All things Dairy

[coomoo]

That's a neighbours place. It's supposed to reflect sun so stays cool. He only had cows in a week so haven't caught up with him yet.

Definitely be interesting to hear his thoughts

 

[coomoo]

Had them on housed heifers this last winter. Great job, far better than tail paint. No questioning of whether it's a positive heat or just a bit of carry on

100 % delighted with results here, traveling from tank to youngstock got brilliant results. As said tail paint with heifers ain’t easy to manage

 

[MrA.G.]

Busy AI morning.
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After ai do you strip the activated pads off and reapply a new one to pick up repeats? Or revert to tail paint?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

After ai do you strip the activated pads off and reapply a new one to pick up repeats? Or revert to tail paint?

My cows are on 12 hours grazing breaks and i don't like the idea of the bulling cows spending the whole night jumping on each other rather than eating then going back out in the morning when the main herd have eaten all the best feed and still being hungry.

I keep everything AI'd in the morning in a separate paddock next to the parlour with tons of feed in then get them in as the first row in the afternoon and re apply a new blue patch then. If you put a new patch on as you AI you will see a lot of false positives and get through a lot of patches.

 

[dinderleat]

Yes, I have friends who do this.

It's really important to get them good and hot before applying them otherwise they will fall off

Carpet spray glue works a treat

 

[Bald Rick]

Nice bit of wet rain this morning but not long enough to get the ground good and damp

 

[Headless chicken]

Wet enough here that the dog doesn’t want to leave the office. Think this might just be our saving grace. It was dam dry up until now.

 

[Beef farmer]

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Wet enough here that the dog doesn’t want to leave the office. Think this might just be our saving grace. It was dam dry up until now.

Looks like about 1mm.

 

[Headless chicken]

Looks like about 1mm.

Still going strong most importantly only started 10 mind before I took the picture

 

[Bald Rick]

'Kin Sun's out now

 

[meath suckler man]

Busy AI morning.
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Do you use any beef bulls on the jerseys, if so what bulls

 

[Mr Jones]

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Wet enough here that the dog doesn’t want to leave the office. Think this might just be our saving grace. It was dam dry up until now.

Bloody cold weather hasn't helped, no major rain on the horizon for the NCE area according to long range forecast. Looks as if this summer could be as challenging as last year's.

 

[Beef farmer]

Bloody cold weather hasn't helped, no major rain on the horizon for the NCE area according to long range forecast. Looks as if this summer could be as challenging as last year's.

On course to make last years look a breeze

 

[Sparkymark]

This is the first year i’ve known us get the 1st cut done before we got all the maize drilled!

 

[Beef farmer]

Still going strong most importantly only started 10 mind before I took the picture

How much did you get?

 

[Mr Jones]

On course to make last years look a breeze

Barely a trickle of water from the two streams that run through the premises here.

 

[The Agrarian]

0.4mm here at lunchtime. Very localised. A mile up the road got twice as much. Mile down the road got none. It's blown up another fine evening. Remains to be what we get tomorrow and Sunday. Looks like next to nothing.

 

[Headless chicken]

How much did you get?

Fairly moist. Wet enough that you couldjt walk over any grass with dealer boots without getting wet

 

[Grassman247]

Yes. I had a play with a few estrotects last year and really liked them so I've gone 100% that way this year.

I thought I'd be the last person in the country to move away from tail paint but I can't see myself ever going back to painting now.

Funnily enough I’ve done the exact same thing, we are getting on really well with them

 

[jimmer]

Where you getting the scratch cards from?