ear tag

So it states in the DEFRA guidance; You must ear tag sheep and goats; Within 6 months of birth, if they’re housed overnight. Within 9 months of birth, if they’re not housed overnight. Before you move them off their holding of birth if this is sooner (alive). Does that mean that if you have...

Unfortunately last night we had our quad bike stolen ? we live on a farm with two lanes main lane and a back lane half a mile each lane. The keys was left in it, will insurance still pay?

Looking back in history there was a similar protests( anti war) plus black power at the 68 olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos black glove protest at the 200 metres presentation. The irony I find now is that the protesters use the one knee( as used by th NFL player 3 yrs ago) and It was...

SO....my shearer reckons the hand piece on my horner 12v machine is playing up......was getting hot....but then she reckoned it couldn't get through the wool :scratchhead: do i buy recon type?....send mine away to be looked at?.....buy new?......don't really want to spend...

We sent a cull ewe to auction mart all fine we thought. Letter and cheque came this morning saying it was condemned 12 days later and no payment. History of sheep it was one quartered at lambing so sent it away with one lamb and that lamb was fat and went to the mart on the same day. So my...

I registered a calf on the phone because the heifer who gave birth was 1 year old - Jersey. We had no idea of this until we saw the calf. Sweet calf all is well. I understand this isnt uncommon were taken aback that the bull did this. The calf was registered on the phone obv because the the...

Nearly gave me heart failure when going to the computer for cow cards. Just under 4cm long and chestnut in colour

I've got a one year old SCR system (marketed & sold by Allflex here in NZ), currently fitted to 200 cows on a pasture based system. It seems to detect cows on heat reasonably well (although not as well as tail paint, but that's just my opinion). My main problem is that about 10-15% of the...

I’m pretty sure as think I lost it in a feed ring and it’s not there and one of the cows is pinging the metal detector :oops:, so will it pass through naturally :scratchhead:

Is there such a device as laser to align a row of fence posts? There's plenty for levelling but that's not what I'm after. If so, does someone have a recommendation? Thanks

Am considering lambing everything outside next year and would like to know how people cope with spraying navels, tagging, weighing, numbering etc. We are Pedigree and Signet recorded (and sit on the right hand of the devil) so just wondering how to cope best. What routine works best, that is...

It's my first year 'farming' with just 7 new lambs and I wanted to know people's experience with the new Shearwell combi button versus long thin ear tags? I have Castlemilk Moorits and will keeping them / selling for breeding stock in due course. We're in Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway - so...

I was wondering what people do with calf ears that get infected from ear tag hole. We have had one grumbling along now for a fortnight. Spoke to vet on phone to seek advise , have been spraying up with purple spray. Injected with a long course of pen strep then Alamycin LA. We do not seem to be...

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my first memories of farm life are in the fifties, i was brought up on a small cheshire mixed farm, dairy, beef pigs, poultry, and sheep.We also grew potatoes cereals and green crop,its hard to believe it all fit in on less than eighty acres! the work was done by horses two shires and a...

Bloody miserable now in comparison

I received this on email overnight as many of you will have done I thought it worth posting here to avoid hassles for catt;le keepers and help the Cumbrians who's operations department is mostly valiantly working from home Dear Sir or Madam Temporary changes for requesting amendments to...

We are thinking of setting up a handling pen with cattle hurdles and leaving them in the field set up. Its in the middle of nowehere. How likely would they be to get nicked? Is there a way of marking them to make them less desirable? There are a few farm thefts in the area

HI, Trying to register some new calves but can't get onto the website - it's saying problems with the third party server (?). I know there were going to be a change of some sort on 1st April but, not being tech-savy, I'm not sure what it all means. Can anyone enlighten me or do I wait till...

following on from some of the threads on here i was wondering how people score their sheep?