Recent content by steveaust

Hello ARMTco Thanks for your help, i did look in my manual as well and it did not tell me much either. I did ask our local bloke, The Golden Spanner about it but as he charges $100 @ hour i figure he would rather fix it himself and charge me an arm and a leg.I would go broke if i had to rely on...

Hope you can help me, I have a 353 and it is giving me grief on the dog clutch drive on the outfeed screw.The bloody thing slips under full load and no one seems to be able to tell me what angle should be on the teeth.I am as mean as cat sh#t when it comes to forking out on new parts for my...

Bernard, The vet told me all my steers would surely die as they had all eaten the same thing.I reckon saving the other 18 by drenching with carb soda is good reason to smile.I have not heard of adding yeast to their feed before, does it improve digestion? There is not much grazing available to...

Read a heap of books and start with 2 calves. :D :D :D :D

We have reared calves for a few years now on a small scale (20@ year).We always feed electrolytes the first day they come home at 4 days old, they are under stress and need to settle,we then put them back on electrolytes if they scour later on.Very important to keep in a ventilated but not...

I dont know what an extension agent is. Where i live is in the shire of Golden Plains,gives you some idea of the terrain.The winters are not to cold,I have been here for 4 years and the coldest it has got is about 2C overnight.Bloody hot in summer though 44-45C.My biggest concern with feeding...

I am on small acres like you and rearing calves seems to make me a few bob.My 17 acres is split into 8 paddocks and this makes the grass go further All paddocks have access to the one shed and bank of water troughs.(near the house).If i knew better at the time i would have fenced in a wagon...

Jeanne ,The malt i am feeding is produced from barley for the brewery industry. They take barley and soak it overnight (steeping),it is then transfered to a rotating drum or box where it is sprayed with growth enhancer (Gibb liquid) and kept at 100% humidity for 4 days.By this time it has...

I have been feeding our calves on a blend of malt combings,reject malt,malt dust(extracted from the air in the top of the silos),carb soda !% of total weight and ground limestone 1%.I soak this overnight so the grain does not go straight thru them.Malt is very dry and when i rolled it and fed...

......And as far as I know, no one in the family is anxiuos to keep it going....would you be interested if they were to sell all or part? That is , if it's good value...

I am a hobby farmer in victoria australia.I have 20 steers on 17 acres of dry sheep country.I would love to own more land and be a fair dinkum farmer but they have driven property values over the moon since we bought here 5 years ago.Their are no tax lurks in australia for hobby farmers, to be...

I have been buying in 4 day old calves for a few years now and rearing them under the guidance of 3rd generation dairy farmers. On the day we bring them home we feed them nothing as they will scour from the stress of transport if we feed them on arrival.The following day we feed them an...

can anybody help, we were talking about the olden days watching the beverly hillbillys and we could not remember the name of the banker. Here in australia we catch yabbies in our dams i can recall jed clampet talking about crawdads are these fresh water lobster? How do you keep them alive in a...

I live in a low rainfall area of western victoria aust. My problem is keeping the water up to my 20 Angus steers, i have 2 dams each holding around 40 thousand gallons. At the moment they are both half full is there any advantage as far as surface evaporation goes by pumping one into the other...

calves need access to low quality straw to get their rumen going,this may affect their pellet intake