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We have blood tested our ewes and have came back with mega high levels of iodine and low levels of selenium vet has advised that we jag all lambs at birth with selenium/vit e ewes have been bolused with mayo 4 in 1! Any other suggestions to get Sel into them before lambing without to much...

I think the time has come to try and move forward with our sheep to try and improve our recording have been looking online and see the Agri dent apr600 with TGM software look best to suit our needs but with absolutely no experience of these things any advice is appreciated! What we want to be...

Apologies if this has been discussed before what is the minimum height in lamb ewes need to feed over? have cattle feed barriers with 2 9x3 timbers below was thinking if 1 was lifted out that 9 inches would have been okay but when I see it it looks very low has anybody got away with it before...

Well folks we have been working with stabiliser bulls for 6-7 years now but we are noticing now that our cows feet are getting worse with more over grown and more lameness. our cows are housed on slats and cubicles all winter and this year are already in a fortnight! is this a fault with the...

Does anybody work with this cross and keep resulting ewes and cross back to the easycare and keep crisscrossing? My thinking being a shedding ewe that would be quieter and more maternal at lambing! is there anything else worth considering? I have no experience of nz Texel only goin by what I...

Goin to try and AI a batch of suckler cows this year for the first time goin with natural heats what is the best tail paint or scratch cards and are there batter makes than others? Thanks

What’s the opinions on Italian ryegrass for silage and winter sheep grazing? We have a neighbour that has a feild sowed with it last year and he has quite a good crop of grass on it on a farm that normally would be very bare this time of year with a lot of sheep. I havnt been threw it but from...

Has anybody used a pump like this to pump water from a stream to a drinker?

Have a few hefiers this year that have weaned light calves the calves were born small and never really caught up do others find that if they wean light as a hefier will they always or should give them another chance? We normally don’t give cows a second chance and would be quite ruthless. What’s...

Currently considering buying a disc or similar to go into burnt off grass ground what is worth looking at in a 3m my plan is to give ground a run with the pan buster then 2/3 runs with a disc to leave good seed bed then sow grass seed with wagtail on the quad

For the last lot of years we have used bovipast for our suckler calves with both doses before housing all worked well until last winter when we had a lot of bother with calves in January.what vaccine does others use? I know it depends on what strains of pneumonia is there but do some cover more...

Currently we are running easycare ewes and think they are great sheep the only problem we have is keeping them in! I’ve never seen sheep to be able to jump or push under anything like them! When we have them in the pens they are clearing hurdles or pushing under them. I wouldn’t say there wild...

What top links do folk recommend ours is getting worn I don’t really think we need one with a claw end as I never use it anyway it’s for a class 640 so cat 3

Maybe not the right place for this tread but we need to buy a new mower we kick everything out ASAP after cutting is there any benefit of a moco? Thanks

Getting to the stage of getting fed up with no quad because it’s away getting fixed 5 fuel pumps in 6 months) currently have a 2018 Yamaha grizzly 700 what would I be best goin to look at? Thinking we don’t need as big a bike (500 would be more than enough) we sow fertiliser with it so need...

This year we have more ewes and shed space is goin to be tight we are thinking about trying to lamb 40 ewes outside all our ewes are easycares so they should suit ok my biggest concern is feeding is some crystalyxs buckets enough to keep them goin or shud we feed them some meal? we have a couple...

Goin to look a 640 at the beginning of the week what is there to look out for she is a 2012 with 4500hours are they a good all round tractor

Has anybody else had problems with fuel pumps on there Yamaha 700,got a new fuel pump 2 months ago and needs another now.only run it on maxol premium unleaded. Does anybody else have these issues or Is it just us

We bought a mchale f560 3 years ago but the bale count was unknown as the clock said 10000 but there was obviously more. We have had the bottom roller on the chamber crack at the ribs just wondering what sort of lifespan others were getting out of them just as a guide

Went back into sheep last year and bought 30 mule ewes and 25 easycares breeding them to a meatlinc ram was pleased with the lambs with my preference leaning towards the easycares. The only problem I seen with them was the easycares seemed to take a lot of bad bags as we had to cull 6 out of the...