All things Dairy

[Friesianfan]

Why? Is it a rotarainer? Looks like a fair pipe feeding it

Yeah a rotorainer. Had to have it please environment agency. 63mm main with 32 mm layflat coming off it. Blocked nozzles, have to keep moving it, layflat blows off. Rubber stators on pump don't last long and cost £300 per go!

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Bloody thing!

I can't agree more.

 

[Beef farmer]

Yeah a rotorainer. Had to have it please environment agency. 63mm main with 32 mm layflat coming off it. Blocked nozzles, have to keep moving it, layflat blows off. Rubber stators on pump don't last long and cost £300 per go!

Ah ours is great. Got a pto pump on ours and will pump 50 cube an hour. All yard water and effluent is put trough it. No solids make the tank tho.

 

[bar718]

The bull paddock!View attachment 521698 View attachment 521694 View attachment 521692

That's the type of field we would find some rambler with his map hung around his neck trying to walk across ( the map is only for show as they cannot read them ) , at least it would be fun to watch .

 

[Happy hillbily]

I think I need to learn to keep my mouth shut sometimes ! Chatting with a friend last Tuesday at our discussion group, commenting that I haven't used the calving jack in a long while.
Nice little heifer heifer decided to change that this morning, starting to calve about 8.30 this morning, so left her for a few hours, went back, only to find a big pair of feet sticking out, anyway got him out with the jack eventually ! poor heifer had a bit of a hard time but was making a big fuss and licking the calf like it was a lollypop, so left her to it.
Could hear her calling from the yard an hour or so later, so went back to find him here

Still picking needles out of my arms and legs now bloomin sundays

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Beginning of the end. Dried 15% of the herd off this morning.

 

[Beef farmer]

The white cow with her arse to the picture is a tank.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

The white cow with her arse to the picture is a tank.

She is one i bought last year. More your sort of cow than mine as it turns out.

Closed 2nd lactation at 7200l @ 5.4/3.99

 

[buffalo_soldier]

The one i was trying to picture is home bred.

Closed 3rd lact. at 12579 @4.52/3.4.

More my sort of cow. Pesky holsteins

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

She is one i bought last year. More your sort of cow than mine as it turns out.

Closed 2nd lactation at 7200l @ 5.4/3.99

Being nosy how much did you pay for her she looks a beauty.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Being nosy how much did you pay for her she looks a beauty.

Bought i/c in 1st lact. £860 i think, certainly sub £1k

Her breeding pointed to her being a 10k cow. Just not going to be i guess.

 

[Penmoel]

Beginning of the end. Dried 15% of the herd off this morning.

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DCT or just plugged??

 

[buffalo_soldier]

DCT or just plugged??

All sealant only on them.

 

[Beef farmer]

Just growing grass well at the moment.

 

[thunderballs]

^^ I've that type of plate meter too

 

[Agrispeed]

Ah ours is great. Got a pto pump on ours and will pump 50 cube an hour. All yard water and effluent is put trough it. No solids make the tank tho.

This arrived last week...

Along with a pump, that I expected to be a small submersible thing, but is actually nearly a meter high and bloody heavy! Waiting to put the main in now.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

This arrived last week...

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Along with a pump, that I expected to be a small submersible thing, but is actually nearly a meter high and bloody heavy! Waiting to put the main in now.

I'll be interested to know how you get on. I have sprinklers, not k-line, and the while set up is a heap of sh!te

What size nozzles have you gone for? Have you put in settlement tanks?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Is the parlour finished yet? @Agrispeed

 

[Agrispeed]

I'll be interested to know how you get on. I have sprinklers, not k-line, and the while set up is a heap of sh!te

What size nozzles have you gone for? Have you put in settlement tanks?

went with the biggest nozzles that fit in the small pods, so 4mm Naans. Bigger pods were significantly more expensive. The rotorflush pump has a 0.3mm self cleaning filter so hopefully shouldn't be able to block. the plan is to brim the tank and take it out with a slurry tanker when theres too much solids in there, but I don't really know how long that will take. Plan was originally for a 3 stage settlement tank, but I was told it probably wasn't necessary for parlour washings.

Is the parlour finished yet? @Agrispeed

Nearly!

Currently milking with a bucket milker in it. Should be going by Friday, electrician has been struggling to get hold of some bits as its a slightly odd system as its running off another commercial building. Out of my hands at the moment anyway. Got the tank back the other day so its very nearly going.

Soil Association are being useless as usual but thats to be expected.

 

[Agrispeed]

ore cows arrived last week. Normandie X Guernsey/Ayr crosses. Not sure about them, they certainly have character and are very French!