All things Dairy

Location
East Mids
Interesting few days acting as 'cattle steward' to stop the dry cows/in calf heifers/bull from disrupting ground investigation works in preparation for a major road project that will be going through the corner of our fields. 4.5 m deep holes for geotechnical assessment. A mixture of river alluvium, (clays, sands, gravels) overlying glacial tills. In most cases as soon we hit the gravel strata, the sides caved in and the hole collapsed. Nothing interesting on the archaeology front, although we did find a deer jaw about 3 m down on gravel which will be sent away for dating.

No problems with the bovines, a bit inquisitive but nothing worse, I wasn't expecting anything different. Nowhere else to move them to at present, hence they agreed to pay me to help out for elf and safety reasons.

Apparently on one of the other farms there was a group of beef youngstock that got a bit over excited and one of the team (not working on ours) threw a bit of a wobbly about safety hence they were anxious to avoid a repeat on ours.

Quite a novelty to have lots of time to watch the cows and enjoy the environment down by the river. Buzzards, kites, herons, little egret, kestrel, hobby, meadow pipits, skylarks, long tailed tits, goldfinches

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pappuller

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
We are at the early stages of a stand alone single robot building, I have a pretty good idea as to how I want things with having previous experience.
The shed will be for 50 fresh/high yielders, with a straw yard and cubicles.
Which cubicle/mattress combination do people find is top notch from a comfort pov for the cows ?
Sand is out of the question.
 

dinderleat

Member
Location
Wells
We are at the early stages of a stand alone single robot building, I have a pretty good idea as to how I want things with having previous experience.
The shed will be for 50 fresh/high yielders, with a straw yard and cubicles.
Which cubicle/mattress combination do people find is top notch from a comfort pov for the cows ?
Sand is out of the question.
Water beds are supposed to be the dog nuts actual cubicles probably what best fits your cows?
 

dinderleat

Member
Location
Wells
We are at the early stages of a stand alone single robot building, I have a pretty good idea as to how I want things with having previous experience.
The shed will be for 50 fresh/high yielders, with a straw yard and cubicles.
Which cubicle/mattress combination do people find is top notch from a comfort pov for the cows ?
Sand is out of the question.
Water beds are supposed to be the dog nuts and cubicles probably what best fits your cows?
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
We are at the early stages of a stand alone single robot building, I have a pretty good idea as to how I want things with having previous experience.
The shed will be for 50 fresh/high yielders, with a straw yard and cubicles.
Which cubicle/mattress combination do people find is top notch from a comfort pov for the cows ?
Sand is out of the question.
Had Wilson C50 cubicles & pasture mats in for 10 years now, Can not fault them. Clean cows, Heifers use then 100% without training. Apart from tightening a few nuts & redesigning the head rail end bracket not needed any maintenance
Ivor Davey https://www.cowplan.com/ is the man that knows a lot of stuff about cubicles

Came with these
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These are far better
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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