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  1. Smokey16

    Calve rearing/weanling rearing

    Hi is any body looking for someone to rear there calves or weanling
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    Buitelaar calve rear

    Hi just wondered if any farmers on here calve rear for buitelaar and if so how do you get on with them.
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    TB calf isolation unit

    Hi we got a TB calve isolation unit that is defra approved will house 180 calves if anyone is interested let me know. Thanks
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    sh!t lambing

    Hi just wondering if anyone else has had or is having a sh!t lambing this year
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    Contract Calve rearing

    Hi everyone me, my partner and sister rear calves from 2weeks old till they are 5/6month old we have reared 300 calves so far this year for him he told me half way through rearing the last bunch he has to drop the price what he pays us to 45pence aday per calve. He supplies the milk powder blend...
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    • baling bedding beef calf calves calving cattle cereals combi cows dairy disease dual purpose electricity ewes fertility finance gate grass grazing health insurance maintenance management market milk milk powder milking nitrogen organic performance pneumonia repairs reseed robotic scour seed silage teat transport turnout weaning yields
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Welger rp220 master

    Hi having problems with the density on are baler it's not coming up on computer to say how big bale is. Thanks
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    • baling digital gate grass massey mchale pickup silage
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    • Forum: Machinery
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    Ewes and lambs grazing grass and chicory

    Hi we are thinking of reseeding couple of fields this year with grass and chicory and graze it with ewes and February born lambs I read in farmers weekly and sheep farmer graze it with his February lot and reckons the lambs put on between 250/300g aday.
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    • ewes grass grazing lambing nettles plough sheep stubble weaning weed control
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    Milk heatwave for lambs

    Hi has anyone reared orphan lambs on a ad lib milk heatwave if so how well did they grow.
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    • calves cows crystalyx drift ewes lambing lamblac lambs market milk milk powder mineral bucket shearwell teat teats volac weaning
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Round baling silage cost

    Hi just wondered what other farmers will be paying this year for round baling and wrapping. Thanks
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    Inlamb ewe lambs

    Weve bought are ewes and ewe lambs in for lambing they are housed all together they got enough feed trough space for cake but the ewelambs ain't interested in cake they just go to the haylage
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    Massey ferguson 6255 dynashift problem

    Hi got a massey 6255 and having problems with the Dynashift it wont engage B+D does anyone know what the problem could be
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    In lamb ewe lambs

    Hi iv got 20 llyen cross texels ewe lambs that are due to lamb mid march all are singles apart from 4 that are carrying twins they are big strong lambs they are grazing with the rest of the flock because theres loads of grass where there to should I separate them into there own ground over...
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    Mchale 991L wrapper

    Hi iv just bought a mchale 991L 3point linkage bale wrapper just wondered if there is away to put infra red control on it or electric control box instead of having a second person wrapping bales with the spools
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    Feeding fodder beet to inlamb ewes

    Hi what's people thoughts on feeding fodder beet to ewe then cake
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    Lambing

    Hi just wondered what would be the going rate for lambing someone else sheep in are building we supply the straw and hay and do all the lambing and the other chap supply the cake and sheep
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    • bedding cattle dairy flock fodder grass lambing milk sheep silage stress
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
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    Mchale 991lber 3point linkage wrapper

    Hi just bought a 991lber wrapper but it didnt come with a control box just wondered if anyone knows where I can get on and how much they are
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    Massey ferguson 399

    I'm thinking of getting a massey ferguson 399 just wondered if it would drive a claas 250 rotorcut round baler.
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    • baling claas combi deutz grass insurance loader market massey massey ferguson maxxum mchale pto puma round baler sprayer stress
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    • Forum: Machinery
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    Calfs on milk powder

    Hi every year i buy in calves to rear on milk powder for are selfs and this year I took on another farm and decided to rear calves for someone else I asked him how much milk he wants us to feed them per a feed and he said 2litres each so Iv got 34 calves from him atm so I'm mixing 8.5kg of...
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    • beef calf calves cattle dairy grass grazing milk milk powder performance silage
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    Massey ferguson 6280

    Hi thinking of changing tractors at the min iv got a 1995 ford 7840 sle but was thinking of selling it for a massey 6280/90. What's peoples thoughts on the massey
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    Ewe minerals

    Last year was my first year sheep farming I bought 110 ewes in and I grazed them all on nice regrowth grass and I put out the rumenco high energy plus fish oil biscuit blocks out for then about 3week before tupping and all through tupping when it came to scanning the ewes we had 36singles...
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