British friesian bulls

lsmith453 said:

I know this thread is 4 years old, but nice to see mention of Camerons grand dam i think this is we have him on farm now bought him last year, great bull

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cattow said:

I’ve ordered some Seb

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Jdunn55 said:

Hadn't considered the cost of selling, I'll find out first, or may sell privately.

I'm selling them so that I can farm better, they pay the bills but it isn't working here the way things are. By selling half my cows I can stop using one cubicle shed which keeps red tractor happy. It also means I have enough slurry storage with dirty water no longer existing. I can go back to just making bales so dont have to worry about the clamp flooding and not being safo complient. In general I think it will just work better having 70 cows + youngstock for now.

In future I can increase again once I am in a better position financially, physically and mentally. I'm, just absolutely drained at the moment, and I cant physically face another winter like this one.

In summary, have 70 cows that are my absolute best, that are farmed really well and see what happens. Rather than 130 farmed mediocre as they currently are.
Go back to basics, milk from forage, graze and maybe have a bit of a life.

I know people have said about selling the youngstock and keeping the cows and doing flying herd, I understand the view point, and I actually did consider it, but there's several reasons why I have chosen against, some are personal reasons (obviously one being I like breeding cows), others are financial and situational.

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Dead Rabbits said:

Sell the best, milk the rest? I know a few guys who repeatedly did this and made some real equity gains. Allowed land purchases etc. One even sold his best and bought back cheaper flawed cows.

My family also did this at one point. It cleared all the bills and then some. Definitely paid some tax that year.

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Llmmm said:

It depends how much you can get for your best cows .The fact his herd is bf so the worst cows mighten make much as milkers but as culls fat they might not be far of the selling price of gd milkers in a bad or average trade.Id be very slow to sell gd cows.Now if i cud get crazy money for my best cows id sell them

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DJGW said:

New stock bull

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som farmer said:

just been watching a u'tube video of some seriously good looking friesian type cattle.

just one problem, video'd in the Chernobyl exclusion area.

so been running wild, no breeding policy, and they are still friesian. Must be 25+ yrs ago that disaster happened, and still breeding pure. If that had been domestic pigs, they would look like wild boar now.

didn't see any glowing, or 5 legs etc, but l would love to milk a herd of them !

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aidan said:

any links

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Back to nature, wild cows in exclusion zone in Ukraine

Within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a herd of cows has adapted to the wild for over eight years, an intriguing subject of study for scientists at the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve. This unexpected wildlife resurgence sparks curiosity about the adaptation of...

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Manney said:

Back to nature, wild cows in exclusion zone in Ukraine

Within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a herd of cows has adapted to the wild for over eight years, an intriguing subject of study for scientists at the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve. This unexpected wildlife resurgence sparks curiosity about the adaptation of...

www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl

What a phenomenon! Wild cows in Chernobyl exclusion zone😳 The story of this phenomenon is related to the fact that few years after evacuation of all... | By Private Chernobyl GuideFacebook

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crashbox said:

What's the milk like?

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