Mad For Muck
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- Location
- Midlands
I think it’s just a Lloyd’s thing! they’ve been a shower of
to deal with for the last 8 years. I just thought I’d see what they offered whilst my usual guy crunches some numbers.
straw based pigs. ideas to stop dunning in lying area
- Thread starter Matt
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I think it’s just a Lloyd’s thing! they’ve been a shower of
to deal with for the last 8 years. I just thought I’d see what they offered whilst my usual guy crunches some numbers.I have only ever banked with Llyods but on our last major dealings with them I started to wonder about others, 3 different consultants from start to finish and a serious lack of knowledge towards the livestock sector, we got there in the end and all was ok but several f..ks put in to a few conversations over delaysI think it’s just a Lloyd’s thing! they’ve been a shower of
Mad For Muck
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- Location
- Midlands
It is like banging your head against a wall with them especially due to the massive lack of knowledge & understanding as you say. Doesn’t help the ‘managers’ don’t really listen so you go round in circles for days & they then come back with something completely different to what you asked them to quote for. Be interesting to see what the others we’ve approached come back with compared to Lloyd’s offer.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Whilst I think they are all a shower, I’ve been lucky that I’ve had two female Barclays managers who were a farmers daughter and a farmers wife in the past and so there is a background knowledge of what is being discussed. The pigs was seen as a safe bet having other clients who were doing similar
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
I have been trying similar and whilst its a winter rather than a summer batch, they do see to be keeping cleaner so far with the exception of a couple of pens. I have been deliberately not scraping tight to the outside wall so that some muck remains so that hopefully they know where the muck area is. I have also switched to scraping dirty material off the bed after scraping the passage. I have been putting a handful of feed on the straw area opposite the feeder (where they had been mucking) and they are now not mucking there. So far, so good.
I would agree with above
I got caught out a bit this batch by having the curtain on the clean side open a bit too much in the cold weather. Been able to clean them up now, but only as the weather has been cool. When warm it’s a bit like a ratchet - only goes one way!
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Our mini skid steer has plenty of lift. Its the grip we struggle with.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
what skid-steer have you got please?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Bobcat S70. Could be 15 years old. 3ft wide and 6ft tall.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
thank you - how high will she reach?
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
They lift to about 2.4m to the headstock pins.
Have a look at an Avant or Multione loader, very low with the rollbar removed
We use a JCB robot 190, no problems whatsoever, can muck out two 1000 place sheds in around 6 hours with minimal shovelling, definitely worth a look.
Jon
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- Location
- South Norfolk
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
To be honest, I found keeping fat pigs in pens of 40 through the summer months to be less pleasurable than being repeatedly punched in the face.
At 9 ‘o’clock this morning I couldn’t have agreed more. Last summer I swore that I would convert the other two sheds to double pens (mucked out with loader) but all is forgotten in the winter months. If I fail to convert them this winter I swear that I will repeatedly poke myself in the face with a muck fork.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Our current crop are very dirty now. We are happy to keep throwing plenty of straw but it doesnt seem to be making much difference
- Location
- Shropshire
Can you not stick them outside during dry weather save the straw bill or is it more mither than it’s worth trying to fence the buggers