Beauty of self feed, they go out and graze hard from the get go.
Offerd 7kg dm. Would say they have ate 5+. There's not much left
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Offerd 7kg dm. Would say they have ate 5+. There's not much left
Dead Rabbits
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I don’t laugh at people with goats anymore. Making serious money these days. A kid this time of year will sell live a touch under £2/kg at 30kg.If you find out let me know
Easy pleased you are, that’s only £60, store lambs would be worth £90 at that weight.
Dead Rabbits
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- 'Merica
Different country, sheep are a bit behind goats here. I point out goats because they have gone up in price every single year for the past 20 years here.
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Don't want @Wesley
Stealing all the glory, big pour tomorrow should see all the passages completed, cubicles next week and hopefully be stock ready by mid February as I've got 35 summer calving heifers being delivered then.
Hopefully milking will commence 1st May.
1 2nd hand lely a4 and 60 later lactation.
Stealing all the glory, big pour tomorrow should see all the passages completed, cubicles next week and hopefully be stock ready by mid February as I've got 35 summer calving heifers being delivered then.
Hopefully milking will commence 1st May.
1 2nd hand lely a4 and 60 later lactation.
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might know for a big number of cubicles and mattresses, coming up for sale, being dismantled shortly. Would forward any interest to owner, will see him friday. Pretty good condition. pm me
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
70 days till April but say they're back in for 15 of them,do you have enough to offer 7 kg for 55 days? At 4 cows/ha and allowing for a bit of growth you'd still want an average cover 2800-3000 now to do that.
More to life
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- Somerset
He's two weeks away from drought so I guess he's not bothered.
mixed farm
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Do you not mole plough it in? Will you be leaving it up on the hedge for the hedge cutter?
Yeah our afc is over 3000. Probably housed to quick. The thought of housing half way through service always scares me. Nov turned out to be an easy grazing month that we missed.
Milking before Wesley?
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Its not a race....
Not sure i’d be confident enough to put money on it with how things have gone so far
Stuart1
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Are you going to be running this as a separate herd?
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Separate building adjoining main shed, only 157 cubicles in main shed so plan is 145 fresh, highs in there and 60 lows,culls, late lactation cows in new shed, all fed same tmr and all fed same nut through the robot. we could of fitted extra bot in existing building but it would of been very highly stocked even with some extra cubicles fitted in feed passage so we decided to reduce stocking density by adding new shed, im hoping overall cost for extra 60 cows including 2nd hand robot and collector on grant will be sub £250k including cattle
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- M6 Hard shoulder
aim is 1st may, junior says 1st aprilNot sure i’d be confident enough to put money on it with how things have gone so far
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Did you consider running it as a heifer robot? I've heard that having heifers separate works wonders as there's less bullying and can be fed slightly differently to allow for growing still
Stuart1
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Have you got the option of running all robots together down the line? What’s the reason for running late lactation cows on the new separate unit when TMR and nut through the robot is the same?
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- M6 Hard shoulder
One mix of tmr a day, one set of feed tables, heifers do receive a little extra in the bot for growth. Chap up here has a designated bot for lower yielders with 70 on it.