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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

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...

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 😄

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 🤯🤯

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

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?

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.

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...

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...

Never have any real success with our pet calves (Beef HHerd. Try twin on all that we can as any we keep on the bottle and offer a calve mixture to with water avaliable just never seem to do! We have in the past kept them in the individual pens we calve in and unsure if maybe there just not...

What do folk do for there autumn calving beef cows to prevent mastitis in them? Usually we try to cover them start of July with fly pour on but every year get 5 or 6 out of 90 that get hit with mastitis! By the time they are noticeable the quarter is already shot and usually the cow has to get...

Let's see some interesting of everyone's bikes and what add ons do folk have for there bikes! Boxes that are useful or added metalwork to stop damage from cows etc

Looking for advice on the best route of getting rid of.young fat bulls! They are average age of 10 months just now and there average weight is 490kg. They are a mix of Limousine and AngusX Bulls, currently doing above 2kg DLWG Currently my thought process was take them to 650kg live weight...

Who uses it in there calves and who doesn't?? What was it that made you decide to vaccinate with it and or why don't you?? We have never used it but lost q calve this year that vet reckoned was clostridial so considering it

With this hears prices of fertiliser being so expensive is anyone considering only spreading on there grazing ground once and rely on the weather coming good to hold the swards strong into the autumn?

Had an interesting conversation with our vet today about poorly calves/ scouring calves! How many people administer there own fluids via IV in calves on farms or do most still call the vet out for that???

Pet Calve 6 days old, tiny twin only 25kg! Feeding all good, slight scour but tonight found on its side totally bloated up! Tubed down throat but nothing the traditional way and reading it will be bloat in the Abomasum on the right hand side which there is Is there any tricks or that can try to...

Have looked and assume there will be threats on this already but not coming up What is folks thoughts on these for calves??? Pricey around £120 but if save one calve it has paid for itself One man calving band here so can be difficult to hang calves up to clear lungs etc ( and it's advised...

We recently installed a new large electric energizer that is going to have to do alot of Km's! How important is it having an insulated cable from the earth terminal to the earth rods?? We currently just have a plain wire between but it does run along the top of a concrete wall, along the...

Looking to see whats out there or if people have any info on some concrete water troughs! Looking to replace all our old metal water troughs in 2 of our sheds that sit on metal stands, they get moved around alot depending how we set the sheds up etc, but we are looking to see if there is any...