Milkcow365
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- Sw Scotland
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All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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You're doing welll to keep the same phone for 3+ years on a dairy farm!!Going through photos on my phone, highest ever milk recording in 2013 when I started milking cows had 160 and only cubicles for 110 the first year was hell and I left school the day we started milking at 15 after a month I really wish I'd stuck in at school!! All going good now though thank god
Tell me about it !.After a shite day managed to drop phone inside Lucas when loading a silage bale.where is my phone?Spent the next 20 mins picking up bits in silage trough!
William Mellor
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- Peak District
I've had my phone for 7 years, been run over by a tractor, been through the washing machine, dropped in puddles, still going til yesterday when I dropped it on the yard and the screen gave up working. But still, 7 years and is a lot longer than some last
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
iPhones so the photos keep moving to next one very handy I must say as I will of had 5 in that time
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Had a little ride round to see how my early turnout plan is going.
Field 1:
Field 2:
Field 3:
Field 1:
Field 2:
Field 3:
early riser
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- Location
- Up North
@buffalo_soldier how early is 'early'?
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Haha that's the unknown at present.
Didn't get them out till May last year. So aiming to beat that.
April would make me smug I think. March and I may well dance a jig...
Well if it's a March turn out I think we will need to see a video of it , and not the turn out but the jig
early riser
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- Up North
Do you know what those fields are plating at?
You won't want to be waiting too long into April else that grass will get away on you and you will be entering at too high covers.
Heavy snow forced us back inside last April and by the time we got back out the overwintered grass had got away on us
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Do you know what those fields are plating at?
You won't want to be waiting too long into April else that grass will get away on you and you will be entering at too high covers.
Heavy snow forced us back inside last April and bhe time we got back out the overwintered grass had got away on us
Na, just eyeing it. Snow not really a worry, just the wet.
Fields 1 and 2 in the pic will be the driest i've got. Field 3 not so, but it's next to them so what can you do.
Said before on here i've done what i can, up to the weather now.
At least i'm having a go i guess.
Stocking wise it will be 6/ac till May so buffer will be used as well.
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
That's some stocking rate, Is that until afer first cut?
We're the opposite down here, because getting a massive heap of quality silage is less important I have every acre available for grazing until we have a surplus so my sticking rate in early spring i only about 1.2 cows/acre and they're only little
William Mellor
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- Location
- Peak District
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Another grazing field should be ready by then which would take me down to 3/ac. 1st cut is usually in by 3rd week of may and at that time I'm also drying off, so stocking rate becomes less of an issue.
The fields I'm aiming to graze early are usually 1st cut also but the last 2 years I have made a surplus. So I'm trying to take advantage of that and avoid making bales.
Feed them cheaper and less spend spend spend. I do listen
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buffalo_soldier
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- cumbria
Probably backfire mind
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Brought this heifer yesterdayHeifer calf born in the night by Kirkby Malvern, cow is bred by Moet Melody. Was suprised really as had double served the cow to Malvern 12 hours after standing and then Fertilty plus blue 24 hours after standing and was 8th service
Looking at your cubicle building brings back memories.
Brought this heifer yesterdayHeifer calf born in the night by Kirkby Malvern, cow is bred by Moet Melody. Was suprised really as had double served the cow to Malvern 12 hours after standing and then Fertilty plus blue 24 hours after standing and was 8th service
I can't get over how much light there is in your parlour!
What's the story with the heifer you bought?
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Seen as this is a picture thread though I thought I would put up something much less depressing than a dead cow.
her diet now argely consits Of larger and as many bags of watsits she can get her hands on. apparently my wife gave birth to a 50 year old single male with a combover who still lives with his mother.
Headless chicken
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- West Wales
We had 2 go up today - another one that slipped on the yard
Made a dent in my purchases yesterday already
Horrible isn't it :/ and just annoying. But hey ho onwards and upwards