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:) Lameness in dairy cattle and its potential impact on culling questionnaire - CHANCE TO WIN £80 WORTH OF DAIRY SEMEN FROM KINGSTREETSIRES

Hi, I'm a third year animal science student at Bishop Burton College carrying out my dissertation project on dairy cattle lameness, in my study I am dissecting culled cattle hooves and analysing the prevalence of hoof lesions. Alongside this I am surveying dairy farmers to gauge the severity of lameness...

Posted to Questionnaires and surveys (Forum) by RachaelH21 on Mon, Apr 22 2013
Saving Fuel

Hi Does anyone think there is a place for tractors having natural gas engines? Thinking about it, what about other farm equipment or road transport too? All this new shale gas seemingly out there in abundance. Will eall engines be natural gas powered?

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Researcher on Tue, Jun 26 2012
Alternative Fuels In Ag Equipment

Hi Do we have any agri fleet managers, or purchasing professionals in the forums?? I am looking for some quality leadership opinion on alternatively fuelled mobile agricultural equipment including tractors, various harvesters & foragers, rough terrain forklifts, wheeled loaders to name but a few...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Researcher on Tue, Jun 26 2012
Bovine TB

I would really appretiate it if any welsh cattle farmers could take aquick look at my survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2BCZCLY Thanks

Posted to Livestock Lines (Forum) by Beachbum on Mon, Mar 26 2012
Bovine TB

Cattle Farmers (meat or dairy) in Wales As part of my research, approximately what percentage of your herd have you lost through TB since about the beginning of 2011. And what is your opinion od the new badger culling scheme set fourth by the welsh assembly? Thankyou

Posted to Livestock Lines (Forum) by Beachbum on Mon, Mar 26 2012
£100 Prize Draw for Questionnaire Respondents!

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Posted to Questionnaires and surveys (Forum) by LizCresswell on Mon, Oct 17 2011
Old dairy equipment

Hi, I hope you don't think I'm mad, and I know this may be a long shot but does anyone out there know of any old Simplex or Hosier dairy equipment that is able to be acquired. I'm particulaly interested in the pulsation of both makes and the claws from Simplex. I know these companies have...

Posted to Livestock Lines (Forum) by wellies50 on Sun, Jul 3 2011
The whole milk truth

Can you believe it? Marty took me to a dairy today. He’ll try and deny it, but it was a bit embarrassing how excited he was about the visit. ‘Let me see a few cows,’ he pleaded with Emma and me. ‘I miss the smell of the silage, the splatter of manure, the lowing of [...]

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Nov 7 2010
A super dairy

After almost a week of meetings it was great to get out on-farm today. We drove into Pennsylvania to look at a high-tech, robotic milking system. It was an impressive setup – 2400 cattle milking more than 27m litres of milk a year. While hygiene and welfare were obviously impeccable, it did make...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 10 2010
Is the dairy sector still in crisis? What happens next?

I used to work as a milkmaid for a bit and now trying to find out just where the dairy industry is heading. Any dairy farmers from south wales around? I live in Cardiff and could do with a farm visit!

Posted to Livestock Lines (Forum) by queenb on Wed, Feb 24 2010

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