Recent content by crashbox

Yes point B is the main issue.

What about chickens following the herd round? Might sound daft but flypor at £1/cow for a squirt would probably buy a few ex layers...

And cake at £500/t...

Yep, the stuff out of fresh calvers that would otherwise be thrown away. We have a calf machine that runs on powder, so if we went all whole milk would swap that for a pasteuriser. But they aren't cheap (£8k to £10k ish).

We have no issues with wind taking the side walls off here. South Coast of UK, granted not the windiest spot. Compared to tyres, I bloody love 'em.

£2500 to £3000 depending on what you go for... And rising...

Just forward bought some milk powder for autumn block, which made me baulk. Who here is feeding whole milk? Only to beef calves or heifers too? Do you pasteurise? TIA

Yes seen that over TMR bunks... looks good. We tip feed in the top with telehandler, could have something with uprights but then the ratchet strap idea could be simpler.

No bars but could weld some on 👍

You mean like a dog shock collar?

Got heifer that keeps climbing in our feed trailers (we use them for Summer buffer and Winter feed), anyone got any tips to train her out of it? I would like to avoid welding bars around every trailer...

Is that slurry and dirty water from the self feed area? Looks some serious capacity!

Said it before but electric powered scraper tractor should be next step in e-tractors... top it up with solar panels on the cubicle house. The heavy tillage stuff needs time to develop, no need to run before we can walk.

Went for a ride weekend... saw a lot of beef cattle silage ground all out in head, not sure why they let it go that far.

We been moved from Cepravin to Orbenin Extra, also had shorter milk withhold period. Historic bacteriology from high cell count cows showed there was minimal presence of Orbenin resistant bacteria that the Cepravin does combat, so there was effectively no justification for using it. And it's...