- Location
- somerset
anything with sand, makes you highly unpopular with contractors, but popular with repairers/salesmen.
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Aa
He was thinking more of a mix of straw and lime. Once it's covered with slats getting anything that's settled out will be difficult.
Mats with sawdust and lime would be easiest to clean out of the tanks. Sand and straw will require something mechanical to get in there to shift where as the sawdust will go through a pump no problem.
You forgot being popular with cows.
Slats and straw is a no no. Even small bits of straw clog the gaps
How do you get out the gate with the correct mothers? And how many people to achieve this?
Calving paddock goes out in to the back yard surrounded by crash barrier so just shut it all up and let them follow me out. If some extras come out just sort them out in there. Easier to put a few back than chase one or two stubborn ones round the paddock
If get a really busy day with calvings especially if there’s a few heifers being heifers I’ll bring the whole lot in the yard before feeding and sort the calved in to the shed and others back out.
That's our go to now especially the 1st 25 days. Gather the calves up in the trailer and jot down mothers numbers, and through the parlour. Stress free!
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
If he puts straw in a slatted shed he will regret it. An auto scraper runs along the front of our calving pens and it sometimes pulls straw out onto the slats. It's a pain, and that's one 12 foot long piece. I'd go insane if it were the whole shed
We bed the cubicles in our slatted shed with sawdust and lime and it pumps out fine.
Do you take the whole lot through the parlour or sort them first?
Just run em all through. Pick out 10/15cows in 20min ish. Keeps the drys well footbathed and used to the shed!
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Almost enough for a deposit for a farm.I think now wouldn't be a bad time to cash in on that lot
Cows 'n grass
Member
- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
It'd still be a pretty small farm at the moment but hopefully one day.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
New(to me) robot arrived today, not required till 2021 but it matches my other 3 from a spec and year of manufacture pov and has considerably less milkings on the clock.
Do robots like being switched off for that period of time?
We all like time out.
May need to use it for spare bits, milking they kicking ole suckler cows must take its toll on the poor lely staff.