More than £150 less than £200. I'm sure they will give you a farm specific price if you call them.
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Headless chicken
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Yeah price wise. Tbf haven't had a proper chat with him yet will speak with him tomorrow morning. What are you feeding now?
Agree your right there but it depends what they need I guess. Handy means of getting mag into them ATM
@Agrispeed is going to be ready for May, but started calving in Feb.How is it progressing @Agrispeed
Getting there. Still technically a suckler herd I think
Have a shed, have a concreted hole in the ground. Hopefully going in the next 3 weeks or so.
Currently milking 3 through the crush with a portable milker. Milking alfresco quickly gets boring. Only planning on milking problem cows until we're up and running.
We had no calves from 25th Feb to 14th March, which has helped.
14l from a freshish jersey OAD on hay tonight, didn't think that was too bad.
No regrets, as I could get the right cows at the right price this way.
Cows 'n grass
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I've never dealt with Harper's. My 14% hdf cake through our buying group would fall into that same price bracket and has a fair bit of wheat feed and pk in it anyway.
Ohhhh, the mind noŵ boggles.
Plenty of milk with your cereal then.Getting there. Still technically a suckler herd I think
Have a shed, have a concreted hole in the ground. Hopefully going in the next 3 weeks or so.
Currently milking 3 through the crush with a portable milker. Milking alfresco quickly gets boring. Only planning on milking problem cows until we're up and running.
We had no calves from 25th Feb to 14th March, which has helped.
14l from a freshish jersey OAD on hay tonight, didn't think that was too bad.
No regrets, as I could get the right cows at the right price this way.
We've been experimenting, as we hope to do some processing later on. So far we have made butter, icecream, yoghurt and latterly frozen cream that apparently has seams of ice running through it.
Bit like this here at the moment
Cows 'n grass
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Have you got one of these yet?
Happy hillbily
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- Uwchaled, North Wales
A bit of shopping today
Local farm dispersal sale at beeston today, all 2nd calvers, probably paid a little too much, but genuine sale, i knew the history, and the cows on a similar low cost system to ours, so thought was worth a little extra.
I thought getting them into my parlour would be a problem
But with a little cake in they went !
Nice quiet cows
Local farm dispersal sale at beeston today, all 2nd calvers, probably paid a little too much, but genuine sale, i knew the history, and the cows on a similar low cost system to ours, so thought was worth a little extra.
I thought getting them into my parlour would be a problem
But with a little cake in they went !
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- M6 Hard shoulder
What sort of money were they ? @farmertom said fresh calvers in the collective sale were strong money today. Another good herd in beeston on monday, might be another day out
AGN76
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- north Wales
Good luck with them @Happy hillbily, they'll be tough cows coming from where they did
Iogijones
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- Denbighshire
Why were they selling?!
Happy hillbily
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- Uwchaled, North Wales
Sent you a message
Happy hillbily
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Allt Ddu was in our discussion group, so knew the cows, and the system he had, @AGN76 yes tough cows but a bit of a shock for them, going from 700ft asl to 1200ft asl, a few of my grazing fields ar as steep as their old ones so should be right at home.
@pappuller the cows Ranged from £580 to £1900, I averaged £1320 for my four, all 2nd calvers. Im happy with what I paid, knowing the history is worth a little more.
@pappuller the cows Ranged from £580 to £1900, I averaged £1320 for my four, all 2nd calvers. Im happy with what I paid, knowing the history is worth a little more.
Iogijones
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I heard rumours but not the full story! I knew him as well.
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Were the dearer ones fresh calved ?Autumn calvers amongst them ?
Happy hillbily
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a quick look through the catalog showed the lower priced cows were the ones with higher cell counts, not much difference between the fresh or the autum calvers though
http://www.genusbreeding.co.uk/?bulls=end-road-beacon ( the left three below), featured heavily in the cows, i'm not much use with picking cows on paper, as when i saw a lot of the cows in the flesh, they were crossed off my list, the herd here is a licorish allsorts herd, with jerseys, brown swisses, sweedish reds, mainly frisians, and now 4 holsteins, two of them match my cows for size quite nicely, the other two stand nearly a foot above the rest, the Ai guy commented this morning ' I see you have bought at least two ! ' , they do stand out from the crown ! only just fit in the parlour !!!
http://www.genusbreeding.co.uk/?bulls=end-road-beacon ( the left three below), featured heavily in the cows, i'm not much use with picking cows on paper, as when i saw a lot of the cows in the flesh, they were crossed off my list, the herd here is a licorish allsorts herd, with jerseys, brown swisses, sweedish reds, mainly frisians, and now 4 holsteins, two of them match my cows for size quite nicely, the other two stand nearly a foot above the rest, the Ai guy commented this morning ' I see you have bought at least two ! ' , they do stand out from the crown ! only just fit in the parlour !!!
lazy farmer
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Looks brilliant. Especially considering the rain you had a couple of weeks ago. Chapo
cows not doing a bad job of grazing, as i had to spread this with 30m2/ha of dirty water 3 weeks ago as tank was very very full! currently 20% up on last year as cows doing over 2kg/ms
Was wondering what your soil type is ?
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£216 for a grass balancer...., no Thankyou!!!