10 in 7 is going to be very popular.
Ill have play around with times and look, how did yourself learn to manage staff, you must have several. I'm terrible at it, always seam end up doing what suits staff rather than the farm.
So what happens if they have other work in the mornings and cant do your am milking??Advice needed!
I have a relief milker who I have trained up from scratch, no ag background, and is clean and reliable but basically their only skill base is putting units on and washing down. They don't have any livestock experience other than the two set of legs stood in front of them.
Currently doing two night milkings a week, after a conversation about the summer ahead it's dawned on them that the whole herd will be dry and their will be no milking, (they started as I started calving down this year) iv also said that I'm closely looking at oad milking from 15th of May upto dry off and would they consider morning milking rather than night as I'd rather get it done and out the way.
they are rather taken back by the fact there is no milking for 10 weeks, and that once a day milking even existed.
do most people on block calving systems pay a retaining to staff? I sadly feel if they can't do AM milking then they can't really offer us enough back to carry them through the dry cow period.
whats people thoughts?
Once we calve down again think we will be staying as once a day.So what happens if they have other work in the mornings and cant do your am milking??
As for the 10 week dry period, they more than likely need a job that pays them 52 weeks of the year and not one with nearly 3 months with no pay.
You either need to find them alternative work in that dry period that suites everything else going on in their life or lose them and possible end up with no relief milker when you are milking 2 times a day.
Oad autumns?Once we calve down again think we will be staying as once a day.
Not easy finding alternative work at 7.00 o'clock at night as such, they work somewhere else during the normal day hours.
Wil look to up numbers, drop yield but reduce days inside,Oad autumns?
I would say someone who classifies themselves as an extreme warrior is probably a pain in the hole!I don't know much about classifying people, but I would say someone who classifies themselves as an extreme warrior is probably a king
2 very nice cows
2 very nice cows
Who qre the cows by? Look like tanks!Both calved to sexed GTW and the calves look like they could be twins.
Put a big key ring on it.Today's heart in mouth moment... I have a q bed machine to clean the cubicles, I bring it in the far end of the shed while I send the cows in and scrape the cross walks. I also have a little heifer living with the cows that doesn't go in the parlour, she's quite tame and mooches around the shed while I clean. I got the cows out and came back to start up the machine, no key. She had pulled it out of the ignition and it was lying on the slats an inch away from disappearing forever!! A job for later is to locate the spare key.
Happened here, daughter lost the quad bike key in the straw whilst feeding the calves, tried the metal detector but no luck, had to get a barrel and key off ebay in the end (don't buy the cheap non genuine barrels ).Today's heart in mouth moment... I have a q bed machine to clean the cubicles, I bring it in the far end of the shed while I send the cows in and scrape the cross walks. I also have a little heifer living with the cows that doesn't go in the parlour, she's quite tame and mooches around the shed while I clean. I got the cows out and came back to start up the machine, no key. She had pulled it out of the ignition and it was lying on the slats an inch away from disappearing forever!! A job for later is to locate the spare key.
It's now attached by cable ties.Put a big key ring on it.
is she a jersey ?Today's heart in mouth moment... I have a q bed machine to clean the cubicles, I bring it in the far end of the shed while I send the cows in and scrape the cross walks. I also have a little heifer living with the cows that doesn't go in the parlour, she's quite tame and mooches around the shed while I clean. I got the cows out and came back to start up the machine, no key. She had pulled it out of the ignition and it was lying on the slats an inch away from disappearing forever!! A job for later is to locate the spare key.
buy a new joiner, not off the firm that billed you a £100, if that doesn't work, x2 jubilee clips,Excuse the dust haven't had a chance to wipe the paperwork this week, any ideas why this has started blowing apart during washing down? Do I just need a new rubber joiner? It's driving me crazy!