RMSLLOYD
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There hardly ever is. ShithousesNo British beef in Asda yesterday ....just Irish ..
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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- Start date
- Location
- Cheshire
No idea, just looked through their last few reports. Admittedly I didn’t notice fat cattle anywhere?
- Location
- West Wales
Me neitherI'm in Wales too, and not heard of it either. Maybe they are only informing farmers in Devon, not those it might effect?
I know a few years ago a lot of milk buyers stopped them shooting B&W’s even when they were locked down with TB, minimum age before sold dead now (42 days springs to mind?)
Havn’t heard they are going to stop feeding milk though, they’ll stop them giving colostrum before long
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
I have never been but I had read something a while ago about it. Always wanted to go
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Me neither
I know a few years ago a lot of milk buyers stopped them shooting B&W’s even when they were locked down with TB, minimum age before sold dead now (42 days springs to mind?)
Havn’t heard they are going to stop feeding milk though, they’ll stop them giving colostrum before long
....or it may be another made up 'fact' of course.
and an empty house is better than a bad tennant!
- Location
- West Wales
Dammit if I’d know of this “fact” before last night I could have asked a few big herds I was in a meeting with, 1 had 56 calves born last week, AYR calving, that’s a lot of powder at that amount of calves for 12 weeks!....or it may be another made up 'fact' of course.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Yes they are talking about banning raw milk in wales, who knows if it will ever come to anything or not!
Calves can catch TB from raw milk if the cow has TB lesions in the udder, if she is very badly affected with TB then they will sometimes not react to the skin test ( which the Welsh are also talking about stopping using the current skin test for cattle TB testing )
Small dairy herd near me a few years ago was feeding the milk from a high cell count cow to their dairy heifer replacements, tested the calves after she was found to have TB in the udder ) and out of 26 ish small calves they took about 24 as reactors and i think from memory they mostly came back with TB lesions.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Your not a cattle farmer so why would they be informing you anyway Neilo.........I'm in Wales too, and not heard of it either. Maybe they are only informing farmers in Devon, not those it might effect?
@Jimmywick is it your dad who buys new calved cows too?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Not at all, but I have an inkling that I may speak to more farmers in Wales than you do, and to more people that may be involved in such decisions.
But hey, I dare say they chose to leak the info out ringside at Sedgemoor.
- Location
- north Wales
Sounds like I should move from selling beef in Mold to market Drayton next week!!My weekly report for where I have been this week is this
Monday mold very similar beef and cows
Ludlow hell of a trade clean and cows
Market Drayton cows Monday night hell of a trade
Tuesday Shrewsbury cows similar
Wednesday market Drayton beef and bulls absolutely off the clock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday gisburn cows very dear clean and bulls very dear it’s still all good atm !!!!
It’s sell live and thrive at the minute people!
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
I charged £8 when I done some earlier in yearTook 5 lambs too slaughter tonight, asked the butcher how much I should sell them for as Iv not done any this year and he said “no point doing it if your not charging people £10kg these days”I was thinking more like £7kg
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Never heard anything about it at Sedge.Not at all, but I have an inkling that I may speak to more farmers in Wales than you do, and to more people that may be involved in such decisions.
But hey, I dare say they chose to leak the info out ringside at Sedgemoor.
If you bothered to do some reading/ research you would have found out about it yourself. Thou of course you are too busy sniping away to be doing something constructive like that!
Quite often with things like this possible milk ban farmers on the ground who will be the most affected are the last to know anything about it!
How did they find lesions in the udder? Did she pass the skin test? I've never heard of this test by any dairy farmer, and I feel like I've parachuted behind enemy line as I'm surrounded by them!
Only costs me £30 killing, cutting and vac pac so a 20kg carcass at £140 is still £110 I’m happy enough with that really but £190 a lamb would get me a little happier lol
the handbags are coming out!
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
No idea if this cow ref the heifer calves passed the TB test or not.
Certainly the case that if a cow is really badly affected by TB they will NOT react to the skin test.
I am no expert on TB, so i suggest you get in contact with a TFF member who is and that is @matthew
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I heard of a case (from DEFRA staff, not mart gossip) where a lot of young calves were going down with TB at their first test, but the cows were clear. They couldn't work out what the source was. Eventually the farmer culled an old high cell count cow, who's milk had been kept out for calves more often than not, and she showed up as having an udder riddled with TB. She had passed umpteen skin tests herself, but they reckoned the TB was walled up in the udder.
Very rare, but it can happen.
Lurn something new everyday.
I knew you could find lesions at different parts of the body but never heard of it in the udder. My grandparents and uncles all drink raw milk from the tank as they hate bottled milk. Does make you think!