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  • The two hundred day winter

    I was brought up to cater for a two hundred day winters, and rarely did the cows go out until the third week of April. Hay with kale was fed up to the turn of the year then on to hay and stored mangols for the rest of the winter, corn was fed according to the yields This was the hub of the dairy farming...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, Mar 26 2011

  • Low Cost Production, Milk Marketing Board 1962

    So all in all you reap what you sow, you cannot keep robbing the producer, in this case the cow. It started when I joined a Milk Marketing Board scheme called ‘Low Cost Production’. November 1962. Much to my disgust I seemed to always be in the lower quarter of the chart / league table. You take up on...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Tue, Jan 4 2011

  • Cattle out wintering

    It looks like the beginning of a two week cold snap; the cattle seem to have grown a longer woolly coat almost over night, and its still only third week in November. In general the stock has grown well through the summer and with a reasonable quality of silage to feed should be able to maintain condition...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Wed, Dec 1 2010

  • The Suckler Cows have started Calving

    We left the calves with them for most of the winter only weaning them in mid February, by this time it had pulled the mothers down, so almost all of the herd now looks "poor" or should I say slim. Well its that time of year again and the suckler cows have started calving, so far we have had...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, Mar 27 2010

  • Embarrassing Moments (bike)

    Over the years you build up a clutch of embarrassing moments or events. An early one I recall was with my relatively new bike (bicycle), when we were younger we always yearned for a new bike, but had to make do with an old one cobbled together from the good bits of other bikes, some of which were recovered...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, Jan 16 2010

  • Inside cow feeding

    Posted to Heather's Gallery (Gallery) by heatherr on Wed, Feb 4 2009
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