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Spoke to the vet about the initial PM results this morning. Negative for BVD, IBR, Lepto, Neospora. Ecoli found on the calf but they reckon that's just picked up from the ground after calving it. Asked about the thyroid weight and they reckoned it was within normal. Basically a lot of things it...

No news from the lab this morning so went ahead and put iodine down their backs. Figure it can’t do any harm and at least have tried to do something 🤞 See what the Vet says Monday

Johnes level 1, bvd free. Not tested for lepto or ibr but not had issues previously. housed over winter on silage with powdered minerals shaken on top. Altho for some reason dad has got different minerals this year. Cows have access to Norvite suckler mineral buckets currently. Cows are probably...

Just come in from the latest stillborn calf, so far 3 stillborn out of 6 calved. Only have 20 sucklers and this year making me question having them. Seems a lot of work and hassle for very little reward. Managed to get the second stillborn and placenta to the lab for a PM the other day. Still...

What’s the mwb custom transit tow? Is that the L2? Quite fancy a van that can tow 3 tonne ish.

Any idea who to deal with if looking to get one?

Normally only get them out for at least 10 acre of bales. They are quite big contractors into lots of other things so feel like the silage side that they do isn’t worth that much to them. Feel like I would pee them off if I asked them to come bale up 3 acre:LOL:

We like to have the cows inside over winter to give the whole place to the sheep to graze. We used to our winter before we had sheep but still had to make a good few bales and they fairly trashed the field. Just a wee diddy place, hopefully be running around 120 acre next year.

Yes TBH I’m leaning towards a grab and possibly our own static wrapper just now. He does bale after the haybob for the hay thankfully but I can understand why he’s not too keen too. Will look into a bigger Tedder/rake combo actually, if I could get one for similar price to just a rake that...

I would say quite a lot of contractors still running balers with wrappers round here. Still some smaller places about

:ROFLMAO:

I guess wanting to cut and bale up smaller paddocks that get ahead of the sheep etc which would probably not be worth it for the contractor. Possibly save some cash doing it ourselves :unsure:

Looking for a bit of advice on which bit of machinery to purchase first to do a bit more of our silage/hay/straw making in house. Just a small place so around 2-300 bales silage, 100-150 bales hay and 150 straw yearly. All done in 4 ft rounds. Currently we have a 120hp tractor and 70hp loader...

Direct from Farm, we have a budget of 2.5 to 3k max. We criss cross with an Angus/Hereford so our next will be an Angus, like to go to the farm and have a look at progeny. Must be halter trained and chilled out. And also Johnes level 1 and in PCHS. Easy calving aswell. That’s probably our main...

Have been bitten by buying in supposedly ‘High health‘ cattle before so will need to be Johnes level 1 etc