All things Dairy

[Nyvlingen]

 

[Nyvlingen]

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[Cows 'n grass]

Looks like fall there.

It's getting close but all the hedges look dead on the west side after we had really strong salt winds a few weeks back.

 

[Nyvlingen]

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[Cows 'n grass]

This is where we rear calves from a couple of weeks through to weaning. This field is split into 3 paddocks with a basic central handling system. The sea keeps it mild and the trees give great shelter.

 

[happycows]

This is where we rear calves from a couple of weeks through to weaning. This field is split into 3 paddocks with a basic central handling system. The sea keeps it mild and the trees give great shelter.
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Oh my good god. That is a fisherman's dream i could moor my boat up and go out to sea every day ?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Oh my good god. That is a fisherman's dream i could moor my boat up and go out to sea every day ?

You can't be a spring calver and not have a boat! We have this one down there, but the combination of too many cows and small children means I don't get out on it as much as I'd like.

 

[Beef farmer]

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Apart from calving, if that was me i would quit

 

[yin ewe]

Enjoying the sunshine between the showers.

 

[jimmer]

Taking forever to get cows in, hmmmm too much grass

 

[pappuller]

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Enjoying the sunshine between the showers.

you on robots ? that having a rest aswell ?

 

[yin ewe]

you on robots ? that having a rest aswell ?

Just the one. Shed is only 200yds away from there and the gate is never closed. All out by 9am and then 3/4 milkings an hour from about 11am, gets busier as the afternoon goes on, all in by 6pm.

 

[pappuller]

Just the one. Shed is only 200yds away from there and the gate is never closed. All out by 9am and then 3/4 milkings an hour from about 11am, gets busier as the afternoon goes on, all in by 6pm.

We are the same when cows go onto the paddock, quiet from 10am and gets busy 5pm obt

 

[pappuller]

Just the one. Shed is only 200yds away from there and the gate is never closed. All out by 9am and then 3/4 milkings an hour from about 11am, gets busier as the afternoon goes on, all in by 6pm.

You got them on a seg gate or just open door ?

 

[Princess Pooper]

Well, I think she's pregnant (with her 4th calf (s?) !! She actually looks a lot bigger in real life than in this. View attachment 830445

Had her down as due for 26th August but she still doesn't have masses of milk on her. Looking at the records we had a query bulling 3 weeks later and she was AI'd again, but couldn't get it through cervix, so thought perhaps not bulling after all, so didn't put it on the software.
PD+ when milk tested 21/1. So perhaps she is in calf to that second service, in which case she really will be enormous!

She got bigger...

And then today I disappeared today for a couple of hours on church stuff..

....and this had happened, no fuss,

Had been concerned it would be a bull calf with it being late, but it's a stonking Goodwhone daughter, which according to my belly band weighed in at 54kg.

She's not actually a massive yielder (7,050 last lactation), but constituents are respectable (3.38/4.65), she's just under 5 years old and just had her fourth calf (3 heifers, 1 bull) ; on monthly SCC she has never once been over 150, she's a real sweetie, so what's not to like?

 

[Beef farmer]

She got bigger...

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And then today I disappeared today for a couple of hours on church stuff..

....and this had happened, no fuss, View attachment 830869

Had been concerned it would be a bull calf with it being late, but it's a stonking Goodwhone daughter, which according to my belly band weighed in at 54kg.

She's not actually a massive yielder (7,050 last lactation), but constituents are respectable (3.38/4.65), she's just under 5 years old and just had her fourth calf (3 heifers, 1 bull) ; on monthly SCC she has never once been over 150, she's a real sweetie, so what's not to like?

She wont jump out thats fir sure

 

[Spudley]

45 minutes to get these in this morning @jimmer , I feel your pain!!!

 

[yin ewe]

You got them on a seg gate or just open door ?

Seg gate - use for separating cows for foot trimming/ PD etc in winter.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Stolen from FB but relevant to many family farms.

 

[pappuller]

45 minutes to get these in this morning @jimmer , I feel your pain!!! View attachment 830881

When we grazed I always felt the later into the season the slower the cows seemed to get.