bedding

The Opportunity: Are you passionate about livestock and dedicated to overseeing the daily care, health and wellbeing of livestock on a thriving family farm operation? Joining a friendly and loyal team at our client’s farm in Angus, the Stockperson enjoys a varied and influential role where you...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The chief executive of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) has said there are some “positive outlooks ahead” for the pig, poultry and egg sectors. David Grint said it has certainly been a “challenging couple of years” for everyone in...

A farm open day in Shropshire next month will offer arable farmers a low cost entry to finishing beef cattle with free on-call advisory support and minimum guaranteed payment terms at the outset. One of the organisers is Buitelaar Group, the “bed and breakfast” beef finishing operator, where...

Written by Claire Sammon from Agriland The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is warning that farmers are caught in a perfect storm, squeezed between margin pressures, high feed input costs, and limited supplies of both forage and bedding materials. According to the organisation, the effects of...

Heaps of manure in pens cows laid in /on it. sh!t everywhere. Is this normal practice??

As a farmers son, almost 40 I do feel stigmatised by my farming friends and family for actually wanting to go home in the evening and weekends to my family. Quite a few of the farmers I know work constantly (12-16) hours a day 7 days a week and do nothing else. Of course they talk they have...

Hello, I require someone to help about 3 hours one day per week. Cleaning out and re bedding duck houses. Also general clean up of yard etc. Wanted someone one physically capable of manual work Keen to get a job well done and tidy. Reliable and Trustworthy. Can commit to a few hours. I live In...

***DAIRY FARM ASSISTANT REQUIRED - SHORT TERM COVER. IMMEDIATE START - LAWRENNY*** Dairy Farm Assistant required - short term to cover illness (4 weeks minimum, but could be longer). Herd of 170, all year round calving (currently 129 milking), plus followers and a small group of beef calves...

We have a good amount of straw bedding fym, and my aim is to try make it into compost; buying a purpose built compost turner is out; but I think I might be able to make something?? I remember reading a profi where a farmer bought one brand of spreader due to even spread; and I’d like to discuss...

After a shitty day, sassy has decided to cheer me up Beuatiful heifer by kings-ransom dynasty ! up and drank 4 litres of colostrum from the bottle within 30 minutes of arrival Potential 16th generation straight excellent Fingers crossed i can get sassy up to ex this time to complete 15 gens...

We are currently building new cubicle housing for 100 cows and are at a crossroads with regards to scraping out. My dad wants to install a lely/jos slurry collector I would prefer to install Storth rope scrapers My brother would prefer to scrape the building out with the machine. Any thoughts?

Just thinking aloud here.. Getting on for spring barley,maybe better off with something else. Thinking a couple of ton of grain maize off the 10a might be better. Would be all fed in house to beef. Can sow it with the combi, Have small conventional combine header to cut it(if it will do it)...

I keep coming back to slats for my chickens, but I don't know owt about them! Chickens are in an old Ag building, with breezeblock walls to 5 foot and Yorkshire boarding above. The section chooks are in now is approx 15x30 foot (one bay) with scope to double this if needed. Shed has started...

Does bedding with straw rather than slats lower or raise the emissions calculations when the production, haulage and disposal of the extra organic material created is taken into account

Neighbours have asked me to help them out. They’ve a couple of paddocks they cut for hay but got let down last year and it never got cut. So now it’s about 6-12” deep of last years crop and needs something doing with it. 1 flail it to about 4” and hope new growth comes through and the...

Thinking of fattening some bulls from dairy cows What’s achievable with Angus bull calves from good sized Holstein cows? If done intensively how fast can they be away? And at what cost ? Would be able to grow all the bedding needed and the dung from this would be beneficial to the wider business.

Previously, the only lambs that were bottle fed were ewe lambs that we were retaining for breeding so I wasn't that worried about the cost of a bit of milk powder and probably kept them on it longer than necessary. This year however I'm keeping any excess lambs (triplets, etc), inc tip lambs...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland Biosecurity involves taking steps to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious disease. This is a responsibility for every exhibitor at shows. This ensures that the exhibitors neither bring disease on to the premises or bring disease back to...

Received an email today from NFU welcoming SFI cap and was a result of their lobbying. Can you believe it. !!

SFI unravelling as the policy makers realise food might be in short supply and as of yesterday (25th March) not taking land out of food production is suddenly important to the government. Is it important to the population as a whole to have home grown food production subsidised? What should SFI...