Recent content by whynot2

What's the best value tail paint or chalk to use?Do people just use the 2 colours like on RMS or is there a better system to see what stage that cow is at at a glance?

which mattress did you go for? do cows stay as clean on mattresses?

The only positive I've notices so far is that cows sh!t less before and during going through the baths, must be due to lack of smell compared to formalin.

so is it harmful to anyone or anything?doubtful any worse than formalin any how. are your cows stained purple?

We put formalin in both our footbaths now because as you say pre baths weren't found to be that effective.

Are you finding it effective @jimmer ?

Amazing it will do anything at such low inclusion. I have a pre bath, should I use it in just that bath or knock formalin in the second bath on the head and use it in both? Has anyone made a premix concentrate for footbaths then?

@bovine I would have to dis agree about poor teat coverage especially with the new type injectors and im yet to find a man that cover cows teats as thoroughly with a spray gun as consistently as ADF

yes your mad

yes but them cows would already be back in the shed eating with adf

wonder how much Mr Yew Tree's forward selling futures on milk are worth going forward. A month ago he was around 25.5 for next year

Yes but from a picture I can see cow cleanliness, cow hygiene and abrasions,muck consistency, bed hygiene and maybe even ventilation or lack of it? Do you put lime on top of the sand every day?

can you show us some pictures of your housing?

we have a wheeley bin in the middle of the pit to hold the clean ones and a 100 litre dustbin next to it to hold the dirty ones and a 100 litre bin at the back of the pit for dirty ones. Our parlour is a 20/40. Each man has his own 10/20 in theory. We spray, wipe, walk back to the first cow you...

Our parlour is very open and light and seems to be a fly magnet at the moment making milking hard work. We have a water mister over the front third of the collecting yard which gets rid of most flies of there backs and we spray fly spray on most sides of cows after entering. They seem to cling...