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I realise this is a bit of a open question because everyone seems to like different powders but I just wondered what other people get on with. The powder I've been feeding is an.. 18% protein 22% oil 35% skim I've reared plenty of healthy strong calves on this powder but it's comparatively...

Is anyone else seeing a high challenge at the moment? Very rarely do we worm any stock over 9 months old but I have a significant chunk of the milking cows coughing at the moment. They have no other symptoms, no runny noses or eyes and no temperature or milk drop yet so we think lungworm is...

Is this really a thing? I haven't spoken to St Merryn yet but last time I sent down mature bulls the price paid was a complete pee take. I've a few 4/5 year old Herefords to move on. I'd rather just get a couple minced for staff freezers that give them away for a few hundred quid. What...

Can anyone recommend me some parlour fans? Last week's heat was obviously fairly unpleasant but the main reason I'd like to put them in is as a fly deterrent. The parlour is on top of a windswept hill and we have never had a real issue with flies before but this year they are terrible. I've...

The back tyres on our Claas are down to 25/30% and the fronts are buggered. Are the rears too worn to put new fronts on without damaging the transmission because of the difference in rolling radius? The tractor mostly does yardwork through winter and has the post banger on all summer so...

Does anyone know where you can get these? I'm trying to make some drinkers for weaned calves out of 200l barrels and I think the calves will trash a top fill valve.

Any suggestions how to weight it down so it reaches the bottom of barrels? It seems fairly inflexible and prone to floating

Please could someone direct me to the rules on minimum spreading distances from a domestic spring or bole hole in England. On of my landlords is planning on drilling a bore hole in the middle of an arable field to feed his glamping pods. Are there spreading rules on Nitrogen or is it just...

I'm looking at the large feeder blowers on the market at the momentum. Does anyone have any experience with? Lucas Castor 134 Kuhn Primor 15070 Teagle 1010 We run a castor 60 at the moment and I rate it highly but we're looking at putting a lot more clamp silage through it next year as well...

Is there anyone that makes/sells non genuine glass doors for tractors? I opened the door on our Claas this morning and it's just exploded.

Seven years into my CFA and we finally have some decent infrastructure. For this winter I will get by with the machinery I have but looking forward to next winter I'm still struggling to work out the best way to physically feed silages to the cows. This is the layout we nearly have now...

I've had 4 cows in the past ten days with milk fever like symptoms. They are all 200+ days in milk. The current diet is approx 4kg DM maize silage 3kg cake 7 kg DM grazed grass We're still doing building work so only have feed space for 200 out of 500. Is maize low enough in Ca that if...

I have 3 sheds that I'd like to get some lights in before winter. Two are housing /calving sheds and the other is the feed yard that we have just covered over. I just want to be able to see a better than just wandering around with a head torch but it doesn't need to be like daylight. All...

It looks like I'm going to have to rethink my holiday plans, because apparently I'm no longer allowed to drive my old MX 110 on the North circular and I was planning on a long distance urban cruise from Devon soon. Did anyone else get one of these. It has to be strong competition for the...

I deliberately cut cow numbers by more than 10% for this year to make for a more sustainable system that is less dependent on bought in feed and fertilizer I am currently feeding 3.5 kg fw of 16% cake for 1.8 kg MS. Cake is £250ish a ton. On an Arla contract my seasonal (B) litres are worth...

Is this something we're still supposed to do? We run uniform and its all accessible through there so it seems rather pointless. If we are supposed to them I am a touch behind......

This has been an ongoing issue for me for some time because the farms I rent come with no staff housing. I've bought two x three bed houses and split one of them in two so I have nice one, two and three bed accomodations but none are on the main farm. How do others include housing in...

I grow 20-30 acres of summer brassicas each year that is normally returned to a prg/WC ley in early September. We use the same 20-30 acres as a sacrifice field on wet nights in the preceding autumn and spring and this year I am going to be bale grazing the late calvers on it through April...

Calving was going a bit too smoothly until a couple of days ago when calves started dropping dead at less than 24 hrs. There's nothing a bit ill, they're either a picture of health or dead. We're calving in three sheds at the moment and this is only affecting one. My vet thinks there is...

100 + calves available. They are mostly blue with some Angus and Hereford. They are out of Jersey x fresian grazing cows and will thrive on a forage based system. Most of the blues are from a Cogent bull Crackly bank lord and have come out red. if they go as a group £70