boumaticboy
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Do they do a chalk walk service like cogent and genus?
Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker
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How much is a new gun?
Ballygreenan
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- Location
- Tyrone NI
Around £25 IIRC
Ballygreenan
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- Location
- Tyrone NI
DM me.
jay
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- Location
- Co Down NI
Shake out some straw below them, Its supposed to help.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
have heard stories of cows standing for days!
I won't be leaving them overnight
Ballygreenan
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- Tyrone NI
I left a heifer gated for a week. Thankfully it was at the end of the feed bunk and I was able to leave water in front of her. She was lying down OK, removed the gate and she went straight back to lying out on the slats. Next time she got 10 days confinement, which worked a treat!
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- Northern Ireland
We still have a couple of tie stall positions which dad configured for this situation back in the sixties. In cubicles with an end wall. It's been years since I needed to tie one up, but it works. They'd have more freedom of movement and comfort than with the gate behind them.
Whitewalker
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When we moved into the new shed we had 12 cows on straw because they refused to lie in cubicles , took years to work them through the system but we have none now . I’d give in and bed them on straw. We tried that all nothing worked for us
As z has said, calf cubicles the way to go. Teemore cubicles went in here 10 yrs ago and it trains them for life. I still have a few bullers kept in slatted pens but they still know what a cubicle is for when they see one. I used to watch my da torture himself with contraptions and it put me off. I let them lye on slatts for a few years and cleaned them for milking. Calves stay clean despite cubicles never being scrapped.
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Stuart1
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Bought 20 cows out of England about 3 years ago, they’d never seen a cubicle before only straw bedding. Took around a month to get them all laying, they hated it. Tied them into stalls for hours at a time but 6 refused to lay so would give in and put them on straw bedding. Lost 8 within 6 months, they just melted, couldn’t cope with the change. Would never buy cows off a straw bedded farm again.
Ballygreenan
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- Location
- Tyrone NI
Our calves/heifers never see cubicles. Calves are on straw older heifers on slats. My son moved 8 over for a pre-breed warm up (hoping to implant embryos) within 1 hour thru were all lying up in the cubicles!
Stuart1
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I do the same with my heifers and younger calves and it seems to work ok. These where older cows 2nd & 3rd lactation, guess they where stuck in their old ways.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
There is absolutely no point in only doing it for a few hrs them letting them out. We would tie in over night. Occasionally one would break out but we only ever i cow we couldn’t train after a week we gave in.
that said this was 20 yrs ago haven’t had to teach heifers since they went into cubicles as calves.
that said this was 20 yrs ago haven’t had to teach heifers since they went into cubicles as calves.
Iogijones
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- Location
- Denbighshire
Railway sleepers in the passage works for me so its not comfortable to lie down and eventually they lie in cubicle
boumaticboy
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To be honest it is a scandal that ad plants have a two generators one off a second address to double up the subsidies. It’s far from green energy and the subs are paid from average joe on their leccy bill
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- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Arlene Foster’s officials used dodgy numbers to secure biogas subsidies
Two weeks ago, Northern Ireland’s spending watchdog urged Stormont to look again at an expensive and environmentally-damaging subsidy for electricity produced from biogas.
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