Recent content by Cowwilf

Mine would be to make more silage as it's useful in a prolonged dry or wet spell.

Yeah neither of mine wash unless the cooling is turned off. I check the tank has washed first job after breakfast. Was more of a problem when on night collection.

Lucky if some of the drivers manage to press the wash button here.

Do tanker drivers still rinse tanks? I haven't seen one rinse ours since replacing the old square ice bank tank. How does not rinsing the tank have anything to do with milk pump seals?

They're certainly more consistent.

Got the cows back out this morning after 21 days back in full time.

You'd have milk in your vacuum line drain if its a split liner. Easy to find which ones split by touching the shells while hot wash is going round.

I've always included where/who they were moved to.

I have used herd watch since 2017, it has been a game changer for my record keeping. I'm dyslexic and have have never been very good at paper work. It's also very easy to look back, a quick search rather than checking pages of paper records. Red tractor, dairy inspector and trading standards...

Meadow stand on for April 35.25ppl

You can do that with a loader bucket or grab just have an open bale at the stack and take what you need.

I removed a parlor complete, disconnected pipes and eletrics at the front dropped onto poles and rolled out. Loaded with two loaders straight onto wagon. It was an extension so rolled in behind the existing parlour and welded in place. The hard bit was the building work and milking one sided...

I used to see cows rubbing the peds on the cubicle curb until they snapped would find one every week or ten days in the scrape passage.

Managed to get a fair bit done the week before last. The fields that were to wet to get on then are even wetter now.

Had it here since November after a trial in October. Very impressed with it for heat detection which is what it was put in for. As a one man band it's like having another set of eyes watching the cows 24/7. The pd visits have been much improved and the vet has noticed i'm not showing him near as...