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I'm looking for a trailer for leading bales but also general purpose flat trailer jobs, I've got a 100HP tractor and there are no hills for miles around. I'm a relative newcomer to all things tractor and trailer, it's never been my department before. What length and width do I look for?

I'd say in theory yes, if you were getting them in as stores and didn't want to finish them too quickly. You'll struggle to get the protein up enough using only peas, as they are anti nutritive to pigs at high levels. The silage will provide belly fill and a bit extra to stop them running to fat...

According to the British Pig Association the last one they registered was on the 18/05/1984 A boar named Bridgeworth Baron 34

What sort of numbers are you talking? Small, medium and huge are very subjective depending on who you speak to.

I too started with pet lambs but I used to pay a quid a piece for them.

Don't know about your area but in mine the majority go through live markets mostly going to the big sow buyers. Latest prices. Hull Cull Sows to 40.0p/kg and £118.90, average 38.2p/kg. Cull Boars to 50.0p/kg and £93.00, average 42.7p/kg. York Sows Top price this week from D Angus at 44p/kg...

Are you selling privately or in the mart?

Your end market dictates your sire choice, for instance selling live the Pietrain will always be king as they're buying on visual appearance only, most pigs in my area that go direct to slaughter, mostly on B&B contracts are Hampshire sired, as they are robust, disease resistant, grow like mad...

How many sows are you talking?

How many sows do you have to serve?

I have a kelpie x collie bitch born Jan 16, sired by the kelpie in the attached photo, lightly started but we sold our sheep autumn 17. She's wasted here and so free to a good working home, located southeast of York but will meet up somewhere within reason.

His situation sounds very similar to yours, older buildings requiring modernisation, he had a muck for straw deal with arable man next door and a borehole. His lad just turned 18 and doesn't want to farm, too much work to do on his own but not enough money to employ a stockman.

I've been to view a unit that was set up as an older farrow to finish unit, the owner converted the whole to 35kg to finish at considerable cost to go on contract with BQP, and to cut a long story short the unit it now for sale after only having 3 batches go through, with the owner quoting...

What's the Welsh for less? As in wool-less?

Not just Selby but store pigs in general! Sraw is too dear, feed is going up, fat price has been better.

Selby every other Saturday

400kg bale requires 20kg of urea dissolved in 320-340 litres of water which is then sprayed on or soaked in.