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Always around the 30 mark here
Changed in last 2 years
Down now to 13 with 3 replacements calving down Sept
Kept the weanlings till circumstances 16 months, easier life as working full time but more importantly keeping them to that age leaves a better margin at end if year v calving 30 odd and selling weanlings
There are worse vices in life and sometimes it's not all about money
Plenty of people do d 3 foreign hols, piss it up against a wall or hoover it up the nose
Hard to let go if you a long bloodline in the herd I think
Fairly similar here, but I've been looking at picking heifers here the last few days to put out with the bull, you know just one or 2 and maybe that one oh and the one over there......
Definitely don't have a problem here
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I have a leg either side of the fence but I keep the sucklers for my own pleasure. If I get a few quid in the post for keeping them in the future then all the better as I'll be getting back some of the money I lost from the erosion of our entitlementsWell the first step is admitting you all have a peculiar mental fixation addiction/ fetish for these hoors.
The addiction of the dramatics from risking life and limb keeping these feral beasts overriding family time and finances can be kicked.
Once you commit.
1. Now that you have acknowledged you have a problem try and visualise a life with 365 uninterrupted nights with no cows calving. No feral beast trying to squash the life out of you as you try to keep her offspring alive..
2. Black and white/ black friendly animals look smaller up close than those multicolour feral hoors that you can’t get within 50 yards of.
But they may be a lot better than you perceive..
3. It is unacceptable to ask family, friends or the hard pressed paye workers to fund your feral hoors for the benefit of your fixation.
Although whinging about a lack of profitability in an enterprise that has never been anything but is part of the club culture, you have to help yourself.
4. Withdrawal symptoms will be alleviated by uninterrupted pints. Structured time off, ****ing your calving jack into the scrap.
Our main herd of cattle are either black & whites or dairy crossbreds.0 -
Fairly similar here, but I've been looking at picking heifers here the last few days to put out with the bull, you know just one or 2 and maybe that one oh and the one over there......
Definitely don't have a problem here
Very true about replacements, I had two in mind from memory and based on figures, then I head to the field and doubled to 40 -
Limestone Cowboy wrote: »I thought sucklers were addictive until I started buying sheep. Seem to add a few more to the flock every week.
I knew I hit rock bottom when i got out of sucklers altogether and went all sheep......thankfully my better half who is also struggling with the affliction has helped me turn the corner by buying back some more sucklers 0 -
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They could run an open farm wellness retreat for ex suckler men and women where you get the chance to go in and take calves, vaccinate, separate calves from cows in pens and bed straw/feed silage.
Ah Sure it could be worse.
Could even do the whole experience getting kicked in the jewels or cattle jumping when vaccinating.
Could simulate a cheque coming in from abp etc.
Could do a phone booth where you can ring:
1. A silage contractor and try and charm your way up the list before the weather breaks.
2. A vet at the weekend to help with a calving.
3. Price materials for a shed.
4. Receive a call about stock on the road.0 -
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I’m 390 kid, my addiction started at a early age fooling around with some red whiteheads that where always here, but that wasn’t enough i wanted bigger wilder cattle and when the humble numbers at home couldn’t settle my addiction I went to the neighbours for my fix, big red women that would ate ya and golden bull calf that I’d be more suited to Cheltenham than the grazing fields around here. I thought I turned a corner this year as they all went with Tb but as where nearly open again to buy I’m bouncing to get them, Jaysus might even chance a purebred or a extremely dear roan one. Will it wear out or should I seek more help
Would you fancy a few black pollies with go faster tiger stripes on them (1/4 aubrac)? They'd survive on the clippings of a hedge, calve by themselves and go in calf with just the smell of a bull in the next field. I can't guarantee it but I'd nearly think they are immune to TB as well. They are descended from the 16 cows I had left after a major breakdown 5 or 6 years ago.
These ladies have been especially trained to clean out a LIPP paddock better than any topper, they'd even trim the hedges for you outside the hedgecutting closed dates. You'd want a second or third strand of wire here and there though just in case you had to get them into the yard some day or had to keep them out of the silage ground. One strand is grand for when you wouldn't see them every day and they could move themselves if they got a bit hungry or the JFC trough stopped leaking in a paddock.
I know I sound like an enabler but have to reduce numbers a bit as I ticked the later box for the beam scheme
Just couldn't reduce the numbers in time. If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.
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Would you fancy a few black pollies with go faster tiger stripes on them (1/4 aubrac)? They'd survive on the clippings of a hedge, calve by themselves and go in calf with just the smell of a bull in the next field. I can't guarantee it but I'd nearly think they are immune to TB as well. They are descended from the 16 cows I had left after a major breakdown 5 or 6 years ago.
These ladies have been especially trained to clean out a LIPP paddock better than any topper, they'd even trim the hedges for you outside the hedgecutting closed dates. You'd want a second or third strand of wire here and there though just in case you had to get them into the yard some day or had to keep them out of the silage ground. One strand is grand for when you wouldn't see them every day and they could move themselves if they got a bit hungry or the JFC trough stopped leaking in a paddock.
I know I sound like an enabler but have to reduce numbers a bit as I ticked the later box for the beam scheme Just couldn't reduce the numbers in time.
Have a look at Cross Timber Bison ( Youtube) tryin to dose his bull if it they are too quiet for you !0 -
Would you fancy a few black pollies with go faster tiger stripes on them (1/4 aubrac)? They'd survive on the clippings of a hedge, calve by themselves and go in calf with just the smell of a bull in the next field. I can't guarantee it but I'd nearly think they are immune to TB as well. They are descended from the 16 cows I had left after a major breakdown 5 or 6 years ago.
These ladies have been especially trained to clean out a LIPP paddock better than any topper, they'd even trim the hedges for you outside the hedgecutting closed dates. You'd want a second or third strand of wire here and there though just in case you had to get them into the yard some day or had to keep them out of the silage ground. One strand is grand for when you wouldn't see them every day and they could move themselves if they got a bit hungry or the JFC trough stopped leaking in a paddock.
I know I sound like an enabler but have to reduce numbers a bit as I ticked the later box for the beam scheme Just couldn't reduce the numbers in time.
Sure we could just chance anything to get the fix0 -
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