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We used intranasal stuff in the past, worked out at £10-£11 P/H, can’t remember what it was though. Last year we gave all of our calves a small dose of Engemycin at housing time. Worked out at roughly £2.50 P/H. Didn’t have any cases. If you’re finding pneumonia is resistant to the vaccine a...

Agricar, have a feeling I might be to blame though as it has been left on the tractor when not in use and the tractor isn’t always stored inside

Had a feeling that was the case, thought it would’ve lasted longer than 20 months though

My E z guide 250 isn’t finding any satellites with the AG 15 antenna but when I connected up the patch antenna it found 12 in a minute. Is the AG15 broken or is there something else that’s causing it?

No dogs here. Bought some bullocks two years ago that had been hammered with a quad, went to check them once with it and never done it again.

I’m going to post some pictures of our stock for anyone interested An AI experiment with stabiliser. Sired by Stan the Man, which was available from cogent same calf at 4 moths Her calved a 22 months with a Hereford heifer which will probably see the bull this summer at 13 months...

Quads and dogs are great for sheep but a dangerous combination with cattle, especially in the wrong hands. We’ll only use the quad if we need to bring them in to calve which is never much faster than walking pace unless it’s a heifer which usually requires a lot of patience. Even checking with...

We bought some luing x heifer calves in October they’ll hopefully go to the bull in the summer at 15 months old

What are they crossed with? We’ve got quite a few now off friesian’s. They’ve only been introduced into our herd in the last 2 years. They’re very docile and often want their heads scratched. We’ve also got one that’s off a hill farm locally, it’s certainly more energetic but still easy enough...

As I said earlier most breeds have a bad strain somewhere. We’ve bought angus that have smashed through fences for fun and had shorthorns that could clear a high fence without touching it. A lot is to do with they way they are managed from the calf stage, they remember bad experiences

We’ve found that to be a big problem with salers, they were either one way or the other. Our oldest cow is a saler, she’ll be 10 this year, had 11 calves (3 sets of twins) and she’s still as fresh as she was when we bought her but bad strains have ruined the breed

What was their reasons for constantly changing? Difficult calving? Stock not as good as they expected? Or were they just indecisive?

We consider ourselves to be open minded. Some of the buyers though aren’t. I was once told I was wasting my time with breeding Angus even though they are similar weight and size to the continental’s that will have had more feeding. They work well for us but we want another breed for replacements

I’m sure the ones I heard about were off an AI bull, so could’ve been from another country. After an incident that I mentioned earlier on we don’t keep anything that causes problems.

How do you find the Bazadaise to work with? We were told a long time ago there was a bad bloodline somewhere that bred bad tempered stock. That’s said most breeds do have a bad strain somewhere

Anyone know much about Aubrac’s? Seem to be on the increase over in Ireland. Are they any good or are they a flash in the pan?

Our youngest bull that’s blaelack sired is quite plain. We’re hoping he’ll fill out though as he’s not 2 until the spring

Got 2 fordel ones, 2 drumdow that are blaelack sired and a linburn one that’s in the picture

For a while Charolais were the in demand breed around here, but over the last few years there seems to have been a change, Charolais are still popular but Angus seem to becoming popular again, there’s an article in this weeks farmers journal about it. We like the angus and have worked with them...

We have a neighbour with blonde’s. A breed that’s never really taken off here.