All things Dairy

[Conrod96]

Last pit of the year getting filled to 60 acre of spring oats with undersown grass

 

[Princess Pooper]

How clean are they? Do you have to wash them?

Clean enough to feed, we don't wash them, we would register a complaint if they were too dirty.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Fodder beet. Leaves are wilting in the heat.

But not a bad crop underneath them. A few weeks of growing to do yet.

Bit of grass we have got is poor but looking at some of your pictures as least it still green.

 

[Farmer Keith]

Finally a bit of decent weather to cut some surplus grass off the platform.

 

[Jdunn55]

no more dead calves please

 

[TheRanger]

no more dead calves please

Seen these on facebook in Cornwall the other day and thought of you. Glad you got sorted, best batches of calves always come out the hutches here.

 

[coomoo]

no more dead calves please

Can get a bit of sweat on handling them when there bigger but you’ll not look back

 

[Jdunn55]

Seen these on facebook in Cornwall the other day and thought of you. Glad you got sorted, best batches of calves always come out the hutches here.

View attachment 1055065

Not mine unfortunately, couldn't bring myself to like the post I'm that jealous

 

[Jdunn55]

View attachment 1055069Can get a bit of sweat on handling them when there bigger but you’ll not look back

I hope so.
On the lookout for a second hand quad bike trailer now and an old kitchen to convert an old calf shed into a clean room to store all the feeding stuff, if anyone hears of anything!
No point keeping the hutches clean and sterile if you're feeding bugs because the bottles are kept dirty, that's my imo anyway, same with the calving area which will be on the list after that

 

[crashbox]

View attachment 1055039Last pit of the year getting filled to 60 acre of spring oats with undersown grass

We've undersown barley before, not oats... why oats? Suit soil type?

 

[Rossymons]

I hope so.
On the lookout for a second hand quad bike trailer now and an old kitchen to convert an old calf shed into a clean room to store all the feeding stuff, if anyone hears of anything!
No point keeping the hutches clean and sterile if you're feeding bugs because the bottles are kept dirty, that's my imo anyway, same with the calving area which will be on the list after that

When you say kitchen...

 

[Jdunn55]

When you say kitchen...

Just some cabinets, worktop and ideally a sink. Doesn't need to be pretty just able to be sterilised and work (ie the doors cam close and open!)

 

[coomoo]

I hope so.
On the lookout for a second hand quad bike trailer now and an old kitchen to convert an old calf shed into a clean room to store all the feeding stuff, if anyone hears of anything!
No point keeping the hutches clean and sterile if you're feeding bugs because the bottles are kept dirty, that's my imo anyway, same with the calving area which will be on the list after that

And something of the sort depending on distance and budget, I wasted a year with buckets of water

 

[Conrod96]

We've undersown barley before, not oats... why oats? Suit soil type?

Cause they are easy to grow lol

 

[Jdunn55]

View attachment 1055078And something of the sort depending on distance and budget, I wasted a year with buckets of water

Mine are all going to be on the bottles from intershape, so was going to have a trailer, fill it up every time with however many bottles needed in the kitchen, drive down there with quad, unload and then pick up all the bottles again and stick everything in the dishwasher ready for the next feed

But I'll have something like that for drinking watrr

 

[Dead Rabbits]

I hope so.
On the lookout for a second hand quad bike trailer now and an old kitchen to convert an old calf shed into a clean room to store all the feeding stuff, if anyone hears of anything!
No point keeping the hutches clean and sterile if you're feeding bugs because the bottles are kept dirty, that's my imo anyway, same with the calving area which will be on the list after that

Buy a bottle for each hutch. Cut the bottom of it off at an angle to match the slope. Never take it out of the hutch till the calf is weaned, dump the milk in it.

I grew up raising calves in hutches. Would never go backwards to them

 

[Rossymons]

@Jdunn55 by the end of the week

This is how to feed calves

 

[Sylution]

Tonights grass offering. Last field of the 5th round.

Setting the fence up for tomorrow. Exactly 21 day rotation now. Growth and utilisation has been spot on here this year. I know many years we grow more, and need to take fields from the platform out for bales often. But utilisation of grass is nowhere near as good. Know that we have been lucky in this corner of west Wales in regards to the weather. Cows have been out from 19th of March in the day, and 1st May in night, not a bit of silage fed since. However I expect no sympathy from you guys in the wet years when our best laid out grazing plans turn to mud and grumpy cows. Just glad to get the perfect spring/summer grazing season for this farm. Hope by the end of the year the season balances its self out for all you farmers in dry areas. Mother nature is always quite cleaver in that regard.

 

[sidjon]

Still rubbish here......

 

[vantage]

@Jdunn55 by the end of the week

This is how to feed calves

All he needs are a load of Mexicans and his own nuclear power station to heat all that hot water!