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Just had our TB test read today. 1st yearly test after being down on and off for a while. Tested 450ish Cows and youngstock hardly a lump on anything except one 1st laction heifer, with a big lump and a reactor. She is one of our best heifers 80 dim giving 38l, just back in calf and one of my...

I am looking to convert our far off dry yard from a straw yard to sand cubicles. I plan to get the preform sand cubicle curbs that bolt to the floor. My worry is drainage, with a solid concrete floor should I put something at the bottom of the sand to allow wet to drain from the bottom. I have...

Sorry if this has been covered before. A bit of a newbe to direct drilling, have started with neighbours drilling with there (new to them) weaving drill. Have a couple of fields coming out of a 2 year legume ley (ab15), we cut them for silage a couple of weeks ago. Was thinking of spraying them...

Think we might of messed up on registration of a few calves. My mother who is in self isolation usually registers the calves, but due to her self isolating and the fact the girl who does the calves, sister was ill we miss registering some calves in the 27 days. Do you think it is worth talking...

Has anyone else had cows eat envirobed? Put some in for the first time this morning on a small row of cubicles and a whole lot of cows have come and started eating it. Rang manufacturer and they say they have never heard of it but nothing in it to harm them. Hope it is just that it is new.

Think we need to redo water heater in dairy for parlour and tank washing. What do others have? We have solar panels ( 30kwh), and I was thinking about combination with a heat recovery system. At the moment we have a 500l tank heated by our farm2000 straw burner, the burner is the other end of...

Not sure have done best job with grazing cows this year and aim to do it better next year. We are AYR Holstein, monty, brown Swiss cross herd AVG 8500l but not very even herd some cows peaking at 50+l. The cows have been out day and night since march, they get cake in the parlour and a buffer...

Looking for in calf dairy heifers. Wanted for Ayr calving, grazing herd AVG 8500l. High health status, and good solids. Current cows a mix of HF, brown Swiss, Monty and crosses. Gloucestershire but happy to travel for right heifers.

Is it worth doing? At present conventional dairy farm that rears all calves, Angus, blue and Sim crosses as well as dairy steers for beef selling them fat. Once weaned they get cake and hay to 6 months then grazed on permanent pasture over summer or tmr ration over winter with a some out on...

We are considering converting to organic. Does anyone know a good consultant who could talk us through the process and offer advice.

This might of been covered in the planned holistic grazing thread, but I have not been able to read all 6300 posts yet. I have been trying to work out what is best way to get most from cow slurry and cattle FYM. There is lots of nutrients in there that I wanted to get most out of itit witho...

Not had any results by text or email for April. Is it just me or others missing results too.

Fed up with the tube coming off wormer when using to worm cattle. Going on line to buy a new gun, what are recommendations. Does anyone else have this issue, hate losing valuable wormer all over floor and spend ages cutting tube heating it up etc to get it to fit better.

https://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/suspension-of-veterinary-medicines-containing-excipient-diethanolamine/ Just seen this. Assume it means can not get finadyne from vets anymore, but are we allowed to use stock on farm? Been encouraged to use it much more by vets recently. Not sure what we will use...

Have four heifers ( around 26 months old) for sale with aax calves at foot. Three bull calves and one heifer calf with brown sim. Named sire. Pictures a couple of weeks ago with last picture of calves from yesterday, picture of bull sire also.pre movement tested and ready to go. Based just...

Have a four week old blue cross calf on milk that can not stand. He is a lump of a calf, keen to drink milk and eating hay and cake. No scour, temp normal, happy and perky but when you do lift him up he stands and wobbles for a bit then falls over. He stood to be fed Saturday pm, then could not...

Have advertised locally for weekend staff for feeding dairy herd. Have had a few good applicants and hope will fill role soon. Tonight I had 15 year old lad with no experience ring up looking for work. He would not be suitable for the role, but feel I would like to encourage youngsters to get...

We have a chap retiring later this year, he has been working on farm for 20 years. Not sure what to give as a retirement gift. Not had anyone retire before, what do others give?

We struggle a bit with butterfat in summer when grazing. Have a couple of fields to reseed and will probably try another herbal ley. The one 17 acre herbal ley we have seems to be the cows favourite field, though they don't eat the chicory in it. Have been searching for effect of different...

Wondering if to put some of our bluex and simx heifers in calf to calf at 24 months, or sell them fat at similar age, they are currently out at grass. We have a dairy herd and normally take all calves through to fat ( unless dairy heifers as replacements). Have an Angus bull about to come out of...