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Doors still on it as well

It’s shite isn’t it

We’re regularly shut down with Tb, to the extent last season - autumn 22 - as we got full I had to sell 40 calves under 42 days to an AFU (59.75kg avg) for less than 500 quid. That’s the terms of my milk contract, either keep them or sell at what you can get. It hurt but we couldn’t carry any more.

That might be the case financially but it is increasingly not acceptable for a lot of milk contracts. Producers are going to have to learn to present marketable calves or cut their cloth accordingly. With beef prices where they are at present at least there is a value in taking calves on. as...

The cleanest cows here are tractor scraped twice a day. They are on sand and most importantly, there’s a fall on the floor. The older shed is sawdust/lime/mattresses and has had a hydraulic system removed after 15 years of relatively trouble free use. We tractor scraped it for a year after a...

Haven’t got either but would like a UTV; the H&S aspect with staff being a major influence. Red diesel or electric would be far preferable to petrol. The prices seem ridiculous for notoriously soft machines though.

I’m not sure an RS is better than anything else but the service and backup is exceptional. - Not that we’ve needed it much.

Sudocrem

Had a vet try freezing them off years ago. I think trimming them out/don’t breed off her is your only course of action.

Aisin Warner auto in our 2016 Touareg. ZF auto mated to same V6 engine in Amarok though. Don’t know about the Audis.

No DSG in a Touareg.

When choosing over 10 years ago for dairy cows I went with Ritchie scissor yoke over IAE and Bateman. It was dearer but has been a great crush particularly for the number of Tb tests it’s done.

That sentence really needs an extra comma.

Direct or through broker?

Who’s worth talking to please? Got renewal due in a couple of months and would like to shop around first.

5 days a week 5% formalin while housed. It’s not DD that we suffer with so much as Foul if we reduce frequency.

I worry that higher conscious/lower volume total feed then the greedy/fast ones are going to starve the slower/timid ones.

2 feeds x 4l @125g/l of top spec powder for dairy reps and fair to middling spec for beefies. Aiming to wean at 9 weeks ish.

Having the same ruminations. Had a Shelbourne for the last 12 years and it’s been very reliable, but it’s going in holes in too many places to repair. Like the look of the galvanised AG and they claim to be much better on wet sand than the old ones. Shelbourne spreads anything. Anyone using the...

Can’t see them making 250k. Barren market has taken the floor down, wrong time of year and little demand. I think I’d rather carry them round and fatten them.