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Yeh, that’s kinda the point. Small calves that come out easily. Average birth weight is 37kg. About 35kg for heifer calves. High growth rates mean that you wean calves that weigh around 300kg at 200 days and bulls can be finished at 14 months, weighing 620-650kg killing out as R4L. Steers and heifers can be easily finished on grass at 20 - 22 months too. Had plenty kill out as U-3 but they are mainly aimed at hitting the R3 and R4L range.

😂 not for a good while yet. We would need a brand new pit to do clamp again as it’s not safe. Last time we did it a pillar snapped 😳 and bales make a lot of sense for us with feeding etc.

Thanks Jason. It’s a tough game sometimes. Try to to let it get to me as I know we’re all in the same boat!

Thanks Mark 👍

You know what, that’s not the drain we are thinking of, but we don’t actually know what it is 😂 good spot. Further investigation needed.

Thanks Kai! Still got 4 but they are looking close now! 🤞

We have around 100 Ha of arable but some is down to grass. We sowed about 80ha in the autumn but all bad 10ha failed.

Thank you. Just hoping it lasts now 🤞

Yeh that’s true. Although I went to Norfolk and crops looked great and they did in Cambridgeshire and Essex too 🤦🏼‍♂️ I guess they are drier parts of the country anyways.

Few reasons really. We don’t grow it because its very wet here and ruins you fields getting it out. It’s not great for your soil and we don’t have facilities to store it during the winter very well. It is a great feed though, especially for finishing cattle.

Thanks mate. Yeh just about forgiven him now 😂 He’s works for Jaguar Land Rover as a diagnostics engineer. Spends most of his time writing code to fix Range Rovers, so he’s busy. 😂

It feels like that too how it tickles me! 😂

Thank you. Just think it will be easier to talk things through with it. 👍

Thanks Kai, she will roll in anything as soon as you turn your back. 😂

Wouldn’t be able to mix the urea and other products in a sprayer successfully and the nozzles are too fine to spray it out. Especially if you use small seeds or lime flour. 👍 thanks for watching.

it looks like a Twose 10ft .we have an 8ft one very similar made in 1973

@@johnsimpson8652 Good after noon also looks similar to the kidd rollers we have and work has then one flat roller looks much like another enjoy the rest of the weekend

John got it bang on. It’s a Twose water filled roller but it has the tray above which most didn’t. The Kidd ones were concrete filled so my dad tells me. 👍

@@baldysfarm Thanks James possibly I have been wrong are one mite be Twose looking at other videos the blue paint I have associated with Kidd where newer twose is yellow

No problems thanks for the feedback. Yeh I noticed that when editing. I think I must have pressed the wrong button somewhere on the mics… but if a learning still to do 😂

Thank you very much! 😊

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😂 more that likely knowing him.

Not gonna lie, it was bloody hard work 😅

Thank Stephen! It’s a shame that’s not how it works 😂 👍

I’ll keep trying. There’s some nice bulls up his way too. A bull would really suit him. 👍

@baldysfarm I think Crawford needs some education about paddock grazing too. But think being a mixed arable, Beef and Farmshop farm that daily paddock moving would be a step too far at the moment 🤔

Yes it’s called a Tow and Fert. There’s a global website and a Europe one. I know they send them to South America and there are some in the states. Message them and see what they can do. 👍

It’s made in NZ. The European distributor is in Ireland. You can spread a lot of stuff using them. The biggest advantage is using soluble urea.

What would be the general ratio would you use

No round here 😂 people still havnt got them up from last year yet. 😂

Yes and no. We think we will go for a 1200 mounted machine but with the wheel kit as when it’s mounted the booms stick out the side of the cab and I’m worried about catching them in the right parts of the yard. When it’s on the wheels you can pull the booms in tighter. 👍

Hey Brian yep we have a lot of customers using a Tow and Fert on tillage ground, great for applying lime flour in a liquid slurry so no dust, and all your organics like compost tea's and biologicals, fish hydrolysates, trace elements etc. For example you can suspend and apply 1tonne of lime flour in 500kg of water in the tractor mounted Multi 1200, with the bigger machines, like the 2800 and 4000 you can get over the 2:1 ratio of lime flour to water. Big bonus is there's no dust!

Thanks Darran, have a good’un.

Yeh, I’ll try and get something out together. We plate measure grass growth weekly anyway to should be able to see a response. Used I last year and only used 14kg N/Ha as opposed to 70 kg N/Ha of granular. These are very common place in NZ and Aus and nowadays and those guys swear by them. I’ve heard from a couple of people who have tried super soil and said it did nothing. 🤷‍♂️

@@baldysfarm that's some saving

Oh it works alright. Hard for some to see as it’s very different to the norm but it’s amazing how things have perked up already. 👍

I’ll get something set up. If you wanted to try a demo, Peter would bring it down to you.

Prices vary a lot due to the shipping and I’m not sure how much a 500 is but the 1000 is about £26k I think.

@@baldysfarm Thanks, will try and get a demo of one.

Thanks Sara. 😊

I have never done any but want to do have a field and see how much difference it makes.

Yes it is. With drugs and vet fees etc you looking at £400 at least. Plus the unseen cost on the animal and her potential to recover in time to re breed.

No comment 😂 yeh years ago when dad did everything on his own and before we stuck a tag in at birth, you’d get the odd mix up. But touch wood 🪵 we haven’t for a good while now. 🤞

Around how much are they?

They are made in New Zealand. There are cheaper models but nothing as good

Tbh, it’s bloody well made. Hard to appreciate on a video but that demo machine is about 12 years old and has been used my every Tom, Dick and Harry and still looks like new. And then as George mentioned, shipping it from New Zealand costs a chunk. I was talking to Peter (sales man) and he said they are hoping to get an assembly line over here meaning they can have more machines on a container spreading the cost.

My fert spreader needs changing, so I need to talk to someone for prices and what machine suits me best, if anyone can tell me who deals in them in the UK would be great. Thanks

@@baldysfarmohh an assembly over there would be the go. And yes, machine still does look mint for being that old. We have a 1200L 2019 tow and fert on 3 point linkage. Goes real good in NZ and for our system. Mainly do fish, urea and minerals through it. Still put on solid fert of serpentine super with bulky annually as not dairy so can't do the 8 applications type thing. Use tow and fert mix spread over 3 application of fish and urea depending on if grass or kale

Thanks Darran, have a good one 👍

Thinking about running a line right up the middle fence and having hydrant connection points every 100m or so. That way we have run a short pipe on the trough and only have to drag that up between paddocks. 👍

I’ll have to have a word. They all love those Simmentals up there though!