All things Dairy

[Jdunn55]

Sorry I ment the cow cake would last three monthshope your ok, we all need a break at times!

Sorry that'll be the tiredness
I'm actually feeling a lot better than I was a month ago, and am finally starting to enjoy it, this past few weeks, although busy, have been the most enjoyable yet. Hopefully turning a corner now and if I can make it through till calving next year I think next year I'll remember why I was mad enough to want to inflict dairyin upon myself Roddas have asked me to be the host farm for a foot trimming course they're running which leads me to believe I cant be doing as awfully as what I've convinced myself I am, which although more work will be nice to repay them a favour as they've done me an awful lot of them finished doing cashflow projections for the next 6 months as well today and I'm actually on track to hit the targets I set myself before we started, I thought I was well away from them and not doing very well at all so that's cheered me up as well
Got a sort of day off tomorrow, got to milk early as cake is being delivered at half 6, then vet arriving at 8 to pd and I'm feeling cautiously optimistic that the queen of Rose's is in-calf and then LIC are starting a discussion group in this area so am going to the first meeting tomorrow which should give me an excuse each month to go off farm, hopefully learn something too
All in all, steady progress but am almost feeling like I know what I'm doing

 

[Cowmansam]

No, there too big and cow killers. So much for a catalogue says

Genus bull ?

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

No, there too big and cow killers. So much for a catalogue says

Just started calving to linchpin calving ok at the moment but not sure if I will order any blue this year. I don’t see why people rave about them really.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Sorry that'll be the tiredness
I'm actually feeling a lot better than I was a month ago, and am finally starting to enjoy it, this past few weeks, although busy, have been the most enjoyable yet. Hopefully turning a corner now and if I can make it through till calving next year I think next year I'll remember why I was mad enough to want to inflict dairyin upon myself Roddas have asked me to be the host farm for a foot trimming course they're running which leads me to believe I cant be doing as awfully as what I've convinced myself I am, which although more work will be nice to repay them a favour as they've done me an awful lot of them finished doing cashflow projections for the next 6 months as well today and I'm actually on track to hit the targets I set myself before we started, I thought I was well away from them and not doing very well at all so that's cheered me up as well
Got a sort of day off tomorrow, got to milk early as cake is being delivered at half 6, then vet arriving at 8 to pd and I'm feeling cautiously optimistic that the queen of Rose's is in-calf and then LIC are starting a discussion group in this area so am going to the first meeting tomorrow which should give me an excuse each month to go off farm, hopefully learn something too
All in all, steady progress but am almost feeling like I know what I'm doing

Where is the discussion group meeting?

 

[Jdunn55]

Just started calving to linchpin calving ok at the moment but not sure if I will order any blue this year. I don’t see why people rave about them really.

What's the easiest calving continental breed in your opinion? Going to get an Angus bull at some point I think for the heifers (will do a synch program with sexed semen for first service and then run him with them after that) and AI the cows to something decent, anyone used simmental? I've used limo this year, will wait and see

 

[Beef farmer]

Just started calving to linchpin calving ok at the moment but not sure if I will order any blue this year. I don’t see why people rave about them really.

We used him and springhill improvement. Not sure which one is throwing the big calves. I'd guess its only 1 but our record keeping probably won't allow me to find out.

 

[Jdunn55]

Where is the discussion group meeting?

At Hayle, do you want me to send you the info?

 

[Beef farmer]

Genus bull ?

Cogent

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

At Hayle, do you want me to send you the info?

Yeh please.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

What's the easiest calving continental breed in your opinion? Going to get an Angus bull at some point I think for the heifers (will do a synch program with sexed semen for first service and then run him with them after that) and AI the cows to something decent, anyone used simmental? I've used limo this year, will wait and see

First time we used angus on the heifers was 2 years ago out of 28 last year I think we pulled 2. Any cow that goes 3 times get an angus straw now as well.

 

[Cowmansam]

Continentals I’d say the smallest born ones that grew into nice big calves was a mates Charolais stock bull but I think it’s definitely more the bull than the breed used money man blue from genus this time and they firing them out just nicely got stung a couple years ago with a substitute bull and it was a cow crippler good job he wasn’t very fertile had 50 straws and held to 23 every one assisted 2 dead cows after ceasers and a lot of nerve damage will never go near another newpole bull again

 

[Cowmansam]

First time we used angus on the heifers was 2 years ago out of 28 last year I think we pulled 2. Any cow that goes 3 times get an angus straw now as well.

We have 3 Angus bulls for sweeping heifers and cows for the last 3 weeks there born nice and small do have a tendency to be wild calves those that leg it either at you or away from you but soon settle down pulled 6 last year and they was all heifers I’d let get too fat

 

[sidjon]

We used him and springhill improvement. Not sure which one is throwing the big calves. I'd guess its only 1 but our record keeping probably won't allow me to find out.

Probably Improvment as he's + 5 kg on birth weights, we've used Maidenland Marshall, who's -1.12kg , not sure if we'll buy any blue straws next year, as have got a waiting list for Hereford heifers

 

[lazy farmer]

"20 minutes of chaos" was how someone described it to me earlier.

@lazy farmer
@dinderleat

What's the weather been like with you? What do you think it's doing tomorrow afternoon? Only need it for forty overs in the early evening

Drier than my mouth the morning after a night on the beer silage feeding started today.
cornwalll tomorrow avo looks dry

 

[Martyn]

At Hayle, do you want me to send you the info?

If I wasn't calving I'd come down.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

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The question is, is that enough cake to do tonight and tomorrow morning

Relief was back tonight and has ended my 3 weeks in a row and for the first time since july I'm inside before 7 don't know what to do with myself now though

You know it’s not. You have 1 cow that will eat all that on her own.

 

[pine_guy]

Lovely evening stroll round some dry cow’s. Getting dark and still 20degC. That’s Carrock Fell and high pike in the background for anyone that knows their northern fells.

Nearly took my mind off this with less than 2 acres to go

 

[bean]

We used him and springhill improvement. Not sure which one is throwing the big calves. I'd guess its only 1 but our record keeping probably won't allow me to find out.

When I was buying calves from one farm using Springhill improvement all good and they had no calving problems

 

[som farmer]

What's the easiest calving continental breed in your opinion? Going to get an Angus bull at some point I think for the heifers (will do a synch program with sexed semen for first service and then run him with them after that) and AI the cows to something decent, anyone used simmental? I've used limo this year, will wait and see

save a bit of cash, serve hfrs to visual for 7/8 days, then 1 jab prelim, worked very well for us, 3 years ? we do cows and hfrs. The first 7/8 days, is when the prelim wont work, at that state of the cows cycle.
Breed of bull, how long is a piece of string ? For us, easy calving is the target, and we use both AA and BB, which we are assured are easy calving.
AA is dystiegh rocks erne LO60, and BB is doric,
and now someone will post they have had evil calvings.
Never been over keen on sim, a hangover from my calf buying days, there were to many bad, or xbred sim bulls, on farms, and they never made the money, they should have, that fact came from the farmers, that the dealers bought for, mine, were for me. Things may well be better now.
Sons friend, knows a new start up herd of grazers, 300 hfrs, all i/c to salers, all hfrs pre-sold, for sucklers, that went wrong, they all went to mkt, and made b-all.

 

[Keep On]

Cogent

Therein lies the issue