All things Dairy

[sidjon]

add on a broken milk pump. Our first LDA for two years. The contractor not turning up to clean out the calving shed as promised. And you have a happy Friday!

Woke up to find a bulling cow, who managed to shattered front leg, never had one do it before Cuss, but one more positive note 50 Herefords passed PMT so off to market tomorrow to help pay for some over priced cow.....

 

[happycows]

We feed too much cake. Rather have lower fixed cost and higher feed costs than use tmr and be the opposite

Absolutely my sentiments.
No diet feeder or telehandler running away and depreciating. If your feeding a bit extra at least hopefully your achieving something for it.
78 out of 79 pd + on my annual vet visit in November 2020. Also with feeding every cow as a individual if something is getting a bit extra it’s for a good reason.

 

[lazy farmer]

Novel TB and Johne's test secures £2.3 million funding for full validation - Agriland.ie

A novel bovine TB and Johne's test, which boasts quicker and more accurate results, has secured £2.3 million funding for full validation.

www.agriland.ie

potential Game changer or more “jam tomorrow”?

 

[vantage]

Novel TB and Johne's test secures £2.3 million funding for full validation - Agriland.ie

A novel bovine TB and Johne's test, which boasts quicker and more accurate results, has secured £2.3 million funding for full validation.

www.agriland.ie

potential Game changer or more “jam tomorrow”?

The latter.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Novel TB and Johne's test secures £2.3 million funding for full validation - Agriland.ie

A novel bovine TB and Johne's test, which boasts quicker and more accurate results, has secured £2.3 million funding for full validation.

www.agriland.ie

potential Game changer or more “jam tomorrow”?

It has potential to help johnes vaccinated herds to understand the level of infection they're dealing with and get away from vaccinating.

 

[yin ewe]

For all you boys putting up your fancy photos of cows out grazing, spare a thought for us men farming in the real world.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

For all you boys putting up your fancy photos of cows out grazing, spare a thought for us men farming in the real world.
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This is where mine were today fences all around them shut in the middle of a field with no shelter. It was driving hail when I took the photo but they were all still eating.

Zoomed in

 

[In the pit]

Got a fresh calved Holstein Friesian cow that dropped her calf 3 weeks early. Still no milk on her after 2 days. She gave 35L as a heifer, so should do 50L as a 2nd calver. Is there anything that can help her come to milk. Getting cake and good silage.

Hasn't got ecoli or neospora or some other issue
VET

 

[sjt01]

It has potential to help johnes vaccinated herds to understand the level of infection they're dealing with and get away from vaccinating.

I have heard a couple of talks by Cath Rees the scientist who did the development at cheesemakers meetings, it picks up what other tests miss due to the bacteria hiding in cells, and does not show the false positives. This has the potential to revolutionise TB control, as the skin test might work for herds, but is useless for single animals.

 

[Headless chicken]

Surprised with that for this week with a bitter wind through most of it

 

[Spudley]

Fair play, I had 22 this week and was pleased with that. Are they out at night with you?

 

[Headless chicken]

Fair play, I had 22 this week and was pleased with that. Are they out at night with you?

I think we were 22 last week guess it may just depend on your measuring day this time of year. Still housed at night. We’ve a fairly small platform and thus high demand. Also as I’m on my own a fair bit them being in the shed is bloody handy as you could loose half an hour otherwise fetching them in.

 

[lazy farmer]

Batt latch ?

 

[Headless chicken]

Batt latch ?

We’ve got one and it does work in the main but a few of the tracks are at the bottom of the fields so they won’t go down to come
Back up if that makes sense. Adding a member of staff is on the list because I feel I’m spending too long on routine jobs

 

[lazy farmer]

Managing to stay grazing(just)
The day paddock at the top is on drier ground but across a road so makes night grazing tricky when labour(only me) in the morning . Where the cows are tonight will just about be ok as long as it stays dry.
last nights paddock looks sub optimal due to over night showers. ☹

 

[Spudley]

We are in a similar situation I think, we finished last year's silage and we have gotten into some horrible stuff from about 4 years ago and we just want it gone.

 

[Beef farmer]

I think we were 22 last week guess it may just depend on your measuring day this time of year. Still housed at night. We’ve a fairly small platform and thus high demand. Also as I’m on my own a fair bit them being in the shed is bloody handy as you could loose half an hour otherwise fetching them in.

Spend half an hour sorting beds and slurry?
I hate cows in sheds. If I had to house 365 they would be gone

 

[Headless chicken]

Spend half an hour sorting beds and slurry?
I hate cows in sheds. If I had to house 365 they would be gone

auto scraper and qbed mean its a pretty swift operation. I should add it probably still takes as long then being in but beds can be done after breakfast instead of having to be out of bed earlier. Agree though cows in sheds is sh!t. We need to change our collecting yard this year as the shed to some degree forms part of it which is where we loose lots of time fetching them in

 

[vantage]

auto scraper and qbed mean its a pretty swift operation. I should add it probably still takes as long then being in but beds can be done after breakfast instead of having to be out of bed earlier. Agree though cows in sheds is sh!t. We need to change our collecting yard this year as the shed to some degree forms part of it which is where we loose lots of time fetching them in

Auto scrapers will be a game changer for me, just have to accept higher wear rates on sand. I actually like cows in at night as it’s not much fun getting cows in when the rain is horizontal!

 

[Ducati899]

Managing to stay grazing(just)
The day paddock at the top is on drier ground but across a road so makes night grazing tricky when labour(only me) in the morning . Where the cows are tonight will just about be ok as long as it stays dry.
last nights paddock looks sub optimal due to over night showers. ☹

Forecast doesn’t look so bad now for the week ahead