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    All things Dairy

    Last time RT were here that's what I used, it was covered in blood and calf sh!t and excepted it, ever though it looked like a drunk spider had done most of the writing 🤣
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    All things Dairy

    Spoken to next-doors this morning, they lamb couple thousand ewe currently and is having a morning of picking up what was health lambs yesterday dead😕, snow last night means rehousing for us with very little silage
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    Mule or quad

    Been and seen Rob today after rest rescued wife's car from Landacre Bridge 🙈 and now have a nearly new quad coming next week sometime, calves broke out this morning and had next-doors help with their gator and I released I do need speed ,as calves just ran circles around the gator.
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    Mule or quad

    Ran a Suzuki carrier 4x4 In New Zealand, was great on the flat not sure it'll cope on the hills, jimny in local machinery dealers may go and see it, but mate has one and is rusting badly after two year's with cow muck and was a clean vehicle before he chopped off the back.
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    Mule or quad

    I seemed to have killed my 2000 450 honda, looking at 2nd hand diesel mule or 2ndhand 420 honda, just need it for getting cow's and moving fencing around, would travel between our 2 farms once a week( 2 miles away), which I going to be the best longer term or more dairy farme proof
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    All things Dairy

    Was in docks and some clover 🙈, plan is to drill forage rape into the stubble for summer crop and then into grass,clover and plantian, was planted mid October which was a little late, but with the mild winter it's grown better than I hoped
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    All things Dairy

    Rye and vetch growing well, plan was to graze but ground to soft.
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    Foot crush

    Our foot trimmer has one and is on about a upgrade, 60k for a new one.
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    50:50 maize palm kernel

    Rolled maize is brilliant, just don't have it hammered as seems to cause acidosis iffeed in large amounts, so I've found
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    50:50 maize palm kernel

    Lots of it in there $hit which you can feel while your doing Ai, I know it has oil content but they are getting better at getting all the oil now, so reducing all the time, bit like Sbeet totally different feed then 20 yearsago
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    50:50 maize palm kernel

    It's fine as a forage replacement and that's it , it's like feeding sawdust in the 80's, looks great on paper but not digestible
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    50:50 maize palm kernel

    We tried to feed pk in parlour and it will drive you mad, but I'll feed 50% maize or Maize gluten with 50% SBeet ,works for use but only feeding up to 5kg/day
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    Where to buy a farm abroad with opportunities to actually farm

    Yep, but them fairly high up on the crazy scale 🤣
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    Where to buy a farm abroad with opportunities to actually farm

    I've looked at Tasmania, Argentina, Uruguay, in that order ( 1/4 Spanish and can get by with language) all for dairying, but wife can't live a hour away from her parents 🙈
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    C dax slug master, sowing grass seed

    Have you got a fancy top link for it now @jimmer?
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    Drought 2024

    It was trying to snow early this morning 🤬🙈
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    Calf prices

    They also do horse livery ( 40 horses) that their money earner, but I think they do all right with Thier beef, as just purchased another 130 calves this week.
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    Calf prices

    Calf rearer next-door, they buy a lot of sub £25 calves ( which used to be friesian bulls, now Angus) ,they expect high losses the 1st week then they seem to do OK, they reared stuff never tops the market, but they bother welll
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    Calf prices

    Spoken with dad this morning, as he went to market, surprised with the amount of cheap ( less than £15) mostly Angus and not jersey x stuff either quite strong too
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    Calf prices

    Our average calf sale price is high, (top sedgemoor most times) , so I can't see much profit in keeping them, but guess the ones we do keep are the 25% poorer or wrong colours calves so won't have the same calf value
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