Watching farmers Phil most recent video. Some very poor looking animals in my opinion out in the field. How the cattle surrounded the water tank this time of year when they were filling it would to me suggest poor animal husbandry, they were on top of each other.
Farmers earn more from YouTube than their crops
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It come across to me in the way he worded it they be without water over night as the tanker filled but I’d have thought by the way they come wanting water it was more than just a night
Very very bad animal welfare, don’t seem to do the basics like water and bedding.
They took that farm on in haste by the looks of it. No excuse for not having water supply for the cattle. That should have been sorted before a hoof touched the place. Or have two troughs and fill them both each day. Flow rate of 20L per minute is 11ish hours to fill a 3,000 gallon bowser. Also, said it the first video of those cattle out on that rented land, they need to be tightened up and strip grazed to get the impact they want. Leaving them roam across 20 acres at a time is only going to result in clumps of grass being left behind as he pointed out in yesterday's video.
Wreckit Ralf
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Seen the video where he annouced he was taking on another farm, how it would benefit the cattle, etc and thought why's he bothering, as he struggles to look after the cattle they have at one farm, never mind two. Some of the cattle he's actually shown on camera, and himself said hes proud of, is an absolute disgrace.
Personally they should stick to the contracting and machinery side of farming and stay well away from livestock.
If they spent half the time with the livestock as they do pissing about in the workshop, rebuilding old tractors for the sake of it, their cattle would be a drastic improvement.
I'm not even going to start on the mess of a steading he has, which is part of the problem.
He a bloody embarrassment to farming. I remember when he had some jerseys and kept on about “the jersey boys”, think 90% of them died.
sheep breeder
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He is a poster boy for the calves that are the worst type of animal here in Ireland, at present them type of calves are making no bids to 10 euros in the marts. the jersey boys were a joke with how many died and earlier in the year he was blaming a dose given to calves for bad thrive, he is on very wet low lying land again a bog. It’s only a matter of time before he has a welfare visit with some of the videos of the cattle ( numbers of deaths to the knackery triggers an inspection)It’s all about making content to try get a few pound.
I understand that they buy bad calves but no excuse to do them so badly. I think they need to get up in the morning and be consistent with calf rearing. Need to stop pissing about making pig pens and concentrate on what makes them money.
sheep breeder
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Agree what your saying, but there seems to no plan in place as regards work and don’t like day light, all the other stuff pigs, tractors, future shed builds etc is to make content for videos to get a few bob from youtube, the welfare is a problem that will come back to bite.
Wreckit Ralf
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Watched one of his earlier videos where he was feeding cattle and that steading is a huge part of the problem, there's not a decent cattle shed in the entire farm. If i was in his position I would rather spend the money building a new calf rearing shed than taking on an extra farm and improve the living conditions for my cattle. He seems to be one of these " talks the talk " type. Always goes on about how " fierce good " the silage and grain they produce is, yet their livestock always look drastically underweight.
They're quite happy pissing about in a workshop till the late hours of the evening, but like you said, they obviously don't like getting up the next morning to attend to their cattle.
I think he hasn’t taken on more ground, given up land farther away and taken on stuff that is on the doorstep.
Still would be better spending the rent money on his own place, anyway thats what I would do
Grassman247
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I’ve done exactly the same. Think it’s pretty disgraceful tbh
Mucker4890
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I don't see how they can take the subscription fee but provide nothing in return.
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At least your subscription to Razzle provides some roofing materials after a couple of weeks.