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    Stabiliser cows to charolais bull

    How's your brother got on @Bill dog ? And @foxbox ?
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:01 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Stabiliser cows to charolais bull

    @Jonny B88 Remembered I hadn't updated this since calving. Got 6 Stan the man calves running. (Lost 1 at 4 days old unexplainedly. :( Was born...
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 17, 2019 at 7:59 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Raining

    The best 1 then complain when it's wrong?:D
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 17, 2019 at 7:31 PM in forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Raining

    I haven't sheared and I've had a couple ewes with mastitis in the last week. Not sure it makes much difference tbh?
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 17, 2019 at 7:30 PM in forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Conservation Thread

    Failed to get a picture, but saw a kingfisher today down by the stream. First time I've seen one on our ground since we've been here (12 years) ,...
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:50 PM in forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Anyone made any hay yet?

    Yep lit ours last Tuesday . Encouraged by having visitors. But that's a first for us in June. 8° here before lunch that day.
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:14 PM in forum: Agricultural Matters
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    stopping mouldy.....

    Grass. Think I fed 1.5 bales silage to sheep last winter. 600 ewes and 200 ewe lambs. Spend a fair bit of time running the roads to dairy keep...
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:09 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    stopping mouldy.....

    Don't feed many bales to sheep now but but never used to get much problem. Certainly no worse than places I'd worked with clamp.
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 16, 2019 at 6:22 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Bizarre unworkable idea, or do i have a chance?

    As above if you have no livestock experience look to get some before getting your own. Even on a voluntary basis if necessary . If you are...
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 16, 2019 at 5:51 PM in forum: Pig and Poultry
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    stopping mouldy.....

    Not arguing the rights and wrongs of any system but why do you see silage bales a Listeria risk more than clamp? Now if there was an additive...
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 16, 2019 at 5:31 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Anyone made any hay yet?

    As in cut the strings?! Or just put the bales out singly?
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 15, 2019 at 9:51 PM in forum: Agricultural Matters
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    Bulls over 16 month

    Better idea would be to have a whip round to pay for some DNA testing on this "Irish" beef and expose what's going on.
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:35 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Maybe, but decent conti x will make £100- 200 more than decent b&w
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:21 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Really!!??!! Not according to gth market reports or any trade I've seen.
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:12 PM in forum: Livestock & Forage
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    "Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

    Isn't that what Pete's saying?
    Post by: Poorbuthappy, Jun 14, 2019 at 1:32 PM in forum: Holistic Farming