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Can any one recommend concrete water troughs for mixed grazing store cattle and sheep? What size would be best? Typically run mobs of 100 ewes with lambs and 10 cattle. On 4ft galv ones at the moment on fancy concrete blocks but lambs can’t reach into them and ground around some has got low now...

Got chance of a 60x50 shed potentially and trying to make a bit of a budget. How much would it be worth? And how much to put it back up again?

Sorry if its been covered already. For several reasons I want to sell all my lambs by September next year. Will draw fat over summer then cash the rest in through the store ring. What breed of tup would make an ideal store lamb over Lleyns? Used Texel in the past and happy enough apart from at...

Another sheep conundrum! 10 days ago we gathered a ewe up that had been out with her lamb 4/5 days, walking round in circles, star gazing and stumbling. Caught it up and its mouth was rammed with un-swallowed grass. Within 15mins of fetching it in and ringing the vet she had filled her gob...

How hard or even worth trying to build a bungalow on our 70ac farm? Currently my 66 year old mother has the farm house on her own and I live 3 miles away and drive down everyday (3 times during lambing). Dreaming of building a bungalow for mum so I can have the big house and be able to potential...

Any one got any advice on swapping to outdoor lambing? Currently lamb 165 ewes and 30 hogs inside along side a full time job. I take a weeks holiday and rely on my mother to check during the day but cant do this for ever. I started to swap onto Lleyn ewes 7 years ago and the majority are pure...

Got a field of permanent pasture to reseed and aiming to drill straight into it. Sprayed off two weeks ago then had some p,k and lime. I want to drill straight into it however slightly concerned there is to much old grass still there. Hogs and empty ewes are on it but don’t really touch the...

Keep getting a few ewes with what looks a perfect udder yet one side has no milk at all! Udder is very hard and one big perfectly smooth lump. It’s not hot,sore to touch or red and ewes don’t seem sick. Typically find it when lambs look a bit hungry. Antibiotics and loxicom don’t seem to make...

Blood tested ewes back in December as we have bolused ewes pre-scanning for last 3 years but never tested them. Adequate for cobalt and selenium however iodine came back this week as very low. We are 6 weeks pre-lambing so have upped their cake, chucked some blocks out and going to vit drench...

Evening, going to reseed 2 more fields next spring after how well lambs have done on reseed this year. Don’t want to chance going from grass into grass again though due to leather jackets so want a break crop for summer or ideally till following spring. Next two fields are both 25+ year leys...

How much would you charge someone for summer cattle grazing? I'd check them every morning? Would only want some weaned calves or bullocks and I'd check them. £3 a week?

Don't get me wrong I love my lleyns and think they suit are farm perfectly however we never had a problem with mastitis till we started with them. We've had big teats at lambing time that needed stripping out and jabbed two again this morning. Don't think we've over done them with feed before...

Got a field of permanent grass I was going to overseed this spring but my gimmers have trashed it after the snow and rain so think I proper reseed will be best. Want a break between grass crops to reduce leather jackets and do the soil some good then cultivate and reseed early autumn. What...

First year cutting naked oats with a 30ft lexion 760. Anyone got any settings? Presuming they are very light so easy to loose

Anyone know where I can get the fittings to rig up an IBC up to a water trough?

Old meadow I wanted to cut and wrap this year has gone to seed quickly, some nice clover and leafy grass in the bottom but a lot of stalk too. Is there any point in wrapping it or leave it for hay and buy more cake in?

Is there a spray or spray mix that will kill docks and dandelions but not clover? Struggling to establish it again so don't want to kill what I've got

Looking to introduce cattle to the farm as I have more grass than sheep and not enough time for more sheep. Ideally sucklers but haven't access to the funds to get going so considering rearing a batch of calfs November, December time when I'm not busy at work, turn out in April then sell as...

Starting to scape the barrel for ideas here but have had a lot of still born lambs again this year and spend loads trying to find the problem and got no where, no common abortions have shown up, nor schamalenberg or borders disease. Changed feed this year and bolused but no better. Remember a...

I've a 10ac field which has been in zero input for last 10yrs coming out of ELS soon. It's very heavy land ploughed twice in the 70s and never since! It grows enough grass for what we have needed but would be great if could get more out of it. It's very wet land and in about 2ac and there's a...