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I might be buying a trailed forager soon to do a few neighbours silage does anyone know the going rate per acre? No one round me does it so struggling to get a price!

Usually we buy all our calves in the autumn right through till Christmas but I've been offered some now. I'm just wondering whether this heat will be an issue and fly trouble on them? Indoor rearing system.

The original plan was to stock fence the whole farm but now as I'm getting rid of most of the sheep and increasing cattle numbers I was looking to just put two strands of barbed wire round the fields. I was just wondering what people's experience is on whether it's enough to keep large groups...

I've seen a few people have chucked calves out round my area just wondering in this weather with calves that are a couple weeks away from recovering from mycoplasma (extreme pneumonia) is it a good idea, bearing in mind I'm nearly out of straw!!

I bucket rear a fair few calves a year and this year is the first year I've had some on the bucket the same time as lambing, I'm usually fairly consistent with feeding times usually but with all the jobs that come with lambing I've just been doing them as and when I can question is: is there any...

Does anyone dock there ewes before lambing to keep the back ends cleaner? Not that my ewes are dirty just it'd be a lot easier to see when one is lambing?!

Does anyone know what the going rate of round bale silage bales by a Mchale fusion would be?? Have a few I need to shift, thanks!

Hey I'm down in mid Devon and looking for a scanner for 160 ewes anyone about?!

Can anyone tell me what this is and how to treat it please?! It had pneumonia fairly recently and kept it indoors planning to chuck it out tomorrow but noticed the skins peeling back!

Have 60 odd bales to shift what's the price at the minute or per ton? This years good quality

Have 90 store cattle which we rear from calves to 24-26 months old we do a home ration of rolled barley and soya protein how much are you supposed to feed per animal roughly? And sheep have rolled oats and soya protein how much per head for them at lambing time without causing problems?

Anyone know if formalin and golden hoof can be mixed together and do one run through the footbath??!

We've got 230 ewes and 85 bullocks and we've managed to move and control with just the quad but now the numbers are gradually rising just wondering if it's worth thinking about getting a dog to help me out and to relieve my grandad from having to help out so often but with those numbers would I...

Bought a Suffolk ram lamb back in august from the NSA sale in Exeter, put him in with 48 Suffolk ewe lambs and in a week and four days he's only done three is this normal or is he going to be useless? Going to sort out a fertility test this week and get hold of the seller but I really don't want...

How many of you are doing it? Recently decided to do the entire flock due to 75% of the flock coming down with it and the last couple of months maggots in their feet which start climbing up the shoulder and onwards! But the question I have is one dose a year enough as two doses will make you dig...

Just wondering how many of you out there still do it this way?! This is earlier this week we picked up over 40acres this year!

My opinion is that farmers could struggle a lot if the subsidies are scrapped how do you lot think we'll survive?! But I think out is the best way to go for the whole country!

I've had a couple this year that are a couple of days old fine and the next day all they can do is sit down and crawl around a bit? What's wrong and how do I fix it the last one I gave penicillin every day he never got up as a couple days later he was dead :( !

As the title says I was wondering if it has to be chopped first? And if it will wear out the machine any quicke? Will the sugars in fodder beet cause it to rust any quicker too?! Thanks!

Should I only feed fodder beet to bullocks if it's been chopped up first? Has anyone heard of it?