Are you serious? You scrape all of the straw out every morning? That is some work but it must work for you because cows looks clean enough.
when we was loose housed we didn’t have a very good setup and our cows were always dirty and mastitis everywhere.
how much straw do you use every day ?
I’m guessing that would be in really big fields, we would have a lot of fields between 2 and 8acres but I should still do 12-15acres a day with no real trouble
Old thread I know but what sort of output does a little 78 have? I’ve seen a nice one for sale. I know it’s how long is a piece of string but in a 2.5ton per acre spring barley crop what do you think?
We are pretty good at getting colostrum in calves but recently the cows that calve don’t give much colostrum. We bring them in for milking as soon as possible after calving (usually at the next milking) and they might only give a litre of milk for me to stomach tube in to the calf which is...
We had a bunch of heifers from the farmer that’s selling at Exeter. Bought our heifers from Exeter in 2017 and some of them have now calved with 4th calf. They milk well and have given little trouble. If you need cows get up there and buy them. Getting digi is all but inevitable so get yourself...
I like that when ever we have a dry spell everyone brings up the 1976 line. It’s just a dry spell and it will rain in a minute don’t panic
(could be famous last words but I’m optimistic)
Looking in my plough for some of these things to adjust and I don’t have them. Which I thought would be the case because if there was an easy adjustment I’d of already done it.
im thinking it’s mainly the tractor wheels but this cross shaft has got me thinking. I take it that it’s a category 3...
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