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  1. J

    Calf Rearing- Powder and Calf Machines or Pasturised Whole milk

    Very true. Not as expensive to fix though.
  2. J

    Calf Rearing- Powder and Calf Machines or Pasturised Whole milk

    At least a bucket and teat feeder aren't very likely to break down.
  3. J

    ABP Yetminster

    I know of someone who sent a load to try and never again. Apparently their weights were coming back 2-3kg deadweight less than their normal slaughterhouse
  4. J

    Whats your typical day??

    @unlacedgecko i am aware of the theory behind feeding a bottle. Unfortunately my wife gets rather annoyed when I hand the little man back looking like he's been for a swim in a bulk tank.
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    Whats your typical day??

    Wake up 3.30 am via a screaming child alarm clock. Make bottle. Give to wife to feed aforementioned child Head under pillow to try and get back to sleep. Get up 6.45-7. Insert matchsticks in eyes. Coffee Up to farm to feed and check calves 8.30 coffee and days planning meeting/argument. Feed...
  6. J

    Grass seed rate for wedding

    My brother sowed a new lawn last year. He'd been annoying me so I spiked his lawn seed with westerwold. Think he might as well of bought BP out the amount of petrol his lawnmower used that summer.
  7. J

    Have I Found a Bomb?

    We're doomed. We're all doomed
  8. J

    Have I Found a Bomb?

    Don't panic, don't panic!
  9. J

    Bad day yesterday!

    Sounds like one of our better days. As we say about home -" it's not farm management it's chaos control"
  10. J

    When is a Champion not..

    Rob was dangerous enough before he took up cage fighting. Does indeed sound like a large amount of unripened grapes. Surely if the animal is good enough to be judged champion then that's all that matters
  11. J

    Fattening lambs

    One of my best mates is an auctioneer and he said the first lesson he was taught is that the buyer is the enemy when you are on the plank. I've seen him and his boss both stop an auction and tell a buyer to stop arseing about or get lost.
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    Fattening lambs

    What is the purpose of a grader? Not having a dig at anyone but surely the buyers know what they want i.e. Some leaner lambs some fitter for different jobs. So why have them graded let the buyers do it to earn their slice of the pie.
  13. J

    Sheep eating nettles

    I wish my bloody sheep would eat nettles.
  14. J

    H & L calf feeder

    6 litres per day 1 litre per feed 150g powder so 900g total powder.
  15. J

    Shear Endurance 50hr

    Jesus Christ! That's incredible! Fair play to that bloke. I did 73 last Saturday afternoon and felt like my spine had fallen off until thursday.
  16. J

    Complaining Neighbours

    Ensure silage is fed an hour earlier in the morning to ensure a nice early start. All staff feeding cattle must be dressed in appropriate attire, preferably a mankini in order to provide suitable footage for the video camera. Safety wellies must also be worn. we have a couple who moved into a...
  17. J

    Shearing cost

    I was summoned to do the father in law's 4 pedigree suffolks last night. Lambed in January and none of this new fangled "low input" rubbish. Old school feed em til they can't eat no more. If it wasn't a charity case I would have charged by the acre.
  18. J

    Has anybody ever got rich through farming?

    I have made a million from farming. Bloody easy. Shame it cost me two million to do it.
  19. J

    Swedes for fattening lambs

    Where would I get that from Yale?
  20. J

    Swedes for fattening lambs

    Cheers very much for the advice. Was supposed to have drilled them on Saturday but the bloody courier left them at the wrong address. Just waiting for the weather to dry up so hopefully this weekend.
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