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Hi I had a cow abort a calf, about a month early. No reason why, vet has taken bloods from cow. I milked her the day she calved, all ok. Yesterday she was not great looking so vet tubed her with recovery drink and gylcol. I went to the yard this morning and she milked a small amount, but Is not...

Hi I bought the Ergo Pro clippers last year for shaving backs and tails. The first day out I clipped 40 backs and tails. All went well. I oiled it and on Monday I clipped 40 tails. It was oiled up but the quality of the cut was terrible, it looks like I did it by hand. It took 3 hours to do 40...

Neighbour is a contractor, I told him today that I was going getting another lad to zerograze grass for me in spring and Autumn, he would be a bit odd about someone else doing my work. And to be fair hes a brilliant neighbour, I can borrow any machine I need free of charge. I do bits for him in...

I had a few sheets on the roof of a shed that had come a bit loose and were rattling. I decided to feed silage first then get the ladder and go fix the sheeting. I was up the ladder about 14ft with a screw gun when the ladder just dropped from under me. I fell backwards and landed on the silage...

Hi, I have a diesel 20, its used everyday as my scraper tractor. It pulls my 10ft scraper. I love it, its very reliable, only issue I have is cold weather and hard starting. Once above 5c its starts first turn. Has anyone added a heater plug to a 20. I'm getting sick of having to jump start her...

Hi I'm starting dairying next spring, operating a flying herd of hopefully around 65 jersey cross cows. I'm keen to see what people think as regards easy calving bull and what breed to use. I have been at a few sales over the last few weeks and the angus and hereford calves are hard sold...

Hi what weight is a 10ft gang slat. Will my tractor loader lift it.

I built outdoor cubicles, and on friday I let the 60 Jex in-calf heifers in. They had been on slats for a week before hand in the yard of the guy I bought them off. This is the second week they are housed. Any way, when I let them in they were standing in cubicles, but not a single one has laid...

Hi my outdoor cubicles are finished. I put the dairy heifers I bought on them and some have crept through the cubicles. I was going to put a line of steel wire in the middle of the gap in the cubicles. Is that ok, need to Keep costs low.

Hi, I need to construct some spur roads for cows to access outlying paddocks. There are two sections of 150m. Im thinking of getting some AstroTurf and lying it on the grass and off I go. No machinery just cows on it.

I have just enough power to run the small dairy I’m building with a 12kva supply. Can that be increased or is the next step up 3 phase?

What does your meal usage look like. What rate are you feeding per day from calving , through summer and now into the back end. I’m targeting 500kg of meal per cow per annum.

My dad is selling a fresh 3 ton Hitachi digger, and has been offered a 2013 JCB 203 in swap with some cash. Hes happy with the financial end of it. The JCB would be used for loading small trailers in Dads landscape business, and I'd have the use of it for feeding, cleaning out. I have a loader...

I was at a discussion group meeting last night and talk came around to what beef bulls lads are using on jerseys and on average what price per calf at 4 to 6 weeks old. I have seen the thread on blues on here and I mentioned it. One lad has 120 Danish jerseys and is culling all his bull calves...

hi, I'm getting out of most of my sucklers, as I aim to milk 60 cows in Feb 20. Due to a poor beef price, I ai'd all my heifers instead of fattening them. I have 48 Saler and Stabiliser cross heifers that are scanned in calf to sell. They start calving from March 1st to early May. Should I...

I had gone sale agreed to buy a larger parcel of land, which has fallen through. no agreement among siblings!! Im not a happy camper. I have bitten the bullet and will start milking next spring on my own small farm, Low cost system, grazing as much as I can. Going to start with 60 cows, work...

I work off farm part time, as we get most of our straw off a neighbour, dad usually sets it up to draw it home when Im at work. But he just cant get used to stacking them well with the forks. I was thinking of putting on the soft hands for him as he is grand with silage. Any one doing that?

I posted a thread a few weeks back about converting a small farm to dairy, feedback was not positive :( My neighbour called over monday night and informed me that he is selling up, his wife wants them to go to Oz to live with their kids who are already over there. he wants 8k an acre. Which I...

I posted a thread a few weeks back about converting a small farm to dairy, feedback was not positive :( My neighbour called over monday night and informed me that he is selling up, his wife wants them to go to Oz to live with their kids who are already over there. he wants 8k an acre. Which I...

I have a Deutz agro, I noticed this morning that one of the spool levers needs a bit of playing with to work, it will catch and stick and have to be moved again to work. Any ideas