All things Dairy

[Beef farmer]

Your not alone. Dry cows are firing through any bales we have got. Opened first cut to keep what few fresh cows we’ve got going and to make sure the stale cows don’t just nose dive to zero milk.

Desperate to see some rain soon

Wheres your mountains of wholecrop gone?

 

[vantage]

Wheres your mountains of wholecrop gone?

Just the thing for dry cows!

 

[Headless chicken]

Your sutuation changed quick. Can you afford to feed stale cows 1st cut? We had the same dilemma, cashed the cows in and kept the silage for fresh cows. When will you cash them out?

Pile of empties with no milk leaving on the weekend and hopefully dry another 20-30 off. Should leave me mostly with fresh cows or anything I want to run round so worth feeding

 

[Headless chicken]

Wheres your mountains of wholecrop gone?

still sat in the clamp just reluctant to open it just yet. I will if I need to. 40 acres still on the field set for the combine unless something changes. Still plenty of options I just don’t like having to feed this much this early.

 

[Headless chicken]

@Headless chicken

Bit of a media luvvie eh?

It was spring on me a bit! Had an open day about managing pollution here and about half hour before we had a call saying the beebs were on the way.

I’m trying to make every effort that whenever milk price comes up to tell everyone it’s crap because it is. We need north of 40ppl to be inline with everything else. I suspect we then need quota too or some sort of agreed literate at a set price and anything else is your own risk.

 

[onesiedale]

What do.people do with cows that refuse to behave in the milking parlour. I have a 2nd calver atm who is doing my head in.
A lovely quiet cow, very sociable likes a scratch now and then. But, will not keep a set of clusters on her for a full milking, no matter what i do . She was a bit of a pain in her first lactation but nowhere near where she is now.
No pattern to when she kicks the clusters off, just kicks them off when she feels like it, not a nasty kicker either. I have tried a rope around her waist, a clip on her tail, one kickbar, and now two kickbars, but still the clusters come off. No mastitis or sore teats etc
She is allready on the no service list, but im seriously considering culling the bxxxh although she is only 5 or 6 weeks calved.
Any thoughts

Try a rope tied round her body, just in front of the hips. Simple quick release hitch and you'll probably find she will stand ok.

 

[vantage]

It was spring on me a bit! Had an open day about managing pollution here and about half hour before we had a call saying the beebs were on the way.

I’m trying to make every effort that whenever milk price comes up to tell everyone it’s crap because it is. We need north of 40ppl to be inline with everything else. I suspect we then need quota too or some sort of agreed literate at a set price and anything else is your own risk.

I saw a clip of you speaking on the 10.30 pm Wales today. Was there more on the earlier show? Keith Owen is a good bloke with his head screwed on right who looks for the most cost effective solutions.

 

[Headless chicken]

I saw a clip of you speaking on the 10.30 pm Wales today. Was there more on the earlier show? Keith Owen is a good bloke with his head screwed on right who looks for the most cost effective solutions.

No think that’s all they showed as that’s probably the only bit that aligned with their views. I voiced my opinion that the bbc were farmer bashing which ofcourse they couldn’t air.

 

[Muddy Boots]

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Been a hard slog but got 370 bales of wheat straw baled up ready for winter, I only really wanted 200 but not a bad position to be in! Chasing a 35ft combine with a baler built before 35ft combines were a thing was fun (not).

How are you getting on with the MC130?

 

[jondear]

Whole crop off yesterday just before the thunder, Only needed the tow chain twice !
Bloke we get straw from rang to say he was combining, Get your baler here Went for a look & straw was soaking wet. He seemed surprised when we said we were not baling that till it dried some

Did ours Friday the ground is hard as ! Different country nearly!

 

[Milkcow365]

Scotland’s most southerly point

 

[Milkcow365]

Grouping wholecrop as the header broke down, sold this field as standing crop

 

[Happy hillbily]

Fly tape certanly doing its work these last few days
Wound out a fresh length after milking this morning

 

[Fergieman]

Sitting outside having a meal and drinks in the square old town Krakow Poland. Going to a polish wedding Saturday and Sunday.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Pleasing pic for me anyway. Fresh cows grazing away with the fields behind meaning that silage 19 is complete.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Still calving at a pace though.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Still calving at a pace though.

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How have you found the sexed semen many bull calves?

 

[buffalo_soldier]

How have you found the sexed semen many bull calves?

I would have to have a count up but in general the ratio is a sh!t ton of hfrs to only one bull.

I nearly cried when I discovered this is a bull. See if anyone can guess why:

 

[Blue.]

I would have to have a count up but in general the ratio is a sh!t ton of hfrs to only one bull.

I nearly cried when I discovered this is a bull. See if anyone can guess why:

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Well we all know you rate a good black one.

 

[Rossymons]

I would have to have a count up but in general the ratio is a sh!t ton of hfrs to only one bull.

I nearly cried when I discovered this is a bull. See if anyone can guess why:

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It was born pre-tagged??