Which Chad sons are better in your opinion? None are anywhere near as proven as Chad and when he had similar amount of daughters to his sons now he had much better figures than them now.
A lot of the best bulls in the breed were born 15 years ago or more, pinnacle, glenalbyn, hylke. These are all bulls I'd be happy to use today if they were available and more than match any of the top genomic bulls. Don't think you could say the same about the holstein breed where the top bulls...
Our Lords are due there 7th calves this autumn, one of the best bulls we've ever used I'd say. Just missed out on more straws last year, last ones in the cou try had been sold the day before.
That's a lot of cake for spring calves but can understand your reasoning with your summer bias milk contract and loans to pay off! If you've got enough grass I definitely wouldn't be buffer feeding wholecrop I know it's tempting to you it's dead time waiting to be milked, but in my limited...
Thanks for the replies, I think we'll try one stretch without removing the soil and another stretch where it'll have a little more use with machinery we'll remove the topsoil. Can't go too wrong then
What do people think about laying cow tracks without taking the soil away first, last year we dug the soil out first but cost nearly as much as putting the stone down. How deep would you lay the stone if not taking soil up? I'd rather not bother as our soils are only shallow above shale but my...
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