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Agree what your saying, but there seems to no plan in place as regards work and don’t like day light, all the other stuff pigs, tractors, future shed builds etc is to make content for videos to get a few bob from youtube, the welfare is a problem that will come back to bite.

He is a poster boy for the calves that are the worst type of animal here in Ireland, at present them type of calves are making no bids to 10 euros in the marts. the jersey boys were a joke with how many died and earlier in the year he was blaming a dose given to calves for bad thrive, he is on...

Country side accommodation are called Gites and sites on the web will find nice places for small money if travelling around some are attached to farms. Might help if you intend to travel around.

Have being visiting France for the last 17 years, to buy stock and then family holidays and livestock, use to fly into beauvais above Paris, and drive down to the Loire to Charolais country, as posters have said it’s several countries in one and so diverse, recent years fly to Lyon and drive...

Who is the Irish lad

Yes Lionel was in the charollais for years and was a good breeder and a very clever man at the job, but really a very nice man and the wife was a lady and great to give to tips on breeding and pass on his knowledge.

They would be a fine flock of sheep, the owner would be one of life’s gentleme.

Also there is breeders in Aberdeenshire who breed a lot of rams of several breeds who top a lot of sales and they send the rams away to winter on dairy farms and return in the spring to saved up early spring grass And are making a very good margin. Have seen this operation first hand and the...

Them boys are into racing and drifting and doing up cars up. They are serious driver.

Well said lad, fair play to any man that raises money for charity, like Olly has made a big effort and it is also a social gathering for lads since Covid has cut out a lot of social meeting up for people, here is Ireland this week JP Mcmanus has given 32 million to the Gaa ( Irish football) to...

We clip all the cattle for a long number of year, from the back of the head to the end of the tail, the suckler cows get the backs, tail and 3 strips down either side of tail on the hind quarters to keep them clean and no big dirty tail to contend with when calving or Ai time. All stock are...

Or the judge puts his own breeding line ( female ) up as champion and then goes off to the horse racing, it’s amazing what you see at breed sales and what fella’s get up to on the day. a lot of it is a pyramid system with you buy mine for X and I will buy yours at your sale for Y and sure we...

Ewes would get oral minerals and bolus prior to sponging and after and use different products to cover minerals, was talking to a friend this morning and said he had the same problems this year with ewes serving over a number of days,

Always believe scanning is the best money spent on sheep by a long way, suggestion when scanning put the crayon different colour ewes together into different batches ( in a small flock) for to get the first serve and second serve picked out, find it helps batch ewes for lambing, this year a ewe...

Have anybody used CIDRs without PMS injection given to the ewes, have being using sponges for 20 years and a lot of that time without the PMS injection and getting on well over the years, but in the last 3 years found poorer results with the first serve and this year found ewes will being served...