But the straw is delivered price and the barley is ex farm.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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livestock 1
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Barley ex farm has been around £160 odd
Barley straw has been £100 or more all January and creeping up most likely £110/£120 at the most but there’s been a big talking job up on the go
It's the convenience of the ewe rolls that sways most people.
Feeding sheep in troughs is a pain if you've got many to do!
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
I would say hell not pain
My parents have them housed with feed barriers.
Ideally they still need 2 people to start at opposite ends to avoid a crush!!
If you’re a one man band, do you really want to start mixing feed for lambing ewes
ritchiekirkland
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Bought a heap of old in lamb ewes once and put them in shed to lamb . After troughing them I swore I would never do it that way again!
Treacle or let them out to hard standing to troughs if I ever do it again !
Treacle or let them out to hard standing to troughs if I ever do it again !
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
The A68 similar into hexham and A7 to Lockerbie , they must burn some fuel !!
- Location
- North of Perth
I just feed the ewe rolls on the straw don't bother with troughs.
- Location
- Galloway
kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
There’s a mobile mill mix round here. Produce good feed but they can’t blow it into a silo which is a pain as they can’t guarantee the mix will flow. If they could do that I’d use them all the time but hand bagging 20 bags a day was too much faff.
I mixed 30 ton on farm last year after my cattle escaped and helped themselves to a neighbours grain store, so I felt duty bound to buy the contents
. Lucky they weren’t in there too long, and it wasn’t too full!
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
i just give mine straight bruised barley in small piles on the ground, fattening up nicely
I’ve found around 10% gets wasted feeding on the ground especially if it’s wet.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Be 100% wasted on the ground atm
It’s getting wet here now and had to put my wellies on this morning.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
muleman
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There's only one day a year we take them off!
Thought you were born in them !
- Location
- Staffordshire Moorlands
What's in your mix?