This is better than farming today…the picture of the drover /driver with the fruit cart has got his wifes coat on its buttoned up the wrong way unless his name is nancy…
Wrighty what sort of volume do you carry regarding Goats milk if any,the boss and me have been on it for at least 10 years, we both have a job to pass any brambles lol. you will have to open a BANDB in one of them barns…pdb
Evening PDB
We have carried goats milk in the past but only very small volumes, don’t think we do any at the moment though.
Cheers Wrighty.
PDB that chap with the fruit cart is in Holland and they are LHD so the buttons might be correct, sounds like you and the Mrs need a bit of rough ground to forage in. Had me porridge now got to set up crush and gates ready to sort out the ten steers going to market tomorrow,
Just for my records where is your abode situated, I know where Wrighty is now and looking that up in a minute on me 1949 AA map book.
They definitely know some thing is going on, got the crush and gates all set up ready for tomorrow mornings sort out as to who stays and who is off to market with truck read also in loading position. Got soaked doing it all mind but as wrighty said its all part of the job, Buzzer
Well Buzzer this farming life isn’t all a bed of roses when the wheels fall off they usually do it big style, went into the cubicle house yesterday morning to find one of the pure limi cows down having done the split’s.
They must have been fighting and she’s gone down, five months in calf with her second and the vet said there was nothing that could be done so she has to be shot. Heartbreaking to say the least and to put’t tin hat on it we had to caesarean another cow as well, oh well as they say it never rains just pours things can only get better.
Cheers Wrighty.
How sad ! 
Wrighty so sorry to here your bad news and as you say its something you just have to cope with from time to time but its hard to take. The los of the cow must be a net loss of about £1500 plus and would not want to hazard a guess at what a caesarian operation costs, takes the shine of the year as that takes a lot of getting back, as you say the only way is up mate Buzzer.
I’ve got it easy feeding Freddy the goat, 3 times a day and walking him up the hill after each feed. Can’t wait to be able to tie him to a different tree each day to keep the weeds down!
Gazzer when that Freddie gets fit to kill you will be so attached you wont be able to bring yourself to sign his death warrant.
Been busy today on the farming bit and cleaned out the front of the cattle shed round the feeder ring, only ten in there now so more room, took four loads down the village to a keen veg gardner, reckon a good 16 tons of manure which he will stack up and let rot down, he gave £30 to Stevens charity that he is doing at the moment. When finished gave the steers some beef nuts so you have a view front and back of them getting stuck in
Ah! Someone said if you name an animal you’ll never eat it!
That’s certainly a tidy set up you have Buzzer, how did you get on at the auction ?
Parked up at Kingsbury tonight off to Acton in the morning, finish Friday for a rare weekend off well when I say off I mean farming…!
Cheers Wrighty.
Hello wrighty sorry to hear about the accident,the only time i have seen them doing the splits was coming out of the cattle truck off the truck ramp then on to concrete in to the lair-age in a rush to be first, and go a pearler splits all round…
Buzzer i can see from here what a fine looking beasts you have there, do you still feel each side of the tail then lumps each side to see who got the fat ready for the butcher.
One job we used to do when the cattle were in the market pens two of you would get in with them to take the ear numbers ,we took it in turns you would stick your hand up gripping each nostral fingers gripping the centre to hold the head still,while the numbers were taken, and it works snotty job but you would get a good drink for it also covered in ■■■■ and the other nice stuff especially been on nice wet grass…that was the job so all you moanners out there, that was a cattle truck drivers lot…pdb…
wrighty:
That’s certainly a tidy set up you have Buzzer, how did you get on at the auction ?
Parked up at Kingsbury tonight off to Acton in the morning, finish Friday for a rare weekend off well when I say off I mean farming…!Cheers Wrighty.
Hi Mate not so good at market but the falling kill price does not help things but having said that I kept the ten biggest back, think I should have stuck with cows but less of them. On Tuesday there was a cracking pen of ten Lim steers single suckled 12/13 mo and they made £930.
Was going to ask you what a pedigree Lim heifer should cost as I fancy getting some maybe eight or so, they have the shape about them and always do well at auction even the heifer calves so your input would be good, seen some for £1500 but seems a tad on the dear side what do you think.
Had trauma today as the bolts holding the old loader on snapped even though I was not using it, took it of now so only the frame left so tomorrows mission is cleaning out the horses, this I do every six weeks or so but easier when you can turn them out while you do it. You always find something to do when you got animals but it keeps me out of mischief, cheers Buzzer.
Evening PDB
Think it’s called sod’s law 99% of the time they slip and just get up the other 1% ends in disaster, but still that’s livestock farming you just have to shrug it off and carry on.
Buzzer
The trouble with pure cattle is valuing them because it’s not always the best looking that breed the best calves, in the past we have bought heifers to establish our herd but now mainly use AI bulls to get different blood lines.
£1500 is quite expensive for a heifer unless its from a well known breeder or a proven blood line, Alice went to a dispersal sale at Carlisle with her heart set on a particular heifer which she had decided to go to £22,000 for, it made £125,000. So basically if you like the heifers buy them at what you think is a good price, don’t pay over the odd’s just because they are pedigree.
Hope that helps a little…
Cheers Wrighty.
All very interesting for a non farmer like me. any bit of greenery I’ve ever had I’ve never been happier then when its concreted so I can park lorrys on it. Got a bit at the moment I can’t get Change of use on so might become a donkey sanctuary, any advice would be appreciated. DD
ERF MAN:
All very interesting for a non farmer like me. any bit of greenery I’ve ever had I’ve never been happier then when its concreted so I can park lorrys on it. Got a bit at the moment I can’t get Change of use on so might become a donkey sanctuary, any advice would be appreciated. DD
Hi Mate round here if the planners want a bit of a shove in the right direction just tell them if you don’t get what you want you are selling to a traveller, they don’t like that as most of them put two fingers up to officials. Of course you don’t sell but might be worth a shot.
Wrighty think your right with the pricing when I saw a herd dispersal last week at market some of the cows were not too big but the calves on them belied there mothers size, suppose its all to do with what Bull you use.
PDB reading about you grabbing a steer by the nose, well you have to be carefull in a pen of animals as you can get squashed very easily, when I was on the farm as a nipper my old man had a squeezer thing that went on the nose usally for leading a young bull before a permanent ring was fitted also when they wanted to drench a cow to tie her head up, don’t think they do that any more nowadays.
Well got to get on and clean my deep littered horses out today with a dental appointment in between, Buzzer.
Hi BUZZER yes most bulls had rings as you know, to keep them calm ,in the old wooden cattle boxes ,when i stated, at the very front end of the wooden cattle box near side there was always a small trap door ,if you did not know you would not take any notice, you only had one bull on board, and being the youngest driver you would have a long halter, through the ring and lead the bull up [■■■■■■■■ yourself] and the small trap door was the means to get out when the bull was up the front and the others would push up behind it with a part-ion and keep it there, they were normally calm and tie the alter outside…
I had no idea the price of animals ,but i do try to work out the price from the finished 1 kilo of cut and shrung wrapped meat beef stewing teak,finished product£10PER kg.= 1 beast weighing app 600KG SAY =£6.010 I have seen scottish fillet £48 a kilo yes i understand only a small pice, but add that on to the price of a beast finished .supermarkets ehh…Do you use the same formula, when running trucks, as with the cattle ,every cost from the start etc.pdb
peggydeckboy:
Hi BUZZER yes most bulls had rings as you know, to keep them calm ,in the old wooden cattle boxes ,when i stated, at the very front end of the wooden cattle box near side there was always a small trap door ,if you did not know you would not take any notice, you only had one bull on board, and being the youngest driver you would have a long halter, through the ring and lead the bull up [[zb] yourself] and the small trap door was the means to get out when the bull was up the front and the others would push up behind it with a part-ion and keep it there, they were normally calm and tie the alter outside…I had no idea the price of animals ,but i do try to work out the price from the finished 1 kilo of cut and shrung wrapped meat beef stewing teak,finished product£10PER kg.= 1 beast weighing app 600KG SAY =£6.010 I have seen scottish fillet £48 a kilo yes i understand only a small pice, but add that on to the price of a beast finished .supermarkets ehh…Do you use the same formula, when running trucks, as with the cattle ,every cost from the start etc.pdb
How much are sick donkeys?
peggydeckboy:
Hi BUZZER yes most bulls had rings as you know, to keep them calm ,in the old wooden cattle boxes ,when i stated, at the very front end of the wooden cattle box near side there was always a small trap door ,if you did not know you would not take any notice, you only had one bull on board, and being the youngest driver you would have a long halter, through the ring and lead the bull up [[zb] yourself] and the small trap door was the means to get out when the bull was up the front and the others would push up behind it with a part-ion and keep it there, they were normally calm and tie the alter outside…I had no idea the price of animals ,but i do try to work out the price from the finished 1 kilo of cut and shrung wrapped meat beef stewing teak,finished product£10PER kg.= 1 beast weighing app 600KG SAY =£6.010 I have seen scottish fillet £48 a kilo yes i understand only a small pice, but add that on to the price of a beast finished .supermarkets ehh…Do you use the same formula, when running trucks, as with the cattle ,every cost from the start etc.pdb
How much are sick donkeys?
ERF MAN:
peggydeckboy:
Hi BUZZER yes most bulls had rings as you know, to keep them calm ,in the old wooden cattle boxes ,when i stated, at the very front end of the wooden cattle box near side there was always a small trap door ,if you did not know you would not take any notice, you only had one bull on board, and being the youngest driver you would have a long halter, through the ring and lead the bull up [[zb] yourself] and the small trap door was the means to get out when the bull was up the front and the others would push up behind it with a part-ion and keep it there, they were normally calm and tie the alter outside…I had no idea the price of animals ,but i do try to work out the price from the finished 1 kilo of cut and shrung wrapped meat beef stewing teak,finished product£10PER kg.= 1 beast weighing app 600KG SAY =£6.010 I have seen scottish fillet £48 a kilo yes i understand only a small pice, but add that on to the price of a beast finished .supermarkets ehh…Do you use the same formula, when running trucks, as with the cattle ,every cost from the start etc.pdb
How much are sick donkeys?
Hi ERF MAN,
I’m sorry I don’t know,but our fishmonger had some sick squid, and they were 6 quid. 
Good luck with your planning if your ERF has ECO on it you should be ok !
Regards
Richard