3/4 of my little 600kg sucklers are getting about 50p worth of pit silage and a nibble of their bedding straw. the other 1/4 were leaner at housing and are getting about 75p worth. a month before calving, they'll all get a kilo of blend which will add another 35p this year
i culled 20% of mine this autumn, taking advantage of the high cull price. the store price was sh!t at beginning of the year so us suckler producers got nothing to offset the raised input costs. store price will have to go up or i'll go back to finishing my own and culling back even more
is the cutter moving? i've just got my heineger back from being repaired as the cutter had stopped moving across the comb and just burred on the one spot
had a couple of norwegian red x holstein suckler cows, they were a bag of bones but great milkers and grew big calves, biggest problem was they weren't eligible for the calf sub and needed some special feeding in the winter because they were so skinny. got rid last year after just 4 calves...
just the usual boiler suit with cagoul to break the wind. few minutes hard work and your body temperature should be high enough to keep you warm on its own
normally i'm similar to you, but this year been getting 1300 for anything half decent, only the odd p being down in the 800s, good year to get rid of a lot of teenagers
out of interest, have you ever gone back and checked what the value of the old 30 acre place in cheshire is now? would be ironic if it'd been turned into 30 acres of million pound mansions :LOL:
the author is suggesting the opposite though, the title is how to go broke, so he's saying you should cooperate with your neighbours to avoid going broke
don't do it. keep them in size groups and keep newly bought in ones in a different shed if possible to stop bugs passing until they're free of anything they're carrying
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