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    Letting weaned bucket calves outside

    Has anyone let weaned bucket calves outside during the day on to some grass . Then back inside at night.using nuts to lead them around. ????
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    Abbey topper drive pulley

    anyone know how to get the drive pulley of an abbey trailed topper. Need to change the bearings
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    Isuzu 1.8?

    My 5 years warranty is up in 2 months on my 2.5 litre d max. I like it and have had no problems at all. After 2 years ish of the 1.8 being on the road how do folk rate them? Towing? Tia
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    Wild flower meadow

    How do I create a wildflower meadow? Simple It’s an up land farm, rushy in places and I would like to see a field full of flowers if possible
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    Handelsbanken

    I’m fed up with the main high street banks so looking for an alternative that has firstly , a face to talk to, not just an automated digital whatever. Secondly, a bank that at least pretends to care. Anyone with handlesbanken? They look like they might fit my bill but wouldn’t mind some first...
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    Where is the beef and sheep tracker thread gone on my phone

    As above really, the concentrated tracker is there but that’s it. Any ideas
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    Slimy wool

    I have quite a few ewes and some lambs that have developed a really slimy gunk on their wool. Some in little patches , some on their whole body. It seems to have a red tinge to it and I think in some cases it is irritating them. In 2 cases they have rubbed themselves raw. I’m convinced it’s not...
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    3050 jd splitter failiure

    The hare and tortoise splitter has stopped on my 3050 jd . It won’t work in the forward position, hare I think, what could that be.
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    Tapping in to sewer

    i am planning on building new kennels in the back garden, the idea is to put a soil pipe under it to take the waste away. I am hoping to run this pipe and tap in to the house sewer pipe. Any thoughts
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    Culling priorities

    carrying on from another thread How do others rank culling offences? Can a poor skin trump a great carcass or a ewe has two belting lambs every year for as long as you can remember but had foot rot this time. What to do? We are all trying to breed perfect sheep but you can't cull for everything...
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    Sheep getting grey faces and wool loss on ears

    Morning, for some reason quite a few ewes this year have lost a lot, if not all the wool on there ears, some on there faces and yesterday when I was checking there bags for culls they were like leather and felt crusty. The effected ewe have a grey appearance to them as well. They tend to be the...
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    Quad trailer tyre problem

    I have several tyres for the bike trailer, all like new , but can't keep wind in them. They have all been fixed at various times. Is there anything I can put in them to keep them up, like foam, they are only going on the fields. They must be cheap tyres
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    How long do you need to keep movement licences?

    As above, I've a mountain of them and need the room
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    Blocks v bolus

    I recon a ewe eats 0.4 of a lick block through a year when given at strategic times. Plus the energy and feed benefits Put that against bolus, you need three doses at 90 p each plus time, with no feed and energy benefits I now the odd ewe might not take a lick but a vast majority will. Also if...
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    Acute fluke

    I found 3 dead hoggs this evening completely out of the blue. It is a flukey moor and they were drenched with flukiver 8 weeks ago. All the dead ones have wet brown muck at the back end and worryingly so do another dozen or so. This has all happened in a day or so. In my experience they don't...
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    Blowing sheep cobs in to a traier

    I am weighing up a few onptions. One of which is getting a grain trailer and blowing feed in. What size trailer ( Dimensions) would I need to get four ton in. Also do you need a special fitting on trailer to blow in? Tia
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    Anyone used feed blocks?

    As title really, why and when and are they comparable to licks. Any use in store hoggs that will be going in march or for ewes on rough grazing
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    Anyone in a sssi area ?

    I got a letter through last week telling me half my farm is going in to a sssi area. I knew it was going to happen at some point in the next year or two but it has come fast than I was expecting. I've been told to farm exactly as I have been as regards stock numbers and management but bare in...
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    Mixing medicines and multivits

    If I work out the number of sheep needing medicine, the weights, the quantity per ewe/lamb. Is it then OK to put multivitamin, wormer, fluker if necessary all together to save time in the delivery of it?
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    Super major hydraulic problem

    Hello. This might be a silly question but on the picture is there enough oil in back end. The lift arms arnt lifting any more and before they were intermittent. Just got the top off and there is a gap at top of of the oil pick up filter so drawing air maybe?
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