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    solar powered water pumps

    dose anyone know where i can get a solar powered/ or wind powered water pump i need one that can keep a trough for about 25 cows going.
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    jd6800 FUEL PROBLEM

    HI my 6800 has a intermitent fault it can spend all day topping rush no problem . then next time you use it will run ok but then fade away just like fuel shortage .it will restart without bleeding, but may run all day or keep fadeing. I have fitted all new filters a new fuel pump in the tank...
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    arson atack

    Only just got the wife out. Thanks to the firemen for stopping her going straight back in. I am so lucky not to be going to a church service next week.
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    arson atack

    Last Wednesday afternoon some kids set fire to a stack of straw, inside our sheep shed with the sheep inside. and due to start lambing this week.the wife came across the fire all most strait away and ran straight into the building closely followed by a neighbour but were driven back out by the...
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    will increasing dog attacks stop sheep farming in many areas?

    absolutely spot on you have to know the law. and use it correctly . i have had to let one or two dogs go, back to there owners,because thay had stopped chasing the sheep. i still went after the owners through the police,totally pointless , but it builds up picture off what is going on and when...
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    will increasing dog attacks stop sheep farming in many areas?

    we have given up 42 acer due to dog attacks. west yorkshire police wont do anything, dispite witnessing the attacks on two separate occasions, and knowing who the dog belonged to.it took 5 years of random attacks before i got the bas...ed . and thats the second dog that belonged to them. the...
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    Payment timings for Mid/Higher Tier

    yes i did thay wanted 7 samples from each field taken across the field in a W patten .
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    slurry pit size

    thanks guys that gives me some thing to work on.
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    slurry pit size

    Hi. i am thinking of putting the cows onto slats but not sure how big the pit needs to be. only 20 sucklers. but thay are in side from 1st nov till 1st aprill. sorry for any spelling errors ect i do my best.
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    Barking dogs

    we have working dog that barks all night.to good of a dog to let go.and we are suround by house, any way the wife came up with the idea of putting a muzzle on the dog it still barks but at much lower volume, you can only just here it. also it can still drink its water. I just need one to fit...
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    Gritstone / Lonk/ Rough Fell ....why aren't they more popular

    thankyou .this is something i see in quite a few grit tups at sale time.we have used grit sheep for over 60 years, as a commercial flock. but stoped buyeing grit tups, because the standards had droped , tups had got smaller and softer and as you say flat on the pasterns. its a shame realy...
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    Gritstone / Lonk/ Rough Fell ....why aren't they more popular

    can you tell me what you mean by ,flat on the pasterns. ive never heard this befod
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    Another Sheep Attack

    we had the same thing about 2 years ago . a rottviler and a terrier. did some sheep was betten of by a grandma and grandaughter [ very brave people to do this] another person vidiod the attack. the police came thay told the police who owner was and were thay lived. it took the police six weeks...
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    problem calf

    tride both
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    problem calf

    hi everyone, sorry for not replyimg sooner, but ive had computer problmes. so thanks for all the ideas. most of whitch we had tride the one that worked was leaving the milk in the pen and then measureing the milk 4 times a day.and it looks like it is drinking 6 to 8 pints per day plus a small...
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