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It’s been a long time since I’ve had the pleasure of hearing the tone deaf two tone auctioneer

Bulls generally a fair bit less live today

I smell a rat

My fuel card went up 3p this week!?

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They don’t look like they’ve necessarily had cocci. I see plenty of stirks that look like that and are healthy enough, just malnourished and neglected, worse in my eyes. There will be thousands of these byproduct calves on farm treated the same way, I saw some in an auction last week, 20 month...

Maybe down to moving marts? 🤣

I find in winter you get a lot less pneumonia than on straw, no mould spores but more imo because the fines trap the ammonia in somehow and the muck doesn’t heat under them. When you muck out there is far less smell and the concrete is nearly cold, not steaming with ammonia. You don’t get a...

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Mine all goes into a digester he seems happy with it. I know of several big feeding men who have arable and sell their straw and buy sawdust/fines for the cattle

Drop a bucket of them in a heap in the middle of the pen with bulls about ten minutes and it’s in every corner they love it

Not the new plastic notes

Wood fines

Load of very good feeding wheat straw 120x90 delivered in yesterday £125/ton. I’m glad the only straw I’m using is for a bit of roughage

I would take it easy with the silage until they are 7-8 months, they won’t have the capacity to eat enough low DM product which will slow them down, use high bypass proteins, soya etc.