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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...

I have a kverneland es85, very good plough. And I pull it with a claas Arion 620 which is also very good when I’m ploughing it’s always trying to pull away from the work, so the top link is never straight and it always ploughs the front furrow to wide. When ploughing across a hill it’s...

One coming up in a farm sale. Tell me good and bad point's

Any user experience with one? Looking for hopper capacity and output. I know it won’t be huge but thinking it might do for a few tons each week at our own convience

Any user experience with one? Looking for hopper capacity and output. I know it won’t be huge but thinking it might do for a few tons each week at our own convience

I’m getting really pee'd off with cake price going up by a tenner every whip and flip with no good reason behind it. so wandering about feeding a blend in parlour. We used to do it years ago but we feed more now so wouldn’t have time to eat it all. what does everyone mix with barley and how...

As the title says. there Was some grazing/cutting grass available locally which I put in a tender. I put in quite a bit more than I pay anywhere else and I didn’t get it. What would other people pay for a 6months grazing license

we milk cows and get beef calves aswell as dairy. We have been keeping them and selling as forward stores but the price we got yesterday was embarrassing for all the effort and cost put in. We are always in and out of Tb so selling calves not practical. Anybody got any other suggestions for...

as you can guess from the title. I’ve got about 80 weaned off calf type things on straw and 3kgs of 18% rearer cake already. But I have lots more older youngstock. Should I do the same for them to save silage? They are on winter feed already and silage is going away rapidly. Or is there a...

what does everybody do to prepare ground ready for grass seeding. We cut our corn, emptied out sheds and the slurry pit. I’ve ploughed it in and power harrowed and now I’m ready to drill it with power Harrow and drill outfit. It looks lovely and level when you do it but always rough if you...

there uncertainty whether our contractor will be doing it next year and even if he does I’d prefer to do it myself for convenience. I don’t want to buy an old worn out machine but I know these newer sugar beet harvesters are mega money Is there a simple machine with out there with less...

after terrible weather in September and October, us (and most others in our area) baled up quite a lot of silage at the beginning of November. It’s 3rd and 4th cut so it was destined to be reasonable quality if we could of saved it 6weeks earlier These bales are sh!t to put it politely, I...

does anybody have any experience of these? Need something to spread round bales out along feed barrier and they seem just the job. How fast will they chew a bale up and do they work well on a handler?

I've got a downer cow. Fairly sure she will end up being shot but have to try your best She calved yesterday morning, very big calf. She couldn't get up. If I lift her with a pin lift she can then stand by herself, but falls over as soon as she moves I've put her out in a field now with...

we have an chilton mx95u loader that goes onto our ts115 I'm wandering if it's possible to get new brackets to fit into a different g tractor so 2 tractors could share the loader. Or do they not make new brackets for older loaders

We've been working fairly hard on this for last couple of years, got it pretty low....... Well I think it is. But this morning we came out to find a perfectly healthy (well it was last night) dead. So we're all pi**ed off this morning What would you say is a realistic average for mortality...

Kverneland 600 series or the Kuhn for example. What are they like for round bales? I know everybody is going to say tub but a tub wouldn't be any good for a small mix just to feed say 20calves. Or will a tub do a small mix? I just seen a YouTube video of the kv 600 series and they tipped 2...

I'm sure it's been talked about over and over again, but I can't be bothered to look How much does it cost, say if the owner bought all the cake and the rearer provided grazing and silage and housing? Tia

Luckily I'm not in the business of buying stores. But I sent a couple Lorry loads to hallworthy last Thursday, they were well fed, I'd been feeding them trying to fatten them but they weren't there yet. They made more money in the store ring than I'd of got if I sent them to slaughter, how on...

one in a farm sale not far away in a few weeks. It's a vari-master 123. Good points or bad points? I know nothing about it so tell me what there is to know. TIA