Days like These ...

Bald Rick · Mar 15, 2019

... make me look forward to retiring.

05.15 Text message from son. Dead heifer and borehole failing so no water to wash parlour
05.20 start reading TB skin test under “severe interpretation”
06.00 heavy rain shower
08.30 Andy the pump turns up to investigate
09.00-10.00 boys have to power wash parlour rather than volume wash
10.00 ministry turn up
10.30 ministry are satisfied but tell us we have to test again in 60 days despite having tested in early January also under severe interpretation. Bright spot is the test is clear with no IRs
11.00 Andy finds problem. Joint is bunged solid with hard water deposit and grit from when the builder “found” the pipe. However Andy tells us our system is not fit for purpose any longer and urgently needs upgrading
Midday paperwork
13.00-15.30 terrier is missing and there is fresh newly laid concrete
13.30 postie brings mail. Bills mainly but also a disappointing milk cheque as it is a short month
14.30 email from Ian Potter suggesting further price cuts in the offing because UK is producing too much milk.
16.00 cow dies of ecoli mastitis
16.50 in for a brew to build strength before baby sitting grandchildren as missus has done a runner

No doubt there will be something else before sleep

robo · Mar 15, 2019

and i thought we were the only folks that had bad days, keep onwards and upwards . look on the bright side nothing money wont put right.

Beef farmer · Mar 15, 2019

10am pass milk sure test
10.01am ministry ring, your reactor is bad need gamma test
10.03 am ministry ring, weve re read your test, need another cow.

At the start of the day i had too many cows for this summers calving. By the time the ministry have had a go, i might not have enough.

Virtual hug baldy.

Could be worse, you could be charged with sorting out brexit

robo · Mar 15, 2019

sort out BREXIT !!!!!!!!!!! bloody hell a dozen farmers would crack it by monday

More to life · Mar 15, 2019

robo said:
sort out BREXIT !!!!!!!!!!! bloody hell a dozen farmers would crack it by monday

One @Beef farmer would sort it in an afternoon Europe might not speak to the UK for s few years tho

pappuller · Mar 15, 2019

More to life said:
One @Beef farmer would sort it in an afternoon Europe might not speak to the UK for s few years tho

Yep, need a Cornishman to do a womans job

supercow · Mar 15, 2019

I know exactly how you feel. Everything is endless, bills higher than what we get for milk and everything is so endless!! Feet is my biggest bug bear at the minute seems to be one fresh lame cow per day!! Your a couple months away from a nice summers day cows out grazing everyone happy that’s what you do the job for. Winter is shitee

Princess Pooper · Mar 15, 2019

Beef farmer said:
10am pass milk sure test
10.01am ministry ring, your reactor is bad need gamma test
10.03 am ministry ring, weve re read your test, need another cow.

At the start of the day i had too many cows for this summers calving. By the time the ministry have had a go, i might not have enough.

Virtual hug baldy.

Could be worse, you could be charged with sorting out brexit

Virtual hugs to both of you.

Headless chicken · Mar 15, 2019

Atleast the grandchildren willl either make or break you @Bald Rick. I too was disappointed with the milk cheque. Always seems the same. You think you’ll get somewhere this month and get a pile clear and something fudges it all up again.

On the bright side I sold a breeding bull today to a returning customer and his eyes lit up when he saw I had a pen of 30 bulls fit to work this year so he could have prime pick.

buffalo_soldier · Mar 15, 2019

I broke my favourite bucket today

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kill · Mar 15, 2019

Beef farmer said:
10am pass milk sure test
10.01am ministry ring, your reactor is bad need gamma test
10.03 am ministry ring, weve re read your test, need another cow.

At the start of the day i had too many cows for this summers calving. By the time the ministry have had a go, i might not have enough.

Virtual hug baldy.

Could be worse, you could be charged with sorting out brexit

We read yesterday and have 7 positive and 4 inconclusives under a severe reading and with what the took in the last test that's 20% of my herd gone and I await my Gama blood test results now to see if I have any left.
Have worked day and night virtually for the last 10 days training my cow's in the robots with too many 20/ 24hr days.
Only been milking a few months and have spent mega money to get it all together for DEFRA to F__ k me over. Won't consider a movement on license yet for more cows and cow numbers were short on where had planned and now milk buyers working on allocations

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Cows come in so called completely clean of disease. Tank test confirmed high BVD, IBR and Lepto and had never had Digi. Well I am fecked that turned up as well a few days later

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Were promised to be milking well ( well lite up, ( farmers excact words) as virtually all calved July 18 and came in at 7 litres were crap ( pulled totally off cow cake and feed the worst of everything he had got with no minerals etc. Virtually doubled that now but Baldy your life is positively joyous

Sorry for the rant but I feel about the same shock as losing a very close relative currently.

And kids have kindly passed me on their cold/virus

Milkcow365 · Mar 15, 2019

2 ecolis here today , and a bad pd session

Beef farmer · Mar 15, 2019

kill said:
We read yesterday and have 7 positive and 4 inconclusives under a severe reading and with what the took in the last test that's 20% of my herd gone and I await my Gama blood test results now to see if I have any left.
Have worked day and night virtually for the last 10 days training my cow's in the robots with too many 20/ 24hr days.
Only been milking a few months and have spent mega money to get it all together for DEFRA to F__ k me over. Won't consider a movement on license yet for more cows and cow numbers were short on where had planned and now milk buyers working on allocations.
Cows come in so called completely clean of disease. Tank test confirmed high BVD, IBR and Lepto and had never had Digi. Well I am fecked that turned up as well a few days later.
Were promised to be milking well ( well lite up, ( farmers excact words) as virtually all calved July 18 and came in at 7 litres were crap ( pulled totally off cow cake and feed the worst of everything he had got with no minerals etc. Virtually doubled that now but Baldy your life is positively joyous
Sorry for the rant but I feel about the same shock as losing a very close relative currently

Calved july 18, back in calve? You should be able to get a license after this skin test.

gone up the hill · Mar 15, 2019

kill said:
We read yesterday and have 7 positive and 4 inconclusives under a severe reading and with what the took in the last test that's 20% of my herd gone and I await my Gama blood test results now to see if I have any left.
Have worked day and night virtually for the last 10 days training my cow's in the robots with too many 20/ 24hr days.
Only been milking a few months and have spent mega money to get it all together for DEFRA to F__ k me over. Won't consider a movement on license yet for more cows and cow numbers were short on where had planned and now milk buyers working on allocations.
Cows come in so called completely clean of disease. Tank test confirmed high BVD, IBR and Lepto and had never had Digi. Well I am fecked that turned up as well a few days later.
Were promised to be milking well ( well lite up, ( farmers excact words) as virtually all calved July 18 and came in at 7 litres were crap ( pulled totally off cow cake and feed the worst of everything he had got with no minerals etc. Virtually doubled that now but Baldy your life is positively joyous
Sorry for the rant but I feel about the same shock as losing a very close relative currently

How long have you been shut down and unable to buy replacements?

I think its TFF member Ducati? ( in Dorset? ) who said on a thread the other day that from the first test that he had a reactor it was 12 months before they would give him a licence to buy in replacement dairy cows! I cant see how any farmer losing large amounts of cattle can wait so long before they can buy replacements, used to be 60 days when you couldn't buy but now it seems open ended like it has been in Wales for a few years.

When they took out farms due to F+M it was only 6 months before you could restock after C+D..

kill · Mar 15, 2019

gone up the hill said:
How long have you been shut down and unable to buy replacements?

I think its TFF member Ducati? ( in Dorset? ) who said on a thread the other day that from the first test that he had a reactor it was 12 months before they would give him a licence to buy in replacement dairy cows! I cant see how any farmer losing large amounts of cattle can wait so long before they can buy replacements, used to be 60 days when you couldn't buy but now it seems open ended like it has been in Wales for a few years.

If it was a year I really would not be able to personally stick those pressures.
This diversification is only a few months old. Probably going contact FCN next week

Beef farmer · Mar 15, 2019

gone up the hill said:
How long have you been shut down and unable to buy replacements?

I think its TFF member Ducati? ( in Dorset? ) who said on a thread the other day that from the first test that he had a reactor it was 12 months before they would give him a licence to buy in replacement dairy cows! I cant see how any farmer losing large amounts of cattle can wait so long before they can buy replacements, used to be 60 days when you couldn't buy but now it seems open ended like it has been in Wales for a few years.

When they took out farms due to F+M it was only 6 months before you could restock after C+D..

@Ducati899

Beef farmer · Mar 15, 2019

kill said:
If it was a year I really would not be able to personally stick those pressures.
This diversification is only a few months old. Probably going contact FCN next week

Ring animal health and talk to them. They will let you buy after your 2nd skin test

gone up the hill · Mar 15, 2019

kill said:
If it was a year I really would not be able to personally stick those pressures.
This diversification is only a few months old. Probably going contact FCN next week

I don't think many farms could stick 12 months without buying in replacement cattle.

Imagine telling the likes of Tesco they couldn't restock their shelves for even 60 days, they wouldn't put up with that for 5 minutes!

If this is your first 60 day test then you may get a licence to buy in once any reactors are gone so don't despair too much yet until you know for sure.

kill · Mar 15, 2019

Beef farmer said:
Ring animal health and talk to them. They will let you buy after your 2nd skin test

Yesterday was 2nd was skin test

Beef farmer · Mar 15, 2019

kill said:
Yesterday was 2 was skin test

Once the reactors are gone, apply for a license and go at em.

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