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Trained my 9th lactation Quentin on robots last week 🤩 she is one of two that I still have

Our Sensehub system has a later service window for sexed and so I would go sexed. Usually serve 24ish hours for sexed from when heat first observed/ she comes up on Sensehub.

We got a fair percentage of bulls from our sexed Sassafras unfortunately!! But glad to hear the ones we do have should be decent!

We have had 2 confirmed cases within the past few years, never seen it before that. Miraculously both have survived and one has had 2 calves since. Ours only really lost their sight, they weren’t too bad otherwise (wouldn’t have let them suffer). Our neighbours sheep are often on our land 😡

How many points do you have to earn to get back what they’ve taken off?

Use the AHDB slurry wizard and just put that in front of them for storage calculations etc

Vets to do blood test, could need phosphorus or magnesium? Plus anti-inflammatory

Hi All, we are looking to put a farm office on top of our bulk tank room. Essentially the room is a full concrete cube, so was wondering about modular options to just plonk on top (it can take a few tonnes). Has anyone done this, if so what did you use and where from. Does anyone have any...

Yes very useful. We can pick up ketosis early and treat which can prevent DA’s etc. Mastitis picked up early before you can physically see it. Any infections etc. obviously treating all of these early lead to a better outcome for the cow (and us!). You do get false alerts but we take temp/ check...

Autumn 21’s tidying up the edges!

This is an amorphous globosus calf.. pretty interesting but of no disease significance.

There’s a really useful page on Facebook called ‘Lely robot users’ that might be worth joining, has users all over the world that help each other out! Glad to hear start up is going well for you!

Recommend 3 days glycol to get them going

No for us as well

Hi, looking for a bulk tank plus compressors etc., 7000-10000L, 3Phase, Dx preferable, ideally <10 years old Thanks