Will jones

@muirtwit Great video. What drone do you have?

#Living the #Goodlife #Silage24 #Happydays

@muirtwit Looking well. Are they spring born or autumn? Out full time? Getting concentrate? Looking at turning some out this week

The beef calves enjoying the #Sunshine #Grasstobeef

@brianjcorr1 Interested to hear- did these stay on? Worth doing?

Day 1 of bulls in. Put shoes on all their back feet to hopefully reduce lameness with our long walks.

@Graiseconsult1 Sorry to tag on- but after some feb calvers - preferably cows but could take heifers- to go to the UK

Have a client looking for 30+ genuine late March/April calving cows to go to the UK, ideally 500 to 550KgLW, tidy, young cows. DM if you can help

@brianjcorr1 What is your water system on the hill? Do you have reservoirs? Pumps? We have a block of hill ground for heifers- looking at options for paddocking and getting water everywhere

Silage should have been cut a week ago but we've had 90mm this week. Fodderbeet almost drowning, needs a couple of days of sunshine. Heifers can't keep up with the feed on the hills, might have to call it regenerative because they are on a 60 day rotation 😜

@brianjcorr1 What age are they. Also what will they be on post weaning?

First 100 calves almost ready for weaning. Finding flat paddocks to park the feeders is the issue on this farm!

@fordcows 👍 thanks- I’ll order some more nose spikes!!

@BunterJones It's just to make individual management and teat training easier, they will be in groups of 15 from about a week old onwards. We do have issues with cross suckling, tried lots of different things but nothing really works!

It's calving eve, planned start of calving is tomorrow but some calves got too excited and popped out early, calved 48 calved so far and 29 heifers #calving

@brianjcorr1 We’ve just got one of these- what age are you putting them on it? Are you pulling anything slow drinking out of group?

This time last year I was carrying buckets🤯 Might have to go to the gym to lose weight this year🤣

@RAstroturf Hi- how much would it be delivered to Shropshire?

Loads coming out of Bradford good quality perfect for tracks message me if interested thanks

@LeverettFarming @richrobscows1 How long are you leaving calves on cows?

@richrobscows1 Not fed calves for years unless they clearly haven’t had any. Zero losses for 2 seasons now. Agree calving outside/space is crucial to stop cross sucking and better mothering

I definitely think there’s to much human interference after a calf is born,colostrum in so many hours blah blah,what happened back in the day,let nature do its job!

@ProperJobPinker We have 100ish in calf pedigree organic Holsteins for sale- calved from jan - apr. Back in calf for feb onwards. High health, good pedigree- just going to autumn block. 07525277877

Looking for high health, pedigree, organic certified Holsteins, in-calf & in-milk considered. If anyone knows of any, please get in contact

@LeverettFarming Going to feed in field for 1st time this autumn. Are the hurdles for getting in and out of the field without them following you out?

All 8 -12 weeks and clearing the 2kg each im offering so sorry no more milk bar girls

@farmermat1 We grow it for wholecrop- analyses poorly but feeds much better. May combine it this year

Spring sown beans and peas wholecrop,give me the good and bad about it if anyone grows it please

@muirtwit Looking good. Out of interest- what height is your clamp roof? Would you do same height if doing again? Just about to cover one and figuring out how heigh to go

Bit more #Greenstuff in the bank. #Grasstomilk #Silage23

@steffcwrtmalle @DrAseemMalhotra Just listened to it- sounds fairly familiar to a lot of the ‘independent research’ in dairy sector!

Highly recommend this #JRE podcast with @DrAseemMalhotra #OverMedicatedPopulation #HealthCrisis. open.spotify.com/episode/43D9PM…

@m_herbert Intresting - was it traditionally beef and sheep land for a reason? High altitude? Thin soils? Over in UK seeing a few conversions- job to know what’s suitable and what’s not…

@LydiardTurkeys How will you add herbs? Harrow or disc drill?

2 or 3 moves a day but still easier than having them in a shed. Poached areas are an opportunity for adding Chicory and plantain. Pied wagtails, meadow pipits and starling enjoying the feast. Wouldn't have turned out last week with hindsight but pleased I have. learnt lots

@Sam_Adams_1 @PhilNash2 Also running sensehub and very pleased with it. Have you looked at incidents of health alerts? Over the winter we had 16% of cows come up at some stage. Don’t know if this is good, bad or indifferent? Conscious that you could end up spending a lot jumping on everything??

@PhilNash2 I’ve got SH, know lots of people with CM. Both brilliant. Back up with SH has been very good. Looking at the Apps side by side CM needs a bit more interpretation but easy once you know what your looking at. Anyone could pick up heats and Heath on SH. Comes down to cost I think?

Any strong opinions on the CowManager vs SenseHub debate? (Aside from those who sell it 🙄😂) Sensitivity, easy of use, better cow health indicators ?

@AHDB_Dairy Will there be a recording of one of these meetings?

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