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Some incalf heifers out stretching their legs for a few hours yesterday. Chocolate one calved few hours later.
The Fleckvieh X heifer calves seem very sought after.
3 yo Limo bull out with dry cows. For sale if anyone is interested. Had no special treatment just silage and grass. Lies in cubicle’s, easy calving and good at doing his job
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Some incalf heifers out stretching their legs for a few hours yesterday. Chocolate one calved few hours later. The Fleckvieh X heifer calved seem very sought after.
3 yo Limo bull out with dry cows. For sale if anyone is interested. Had no special treatment just silage and grass. Lies in cubicle’s, easy calving and good at doing his jobView attachment 953485View attachment 953486View attachment 953487View attachment 953488View attachment 953489.
Like the milking Simmentals 😉
 

pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
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M6 Hard shoulder

Martyn

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South west
Some incalf heifers out stretching their legs for a few hours yesterday. Chocolate one calved few hours later.
The Fleckvieh X heifer calves seem very sought after.
3 yo Limo bull out with dry cows. For sale if anyone is interested. Had no special treatment just silage and grass. Lies in cubicle’s, easy calving and good at doing his jobView attachment 953485View attachment 953486View attachment 953487View attachment 953488View attachment 953489.
They look great, I would happily put them through our parlour. What's your thinking with moving the limi on as I thought you are a flying herd.
 
They look great, I would happily put them through our parlour. What's your thinking with moving the limi on as I thought you are a flying herd.
I buy them young @ 15/16mths from same farm every year.
As they only need to sweep up a dozen I shift them on following spring when they are ready to go and do a mans job.
Financially I tend to get the use of them for little cost and next person has confidence they will do the job and lie up.
I’ve just been and picked my next one today.

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East Mids
Our August calves still in but going out shortly, depending on how we get on with vaccinating. Really pleased with these, a lovely even batch and other than vaccinations not had a treatment for anything. We don't actually have a vast amount of grass yet; it was -6 a couple of nights ago, short on rain and very cold in the day still.

Also found another sodding badger latrine in the field these usually go in so will have to sort some leccy fencing out. :mad: :mad:
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som farmer

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somerset
Warmth would also be welcome that's for sure, currently having to wear 2 shirts, 2 jumpers and a boiler suit for morning milking!
Managed to find a lovely award of grass!!
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Shame it's on my parents lawn...
grass grows in places you don't want it, quicker than where you need it.
Why does it grow so well on lawns ? Near neighbour grows crops for a digester, and uses an awful lot of digestate, that digestate, plus the manure from his 250 cows, and their y/s, puts his fert use down to under 10 tonne/year. But he has high yielding grass leys, that were planted 10/12 years ago, as 4 year cut/graze leys, they obviously have high P&K indices, but the main difference is, no stock have ever grazed them, his cows are housed 24/7. Going back to lawns, no stock (seldom) graze them either, so we have lawns that infuriatingly grow better than field leys, and field leys lasting x3 their allotted time, and the only same 'factor' is no grazing. We have sown 31 acres of a pure cutting mix, 2 fields, 1 last year we managed not to graze it at all, and had 5 small cuts, the other one sown last autumn, it could be very interesting to see how they perform/last.
 
grass grows in places you don't want it, quicker than where you need it.
Why does it grow so well on lawns ? Near neighbour grows crops for a digester, and uses an awful lot of digestate, that digestate, plus the manure from his 250 cows, and their y/s, puts his fert use down to under 10 tonne/year. But he has high yielding grass leys, that were planted 10/12 years ago, as 4 year cut/graze leys, they obviously have high P&K indices, but the main difference is, no stock have ever grazed them, his cows are housed 24/7. Going back to lawns, no stock (seldom) graze them either, so we have lawns that infuriatingly grow better than field leys, and field leys lasting x3 their allotted time, and the only same 'factor' is no grazing. We have sown 31 acres of a pure cutting mix, 2 fields, 1 last year we managed not to graze it at all, and had 5 small cuts, the other one sown last autumn, it could be very interesting to see how they perform/last.
Well I ve read some nonesense on here in the past but that wins by a country mile.
 

Friesianfan

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Cornwall
I had someone come round and he ended up measuring a few forks with his plate meter, I now wish I didn't know 🙈 my main grazing fields up the top which I thought were looking ok (another week and be ready for grazing) turned out to have a dm of 1600-1800 per ha 😭
Get them in the 15 acre. Any snow? Was up four lanes apparently
 

Ducati899

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north dorset
Ladies went out yesterday,probably the earliest I’ve turned out for some years and haven’t got a lot of grass so have allocated them a couple fields that were going to be silaged pre maize planting and haven’t really got going enough for silage
 

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