pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
How long does it take you to milk 170 through the 16/16?
How many cows are you milking?
- Thread starter BobbySusie
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pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Guessing too long and hence the increase to 24
- Location
- Northumberland
For a housed robot herd, I would say cheaper than making silage for 365 days with less waste.
- Location
- Northumberland
I could do about 80/hour through mine,but the cows had to be clean.You would do well to get them through in 2 hours.
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
I started zerograzing in 2010 with a £1000 mengele wagon and £3000 claas front moco. I upgraded the Wagon and new Kuhn 10ft straight front mower which were £7k each 3 years ago. Mower does all silage mowing too. Not big money by today's standards.
Only tractor on the farm and used for wrapping and carting bales doing about 500 hours a year in total. Father in law uses his tractor for Baling.
Zero grazing has its challenges, grass quality is suffering with this dry but with nearly all the fields with road frontage letting cows wonder with access to robots is just not a option, so this is next best thing.
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BobbySusie
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Thinking of converting to a small dairy herd myself. You happy financially with the dairy as a standalone
BobbySusie
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Im not a million miles away from you. Any idea on costs per litre with zero grazing
kverneland es 80
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- Location
- clonakilty , co cork
240 spring calving jex cows milked through a 24/48 parlour,graized 10 mts of the yr
BobbySusie
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My motive was genuine, I wish to convert from sucklers to dairy and start spring 2021
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
Few bits of advice. Get the farm reseeded before you start and don’t under estimate all the extra things you will need. You might think oh I can manage without that but in reality you will need it. Decent yard scraper, a machine for it to go on and bedding machine.
Means of doing feet, keeping a sharp hoof knife, calving jack, a cow lifter and means of milking down cow. Ai flask.
Generator for power cut and a steam cleaner.
All things that in my book are essential but were overlooked when I started.
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
2.5-3hrs that’s in the herd so in milk is 140-160 , normally a few dry
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That’s fine but what is the relevance of knowing how many cows we milk?
You’re first port of call is sourcing a buyer. Without one it’s a dead duck
Think the op wants to find out how few a cows people are making a living from. I think he/she wants to work out of OAD 80 cows os viable.
Massive drains from the parlour
Wherever you put a plug will be in the wrong place so have loads of them
Can you reach every awkward ass part of the yard with a tractor in case you need to lift her?
Properly measure every hung gate and make sure it meets a slamming post - no string!!
LOADS of light in the milking parlour and hide the pump around the corner so it's quiet whilst milking.
Where too? What parlour?
DocPhil001
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- Location
- Holsworthy, Devon
153 milking 194 herd size. 20/20 parlour. grazed as much as conditions allow.
shortney
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Hampshire, 20/40 Waikato parlour..... in a bale!!
- Location
- East meath/dublin
I never tried to work that one out !! . Zero grazers are not cheap to buy and repairs are expensive but the can generate a lot of milk. Downsides are it ties up a tractor and the cows can get addicted to the concept. The dont like it if supply suddenly stops . You also need to stay away from your silage ground or you might find yourself short of silage .