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Spear

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Devon
It’s still nuts even if some advisers think it’s suddenly a great idea.

Here’s a typical lactation curve, admittedly still in first 305 days.
But this is sort of cow I aim to breed.

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Remember a cow doing even 30l/day gains 1800l by milking through “dry period” so that’s 6l/day gained for whole of a 305 day lactation.
 

dinderleat

Member
Location
Wells
One cow doesn’t make a herd and would your cow produce more milk if she calves more regularly instead of extending her lactation. I was referring to the reduction in Ci with relation to the increase milk yield per year.
 

Shep

Member
Free range cows are the future, ours can dander in and out to the field as they please, dander in and out of the robot when they feel like it, must be worth at least 3p a litre.
I wish you were right, but I can't see the Africans, Indonesians, or the Chinese paying more for powder just because cows are out, they don't have first world problems like us.
Spring bonus is a long way off, we'll have to take the winter bonus while it's there and make the most of it. No one is going to pay more for milk when it's in surplus.
 

Martyn

Member
Location
South west
Anyone else's cows seam to have a spring in their step since the days have started drawing out. Our have started radomly whole herd running around out centre island of cubicles for no apparent reason, and a lot more general bulling going on. Only thing i can think of is that they came in 6 weeks early this winter and now want to be out!

Unfortunately this evening cow check results in me finding a second calver flat on the floor having done the splits. not looking good at all, lifter her twice and now in a pen but looking painful. Not had a downer cow for 18 months, fit as a fiddle when i saw here at 5pm so guess they have been fooling around?
 

pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Anyone else's cows seam to have a spring in their step since the days have started drawing out. Our have started radomly whole herd running around out centre island of cubicles for no apparent reason, and a lot more general bulling going on. Only thing i can think of is that they came in 6 weeks early this winter and now want to be out!

Unfortunately this evening cow check results in me finding a second calver flat on the floor having done the splits. not looking good at all, lifter her twice and now in a pen but looking painful. Not had a downer cow for 18 months, fit as a fiddle when i saw here at 5pm so guess they have been fooling around?
Often find that behaviour like that is due to an imminent change in the weather, not always for the better ? we have a lot of snow forecast this weekend ?

hope your cow Pulls through.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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