- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
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All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
16mm in 24 hours, can finally push fence posts back in the ground. Another such lot today would be nice
- Location
- South Molton
It was 31° on monday afternoon here.
It's now 8° and cold rain this morning.
Pushing the stakes in hasn't been a problem since June.
Happy hillbily
Member
- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Ok who ever is doing a rain dance atm,
PLEASE STOP !!!!!
Since Sunday morning
PLEASE STOP !!!!!
Since Sunday morning
- Location
- South Molton
Its @jondear I saw him yesterday at a sale doing his rain dance with a pile of fencer stakes he bought. He may have had a mask on but I could tell it was him!Ok who ever is doing a rain dance atm,
PLEASE STOP !!!!!
Since Sunday morning
TheRanger
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
1mm in 8 days here makes the ground just about passable to get slurry out without making a mess, after the horrendous rain for the first 2 weeks of September.
Next few days looking good too, if a bit cold.
Next few days looking good too, if a bit cold.
Holsteinfriesian90
Member
- Location
- Cornwall
Anyone tune in to the genus block calving webinar?
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Big ol' boySad day,took probably my best stock bull in,had him just short of two years 946 services booked down,he was quiet as a Lamb,he’d just got a bit fat and wasn’t working.
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Our peg probably has a picture,he was solid,not your typical hatrack Holstein,nearly as wide as high.
Wishful Thinker
Member
- Location
- Northern Ireland
bit of fencing today. Found the sheep wire in a shed during a clear out in spring.Dad reckoned it was at least 25yrs old. Snippers couldn’t cut it, yet go through new wire no problem. He talks the odd bit of sense, stuff isnt made like it used to be.
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
“AI is cheaper than natural service”Sad day,took probably my best stock bull in,had him just short of two years 946 services booked down,he was quiet as a Lamb,he’d just got a bit fat and wasn’t working.
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ha! I like the simplicity of bulls. I recall you were going to try a bit of AI in the past. How did that go?
- Location
- somerset
AI can get you a top notch beef bull, much better than the run of the mill stock bulls found on farm. Few of us dairy farmers, would pay the several £1,000 it needs to buy one. But that money buys an awful lot of beef semen. As we move further down the xbred route, our fertility keeps improving, the need for a quality sweeper bull decreases, our conception to 1st service, was 75%, of the other 25%, those that didn't hold to 2nd, are definitely problem breeders, some just keep on repeating, in our 7week block, we only have 2 cows, +ve, that were served x3, the next lot, not p'd, yet, 19 cows, are not pretty reading, those that are i/c, will either milk and kill, or sell i/c. So it's not really cost effective to spend several £1000, on a sweeper, ours will be a home reared bbx bull, out of a beefy cow. As we move ever closer to the ban on shooting shite calves at birth, those calves we produce, for sale, must be, of 'quality', to achieve a decent price, 2nd, or 3rd quality calves, will be heavily discounted, through the numbers available.
bit of fencing today. Found the sheep wire in a shed during a clear out in spring.Dad reckoned it was at least 25yrs old. Snippers couldn’t cut it, yet go through new wire no problem. He talks the odd bit of sense, stuff isnt made like it used to be.
Pity you didn't buy some proper strainers and posts to staple it to
. These bad boys should outlast the wire
Stuart1
Member
Pity you didn't buy some proper strainers and posts to staple it to
What’s mates rates on those?
What's the staples into?
Can't put a price on a lifetime job
Strainers are 32 ish, final price of post to be set but likely around 8 quid.
Recycled plastic strip cast into the post, 50mm x 20mm iirc.
- Location
- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
That the Ballymena Mart job they were advertising on Facebook?Pity you didn't buy some proper strainers and posts to staple it to
- Location
- somerset
years ago, cast a few gate posts, must be nearly 30 yrs now, 1 got hit off, by a neighbours tractor driver, who took out the falling post, as well, never worked out how he did that, and denied hitting them, but he did dig 2 posts in, afterwards. The rest still work, not the prettiest to look at, but functional. We can now get telegraph poles easily now.