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- Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Turning Out
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13923
Re: Turning Out
Put 31 stirks out last week, grass or not. 6 months of scraping them out has done me in. :? needed space for sheep and it just felt good to get rid of them! still being fed at ring feeders but they are looking ok. no grass but it is coming. we dont normally get out until May but they have been in so...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: IAE sheep guillotine gate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3384
Re: IAE sheep guillotine gate
Mightbe too late for you but i have one and i think it might 30kg ish it is a solid thing. lots of metal at the bottom. whikst on the subject i got a whole new IAE sheep set up. ordered 2nd ish week in january. it didnt arrive until the 4th April. i had given up on it. i have to say wish i had got 5...
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Calving!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6552
Calving!
Started calving last week slow and steady. But whilst feeding the cows out on the hill i noticed a cow who had clearly calved. fearing the worst i got back to the farm and went out on the bike to find what had happened. found a healthy little black beauty sat on his own. cow dutifully came over to c...
- Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Turning Out
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13923
Re: Turning Out
No grass here at all, we will be feeding all livestock for weeks yet! it has never been so bare this year has started badly and i hope it doesnt continue. we are so dry 10 days since last snow/rain and its been a gale every day. dust blowing around. it will take warm rain to bring anything on. in an...
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Awful weather
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5932
Re: Awful weather
Saw footage of the snow around galloway last night on scottish news. Livestock stuck in small pockets of clear ground surrounded by deep snow. Seeing it, you think there must be thousands of dead stock lieing under the drifts. We have very little snow but the easterly winds are brutal. it would be n...
- Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Mini baler and wrapping system
- Replies: 36
- Views: 325614
Re: Mini baler and wrapping system
wont ask about prices, but would like to see pictures!
hope it dries up enough to use it.
dom
hope it dries up enough to use it.
dom
- Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: TB Disaster
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16389
Re: TB Disaster
Its just terrible, i just cant imagine what it must be like to live under the shadow of TB. Does it make you question keeping cattle? When our four yearly is due it sends me over the edge so every 60 days must be a killer. bring on the cull, but also surely a tb vaccine should surely be considered. ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Scrumptious Dexter Beef
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4728
Re: Scrumptious Dexter Beef
Yes we do it to spend more money every year!
- Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Scrumptious Dexter Beef
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4728
Re: Scrumptious Dexter Beef
Thats why we do it, isnt it?
Dom
Dom
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Pedigree or Commercial
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20423
Re: Pedigree or Commercial
Apart from a few, nearly all my dangus have been sold as stores through the local market. they got reasonable money as 15 -18 month old 500 -660 each. i have had a couple through the butchery, but i cant give you facts. only the beef was good and sold well. i have about 30 of them just weaned, so i ...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Weaned the 2012 crop today
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6490
Re: Weaned the 2012 crop today
Gave up with the cow on saturday morning. called out a neighbour with a suitable firearm to dispatch her.
if i could have got her back to base we could have given her time, but where she was was just terrible.
never mind
dominic
if i could have got her back to base we could have given her time, but where she was was just terrible.
never mind
dominic
- Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Weaned the 2012 crop today
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6490
Re: Weaned the 2012 crop today
Sleepless night was not the worst of it. went out to the cows wednesday morning, saw a black shape stretched down alongside a fence, on quite a steep bank. went over and its a bl**dy cow. she must have slipped down the banking, and as she slipped her foot became stuck in the stock netting. she was h...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Weaned the 2012 crop today
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6490
Weaned the 2012 crop today
I have taken advantage of this dry spell to wean all the cows. In my system i keep the calves on the cows until feb/march. then turn the cows out and keep the calves inside. we should calve april/may. It a good chance for me to see all the calves together and see what i have to sell for the year! i ...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Pedigree or Commercial
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20423
Re: Pedigree or Commercial
Oh ahhh! Well i think you make of cattle want YOU want. As ever with our trials me and Clive are very close! The Angus is too big, too hard on the ground difficult for me to manage. The dexter is just a bit too small. i no longer want to breed just for my butchery. i need a bit of commercial size, s...
- Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Any Scottish members on board ?.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2495
Re: Any Scottish members on board ?.
I think there are plenty of us on here. but discussion has been very flat for a while now.
We need something to debate!
dominic
North of the border (gladly)
We need something to debate!
dominic
North of the border (gladly)