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Had a nice heifer slip a calf after our test a couple of weeks ago

On NAAC contracting costs all in mow, rake, harvest (3 trailers) and clamp its £191/hectare. 3 cuts £573 12 ton DM/ hectare that’s £47.75/ ton contracting cost. Add on an extra trailer or 2 depending on distance to dairy call it £50/ton. Worth £120-£150 per ton DM depending on quality. So...

Sold on weight at £/kg or £/head

a calf of his born this spring

AA stock bull bred by @Beames

We have a 50 teat feeder but by weaning you don’t really want more than 38 on it otherwise they don’t fit comfortable to get them all on and drinking quick enough before the milk has gone. Depends how your feeding them though.

got some second cut in on Monday, lovely quality

Did anyone go? Take home messages?

We’ve gone onto a sheep snacked this spring and finding it great. Pull under the bin, fill up, drive through the field feeding. Anything that doesn’t come to feed easily spotted. Can walk down the line and check all their eyes rather than getting squeezed into a trough. Don’t have to worry about...

We had a heifer once get her leg stuck in a gap of a tree and her fighting to get free broke her leg. If this happened the first day you left she would be dead from dehydration in a slow painful death involving a long of pain. By checking on them regularly she was euthanized within an hour of...

How many kg N per hectare did that get after the last cut?

If @Durry cows gets enough incalculable to fleck this year there may be surplus for you in a few years time 😂

A few autumn calving heifers bred by @Durry cows verying degree of fleck in them. For him to judge if they’ve been reared well or not 😂

4x4x8 not HD krone mostly 550-660 depending on size of swath and moisture to an extent. If the full 8ft I’d say 580-590 is closest.

I think we’ve all had one or two of these this spring 😕