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Is anyone managing to finish swaledale wether lambs and leaving any money? If so how are you doing it

I’ve noticed a lot of adverts for 0% for 6-12month credit cards recently. Is anyone buying their store lambs/cattle with them? Is it too good to be true? Seems a good way to me because you’ll have the lambs bought, fed and money back in the bank then just pay the card off? Anyone got any advice?

What do you need in the way of operators licenses, checks, insurances etc to have your own livestock/straw lorry for your own use. I’m just talking a 4 or 6 wheeler. Mainly leading livestock to and from the mart or between land then straw at harvest time.

What sort of money would you have to spend to buy an ontop, maybe a bit rougher one? I may be in the market to buy one in the near future. Just after a little bit of an easy project. Lime body etc doesn’t have to work aslong as it runs and drives and works mechanically etc. any for sale? many...

I’ll probably get shot down for this but Has anyone got a slatted pig fattening shed but just laid out like a normal shed on the outside like cement fibre roof and Yorkshire boarding? Currently have pigs on straw yards so they manage with No insulation etc. would it work? Any advice?

Hi, I currently have fattening pigs on straw yards but thinking about putting a building up with slats. would anyone be able to advise on a rough costing per pig place for this? Or any advice regarding it. I’ve got no experience with slats so thought I’d ask a question or two on here thanks

Is anyone feeding a higher protein mineralised molasses on straw to their store cattle? I was thinking about feeding this along with the cake they already get plus some silage. I’ve got better access to straw than silage this year. I might be talking rubbish but does anyone do this? If so what...

What are people feeding their fattening ewes? I was at the auction the other day and ewes weren’t dear. Got me thinking about in the future maybe having a go fattening a few. I was thinking indoors on ad-lib. But what systems are people using and feeding?

Looking to put up a new general purpose building. So where around 100x50x12 or 105x50x12 depending on bay sizes. I’ve had a few quotes but as always some haven’t got back to me etc etc. I was just wondering who other people would recommend (or not recommend). I’m in the north of England Any help...

Looking to put up a new general purpose building. So where around 100x50x12 or 105x50x12 depending on bay sizes. I’ve had a few quotes but as always some haven’t got back to me etc etc. I was just wondering who other people would recommend (or not recommend). I’m in the north of England Any...

Has anyone sold or bought round bales from the field yet this year? what’s it worth?

On average how much water would 500 pigs drink per day? Also how much straw (round bales) roughly would you expect 500 pigs to use per year. Some scraped out and some on straw yards

I’m thinking about applying mixed red and white clover seeds on some of our land to hopefully increase the quality of the crop and also to fixate nitrogen. I was hoping to just spread 2kg of seed per acre then Harrow and roll it. What is the best way to spread the seeds? Do people use...

Are people feeding ad-lib barley and mixing the protein in with the mix or are some people just adding the protein on the top of the barley each day?

Looking for the best way to do some friesian steers on a mainly silage based diet. Looking to run them on to being bigger beast as I’ve not got the grain to fatten as bulls but I’ve plenty silage. was thinking maybe 1-2kg of cake a day? Is anyone else on with this?

Just curious as to what everyone is feeding their fresian bulls?

I’ll start off by saying im no mechanic… Recently bought a white top non turbo 8340. I’ve not personally touched the fuel pump but I assume it’s been tweaked because as soon as you hit a hill it seems to pour smoke out. I was just curious as to whether it would be worth putting a turbo on it...

Wondering if anyone in the north of England is selling any calves at the moment. The only trouble I’m having is trying to find some that aren’t ridiculously expensive. Angus/Hereford/blues etc etc if possible Preferably out of fresian or Holstein/Fresian cows. Would have to be TB4 and...

Is anyone feeding their bought in dairy X calves ad-lib off a machine? Im looking into buying a machine to save time as I don’t have much spare time and feeding calves takes a long time. Does anyone recommend a certain kind of machine? Pros and cons of ad-lib milk feeding?

Looking at poly tunnels to house ewes pre lambing then turn out to lamb. The land is rented so shed is really out of the question. I want the land rested before lambing. What sort are people finding the best quality. We are around 900ft.