Today at work

[glasshouse]

Xmas eve

 

[Dian Landman]

Got going on 4th cut for the season. Still going strong. Maize is also looking awesome. 2 months since planting and already at 2.5-2.8m in length

 

[JP1]

Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home

 

[Jerry]

Taking out bales with the new quad trailer.

Very pleased with it. Can’t hardly see where I went over the roots where if I’d used the merlo there would be two big ruts now.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Last few days :
Wednesday night rescued my sheep from the flood water in the dark - no photos .
flooded office at day job
Christmas morning feeding neighbours sheep stranded on an old embankment to save him coming out on Christmas Day
Today was able to get to one block as the floods have dropped a bit to see the water

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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Very smart. Jamie's efforts at flooding the weaner market I take it?

 

[Banana Bar]

Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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Jamie looking well.

 

[JP1]

Jamie looking well.

Yep he's very content and happy . Kind of him to invite us round for a proper look before locking down the unit for bio-security

 

[Chips]

Don't know if it counts as work , but spent the day fitting all the bling my son had for Christmas for his tractor . Twin whips, cab mat , cup holder and neon JD sign .We'd already fitted chrome mirror guards and sprayed

the grills , apparently it's Lit !

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Taking out bales with the new quad trailer.

Very pleased with it. Can’t hardly see where I went over the roots where if I’d used the merlo there would be two big ruts now.

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Do you use the camper van much ... I'm so tempted to buy one

 

[Jerry]

Do you use the camper van much ... I'm so tempted to buy one

Haha. No not mine. I store about 70 vehicles, caravans, Motorhomes and boats.

 

[Banana Bar]

Yep he's very content and happy . Kind of him to invite us round for a proper look before locking down the unit for bio-security

I didn’t know he had stated his own unit.

 

[Elpresidente]

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Courtesy of an amazingly talented member on here....rhys got a personalised dribble bar and reeler

What an awesome present

 

[grainboy]

Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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if that’s modern day farming, can understand why the anti’s don’t like it,
Not a piece of straw in sight,

 

[Pan mixer]

Boxing Day morning early, collected Freddie and off to the new unit before it gets locked down for bio-security. Present unwrapping this afternoon when we get home
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Nice pictures @JP1 the unit looks lovely too. It seems absolutely bizarre to me that they are only instigating biosecurity now when they should have done it before they moved any pigs on the place, or are you talking about Covid biosecurity?

 

[Pan mixer]

Just the day to clean out a few drains - well there is no family to play with now that they have all been shut away by the Government.

and to wander round a bit to find where the varmints lookung for hares got in, a gateway into another persons field at least a mile and a half from the nearest road.

You would have thought that the hedge plants there were big enough to put them off but they just drove over them.

 

[JP1]

Nice pictures @JP1 the unit looks lovely too. It seems absolutely bizarre to me that they are only instigating biosecurity now when they should have done it before they moved any pigs on the place, or are you talking about Covid biosecurity?

The site has been a construction site up until now. No entry to pig areas throughout. Now it's totally shower in / out, pig free for 48 hours minimum to even get through the front gate. I should have made my post clearer

 

[JP1]

if that’s modern day farming, can understand why the anti’s don’t like it,
Not a piece of straw in sight,

No mycotoxins (especially in wheat straw that is sadly all that is available).

Piglets just like babies born in near hospital conditions

Depends on your viewpoint but you have to ask who's welfare is most important

As in all things it's the management that is the key to welfare

I passed a few outdoor units on the way home and they have their own challenges (and I say that as a very keen student of yesteryear who really wanted to go in to outdoor production long before it was fashionable)

 

[Pan mixer]

No mycotoxins (especially in wheat straw that is sadly all that is available).

Piglets just like babies born in near hospital conditions

Depends on your viewpoint but you have to ask who's welfare is most important

As in all things it's the management that is the key to welfare

I passed a few outdoor units on the way home and they have their own challenges (and I say that as a very keen student of yesteryear who really wanted to go in to outdoor production long before it was fashionable)

I am an indoor pig farmer amongst other things. I would hate to keep my pigs like those in the US for example but this chap justifies the way he keeps his pigs quite well I thought.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

No mycotoxins (especially in wheat straw that is sadly all that is available).

Piglets just like babies born in near hospital conditions

Depends on your viewpoint but you have to ask who's welfare is most important

As in all things it's the management that is the key to welfare

I passed a few outdoor units on the way home and they have their own challenges (and I say that as a very keen student of yesteryear who really wanted to go in to outdoor production long before it was fashionable)

Thank goodness the pig industry in the UK is a broad church. That new unit looks a real showpiece.
One thing that I can't understand (and i've told Jamie this) is why they're producing a lot of weaners rather than finishing pigs from fewer sows.
Recently I had an attempt to utterly shaft me by a finisher and a marketing group over a weaner contract. Thankfully I've been in the pig job long enough to have a few friends and I miraculously got an alternative outlet. I wish Jamie and co luck!