All things Dairy

Rossymons said:

"20 minutes of chaos" was how someone described it to me earlier.

@lazy farmer
@dinderleat

What's the weather been like with you? What do you think it's doing tomorrow afternoon? Only need it for forty overs in the early evening

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bean said:

When I was buying calves from one farm using Springhill improvement all good and they had no calving problems

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Keep On said:

Therein lies the issue

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som farmer said:

save a bit of cash, serve hfrs to visual for 7/8 days, then 1 jab prelim, worked very well for us, 3 years ? we do cows and hfrs. The first 7/8 days, is when the prelim wont work, at that state of the cows cycle.
Breed of bull, how long is a piece of string ? For us, easy calving is the target, and we use both AA and BB, which we are assured are easy calving.
AA is dystiegh rocks erne LO60, and BB is doric,
and now someone will post they have had evil calvings.
Never been over keen on sim, a hangover from my calf buying days, there were to many bad, or xbred sim bulls, on farms, and they never made the money, they should have, that fact came from the farmers, that the dealers bought for, mine, were for me. Things may well be better now.
Sons friend, knows a new start up herd of grazers, 300 hfrs, all i/c to salers, all hfrs pre-sold, for sucklers, that went wrong, they all went to mkt, and made b-all.

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Beef farmer said:

Just 10kg too big View attachment 984581

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Sid said:

Cows eating too well in dry period maybe?
Different year to last 2 here for sure

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Farmer Keith said:

What does everyone do with the Holstein semen catalogues that come through the post when it’s too hot to have the fire on?

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Farmer Keith said:

Just starting now, who’d of thought we’d be crying for rain in September what a dry year.

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Jdunn55 said:

Anyone else had proper rain? We've had steady rain all night from 8pm last night until about 5am this morning

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Sid said:

Be careful what you wish for

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Beef farmer said:

Just 10kg too big View attachment 984581

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sidjon said:

Will the axle take all that weight

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Beef farmer said:

14 is the max I can fit before the wheel falls off. Not sure the quad can cope much better

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Farmer Keith said:

What does everyone do with the Holstein semen catalogues that come through the post when it’s too hot to have the fire on?

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Holsteinfriesian90 said:

Guess you had the cogent catalogue in the post yesterday as well.

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Holsteinfriesian90 said:

Guess you had the cogent catalogue in the post yesterday as well.

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