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Martyn

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Location
South west
What variety did you go for. You weren't that late getting it in. I had some that waited until late June to germinate last year still off by mid October.
Being organic and possibly shorter on N should actually speed ripening.
It's this

The crop is dark green healthy looking leafy about 7"6 to 8ft tall most of it.
 

frederick

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Location
south west
It's this

The crop is dark green healthy looking leafy about 7"6 to 8ft tall most of it.
That doesn't make a huge amount of sense. What date was it drilled. Either that or it's about to ripen like crazy. I still think you'll be sorted by mid October at latest.
 

pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
I did the sums a few years ago and couldn't justify using Blues. Then it averaged 7 days over and 10 days at worst.
Kiwi X were coming 5 days early average, 10 at extreme. So we were looking at best part of two weeks extra milk with a Kiwi X without worrying about calving difficulties etc, plus the blues never seem to make the prices people claimed and cost a lot more in feed to get to market
We consistently have blues coming at 275/280 days, but some easier/short gestation bulls are not as short/easy as others
 

sidjon

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EXMOOR
We consistently have blues coming at 275/280 days, but some easier/short gestation bulls are not as short/easy as others
We use short gestation and light birth weights for blue bull section, but still had a couple of big buggers and also a couple of Herefords the same, think it's the same with every breed, even had a Jersey bull were I had to pull most years ago
 
What do you suggest then? Think how many bulls are led at shows etc with a piece of string and a huge crowd of non stock wise people you very rarely here of accidents.
If you're giving that bull a back rub your guard is down simple as, I've a simmental bull here that to watch him walk you'd think his feet weighed a ton, so slow, a real plodder, my lad has a cob stallion that runs with the cows, when the lads not riding him to fetch the cows in he tends to just come in and stand with the cows in the collecting yard, bull always walks in and promptly lies down, I was watching the other day and the horse kept walking over to the bull and holding his leg in his mouth, not biting it just holding it, each time he did it the bull just swung his head like it was a fly bothering him, anyway after what must have been a dozen times just as the horse went to grab him, he jumped to his feet and chased the horse across the collecting yard, I'd have never believed he'd got such a turn of speed in him.
 

dinderleat

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Wells
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