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  1. Devon lad

    ProClova xl spray

    Cheers, I’m not that well up on it to be fair just a Article I read,
  2. Devon lad

    ProClova xl spray

    New clover safe spray apparently just been released. Anyone know of any uk distributor? Tia
  3. Devon lad

    Mule or quad

    Quad all day long had 2 rangers, for about 3 years went back to Honda 500, build isn’t what it used to be but you barely put a spanner to them
  4. Devon lad

    Thoughts please

    I’ve fly sprayed and ivomeced my 12 month old heifers already to try to stop this problem but ours is also associated with a bad wart problem. But I think flies are the underlying issue. Since we don’t rear them close to a big river things have improved a slight bit. I’m not sure if out...
  5. Devon lad

    Thoughts please 2

    Bought a 2nd hand spreadabale 3 years ago, absolute game changer for us spring calving, calves and calving cows get bedded without reminding people now, easy to just use part bales rather than people getting tired with a pick or shaking the hell out of the grab.
  6. Devon lad

    Cattle boluses

    No bolusing here last 2 years, 85% 6w ic rate last year, 8% nic in 10w. All I do is mag chloride in water. First year I tried every other cow, then following year late and older cows. Didn’t see any difference in ones bolused or not.
  7. Devon lad

    Arla

    Seems about right Arla=housed system, oh apart from the advertising
  8. Devon lad

    Arla

    The lack of evening meetings was annoying, especially for us spring calvers and also because most of us are high users of fert.
  9. Devon lad

    Arla

    We use Nrm for our soil samples, is it straigt forward enough to get an Organic matter test done that Arla accepts? Can’t see it on their sheets?
  10. Devon lad

    Teat sealing heifers.

    Did this for 10 days, probably retrained half of a group of 14
  11. Devon lad

    Teat sealing heifers.

    Reviving this topic, just wondering if anyone’s still doing this? I’ve got quite alot of heifers that arnt lying in cubicles and wondered how close to calving can you do them?
  12. Devon lad

    Semen straw thawer

    Anyone still just using ambient temperature water to thaw straws? Sexed and conv. Tia
  13. Devon lad

    Capital Grant roofing questions

    Just been awarded a good amount to cover some unroofed yards and a roof for a silage clamp that is yet to be build(replacing existing non saffo compliant clamp with new one in existing location). couple of queries:- 1. Can we draw down stage payments on individual areas that are to be roofed? (...
  14. Devon lad

    Neospora

    We’ve had it creeping in here, milk test all cows before breeding. Don’t serve any heifers to dairy when there dam has tested positive. All Nic cows blood tested
  15. Devon lad

    Production

    You might find block calving is easier on management and staffing 🤷‍♀️
  16. Devon lad

    Production

    Snap ours is 10% down though, wet March and April poached the ground and pushed all air out of it, in May/june drougt baked it so hard cracks were as wide as your fingers, 1st cut quality poor as contractors were flat out playing catch up and some went too dry. Paddocks were thin, crap August...
  17. Devon lad

    Ag maxi problem

    I have done that once already, I didn’t remove the belt but did get the airline in there and give what I could see a good clean up, I guess the belt needs to be fully slack/removed to clean the rollers properly?
  18. Devon lad

    Ag maxi problem

    I can’t get the conveyor belt on my ag maxi to run straight. Even when adjusted it keeps wondering to the edge a day or so after and starts slipping and the belt then moves very slowly. I presume the conveyor belt is worn and a new one should stop it wondering out of alignment? Tia
  19. Devon lad

    Rubber parlour mats to reduce lameness

    Things I did to solve white line in our herd (5000L grazing spring calving) 1. Don’t breed from persistent offenders, look at previous generations 2. Use NZ genetics 3. Increase feed space in yard (front feet mainly) 4. Keep water off of tracks 5. Keep maintenance up on tracks 6. Attend/study...
  20. Devon lad

    At what temp ...

    You have to get Kristal down with a laptop. It’s meant to stop at 3.4 but tanker always says 2.25 or below. Trying to get Kristal to do it when an engineer was passing was near impossible
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