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Where to start, you said you had one cow not coming on heat, an injection of hormone brings her on heat, was the hormone Lutalyse ? , not certain but the reason she did not come om heat she could have had a cyst on her ovaries ,that would prevent her from coming on heat, an injection of hormone will cure the cyst and bring her on heat. Using hormones does not increase the conception rate, it just brings them on heat, one of my cows does not show many heat signs, one year I saw her on standing heat just the once, served her and she held, as I said to the op the cow comes on heat but if she is not fertile, she will not hold. From your other posts of your grazing fields are better than the op's ,OK your grass is still Yar Con, Para Grass, but it is young and better quality than the op' ,so your cows will come on heat, and you do feed some concentrate??? As for injecting rather than feeding, it might be working now but, you will come unstuck if your grass quality drops, you stop feed concentrate you will have problems remember your cattle are Brahman X Charolais, Charolais are a European breed and will need feeding to get any production out the, again they will come on heat but will not hold. Cooler weather will bring cow on heat, that is true to some extent, with the cooler weather cows will eat more spend less time in the shade, more content so they become fitter, our dairy farmers always say conception rate is always best around the New Year, when the when the is cooler. But saying that I know farmers who inject hormone in the hot season, and they still come on heat, and they still get in calf.

In a nutshell, no ,you would be better off feeding some concentrate at calving and for about 100 days afterwards . The reason, when a cow calves she will lose weight, they all do it, the cow is using all her energy to produce milk for the calf, so feeding just say 2kg of feed/day will help prevent weight loss, and more importantly keep her fertility up, so when she has calved about 3-4 months she should come on heat and be fertile. As for concentrate feed do not use the pellet feed that is expencive ,use the straight mixed feed, if you do have the good quality grass a 14% feed should do, if you do not have any good quality gras use a 16%feed. Where you are do you have any brewers' grains? (Google it), a good feed, a byproduct of the brewing industry, not always available.

Friesian Cattle, or you come from Austria, Fleckvieh Cattle, or is these splitting hairs.

Thai cattle breeds are almost a Heinz 57 ,what is ment by 50% Thai cow ,is that the dam is 50% Brahman, and 50 % Thai Native, that is about one of the best breeds you can have, relatively easy to rear. She looks in good condition, that grass is Purple Guinee grass, the other in Thai, is Yar Con, or Para Grass ,Yar Con loves wet areas, both are low protein grasses, and these samples are looking like old grass ,so the quality will be even lower., as I said hence your infertility problem. You have made a right move growing that Mulato II, but it must be grazed young to get the quality, say 45 days between cuts or grazing, and it should be no higher than the top of a wellington boot when grazed or cut,. Hope the Mulato II grass is on dry land as it does not like wet conditions, you could be better growing it on the flood resistant land, and for it to do well it will need some urea fertilizer on it

Your problem is almost certainly to do with nutrition, a three year first calving heifer, I would say a s a maiden heifer she held to get n calf with 1-2 service? I live in a big dairy cow area, and getting first calving heifers back in calf is almost mission impossible, the reason the diet is short of energy, any cattle textbook will tell you energy is the limiting factor in production and fertility in cattle dairy and beef, Also, a first calving heifer needs more energy in the diet to allow for production, and growth, which can be done, but a diet short of energy will give you a fertility problem, main problem being small nonfunctioning ovaries, hence the heifer being served 6 times. To solve the problem, increase the energy containt of the ration, you said you cut grass what grass? from the roadside? roadside grass is low in protein and energy etc. ,or do grow some planted/sown grass ,if you can grow some good quality grass it would help ,if you have the land ,contact Ubon Forage Seed for some grass seed ,,if you can find some concentrate feed in your area a few kg's of that a day will help ,plus minerals ,not ,the mineral blocks only they are really salt block about 98% salt 2%minrals ,with Thai soil being shot of minerals they need some supplement ,and getting your vet in to inject her with a multi vitamin or whatever is a waste of time and money . And if you feed rice straw that will not help very low in protein and energy As for AI verses natural service natural service has a higher percent on conception, but the bull must server her a good few times, once or twice is not enough, our few beef cattle we use AI without many problems. What breed is the heifer, a Brahman Thai Native, or a European cross, if it is a long-eared thing, they are not easy cattle to rear, need the same diet as a dairy cow. So, do not cull her, with the market as it is you will not get a lot for her, buy some feed and minerals and feed her up for a while.

Funny you should say that, a friend of mine went and watched a film, when the National Anthem was played, no one moved, he has known Thailand for 20 years plus, he was rather shocked.

I asked our local office about land tax, it is a mine field, they is no fixed price for all the provinces, if you live near a town city you will pay more than if you live in a rural area ,a lot depends on if you have a full charnort title deeds, or just a Nor Sor 3, land awaiting title deeds. Some also depends on value of the land, it goes up more if the land is worth more than 50 million baht, that would be apply to vacant land in city/town centers. So back to the op, if his land is on the edge of a big town with a full charnort he could well be paying 30K year in land tax, but I doubt it ,he said he can read Thai, so he must be able to speak it ,go to your local office and find out.

I agree with you ,somewhere, something is wrong ,Ok we only have 6 rie ,our land tax was I think, was only 50 baht for year ,the wife has said it has gone up even if that was 100 % it will only be about 100 baht ,the OP has 230 rie ,that would be about 2000 baht/year??, and I take it that the land is owned and not rented ,it is the owner of the land that pays the land tax ,for a clarification go to your local Or-Bor-Tor office and ask them how much land tax is ,that is where we pay our land tax. The wife's son in law and daughter farm 27 rie of rice land ,last year they had an income of 100 010 baht ,last year was a good year, like the op on one crop of rice per year, and they rent they land that is 1100 baht/rie/year, they do most of the work themselves they have Kwie Lec ,walk behind tractor, just using a tractor to initially plough the land ,and a combine in to do the harvesting ,and they can still make a profit ,not a big one ,renting the land being they biggest out lay. So, if the op's family owns all they land they should be making some money ,in my area 230 rie of rice is a big farm, and what about the 15000 baht government, subsidy ,that is 1000 baht/rie for the first 15 rie. I would say the land could well be the problem not fertile low crop yields, just mono -culture rice for years, the land is well short of organic matter, ask in the Farming Forum about how to improve this.

I thought he was still working at that chip shop, along with Princess Diana and Dodi .

That price of 40-70 baht, I take it that is per Kg?, as you said 30K for a 500 kg animal is well short of what it was. Back in January we got 33K for a 280 kg beef bull, around here you can still get 80-90 baht/kg, but the animal has to be in good condition. One local cattle buyer has said the low beef price is knock on effect from the dairy industry, dairy cow prices are still low, farmers are still saying feed prices are high, farmers are giving up, one local slaughterhouse is not taking any thin cull dairy cows, which most are. Your other problem is a buyer is buying from you, then he will sell it on to another farmer, so he will be thinking how much he can make buying and selling. Cattle prices have been high for a good few years now, the market has always been up and down, but this time it has come down a long way, with the future not looking like a price increase. But the wife is still paying 250baht/kg for beef at our local market, same as it has been for a few years now.

We have the Pask-Jonansit one of the late Kings projects, attached to the dam is a concrete canal system, suppling locale famers with water for irrigation, but 90% is not used and has grown wild, ideal for birds. This I found near me, the nests of the Weaver bird which one I do not know, they make nests like this in colonially, have seen them before but this is about the most I have seen in one area.

You are right, this photo is a Teak plantation very near me, about 10 years old, very little is done to it, if anything, trees are not that heathy, cannot see them doing anything, the owner is thinking quantity not quality. Pine trees as we know will not grow here, too hot, they is a type of pine tree ,ไม้สน Mie Sorn, they could be grown a good building wood, quick growing.

We have a biofuel plant near here, they will buy all wood now for 900-1000 baht/ton, depending on size of the wood, a lot is Eucalyptus. What the price is for Eucalyptus going for the building trade is I am not shore but I would say it would be about the same price. I see a good few trucks of Eucalyptus on the main road going down to Bangkok for the paper business, Double A is a popular one ,I think they have they own plantations, and they might contact out.

In a nutshell they are no way to make money from just 10 rie or 4 acer in English money, you could build some pig or poultry sheds and contract rear pigs or poultry, but that would be a mulit million-baht investment, but a regular income . Cucumbers and long beans can be all right ,need the right land .around here Watermelons are popular,,but like a lot of crops seasonal If you have had a farming background ,which I think you have not,rearing pedigree cattle can be profitable ,but you would need some cattle knolwedge. As for growing things not a lot of money can be made, Eucaliptus fast growing you can get a crop in 3-4 years ,very near me is Teak plantation been they 10 years trees are only a foot wide ,still a long way to go same as any hard wood trees ,guy near me has a Teak plantation now 30 years old ,he sells few trees now and then last time 3 trees 15000 baht.

Get a mod to move this over to the farming forum, you might get a proper reply.

Hi FJ I forgot yesterday, my posts are spaced at 6 meters ,I should have done them at 5 meters, but I thought with the fence being electric I could get away with 6 meters,. The post are 7 foot long with 3 foot in the ground ,I made a post rammer to knock them in works well ,made from a length of 4 inch pipe ,with a piece of 1/2 plate welded in the top ,plus the handles ,I have another on I use for bamboo electric fence posts ,lighter a piece of 3 inch pipe, I did most work during the wet season but one section I had to do just after the dry season ,land was still hard ,that was hard work ,doing it the Thai way dig an 18 inch hole and concrete them in dose not work they soon become lose ,but saying that our black land when that dries out it crakes ,even at 3 feet deep 1-2 post will still move about ,but the main straining post they are in the ground 3 foot and have not moved at all..............except one set around our pond ,they were put in to build up land ,just no solid bottom they have moved a bit . I know what you mean by a Spinning Jenny I did not have one, the wire I just carefully rolled out from the coil, once I found the right end.

That my fiend is well wrong, Thai milk is not full of hormones and never has been, as for it never goes off, so dose milk I buy in the UK, it is called pasteurization.

Hi FJ Putting up chain like fence will not be cheap a 3km run, try PPfence.com they sell fencing equipment. I can see where you are going ,robust and with bio security, the photos are a fence I made it now goes all round our land ,4 rie plus our Nappier grass ,as you can see it is 3 strands ,the middle one is live ,it does work ok ,but only a few months ago we had a 14 month old bull he kept braking out to get to next doors beef cows ,especially if one was on heat, first time in 6 years since it was done The advantage of it was it was cheap the whole lot only about 15k, some steel being second hand, and a lot from a steel place that sells grade 2 Chines steel, good enough for this job and easy to erect. Disadvantages a lot of cutting and shutting and drilling and fiddley bits to made for the steel posts, the eye bolt strainers I made could not find any suitable, the insulators I brought over from the UK ........then I found them on Shopee, half the price, wire is just slandered 12 swg wire. PP fence do sell high tensile wire. I would say you would be better off with 4-5 strands of wire much better security. Back to the cricket, we might as well give you the earn now, they do not deserve to win, Root playing what.

A rice combine harvester, can be used other crops, made in Thailand, it has a 6-cylinder, Hino truck engine.

That is well wrong I have used Ivermectin on our dog for some years no, I inject them, and it works well against tics and fleas, but not again flies ,no jab will work against flies. As for flukes, they are only one or two drugs that can cure flukes, and one is not recommended, but can be used, Ivermectin is not one, best way make sure the animal does not eat any small snails, the intermittent host.

The Thai's regular get 20 years plus out of a pickup/car so 20 years with an EV could well be done. But, the cost of replacing the batteries after X years could be the big X factor.

Glad your back, in time for the Ashes, if you are thinking of getting a few animals now is the time the market is well down should be able to get some fairly cheap, just do not buy any long-eared things they just do not do, do not cut and cart ,use a small paddock grazing system and rotate the animals or a strip grazing system would work. I do not know about you, but over the past 3 weeks we have only had 23 mm of rain, now middle of June farmers are still drilling corn, this time last year it was up to my waist, things are well late this year. Rice farmers are still ploughing they land, waiting for some rain, wife's daughter and son in law have sown they rice in to dry fields now awaiting some rain ,son in law spends his time bird scaring as the birds are feeding on rice seed, soon as it gets wet, they will stop, they do not like mud on they claw's. Most of our land is down to cassava this year after prices went up to 3 baht/kg plus this year they are a lot about, you can see next year prices will drop, and finding labor to harvest all this cassava will not be easy.

We have 3-4 clinics in our area, only open in the evenings, and one on a Saturday morning, why open in the evenings only ?because the doctors are working at the local hospital during the day . I was at our locale hospital seeing about a hip problem the doctor went home at 4 pm ,to do his clinic in the evening. As we all know that is where they make, they money. These doctors will be the more senior ones the rules need to be changed so these doctors do more work at the hospital they are supposed to be working at, not skiving off to line their pockets at they own clinics. But, to be fair to the hospitals, the OP is right the Thai popular will go to the hospital for the most minor of things i.e. wife's daughter ,she has 3 kids, had a bad cold this week ,off to the hospital she went ,a while ago the wife's granddaughter had period pains ......of to the hospital she went ,and less than24 later she was better ,could have got some tablets from the local chemists . The people do need educating but it will a big uphill struggle try to change something that has been going on for a lot of years.

I have used crictime.com ,it does and does and not always work, they somehow tap into Sky,s broadcast.

I was told, she died from HIV complications, or was that the Thai rumor mill. The wife's daughter often plays her songs. And I do not know about Thai royalties and copyrights, but listening to her songs, a lot of other Thai artist are singing them as, well and one is by a well-known singer so the wife said, her estate must be missing out on a lot of money. We saw one of her daughters in a concert a good few years ago, not my cup of tea, (A Pong-Sit fan), she was good. the wife enjoyed it.