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    Calving gates

    Does anyone know of anywhere in the UK who make calving gates similar to this style - The compact calving gate or the standalone ones?? https://tullyforge.ie/calving-gates/ Looking to bolt it to a H beam in our handling area that can walk the cow into once being through the crush Thanks
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    What is so wrong with just farming...

    Honestly what is so wrong with just farming nowadays?? All you hear is we have to diversify, we need to be shopkeepers, or sell ice cream, or have tourists on site, or go into rewildling etc etc etc...... You dont see any other industry getting pummeled so much that they have to basically go...
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    What to dose cattle with this time of year?

    If there at the 600kg mark, surely you will be killing them in the near future?? Will there be a need for any treatments in that short period and save ££££
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    What weight do you kill cattle on

    So just wondering what liveweights people look for in there finaihed cattle before considering killing them?? Do you tweak it per breed or use same weight across the board 😄
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    How stupid can people really be....

    Thats the one! More tech savvy than myself 🤣
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    How stupid can people really be....

    Cant upload the video, but basically how stupid can people be, to not only try and do this but also video it. In the video the fella jokes as he pulls a PTO shaft off whilst it it still running for the people who havent seen the video 🤯🤯
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    Ktwo 1400 Evo Muckspreader

    Have a Ktwo 1400 Evo muckspreader, had alot of work and wear and tear Looking to replace the chiesels on the 2 beaters at the backabd the 6 paddels (flails) at the bottom of these Looking to see what the roughcost of these materials are as having trouble finding anything online for them Cheers
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    BVD jab balls up

    Question -Why dont you jab your heifer calves for there 2 dose course when they are a weaned calve at same time as Cows, so then they already done well in advance of bulls ever going to them!
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    Stirling Bull sales October

    How do most folk think it will go this year??? Price come back a bit with folk reducing herd numbers or think bulls will stay strong?
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    The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)

    They are finished on a TMR ration, bullocks and heifers not selected for breeding do not go back outside to graze once housed there first winter! Push them on and get rid of them as quickly as can is the plan, whilst still hitting targets over 3 varying breeds.
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    Salary/Wages/Hours/Days off, what's normal?

    Currently there is alot of jobs out there in Agriculture, if you know what your talking about then its easy to find one that suits you, paying well, good conditions and time off elsewhere now. Id move ASAP even if he offered a wage increase as he sounds like a W*****
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    The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)

    Load of cattle away start of the week. Mostly fat heifers with some bullocks in as well. All around the 16-17month mark with bullocks over the 600kg mark and heifers ranging from 560kg-600kg.
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    Grass situation for all

    How is everyone getting on this year with amountsof grass? With fertilisers so high we have only used it once on grazing ground but now as it has all ran out and weather is getting very dry woth ground being solid it is disappearing onfront of us very very quickly.
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    Where else to advertise a job

    Website 4xtrahands gets alot of footfall through it, has alot of good CVs listed as well that you can look through
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    Bulls failing MOT test

    Answer a few questions as i feel ive done all can do on famr side. All were perfect health wise, C.S, scrotal suze etc which is good, all feet been trimmed up a while back so no issues of lameness and none needed treated during winter! The 2 that failed on the day, they have been ran inside...
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    Bulls failing MOT test

    Only reason havent tried to take a natural sample is no cows really easily near to bring in and none of the bulls are halter trained etc so makes it a bit more difficult
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    Bulls failing MOT test

    Just looking to see how others seem to get on We MOT and Semen tested ohr bulls this year. 9 of them in total 2 failed on the day due to poor semen samples with not enough swimmers, oneis a 2year old virgin bull the otherjs a 4 year old bull who was used last 2 years with no issues 2 others...
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    Vets no longer working in outlying area

    Work near big university practice! From what they say about 75% are females who from year one want to go into small animal veterinary as it pays better and has more sociable hours! Having 15 years livestock experience behind me and leaving school aged 16 with box standard grades they have said...
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    Bringing on a breeding Bull

    Very wide question to ask here, To all the guys who bring on stock bulls etc what would you say is the best way to do it. We have alot of pire pedigrees here that we just castrate each year to sell fat. But wanting to look at keeping say 3 or 4 bull calves entire this year to see if any have...
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    Lots of calves dieing

    Easiest way to find out is, if youlose another one, stickit on a trailer and take it to your nearest PM lab if your vets cant do afm full in detail PM and give you the exact cause of death! As said dying between 3-7 months is strange, evenon a crap sh!t ration, theywould normally die wlel...
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