stablegirl
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- Location
- North
A real favourite, BoltonManor Talent Ruth Ex95(4).
6 calves pd+ again, still doing 45 litres.
6 calves pd+ again, still doing 45 litres.
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
That new shed looks worth it. How have you found the lely silage bots?
stablegirl
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- Location
- North
New shed is great, and I'm a big fan of the Juno, I'm not a huge robot fan but I really like it, they take quite a bit of setting up and have teething problems but if every now and then it stops intakes drop almost 10%.
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
It won't let me do 2 likes but one for the cow and one for your setup!
More girls on holiday for 8 weeks l
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Very envious.
HasthorpeGrange
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Is that road shut for 8 weeks for them to graze the standing hay then?
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Do you give all the girls 8 weeks? quite a long time, i thought most people do 5/6 weeks?
There is a lot of grub on the verges since the rain.
5 weeks is no good at all. 6 border line, no room for error.
We are on for a good 8 weeks, planned start is 15th of aug and the cows above are week 3 of calving.
The xbred cows and bulls weve used are both short gestation, so i guess by planned start that we will be milking 25+% of the herd already. Just dont want to be caught short.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Thats interesting, are you breeding replacments or happy buying? To be total honest we always go 6 weeks odd few will calve early, we are due end of August so will start drying half way through July. A lot of our fresians will tell me when the want to be dry, they drop like a stone!
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Hope someone isn't bored if they hold to your start date
Happy buying. Only 1 problem.... cows that are meant to be empty turning up in calf.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
You buying fresh from Ireland ? Its how we started David C? guess you can sell incalf ones on! we had 1 or 2 that i recon where closer to 150 days in milk and incalf than fresh, but bit difficult to pick out when whole herd is milked for 24hours so bursting when viewing.All terned out good cows would do it again
A few from him, few fairly locals too. Just a pain with tb, had 7 this year
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
When you look there are 10000s of cross bread cows in this country for sale, Must admit some cross bread cows we got the past seam to come from high johns risk herds.
For sure thats the biggest unmanagable problem we have.
Could be worst, have purchased incalf cows which were pd+ from their vet and had 10% MT
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
As a flying herd I only have to worry about it once
We are certainly the end of the line
Youd be expecting a refundCould be worst, have purchased incalf cows which were pd+ from their vet and had 10% MT