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thorpe

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reading other threads on here i thought suclers were on there way out looking at the last 2 posts i hope there not . have some just not been producing the right goods?
 

Hilly

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Hampton

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Shropshire
reading other threads on here i thought suclers were on there way out looking at the last 2 posts i hope there not . have some just not been producing the right goods?
I like the cows and take a lot of pride in the herd and the calves which we fatten.
I don’t get the same job satisfaction from bought in cattle (which I fatten too).
also, I sold 9 homebred cull cows this week and they averaged £1300. Not bad considering the youngest was 13!
 

Cornish bob

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
We had no grass until 2 weeks ago then it just jumped out of the ground after some much needed rain.the view for the week has only been about 20 feet due to fog makes checking the calvers at night hard work !
 
Are you all Lim bull onto BBx cows now? You have great cattle!

Thanks yes have been all lim bulls for a couple of years now but bought a blonde this time to go across some blues to breed some heifers. Also have a number of first cross lim cows and are keeping the 3/4 heifers back with a view to buying a blue bull next year to put back on the lim cows, again to breed heifers. Then will keep criss crossing the three breeds. A work in progress and they can always be better!
 

bean

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Location
holsworthy
Thanks yes have been all lim bulls for a couple of years now but bought a blonde this time to go across some blues to breed some heifers. Also have a number of first cross lim cows and are keeping the 3/4 heifers back with a view to buying a blue bull next year to put back on the lim cows, again to breed heifers. Then will keep criss crossing the three breeds. A work in progress and they can always be better!
Do you think you lose much milk once you get away from first cross from dairy?
 
Do you think you lose much milk once you get away from first cross from dairy?

It's a bit too early to tell as we've only just started retaining homebred heifers but I think it's inevitable we'll lose some milk but as long as its not a huge amount and detrimental to calf weights I can live with it. If anything the blue x dairy can have too much milk early on and I just want to tidy up bags and have a slightly more functional cow. I love the blue x dairy but they don't last that long and the calves are quite inconsistent, either top notch or slightly disappointing. Hopefully a beef bred cow will start to give a more regular uniform crop of calves. Time will tell.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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