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[WRXppp]

Is it worth the extra £130/T?

We use maybe a bag per week so from a freshness point of view makes sense, also with it being flaked the lambs clean up, used meal in the past and it separates out then you get the 3 or 4which lick the troughs clean, get skittered out, red gut and die, if say I was mixing tonnes per week and chucking in molasses to bind it together then yep no brainer but we are forage based and have around 50 to 75 on .5kg of ration mixa day just to put that bit of finish on them!
Also use it on threes and thin twins in last 2 weeks befor lambing to boost nuts up to 21% to try stop prolapse and gain milk yield.
Total use per year will only be around 60 bags and it works for me!

 

[gasjkh2]

If you farm in the Midlands, give EJ Holdcroft (Derbyshire/Staffordshire) a call and speak to Andrew Williams.

Dealt with Andrew for years. Always honest and upfront with prices, good quality formulations and excellent service. He also has no reps employed driving round in flash cars (waste of money) so he is competitive.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

That's a good price for ewe cake.240 is 30 a to cheaper than Davidson's, is the feeding good, makes your ewes milky?

 

[Gedd]

258 mole vaĺey 18%premium rolls bulk

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Carr's,price up here is 265 for 5/6ton of sheep cake.

 

[Skintagain]

Carr's,price up here is 265 for 5/6ton of sheep cake.

Is that 18% high spec or low spec they sell?

 

[andybk]

Anyone had a any prices for young lamb creep yet ?
side note : for farmers price gone up £7 tonne since dec now £272 , 21% ewe nuts with all the extras

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Hi spec, l take it, Davidson's is 270, farmers 265, nwf 254, going to order some nwf next week 5/6ton to see how it goes, there Irish lady says they sell alot ,

 

[andybk]

Hi spec, l take it, Davidson's is 270, farmers 265, nwf 254, going to order some nwf next week 5/6ton to see how it goes, there Irish lady says they sell alot ,

yea their top one , protected fat , yeast etc , ewes have done well on it this year ,have cut it with a third barley and added some extra megalac , which will bring it back to 18% , kept pre lambing back to 1lb so lambs arnt to big but fit ,then 2lb after , older lambs look a picture so far

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Just had a wee surprise, went to order 6ton of cake, and the lady told me it was a fiver less per ton than 3weeks ago, a fiver is better in my pocket as there's. It's normally lambs that go that way.

 

[Agrivator]

Just buy dairy cake. And if there is any danger of copper toxicity ( very high prolonged feeding and copper susceptible breeds) ask for a low copper brand.
Dairy cake has to be top quality - the cows soon let the dairyman know if it isn't. I have yet to meet a sheep that will let the shepherd know if the cake isn't up to scratch. . That's why a number of sheep cakes have lower energy levels than the silage or haylage they replace.

 

[livestock 1]

Just buy dairy cake. And if there is any danger of copper toxicity ( very high prolonged feeding and copper susceptible breeds) ask for a low copper brand.
Dairy cake has to be top quality - the cows soon let the dairyman know if it isn't. I have yet to meet a sheep that will let the shepherd know if the cake isn't up to scratch. . That's why a number of sheep cakes have lower energy levels than the silage or haylage they replace.

Father bought nowt else for ewes he always said bad dairy cake would be spotted in half a day bad ewe cake is spotted when the damage is done

 

[landslave the 2nd]

Fell off me chair. ....
£326 delivered only need 1 ton in bags... 13.5 me ,19% P, ewe nuts.

 

[Jim75]

Fell off me chair. ....
£326 delivered only need 1 ton in bags... 13.5 me ,19% P, ewe nuts.

Maybe they’ll come and feed it for that too

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Surly dairy cake will be more expensive again than ewe only stuff.?

 

[livestock 1]

Surly dairy cake will be more expensive again than ewe only stuff.?

Not if it’s got less rubbish in it it won’t be

 

[Greythundercloudys]

What is dairy cake a ton anyway??

 

[Skintagain]

Father bought nowt else for ewes he always said bad dairy cake would be spotted in half a day bad ewe cake is spotted when the damage is done

I like this thinking I like this thinking a lot. Sneaky little buggers you lot

 

[livestock 1]

I like this thinking I like this thinking a lot. Sneaky little buggers you lot

Just watch out for the copper in texels etc
It’s ok for us as we are short and haven’t seen an overload of copper here

 

[Agrivator]

Just watch out for the copper in texels etc
It’s ok for us as we are short and haven’t seen an overload of copper here

There are more losses in sheep from Copper deficiency than from copper toxicity.

Ref. Neville Suttle, Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh (personal communication)