Dead Rabbits
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- 'Merica
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
The house cow ?
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
@onesiedale tells me I need to be milking 55 not 5, not sure I'd fancy it like that!
Mind you, be quicker taking the machine to the Jerseys rather than waiting for them to come in.
Mr Mackay
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- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
Plenty of clutching then (or whatever passes for a clutch
Good balers if you look after them !!
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Yeah one of my moms cows. The milker is the first milking machine my grandpa got in the early fifties.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
The latest blow-ins. Mostly flecks in this wave.
A Vigor fleck, from genetic Austria, from a second generation brown Swiss X hol. Dark dun is a Haribo from CRV.
A little BB from a triple straw, from a holxjer. Bad angle. It's actually not a bad wee sort for its miserable background. The red ones a Haribo. It has just stopped climbing the gates and walls each time I walk in, after four days of being penned. Black's a bull.
Decent Haribo at the front, plainer behind. Both Holstein X montbeliarde dams. Calmed down nicely.
Two crazys just in today. Both haribos too, male and female.
And two more just in, white one out of a hols, red one out of a mont X hols.
A Vigor fleck, from genetic Austria, from a second generation brown Swiss X hol. Dark dun is a Haribo from CRV.
A little BB from a triple straw, from a holxjer. Bad angle. It's actually not a bad wee sort for its miserable background. The red ones a Haribo. It has just stopped climbing the gates and walls each time I walk in, after four days of being penned. Black's a bull.
Decent Haribo at the front, plainer behind. Both Holstein X montbeliarde dams. Calmed down nicely.
Two crazys just in today. Both haribos too, male and female.
And two more just in, white one out of a hols, red one out of a mont X hols.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
You running all the males to fat or sell as calves ?
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Had been selling up til the spring, but since starting again it's been a poor run of heifers, bumper silage crop with no market for it, so I'll squeeze them and run them and see next spring. (If we don't get closed by then, that is. Like Wales, closed means closed here).
I thats it
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Fleck x Hols been calved 3 weeks currently giving 31litres
Sparkymark
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Any reason for choosing to put Fleck on a MontyX rather than a Scandinavian Red etc?
Should be a powerful cross
- Location
- Northern Ireland
The very first bull I used was Valfin, which turned out to be very dairy. My eye has been recalibrated in this process. I don't see the white heads as the oxen that I used to. Happy to inject more power before making my way back to Holstein (if ever). To be fair though, selected models will need a bag-tidying cross. Have got some R David lying in the tank that I have put off using so far!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Interesting to note just how dairy that top calf is? Fleck x BS x BS x Hol. How would you breed that @Sparkymark ?
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I've milked one or two BBs in my time.
Sparkymark
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I’d probably go with a Red.
Brown Swiss are just brown Holsteins? Not that i’ve milked any, so im saying that with a tin hat on!
Feck feck feck.
Saw it when scraping up 1st thing this morning,pushed silage up after breakfast and couldn’t find it
then tonight I figured who’d moved it she’s only 10 and I spotted her in the feed passage about 8am talking to the cows,she saw me pick it up tonight and announced “I moved that this morning it was in the silo”.
1st time I’ve had one in the mixer,it does look as though the wires are mostly intacked.
Saw it when scraping up 1st thing this morning,pushed silage up after breakfast and couldn’t find it
then tonight I figured who’d moved it she’s only 10 and I spotted her in the feed passage about 8am talking to the cows,she saw me pick it up tonight and announced “I moved that this morning it was in the silo”.1st time I’ve had one in the mixer,it does look as though the wires are mostly intacked.
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Feck feck feck.View attachment 828335
Saw it when scraping up 1st thing this morning,pushed silage up after breakfast and couldn’t find it
1st time I’ve had one in the mixer,it does look as though the wires are mostly intacked.
Get some magnets into them
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Feck feck feck.View attachment 828335
Saw it when scraping up 1st thing this morning,pushed silage up after breakfast and couldn’t find it
1st time I’ve had one in the mixer,it does look as though the wires are mostly intacked.
The only thing that has saved us here is we hardly ever run the mixer more than 10 minutes. So if a tire gets in it comes out mostly intact
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
If you remember the issues I had with lumpy udders it came out that a tire wire was the most likely causeFeck feck feck.View attachment 828335
Saw it when scraping up 1st thing this morning,pushed silage up after breakfast and couldn’t find it
1st time I’ve had one in the mixer,it does look as though the wires are mostly intacked.
buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
I remember that.
How did you arrive at it being wire causing it?
And what problems did it cause?