We’ve got about 2 days of proper grazing left. Might be able to find another few days here & there & then we might shut the girls in. Never to open the gate again.View attachment 1048616Enjoy it girls there ain’t much left.
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Martyn
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- South west
Sounds rather dramatic!
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Opened up a shed for a bit this avo to give them some shade. Seemed to work quite well.
Were supposed to fully housed on robots quite a while ago but had a slight lack of electric. Cut a couple of the usual grazing fields, youngstock in another thinking the cows wouldn’t be needing them so have been tight for grass. All being well robots will be running in early August so might as well shut them in now. Loads of silage, lack of the green stuff.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
You pulling a parlour out then?
Yep I was at that stage after measuring 10 days ago
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
At some point, unless my father takes his frustration out on it first & smashes it to pieces like he’s threatened many times before…8 unit auto tandem, getting less & less of ones still running.
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Worse parlour. Ever
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Look at me being a good little grazer
Only took 4 times longer
What’s wrong with feeding them in the yard?
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
They have started being lazy little sh1!s
Eat their silage and instead of wondering back out to the field to lie down, they lie down on the concrete in the collecting yard
I refuse to open the cubicle shed doors as that will mean wiping teats, more scraping, putting sand in etcFedupfarmer
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Could they be looking for a bit of shade,Looks like getting hotter this weekend.They have started being lazy little sh1!s
Eat their silage and instead of wondering back out to the field to lie down, they lie down on the concrete in the collecting yard
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Try bring them in and offering them no parlour cake for 3 -4 days, then start feeding again on the parlour,then you will think they are little angelsNo they only get silage overnight.
They are purely lazy fat friesians
- Location
- somerset
one went in, locally, not long ago, herringbone to tandem, they reckon its wonderful, or so they claim, some of the staff, beg to differ.
Lad we know, went for a 'trial', 41 cows, tandem parlour, 4 hrs to milk, washdown, and feed, he isn't the smartest, his biggest problem, washing down, with a trickle of water, he didn't take the job.
Went to an on farm dispersal, with a 2/4 herringbone, 60/70 cows.
And knew of a 2 cow bail, again with 60/70 cows.
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
I measured yesterday, had some fields of high 2s early 3s , it looked like low 2s in a cooler wetter time
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Moved some dairy beef onto rape/grass mix, taken them out of a dusty/empty paddock, they arnt quite sure what to do!
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
20-22 months, picking from the group monthly for fats.