Recent content by Huwie

Iv been told many times you can’t travel at 50k with a normal oil braked low loader/livestock box as you need air brakes to travel above 40k, yet I see that nearly everyone does and doesn’t seem to bother the trailer?

Heard this a lot! What is the difference? Mchale have copied the Kuhn according to dealer and they are basically identical 🤷‍♂️

Will one of these machines chop baled silage/hay to a length that sheep won’t pull massive chunks under them? Sheep in our shed with passage down middle are pulling to much silage/hay under them, put it out by hand for years but the waste is beyond.

Been there done that and don’t want the t shirt 🤢🤢. Makes sense I know but trying to catch sheep with no wool especially yearlings to small pens with lambs ain’t fun even with wool on their backs

Good or bad idea? Know a lot who do it and heard a lot say it’s no good, Straw gets into wool and then it’s even more worthless than it already is!!!

How much would you use in a days dipping?

@The sheep dipper man

Has anyone ever used battles black fluid disinfectant with sheep dip whilst dipping? Heard of someone using it to stop post lameness, never heard of this before, doesn’t sound right!

Major 1300 slurry tanker

Anyone know whats the average spreading rate per acre is? Plus how wide would it spread with a spreader plate

Your local farm college should do them, I did it last year in one, had a 80% grant to fo it, only cost me 25£, but I’m in Wales. Your environment agency will sort disposal for you through a application you do online. Not cheap

It cost me £25 in February to do sheep dipping course through the farming connect grant. Worth every penny at that price, Grant window has opened again in Wales.

Yes your spot on there! Climate change/river pollution and all the rest.. agriculture has had the blame and bares the brunt of it all for years whilst other guilty authorities have laid hidden of guilt for years, Doesn’t help when the bbc give the wrong impression to the general public not to...

Yes happens with us too, it’s the cost of it all that’s not fair, when neighbours are not honest about scab, especially when our cover has run out. Got one neighbour who still believes crovect controls scab 🤦‍♂️ Absolute nightmare and things can get very tense to say the least.

That’s the trouble, it’s good that something is happening to try and eradicate scab in Wales but when the money runs out from the gov we are back to square one. Apart from compulsory dipping scab will always be with us.