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Never received any favours & never expected any, I've always been treated equally & with respect.

Born in Keynsham, a long time ago, always called daps with us.

Can anyone recommend a financial advisor in the west wales area? Having sold some land we need to know where to invest to provide us with an income but don't know where to start.

We always found a bull ring was a good permanent solution, one cow was called Punky for over 10 years.

Which is fine until you fail the test.

Yes, we had 4 front feet yesterday! In a heifer

If we have a calf coming with just the tail there's always a 2nd one in there.

Why is everyone so horrible?

We had one as well & there is nothing changed for 10+ years. Hopefully just scare tactics that makes them look good because they are helping farmers. Surely time would be better spent concentrating on paying on time & not adding extra worry.

We spread fert. 5 weeks ago after 1st cut. We had enough showers to wash it in but nothing since & no grass growth. IF we get rain at the weekend, will that fert still be available or would the grass benefit from an extra dose?

Rpw online, message, payment within 4 days

We trim the cows tails & ears every year when they come in, keeps them cleaner & easier to read tags. Hang over from the dairy. We also do the yearlings tails, makes them look squarer on the backend to sell. ( or is that all in the mind!)

We needed to get WiFi to top of garden to a caravan. We moved the router from the downstairs hall to an upstairs window facing the caravan. Then used a £10 plug in signal booster in the caravan, worked well.

We've had fresh calvers with a lot of blood clots in the colostrom, large clots can easily block the teat & take a lot of pressure to get out. The milk can look like pure blood for a few days but clears up quite quickly.

We had a lump just like that on a 5mth calf, near it's navel & had grown gradually to cricket ball size. Didn't bother her but we were scared it might bleed out if damaged. Vet didn't know what it was so anaesthetised the calf & cut it out. It came away in one lump, a firm ,black, jelly - like...