not available over here. Checked out the Blue Grey. Interesting, you Brits do like stratisfied systems😉. I wonder if a moderately sized continental hill breed like Aubrac would be an even better cross for hybrid vigour (compared to native British breeds as...

Have been looking for some straws for the galloway heifers. Wanted to use lowline Angus but it's not available or €250,- per straw. Came across Murray Grey, seems interesting especially the square meater Anyone used them before?

No bull or ram gets castrated over here BE/DE/NL. Several friends fatten bulls, lots of Blonde or BB mainly, all intact. They are killed at +- 2 years. TMR fed.

Someone does, they keep the cows as a landscaping tool in parks. They are only allowed to run a certain stocking rate, keep x bulls per x cows and often no bulls over 2 years. So there is a surplus. There is very little interest from others at the moment to keep/fatten them. Over here bulls...

We have no store trade at all. Not with cattle and only very small with sheep. How much you can make from €1.50 a day depends on your stocking rate. If I could keep a hundred I wouldn't complain. If you can keep them organic they double in value, direct marketing them (or at least some) adds...

Is it not better (financially) to just by year old bull calves instead of feeding a suckler cow and hope for a calve? Seems a lot of money, £450-600 of feed for a year. Over here we get 12-16 month old galloway bull calves for €400, run them on grass only and sell for €1500 two years later...

Is this bounce back Skyfall a new Skyfall version or is it just that they are marketing it in a new way?

If someone added a bit of fdg19 or fec-b they (charmoise) could be quite profitable pure, per hectare. The few almost pure ewes over here that get two lambs do just fine rearing them. Have also lambed some of them twice a year which they recovered from quite allright. Imagine 2 lambings and 3...