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    tractor ted

    Shouldn’t there be a comma between ‘that’ and ‘can’ ?
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    I wouldnt bother. Havnt jabbed ewes here since 1991. Just do every lamb with ovi p+ twice.
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    Stock fence value after 12 months

    Im guessing you got a grant towards your £12000+ cost of fencing on short term rented land ?
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Good grading no h’s. Strange that one lamb is manualy graded (m) and the rest are machine graded (a).
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    Priced a new one last week before going to a farm sale. £244 standard cattle, £286 heavy duty. The 2 nd hand one made £360 in the farm sale.
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    1 st class stamp is now £1.15
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    When I was 6 , I found a £1 note and handed it in to the police and they sent me this letter
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    Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

    Codd, derm which is a skin condition not hoof. The bacteria comes onto pasture from the intestines. It travels through the hollow hair follice to get onto the skin. Its main aim is to get away from oxygen asap, so it usually finds a weakness in the coronary band and goes in deep and fast. It has...
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    Scouring lambs

    Lush grass, high protein. kidneys cant cope with getting rid of excess urea so it ends up being excreted in the faeces causing scour. Did fecs on 5 shitty arsed and 5 clean in a group of lambs and the worm burden was exactly the same in all 10. Each lamb has a different genetic rate of...
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    Cydectin2% LA in ear base why?

    And if you read their recomendation , they say use a 1 inch needle which is too long imo. A 0.75 inch , 17 gauge in the ear is better
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    Benefits of ammonia chloride in feed

    It makes the urine acidic so that phos and mag crystals dissolve to prevent a blockage in the pipe between the bladder and the exit. Wether lambs are more prone than tup lambs to calculi.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Taymouth castle ?????
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    In march 23 a few scaning men up north predicted 2 mil less lambs so could be right
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Mate just got a job with council, driving road sweeper wagon. £23500 a year , 33 days hols, if he starts at 6 am he finishes at 1 pm. Or 7 am until 2pm. If he’s asked to do a saturday morning he gets all friday off. Sounds a cushy job but salary not 40k.
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    Fertiliser Price Tracker

    Your first result is a drier soil which might indicate why potash is low, perhaps its leached and also been removed by cutting. Potash = yield. Your 2 nd sample is a wetter soil. Imo ,I would grow all cuts with a nitrogen + potash product Eg 23-0-13+s. Dont put it on grazing land, it doesnt need...
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    Fertiliser Price Tracker

    Plants dont eat OM, plants eat minerals. The bacteria and worms convert OM to minerals. If a worm eats an acidic OM phos, it excretes it as an alkali phos mineral and enhanced its plant feed value by 600%. We need lots of worms, but moles are twits
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    Sheep Scanning

    Friend scanned at 140%, last year 170% . He got the vet to do bloods on 12 ewes out of 300 and they were 25 score for iodine and it should be 50. Any one else done bloods this year and found this ?
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    Sheep Scanning

    The difference between scaning % and rearing % is a good management tool. I have been doing costings since 1991 and the actual lambs sold or retained after all losses is the rearing %. For the 2021 lambing, the average rearing % of all 64 comparitive flocks were 146%( highest 184%, lowest 84%)...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    After 24 years of b’s boundary wall with no maintenance and 16 gaps I told his landlord to sort him out. Still f—cks with my mind. I did nowt wrong.No further comments . Thanks
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    90% correct . Im farmer A. Farmer B took bull from farmer A ‘s field due to anger management issues. Cctv images in various loations on 29 mile trip and police involvement means that it backfired on farmer B and everyone know knows he’s a d**kh**d.
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