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🐄 📚 🐑 Looking for work/advice please 🐖 📚 🐔 I have worked on commercial farms as a lambing assistant, grainstore manager on a 10,000 tonne crop storage facility, had my own sheep and pigs for meat boxes and have assisted in milking. I am also qualified in Level 2 certificate principles in...

Hi, I am looking for a new role within livestock - beef/dairy entrant level or sheep work I have worked with commercial farmers in various roles including lambing assistant in Devon, North Wales & Scotland - indoor & outdoor lambing, organic & non organic, as well as working as a grain store...

Looking to relocate to Wales, looking for predominantly sheep /livestock work, year round or over busy periods, would need accommodation until I am able to secure somewhere, I have previous exp of lambing 1800 indoor ewes, N Wales, various breeds 400 organic outdoor lambing in Scotland &...

thanks for your comments :)

thanks for the replies :) so it seems the best way would be to start off with some X and some pedigree and keep pedigrees for replacements, i guess as time goes by and profits happen you will have more choice and by then you will know whats needed for the system you are running or will have...

so i'm gaining work exp with cattle to eventually start a small cattle herd (don't judge me on this) trying to get a varied response of people that have successfully achieved this already.. Aim is to add diversity to the farm to have another income stream, to feed myself and to sell direct to...

thanks @neilo , @David. which brands are you looking at for an open topped crate which could convert to EID in the future?

do you know the brand of the digital weigher? i don't have a crate so wondered if there was a digital basic one?

I'm wondering how much and where you can buy a digital scale weigh crate (without EID & bluetooth) just think it would be easier to read than a normal weigh crate? I intend on recording all weights on an excel spreadsheet and i will until flock numbers and income allow. would it be more cost...

i'm not one to jump into things and im not even looking to buy any cattle until at least another yr... only asking to diversify in the future after the other is established. i was told the other day to keep asking questions on this forum to learn.. so i did.. i've been on farms and know that...

but if you mob grazed it.. you'd need less silage? and wouldnt need slurry etc... so its just housing? i'll go and see my uncle then

so if your feeding calves on grass and breeding your own,, what is there to pay for?

thanks :) sounds like a good little venture alongside the sheep for me then if the equipment is there anyway... and whilst my uncle is still able to help and teach me the odd bit :) when you say you get good prices of stores, isn't it worth while keeping them for longer? as presumably the buyer...

the reason i've been scared of cattle is being chased by them at my mums x's he had lim x things and they were bloody wild!! whats a stabiliser bull? and why don't you want them pure? what are the growth differences from the AA bull? would they fetch a premium over pure herefords for store prices?

i was thinking herefords before the comments on here :) i wouldnt want horns!

how long do Herefords take to grow? hopefully quicker than 5-6 years ;)

So the land I have access to already has sheds, a crush (not sure which condition) etc and as I want to keep the farm with diversity to limit the need for working else where (and now being a lot less scsred of cattle) im thinking of a micro beef enterprise.. like 2-5 calfs to grow.train around...

NCCs? aren't they used for meat lambs though with good conformation?

has anyone used them? the farm i worked at last year used them and interested to hear people's opinions to produce lambs for meat, aberfield ewes? any good for retaining ewes to sire for meat lambs? having spoken to the chap i worked with he suggested using aberfield ewes on a texel x.. i...

Can anyone enlighten me on the breeds that will stand to tup in different times of the year than the normal ranges.. i think the Chamoise? also can you tup them to any breed... will the ram serve them or are the rams season dependent too. excuse my ignorance