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- somerset
how did you get on with it.
seen the adverts, just interested to see what area they cover, hopefully never in the position of needing him. But if ever we do, might be better than dumping it, in the lagoon !
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seen the adverts, just interested to see what area they cover, hopefully never in the position of needing him. But if ever we do, might be better than dumping it, in the lagoon !
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
Spring calving has started
Another winnie for the collection, from a 4th calver who has only given me a bull and 2 beef calves until now so pretty thrilled!
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Headless chicken
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- West Wales
Has anyone moved away from uniform to another herd management system? We don’t integrate it into anything else and just use it as a stand alone. I don’t get along with the app so it’s only on the farm office computer. I recon it’s costing me circa 1000litres a year more than another system….. is it worth it?
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Only get out what you put in. So if not doing the input no point having it. Depends what floats your boat.
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
100% agree. We are putting data in but probably not as much as someone who has it linked to the parlour etc.
Kiss
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- Location
- North west
We aren’t linked to the pc
but for how much I can pull apart breeding for me it’s worth it, individual bull conception rates, lactation conception rates. I like the yearly fertility thing to
I agree the app on your phone is nothing fancy though!
but for how much I can pull apart breeding for me it’s worth it, individual bull conception rates, lactation conception rates. I like the yearly fertility thing to
I agree the app on your phone is nothing fancy though!
I used to use Interherd and moved to Interherd+ a few years back. I don't need to link to anything in the parlour and get on with IH+ really well as a standalone bit of cow management software.
It's a very customisable programme so you can set it up to suit you. The data analysis you can do is pretty impressive and it also benchmarks various KPI's for you. IH+ links to NMR/CIS so your recording and disease data is captured and analysed too. There's no App yet, apparently being developed, but you can view your data on a browser site as well as on the laptop programme.
I'm not sure on the cost compared to Uniform though!
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Moved from SumIt to Uniform, as it links Delpro and Afi, which SumIt didn’t do. SumIt was miles cheaper, the App was good, which I used for breeding events exclusively, but it did do more, backup was also good.
The Uniform app is frankly pathetic, the PC system is good, backup is top notch too.
- Location
- God's side of the border.
Giving you some ideas? Some lads in Dorset did something similar.
There is farm at Burford who has a mobile, not seen it, not herd how how he got on with cold weather we have just had
do here stabbed another IBC with pallet tines
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Still do. They don’t milk in the depths of winter though.
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Thats what this was originally back in 1975ish. Grandfather concreted in a milking bail.
Problem here would be finding a level place in the fields to set up a mobile parlour.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
- Location
- somerset
needs a new roof every year though
they chuck 50/60 bulls out with the cows, bulls riding during milking = broken roof.
its a neat parlour though. When l was there, they were talking about making them to sell
had cows from there, breeding is a bit 'hit and miss', that number of xbred bulls, certainly isn't planned sires.
but the cows milked well on our system, 8k litre yields no problem. Which does make a bit of a mockery of carefully selected genomic sires !
over the years milked a lot of cows from those grazing herds, out of sync mainly, but with a decent ration, its surprising how well they respond. Had 30 off 1 strict grazing herd, they averaged just over double their herd average, the next yr, the cow price shot up, so walked away.
Some of those cows are in training for the diving high board, Olympics, here we come!
Happy hillbily
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- Uwchaled, North Wales
As Im nearly at the top of a mountain, there's not a flat spot in sight not even in the yard, so the off jump out of the parlour is half the height of the on jump, so it's not too badSome of those cows are in training for the diving high board, Olympics, here we come!
Down side the Ai tec and the Vet doing fertility need an old milk crate to stand on.
Do you know how difficult it is to get hold of a milk crate these days !!!
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
- Location
- somerset
some of the European countries, accept a good crust as an alternative to a 'proper' cover.
but common sense doesn't seem a trait the EA actually have.