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- Northern Ireland
Cool. She'll be a tight cow. Bet the bags nasty though. 
fleckvieh
- Thread starter farmer JD
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- NI
Pictures please!
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I thats it
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Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Anyone going?
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Dangerous that its on marteye
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Can anyone recommend some sexed fleck that doesn’t cost the earth?
- Location
- somerset
why do you want to use fleck ?
l have a friend who has been milking nearly pure fkecks, organically through robots, he's using more black and white now, to get more milk.
Its one hell of a herd of seriously good suckler cows, to look at, you would never think its milkers. He has used fleck, to produce his calves, for him to take right through, to finish. He has a lot of grazing ground, needs something to eat it, and refuses to have sheep. Also been shut down for years.
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M-J-G
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What's he yielding?
M-J-G
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Very few will be below £30
- Location
- somerset
5/5500
pre robots, and x1 milking, about 3.
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
I just like them got some calves and the ground and I’m pleased so far. I’m not after big yields if they do 5500-6000 I’m happy Long as they are healthy and put good solids in the tank that’s all we’re after.
Jez, talk about making the job complicated, if I was doing 5000 on OAD, I would be just counting the profits
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- somerset
3,000 oad, 5 on robots.Jez, talk about making the job complicated, if I was doing 5000 on OAD, I would be just counting the profits
5000 on on Bots must be expensive
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- somerset
we have 'dabbled' with them, and been disappointed, milk was ok, just had big problems getting them i/c, at the same time, everything else was spot on, getting i/c. Absolutely no visible reason for it. And at all stages, bulling hfrs, first calvers, and more, with a selection of bulls. Not a lot of profit in rearing hfrs to bulling age, and then having to sell them through the store ring.
Like the idea of them, and like the cattle, currently milking 1 bought in, she has held to second service, does that mean 50% held to first service
two of the bulls we used, Willie and Pierolet, cannot recall the names of the other 2.
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- somerset
not if you farm for your enjoyment, and don't necessarily have to make a profit, robots were bought outright.
Sounds like a couple of farm's I know, 35 cows on 300 acres, all brought and payed for, feeds two families, but got know idea how