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Vet out tonight. 2 heifers with twisted uterus, both calving at same time. Got 2 living calves and hope heifers will be ok, but what causes it? Heifers have been out in calving pens for coming up to 2 weeks, no stress, no excitement, feed always in front of them. In the last 12 calvings I have...

What’s this then? Spotted last night, thought not just right, dog cornered ewe check bag all ok thought nothing of it. Saw something hanging from her tonight so caught her. Never seen it before. Gave her an AB and let her away again.

At Balmoral last week, stopped in at their stall and got a wee sachet of wild flower seeds, thought it was a great idea. Went to throw them out over a bare patch of soil between edge of garden and field. Was having a read all that was in it as was walking across lawn. Last on the list was St...

Man walks in to your farm, goes in to cubicle house, takes a video and posts it on facebook. First you know about it is when your mate texts you asking is it your place. Would you be ticked off ? Now nothing wrong with video, shed looks well enough, but this is second time it’s been done...

Lump on top of udder, doesn’t seem to be mastitis any ideas?

Do I need to paint the bulk tank room for RT? Doing area behind robot just wondering if need to do anywhere else?

Calf born last Saturday and has yet to suck. Cow is 15yr old and bag fairly low to ground so chances of it sucking her are slim but it won’t take from the bottle either. Tubed twice a day, has got vit e and mineral drench. Also shot of metacam and norodine. Any ideas?

Reader at backend didn’t work. Photo attached what do I do? Very short on grass and extra cows so need it back ASAP ideally start of May. Work on a 21 day rotation. Just a complete disaster.

My dad has always maintained experienced cows will let you know when they are ready for calving and well this year I can definitely confirm it, no need for moo call here. (Likely jinxed myself) Anyone else experienced it? I’m not talking about bones moving or tails up or slime out. Our cows act...

Hi folks Couple of pictures attached of a field of mine that isn't performing. It is rotationally grazed but isn't keeping up with the rest. Was soil tested last year (5.9) but access is an issue so only got granular lime. There were small brown patches last year but a lot worse this year...

Sorry maybe done before, can't find any. What would you class as acceptable? We need a new bull and was just looking over figures our current bull only produced 108 calves. The last bull was worse. 9 week calving period and both have only lasted 3 seasons. I'm selling them before they are...

We have to walk stock a few times a year along the road. Today it went wrong. Walked 30 cattle along the 1/4mile stretch all went smoothly. Along the stretch there is 19 houses so it is quite a feat. When it came to the sheep it didn't go quite so well, new pup split them up sent them in to 3...

Have a fair few drums gathered up, what can I make out of them? Will do the obvious troughs but anything else useful on a beef and sheep farm! Photos appreciated.

Respect is earned I know, but being discriminated for age is doing my head in! I'm 26 look 18, still get asked for ID when the Mrs orders a Tesco delivery. Fair enough. Currently looking to do up my garden, been pricing 2 companies both came out showed no interest, it's a reasonable size job...

Just looking some opinions. Cow calved this morning, nothing unusual did it itself. Old cow this is her 10th calf and its bag is very low so thought better to give calf a hand, got it up and looks funny. This was about 6hrs later, legs bit bandy and as it was sucking noticed it was bleeding from...

I've 4 very sore fingers thanks to some stupid ejit that designed my new creep feeder. Its ridiculously heavy, has no ball hitch so can't pull with Quad only way I see it can be moved is with an arm of a tractor and in this weather what use is that. Pulled it on back of Quad it slipped off and...

So lost a ewe last week and almost another this week. Vet thinks it's a B12 deficiency and since I have been injecting it the ewe has improved. So why would my ewes be deficient? Anyone else had similar problems? Both had sore feet, both treated and seemed to be on mend, first started acting odd...

Ewes scanned yesterday and looks like the teaser I used for a first has worked a treat. Scanner suggested out of 120 nearly 100 will lamb within 10days of each other. Usually they are spread out over 2 months, so I need any tips you can think of to help me out not used to them all together I...

I hate this time of year!!! So we usually bring all cows and calves in keep together for a few days then pull calves out at night time do that for few days then they are out completely. Works fine for us. However building shed and short of space so need a new plan this year. With everything out...

Was bringing in 500kg bullocks today and what a session we had. Took nearly 30mins to get first load in, with them bending a gate in two and one cracking Dad fair square on the thigh. When I was taking them away my Dad called out bring up a couple of sticks for this next run but when I went down...