All things Dairy

[DairyGrazing]

Very nearly bought a container of calf hutches a few years back. In the end I bottled it as who do I get hold of if it all goes wrong?

Exactly i'd be worried

Thats the issue, stakes coming Tuesday, as in next Tuesday not a Tuesday in June.

Yeah June 2022.

 

[Rossymons]

Dunno. But doubt it would go wrong.

More about the quality of the product I was buying. In the we had a good deal on a batch of hutches. The difference between the unknown Imports and the hutches I could see in front of me wasnt that great in the end l.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Never looked on alibaba for agriculture stuff but I now find myself in desperate need of one of these.

 

[Beef farmer]

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Never looked on alibaba for agriculture stuff but I now find myself in desperate need of one of these.

What you can't buy on there is not needed

 

[vantage]

What you can't buy on there is not needed

Yet!

 

[Jdunn55]

What you can't buy on there is not needed

Do they sell sleep???

 

[Ducati899]

Do they sell sleep???

Sleep is for the weak

 

[Jdunn55]

Sleep is for the weak

I must be hard as nails by that standard then, I've had bugger all of it

 

[Jdunn55]

Must be doing something right, cows have all jumped by 2.5 litres a day on today's collection

 

[Sid]

If you have the winter diet right yields should stay stable?

Both herds went up here #amateurfarmer

 

[Milkcow365]

Must be doing something right, cows have all jumped by 2.5 litres a day on today's collection

Out of parlour feeders pumping them up
Best of luck with the new farm

 

[Martyn]

If you have the winter diet right yields should stay stable?

Both herds went up here #amateurfarmer

I must be a poor farmer cows always milked better on green grub that than any cake,maize or silage given to them

 

[Jdunn55]

Out of parlour feeders pumping them up
Best of luck with the new farm

thanykou! Oopf have yet to be even thought about red tractor tuesday so get them out the way and sorted and might think about them next week

 

[Martyn]

thanykou! Oopf have yet to be even thought about red tractor tuesday so get them out the way and sorted and might think about them next week

Think there are some at kivells sale at Austell way

 

[Jdunn55]

If you have the winter diet right yields should stay stable?

Both herds went up here #amateurfarmer

Theyve just been on silage all winter but the grass is finally growing here so theyve been having more of it, it's been cold up until the past fortnight and half the ground has needed a week of sun to dry up before I can get near it with the spinner but the past week it has grown really well so can hopefully cut the silage out the diet completely in 10 days time

 

[Sid]

Theyve just been on silage all winter but the grass is finally growing here so theyve been having more of it, it's been cold up until the past fortnight and half the ground has needed a week of sun to dry up before I can get near it with the spinner but the past week it has grown really well so can hopefully cut the silage out the diet completely in 10 days time

Frost is holding back growth here.
Out by day on parlour
Out day and night at robots but offering some silage before going out to night paddock.

 

[Jdunn55]

Frost is holding back growth here.
Out by day on parlour
Out day and night at robots but offering some silage before going out to night paddock.

It's just the cold here, although fairly hot in the day its bloody cold between 6pm and 10am mine have access to half an acre of grass per milking (so 1 acre a day) and ad-lib silage, they were taking 2 bales a day but that's dropped to about 1-1.5 with the extra grass

 

[som farmer]

If you have the winter diet right yields should stay stable?

Both herds went up here #amateurfarmer

well i thought they milked really well on a 'bad' end of winter ration, and they went up on grass, looking forward to out day and night, but the cold nights, holding growth back at the moment. Still feeding hay, bale silage and maize, till it runs out, as the night ration.
Totally agree, they should not jump up much, if your ration right, not really sure why ours are being 'different' this year, certainly not complaining, just wondering why, 'cos would love to repeat another year.
I was asked if this was an early, or late spring, my 'time clock' has been thrown right out this year, not going anywhere because of covid, l would say normal spring, after thinking it was an early one

 

[Beef farmer]

Do they sell sleep???

Get a relief milker 2 days a week

 

[Jdunn55]

Get a relief milker 2 days a week

I've got 2 doing 5 evenings a week between them but they still need training so I've done evry milking so far, wether it be with them or without them, give it another week or two and itll be fine, everything is slowly settling in. Very quickly had to give up on the idea of me doing most of the milking, didnt leave me much time after lunch to get field work/routine stuff done before having to start up the parlour again