All things Dairy

Happy hillbily · Apr 19, 2024

Blue. said:
Why haven’t you got a washline and jetters?
It’s the cheapest thing to set up on any parlour,just a pipe back to the wash trough and six jetters.

There's a variety of reasons.
Years ago I split the milk line with a butterfly tap and had pipework and jetting heads fitted to the milk line, but took longer to wash than just unplugging the clusters and taking them to the dairy, and also had to carry hot water to to the parlour to wash the outside of the clusters and pipes, where as you just give them a quick brush whilst their in the washtub. Also it's nearly 90ft from one end of the parlour to the dairy the way the pipe goes, so with an extra wash line, there would be even more heat loss from the hot wash in winter
Also when we get cold weather in winter, the clusters get kept in the dairy untill just before we start milking, nothing is frozen and can milk at -16 without having to have space heaters running to thaw the place out. (When we get freezing weather the parlour is kept dry, in all senses, much safer for man and animal)
We do all the fertility work, A'i, freeze branding etc in the parlour, so it's better not to have the clusters there at that time.
And the last one, KISS

O'Reilly · Apr 19, 2024

Martyn said:
To wet to chop, help the lawn carbon footprint🫣View attachment 1177038 View attachment 1177045

I kept some on the lawn for a week once. Was fine until one came bulling very noisily! Mrs was not happy!

Beef farmer · Apr 20, 2024

Proper farming now. Do feel like we've been robbed of a month, hope to get it back in oct!
Sand lanes cleared ready for maize ground.

frederick · Apr 20, 2024

Beef farmer said:
Proper farming now. Do feel like we've been robbed of a month, hope to get it back in oct!
Sand lanes cleared ready for maize ground. View attachment 1177137 View attachment 1177138

What grazing covers are you having to cope with. When do you hope to have a large enough area grazed to start second round.

I probably have to remain of first round for another 7-10 days.

jimmer · Apr 20, 2024

frederick said:
What grazing covers are you having to cope with. When do you hope to have a large enough area grazed to start second round.

I probably have to remain of first round for another 7-10 days.

4 days of 2nd round left here, mowed a good few acres on Tuesday to reset big covers on platform
Going to be tight until aftermaths are ready
Consequence of housed by night too often

Beef farmer · Apr 20, 2024

Silage crop. All in calf, cut the cake down and make them eat it. Days left then 2nd round

Jdunn55 · Apr 20, 2024

Makes it all worth it

my first bradash contender fresh with a heifer by jake
jake x contender x ex92 chad (2e) x vg89 meinse x ex94 hilton (6e) x ex92 (4e) zest

and a heifer by my stock bull from a gtw heifer too

Blue. · Apr 20, 2024

Happy hillbily said:
There's a variety of reasons.
Years ago I split the milk line with a butterfly tap and had pipework and jetting heads fitted to the milk line, but took longer to wash than just unplugging the clusters and taking them to the dairy, and also had to carry hot water to to the parlour to wash the outside of the clusters and pipes, where as you just give them a quick brush whilst their in the washtub. Also it's nearly 90ft from one end of the parlour to the dairy the way the pipe goes, so with an extra wash line, there would be even more heat loss from the hot wash in winter
Also when we get cold weather in winter, the clusters get kept in the dairy untill just before we start milking, nothing is frozen and can milk at -16 without having to have space heaters running to thaw the place out. (When we get freezing weather the parlour is kept dry, in all senses, much safer for man and animal)
We do all the fertility work, A'i, freeze branding etc in the parlour, so it's better not to have the clusters there at that time.
And the last one, KISS

Fair enough,you wouldn't get heat loss if you wrapped the wash line with insulation foam.

You must wash down with something after milking?

How long do you plan to milk in the current set up?

Homesy · Apr 20, 2024

jimmer said:
4 days of 2nd round left here, mowed a good few acres on Tuesday to reset big covers on platform

Will you f**k off !
mine have only been out 2 days. Grass is yellow and purple.

Wesley · Apr 20, 2024

Homesy said:
Will you f**k off !
mine have only been out 2 days. Grass is yellow and purple.

Don’t worry, some of his fields were brown & not much green involved

Wesley · Apr 20, 2024

The end is nigh…week (ish) left of first round, second round is in the shed to the right

Happy hillbily · Apr 20, 2024

Blue. said:
Fair enough,you wouldn't get heat loss if you wrapped the wash line with insulation foam.

You must wash down with something after milking?

How long do you plan to milk in the current set up?

It's less hassle just to carry the clusters the 30ft to the dairy.

Being 1200ft up a hill when we get cold weather, can be below 0⁰c day and night for weeks on end. Parlour is kept clean with a yard brush. But given a thorough clean once the temps get above 0⁰c.
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I inherited a fair bit of debt after my father passed away, so once that's paid off, we shall revaluate, depends what my daughter wants to do. I'll be closer to 55 by then, I really don't fancy taking a big loan out at that age to upgrade, especially the way the Welsh assembly are doing their best to ruin Welsh ag

lazy farmer · Apr 20, 2024

Homesy said:
Will you f**k off !
mine have only been out 2 days. Grass is yellow and purple.

First day of no teat prep being required here.
what a yr

TheRanger · Apr 20, 2024

Homesy said:
Will you f**k off !
mine have only been out 2 days. Grass is yellow and purple.

What little grass we have is very purple today. Had a frost overnight. Hopefully the geese f**k off soon, fed up chasing them off now, worse than sheep.

Jdunn55 · Apr 20, 2024

Ed @ Farmdeals said:
Hi everyone,

I just wanted to put a message on here. As a buying group, we've substantially grown our offering out in the past few months (specifically for dairy farmers).

Here's a bit of a rundown of just some of the products you can get with Farmdeals.

-Milk powder
-Parlour, tank, cluster and system wash
-Disinfectant
-Teat dip
-Hoof care products
-Minerals
-Protected fats
-Vet meds
- and much more

Any questions feel free to ask me on here, direct message me or email me on [email protected]

Fencing stuff would be great

Both electric and permanent - possibly even clipex or similar

Thinking along the lines of geared reels, pigtail electric fencing posts, poly wire, steel wire, barbed wire, wooden posts (strainers etc), insulators etc

Other grazing stuff like water troughs, water pipe and fittings might be worth a look

Used farmdeals a few times now and been pleased, much cheaper to go through you guys for fuel and oil as well

Ducati899 · Apr 20, 2024

TheRanger said:
What little grass we have is very purple today. Had a frost overnight. Hopefully the geese f**k off soon, fed up chasing them off now, worse than sheep.

We’ve had 28 swans and around 30 geese here since January, given up chasing them off now. They come every year so just let them get on with it now

betweenthelines · Apr 20, 2024

Jdunn55 said:
Fencing stuff would be great

Both electric and permanent - possibly even clipex or similar

Thinking along the lines of geared reels, pigtail electric fencing posts, poly wire, steel wire, barbed wire, wooden posts (strainers etc), insulators etc

Other grazing stuff like water troughs, water pipe and fittings might be worth a look

Used farmdeals a few times now and been pleased, much cheaper to go through you guys for fuel and oil as well

Doesn't your Landlord ever pay for anything?

Most of the problems that were getting you down a few weeks ago are down to the Landlord!

som farmer · Apr 20, 2024

betweenthelines said:
Doesn't your Landlord ever pay for anything?

Most of the problems that were getting you down a few weeks ago are down to the Landlord!

l think the question should be, how long is the FBT, and will it be renewed, l think he has said, his l/lords are old, and 1 departed ?

he will be very lucky to get it renewed, hope he does, but.

wouldn't want to be spending to much, that isn't removable at end of tenancy.

bit harsh, but likely to happen.

TheRanger · Apr 20, 2024

Ducati899 said:
We’ve had 28 swans and around 30 geese here since January, given up chasing them off now. They come every year so just let them get on with it now

Try 1000 pinkfoots, will clear a field of grass if they settle down for the night

Cowwilf · Apr 20, 2024

7th consecutive day out, we managed 13 days right at the start of march then an odd day here and there followed by 3 weeks back inside.

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