All things Dairy

[Ducati899]

We stuck a needle in but just got blood. Perhaps try again see if it goes down??

we did the same and first couple times it was just blood,had vet look and he said leave it as long as possible,cant remember how long exactly

 

[Monty]

Take it stature is high up your list when picking Bulls or is it just the pics.

We try not to breed anything too tall so they will fit in the parlour but we still have some monsters. The parlour is quite low tbh. I raised the bars a few inches to give more room but the tall cows still rub their back on it. The far right stall is extra large so all the big cows stand there

 

[Blue.]

I've got a cow with a mysterious lump on her right back leg just like that, supposes I should get vet to check it out does yours walk ok and have you got your vet to look at it? My one did splits last backend and lump appeared a few months later, thought might of been badly broused from doing splits.
Always call my last batch of cows "the pensioners" like you call yours the dregs

Always call ours "crocks" stems from night milking for a local chap who had a crock pen that we milked at the end.

Due to having decent cubicles nowadays I very rarely have a cow in a pen,I just run them with the others.

 

[Monty]

The lumpy leg cow is walking fine it just looks very bad. We have another with lots of small hard lumps down one side of hers but not causing any problems either. Just have to see if it settles down itself I think

 

[Blue.]

Hard work taking good pics of cows,here's one of my bulls he's been in with the heifers as punishment for pulling the wires out of the level control and causing the pcb to blow

 

[Beef farmer]

Hard work taking good pics of cows,here's one of my bulls he's been in with the heifers as punishment for pulling the wires out of the level control and causing the pcb to blow View attachment 291782

I like your rubber matting.

 

[Blue.]

I like your rubber matting.

So does the bull,he stands there most of milking.

One good thing is him standing there stops flossie going to feed calves but tonight she couldn't get back to the pit,I had to go and move him that's when I took the pic.

 

[More to life]

Hard work taking good pics of cows,here's one of my bulls he's been in with the heifers as punishment for pulling the wires out of the level control and causing the pcb to blow View attachment 291782

You are a braver man than me

 

[coomoo]

What an earth are all these pictures of cows in fields. Did they escape or something

Had the camera out today so some cow pics. Round the yard
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Lovely pics, what's the breeding behind your cows( soft spot for 4th pic down)

 

[Beef farmer]

Hard work taking good pics of cows,here's one of my bulls he's been in with the heifers as punishment for pulling the wires out of the level control and causing the pcb to blow View attachment 291782

How many Bulls are you working? Any beef?

 

[Blue.]

You are a braver man than me

No comment.

How many Bulls are you working? Any beef?

3 black and whites,2 are coming up 3 and other is 15months,put youngest in with heifers as he hurt himself bulling.

I ran Angus with the cows for a couple of winters and they were a disaster,they couldn't cope with diet and got way to big and ended up lame more than they were working switched back to Holstein when milk price dropped,a bit of reverse psychology.

 

[Beef farmer]

No comment.


3 black and whites,2 are coming up 3 and other is 15months,put youngest in with heifers as he hurt himself bulling.

I ran Angus with the cows for a couple of winters and they were a disaster,they couldn't cope with diet and got way to big and ended up lame more than they were working switched back to Holstein when milk price dropped,a bit of reverse psychology.

 

[Monty]

Lovely pics, what's the breeding behind your cows( soft spot for 4th pic down)

The furry black heifer? She's a Torrer (Oman son) out of a Dante.

We have our own flask and buy semen from anyone so long as the bull looks good and the price is right. Might as well give you a list of all the bulls in our milking records,
Fidelity (red), Crest, Kian (red), Velvet (difficult calving but look very nice), Sudan, Jango, Cassano, Spooky, Torrer, Patron, Dollar, Rustler red, Hanno, Kendall, Airraid, Tugalo, Donnie, Dante, Binky and Mergim We have quite a few pilot heifers and now using Flumencino and Empoleon from mastergen

 

[Headless chicken]

Hard work taking good pics of cows,here's one of my bulls he's been in with the heifers as punishment for pulling the wires out of the level control and causing the pcb to blow View attachment 291782

I turned one of the fleckviehs out of the straw as punishment for being a little madam and trying to stop me getting out of the pit. She sulked for 2 days and just stood staring at the pen until I let her back in

 

[Blue.]

The furry black heifer? She's a Torrer (Oman son) out of a Dante.

We have our own flask and buy semen from anyone so long as the bull looks good and the price is right. Might as well give you a list of all the bulls in our milking records,
Fidelity (red), Crest, Kian (red), Velvet (difficult calving but look very nice), Sudan, Jango, Cassano, Spooky, Torrer, Patron, Dollar, Rustler red, Hanno, Kendall, Airraid, Tugalo, Donnie, Dante, Binky and Mergim We have quite a few pilot heifers and now using Flumencino and Empoleon from mastergen

My Spooky daughters were shite

Tugalos,big rough cows that milked and milked,loved mine.

 

[More to life]

My Spooky daughters were shite

Tugalos,big rough cows that milked and milked,loved mine.

Tugalo one of the best all time in my eyes

 

[Monty]

My Spooky daughters were shite

Tugalos,big rough cows that milked and milked,loved mine.

We had 7 spookies, 3 had to go as heifers because we couldn't get them in calf, one calved down on 2 quarters, another didn't last too long either. So we only have 2 left. One is quite lanky, quiet and soso, the other looks very nice but a complete nutter. She jumped a gate, wall and buggered off down the field when we tried to tb test her. Most of them were very skitty buggers too. Aptly named. Just a nighmare really.

Tugalos very hard wearing lasting cows but slow milkers

 

[applejack]

I seem to recall milking speed was the main issue with Tugelo, mind you some of Oman's granddaughter's
have a tendency to be hard milkers, I had a Lariat that you could go and scrape up while waiting for her however TB got rid of that particular problem.

 

[Princess Pooper]

We try not to breed anything too tall so they will fit in the parlour but we still have some monsters. The parlour is quite low tbh. I raised the bars a few inches to give more room but the tall cows still rub their back on it. The far right stall is extra large so all the big cows stand there

We used to have the same problem, some would be rubbing on the gate opener. Ours are not tall cows.

 

[multi power]

We stuck a needle in but just got blood. Perhaps try again see if it goes down??

It will turn to puss then you can pop it