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I am sending some stores to market tomorrow and they are not as clean as i would have liked will it matter or would it be better to clean them up a bit ,Will it reduce price as they are at the moment
They are fine well fleshed as well..hope you have a good tradeI am sending some stores to market tomorrow and they are not as clean as i would have liked will it matter or would it be better to clean them up a bit ,Will it reduce price as they are at the momentView attachment 763184View attachment 763186
The backs are shaved in a fashion with sheep clippers ,Do you mean come over the top of the tail and down it a bit,they have a fair coat on them as were running in an open yard unto a couple of weeks agoI wouldn’t worry about those few clarts
Run the shaver up their tail heads
Yes, just tidies them upThe backs are shaved in a fashion with sheep clippers ,Do you mean come over the top of the tail and down it a bit,they have a fair coat on them as were running in an open yard unto a couple of weeks ago
Yes all home bred Hereford sired, used lim this timeNice cattle them, are they home bred?
They look wellThey won't be the muckiest.
This is a year to spend on feed and try to save on bedding.
I don't follow my own advice.View attachment 763330
Dry cows on straw, treacle and straw.
Yes give it a try with the better stuff and send the average stuff to a saturday marketGoing to Bakewell presumably .
Yes give it a try with the better stuff and send the average stuff to a saturday market
All of them or just the plainer stuff ?Keep them another 3 weeks if you can , forage is low as you are well aware .
All of them or just the plainer stuff ?
only enough haylage to 1or 2nd week in Aprill, cows are a bit to plain to put them on straw and molasses and need the space for cows calving soon but not going to let them be give awayAll of them . normally trade will be red hot by now but this year is different .
Should sell well, Alistair always bangs on about named sire on his reports so they must sell well there.Yes give it a try with the better stuff and send the average stuff to a saturday market