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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...

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...

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...

I am not sure about the spelling of his name,but this bloke did a radio show in the mid 1980s.I used to sit round the fire drinking cans under the stars chuckling away to his dry humour and i was wondering if he is still above ground.

One of our 3 week old calves has come down with a nasty rash extending from the middle of its belly and running down the inside of both back legs.All the hair is gone on the affected areas and the skin is red.Onset was only a couple of days,its still drinking milk at a great rate and does not...

When the last mission to the moon arrived back on earth laden with moon rocks NASA decided that as they had all the samples they would ever need that it would be good PR to distribute some to the universities of the world.Apparently every major uni in the world received a sample with the...

A young girl sat crying on the jetty looking out over the english channel towards france. A pidgeon flying by heard the girls sobs and landed by her side to see if he could help her out. Between her tears she explained that all her life all she had wanted to do was go to france and study to be a...

how do i work out how often to use moxidecton base pour on drench on my steers.the maker would not commit in any way.i live in an area of low rainfall,sandy acidic soils and long hot summers.we keep our steers from age 4 days to 2 years and i have been drenching every 3 months or so,and now i am...

Im using an oral,non-antibiotic,supportive treatment to replace lost fluids and electrolytes,brand name in australia is vytrate.My problem is that it costs an arm and a leg @ $17 a litre in concentrated form.This makes up 12 litres which is gone in the blink of an eye when you have a few calves...

We are currently rearing 20 bobby calves which we will grow out to around 2yo.As we are on small acres i will be feeding them supplements.From past experience i know that i need a feed pad,i can build anything i can get plans for.Can someone direct me to where i might find plans for a pad and a...

I dont know if this is a problem or not.My son brett is rearing a small mob of calves for me on his 2 acre house block,the youngest calf is 4 weeks old and has decided along with all the rest that it prefers to graze on the abundant green grass instead of milk and pellets.In my view they should...

Is it feasable to store cows milk in buckets in the freezer to be fed out later to calves.I can buy milk direct from the farmer much cheaper then i can make it up.

I am bucket feeding 10 calves ranging in age from 6 days to 4 weeks and i wish to know how best to feed them on milk replacer without having to seperate them into 4 groups each time.Is there some way i can safely feed them adlib or is this asking too much.

Can anyone give me some info on the nutient value of soy pulp.I have access to a steady supply of pulp,this is the residue when extracting soy milk to produce tofu.Also would soy milk be of some value to my beef cattle?

OK. I'm about to buy 3 or 4 bobby calves (no mother) in about 2 weeks and wean them off the milk. I have a shelter figured out, but have TWO VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: 1: You may have already seen it, but is it OK to have my calves in the same paddock as chooks, or are there transmittable...

Hey there. My dad says that if I were to wean calves on my 1 acre of paddock, they should not be in contact with my 35 chooks as there is a disease which chooks can carry that can have an ill effect on a calves health. Is this true? If so, what disease? If the chooks were out roaming the...

In relation to my recent post, I am wondering if anyone would be able to help me out with finding facts associated with feeding fish to cattle, as there were different opinions in relation to my post. Are there any internet sites/books I should read? Thankyou, Steve. ;-)

I have access to a free on going supply of seafood salad flakes. These comprise 70% ground up fish,20% tapioca starch,4% wheat starch,4% maize starch,2 % sugar,salt,flavour and colour.On the box it says 9% protein, i have been feeding out soy pulp just lately and they are thriving on this...

i am currently working in a plant which produces tofu, i am free to take as much of the waste as i like as feed is this good stuff for cattle to eat.I can also get unlimited rice crackers which the cattle also like to eat.any info appreciated.cattle are angus/jersey. :lol: