Who is going to kelso.

[Bobthebuilder]

met a few boxes/trailers on the road yesterday, i presume heading to kelso, gaffer and shep going up as we need a couple, personally i prefer to be the other side of town at the race course

 

[Ysgythan]

I tried a 100% grass fed meatlinc some years ago. As well as reducing the average selling price of my lambs it didn't see out it's second season. I didn't find that very acceptable!

Client of mine used them on a little small holding on a hill above Swansea. He put lambs in the freezer and swore they tasted better. I suggested he use a Texel and castrate them.

 

[Ysgythan]

I'll have a cup!

It’s called Skyfall now - there’s a world of puns open to you…

 

[Woolless]

Took some pictures of my bull
Fit as !!!!!

You wouldn't have known which butt to ogle first

 

[glensman]

So what different in adjusting for say trace elements and adjusting for soil power?

You can't adjust your geography (unless you buy a better farm)

 

[glensman]

So what different in adjusting for say trace elements and adjusting for soil power?

What type of grass management do you practice?

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

You wouldn't have known which butt to ogle first

You wouldn't have known which butt to ogle first

Speak for yourself, I've just googled her, I know where my priority would be.

 

[M-J-G]

If they can't manage grass they are unlikely to have the best genetics imho.

But there is much more to it than that.

2 people could manage grass equally well, but one could be running a sheep only system and I might have only 10% of the farm stocked with sheep and the rest cattle and arable, where their sheep never know a day without grass or clean ground.

I know a breeder who has 300 acres and 150 ewes, most of his land is cut for hay with about 50 acres for spring barley, his sheep cannot help but thrive with all that winter grazing and could easily do better than superior genetics on that same farm if it were stocked with a thousand plus ewes and no clean ground, but having more sheep doesn't make him a worse manager.

 

[Bill dog]

Photos please folks !

 

[Nithsdale]

Nice pen of Chevi's for @Gator to get stuck into

It would appear some of the rams are undercover (I'm presume this is a photo from today, and not from previous years)

 

[Top Tip.]

Nice pen of Chevi's for @Gator to get stuck into

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It would appear some of the rams are undercover (I'm presume this is a photo from today, and not from previous years)

That photo is from a previous year.

 

[ShooTa]

is there a livestream??

 

[Oldmacdonald]

is there a livestream??

Best look at each of the auction companies selling.

 

[Nithsdale]

That photo is from a previous year.

I did think that... bit too sunny for today - but live in hope

 

[Nithsdale]

is there a livestream??

I'd really doubt it. Too much hassle setting up as many rings and live feeds from a remote site

 

[Ysgythan]

What type of grass management do you practice?

Slow rotation

 

[Ysgythan]

I'd really doubt it. Too much hassle setting up as many rings and live feeds from a remote site

The Welsh Mules struggled with one.

 

[Gator]

Nice pen of Chevi's for @Gator to get stuck into

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It would appear some of the rams are undercover (I'm presume this is a photo from today, and not from previous years)

I didnt go

 

[glensman]

Slow rotation

Is that some new fangled kind of set stocking?

 

[glensman]

But there is much more to it than that.

2 people could manage grass equally well, but one could be running a sheep only system and I might have only 10% of the farm stocked with sheep and the rest cattle and arable, where their sheep never know a day without grass or clean ground.

I know a breeder who has 300 acres and 150 ewes, most of his land is cut for hay with about 50 acres for spring barley, his sheep cannot help but thrive with all that winter grazing and could easily do better than superior genetics on that same farm if it were stocked with a thousand plus ewes and no clean ground, but having more sheep doesn't make him a worse manager.

I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about and that it's the big picture/ macro side of things rather than individual situations.