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  1. G

    Situation Vacant Experienced General Farm Worker

    East Yorkshire. Dairy/Beef/Arable farm requires a full time General Farm Worker with experience. Duties to include: TMR feeding, field work, relief milking as part of a team on a family run farm. 2 bedroom property potentially available for the right applicant. CV required please. Please email...
  2. Princess Pooper

    How much does cold weather affect your milk yields?

    As above. We usually drop 8-10%. Housed cows, down to -5 / -10 at night recently.
  3. M

    NH TS115A hydraulic pump problem

    My hydraulics have quit raising discharge door and unloading table on TMR mixer. It is also whining when using front end loader. Any suggestions on a fix?
  4. happycows

    Changing the way I feed.

    So for nearly 10 years I’ve fed the same blend and ingredients with just an alteration in inclusion to get desired protein from one bin through robot and oopf. It worked well and did 9200/9300 Just 6/7 good quality ingredients. No extras. I did used to feed regumaize 44 ad lib in winter which I...
  5. supercow

    Silage replacer

    Losing 100 acres of silage ground to our landlord, flipping our cow grazing acres and a bit more grazing ground into silage ground, keeping them in 365 tho, what silage replacers could I use? I’m thinking fodder beet, crush it on farm and buy cleaned, 7kgs a day would save roughly 300 ton of...
  6. Milner34631

    New to cattle

    Hi I am looking into bed and breakfast cattle, and looking for any help/advice as I am new to it all. I will be getting them in around 150kg and taking them to around 550-600kg. I am scratching my head on what will be best for wait gain while keeping costs down, I am wanting them in and out...
  7. T

    Anybody got any molasses prices

    As above usually put a bit with the barley to reduce the dust.
  8. Wood field

    Sheep in !

    Our place is now utterly saturated, so much so the tractor slithers about on what flat ground we have whilst feeding bales. I moved the boss ladies cows and am now setting the big shed up ready for housing the in bye flock , typically the forecast looks a little more settled next week. Anyone...
  9. Scholsey

    Neospora

    Have had what has turned out to be a neospora outbreak, not sure on source but 20% of 170 adult cows have aborted most of which in a 3 week period and milk testing at drying off looks like another 50%+ is infected, how have people got on managing a large neospora outbreak out of a herd?
  10. Agriland RSS

    Dairy advice: Easing the Christmas day workload

    Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland Christmas day for a farmer still requires the wellies to be put on and jobs being completed, as livestock must still be cared for properly. Just because there is work to be done, does not mean that you have to spend Christmas day in the yard, rather...
  11. Headless chicken

    Balancing a maize heavy ration

    We’re having some issues currently with cow performance being pretty poor and not consistent. Had a meeting with nutritionist and we’ve played around with some things and hopefully things will improve. Discussed with vets who also have a nutritionist and run the same program as far as I’m aware...
  12. C

    Biotin

    So a well known independent foot expert mentioned at our recent Arla meeting that Biotin added to concentrate is good for lameness. Do others have it added? Does it make a difference? Thanks, CB
  13. D

    Hay

    This is a slightly bizarre and definitely pointless thread but putting hay out yesterday for our dry cows and thinking what a fantastic feed it is; no plastic, no effluent, easy as pie to handle and transport, rumen friendly, cows love it. Got me wondering; does anyone know of anyone still...
  14. DairyGrazing

    Feeding heifers TMR

    Does anyone feed their heifers TMR if so how many rations do you feed to the different ages. I'd like to feed weaning to 9m with the diet feeder to get away from chucking a lot of nuts on top of straw or silage.
  15. Agriland RSS

    UFAC-UK launches new sustainable dairy feed alternatives

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland UFAC-UK has launched a new generation of sustainable feed alternatives to complement palm-free dairy feed supplementation. The new partial soybean meal replacement for dairy diets aims to improve yields, solids and feed conversion efficiency...
  16. Bella_vista

    Controlling starlings

    Wondered what works best if anything does. Starlings been here about a week, more every day. Turn up as it's coming light, away by dusk. We feed on the outside of the sheds so they have plenty to eat. They perch on every bar, every gate. The cows are covered. Been banging the 12 over there...
  17. B

    Adding water to tmr

    Firstly can I say this is for suckler cows, but thought id get more replies here. We made very dry 1st cut pit silage back in the middle of june. I haven't had the analysis back for this 1st cut but its more like chopped hay. They are eating it ok ish. I am thinking of adding some water to...
  18. Farmer_1994

    Tmr and grazing?

    Tossing the idea around for next year of giving the cows free choice access to pasture and feeding tmr still as the available acres for grazing is not enough to fully supply enough forage for the herd. My question is how do you go about keeping a “balanced ration” in that situation? This is a...
  19. D

    Feeding concentrates

    Our parlour feeders are knackered. Keeping them going with welding up anything which breaks and filling in gaps but probably got another year tops in them, its a loft with manual feeding and drops of .9kg each time. Not keen on replacing them as I think really long term the parlour will move but...
  20. D

    Blue Monday

    At 10am tomorrow, the UK livestock industry finds itself in the dock. Campaign group Feedback have secured a judicial review of the Government's failure to implement mandatory reductions in meat and dairy in order to meet climate change targets. Carina Millstone, Executive Director of...
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