All things Dairy

[Cowski]

Thought we were aiming for 80% incalf with in six weeks, so never quite understood how the 90% to calf in six week unless you induced (which nobody does) or use short gestation bulls which we have but don't think I could gain 10% though, so any thing above 80% is top operator

Empties leave and in calf heifers come in. 80% target? in calf in 6weeks out of all your eligible cows, the 90% figure is out of everything in calf at start of calving.

100 cows start of mating, 80 in calf in 6 weeks, 15 over the next 5 weeks, 5 mt. cull another 10% for mastitis, lame,deaths etc so at start of calving you have 72 cows due in 6 weeks plus 18 of your 20 in calf heifers (90%of them got in calf in 6 weeks)= 90 calvings from 100 animals

Doable as some people may get 85% and 95% in calf in 6 weeks but pretty good going if you can do that every year I’d say

 

[Bald Rick]

My own theory is it doesn’t suit high yielding cows.

What we found was that they loved the beet - so much so that they were spending all their time at the rail trying to access it and sorting through the TMR for lumps. Now it's no longer there, and our TMR is more basic with rape expellor and Trafford gold, they can't sort so eat and then go & lie down.
Be interesting to see if the milk stabilises, rises or goes down.
Of course there may well be other factors at play too but this was the obvious change

 

[lazy farmer]

What we found was that they loved the beet - so much so that they were spending all their time at the rail trying to access it and sorting through the TMR for lumps. Now it's no longer there, and our TMR is more basic with rape expellor and Trafford gold, they can't sort so eat and then go & lie down.
Be interesting to see if the milk stabilises, rises or goes down.
Of course there may well be other factors at play too but this was the obvious change

Solids ?

 

[lazy farmer]

Barbers unchanged for may
They have seen a large uptick in Sales for ready meals. Though they did mention the huge strain on smp prices.

 

[Bald Rick]

Solids ?

BF 6.3
Prot 4.2

 

[Bald Rick]

Anyone know how to electrify a Joz?
Buggers keep grabbing green top ring and stopping it

Think it's great fun to chew it too

 

[pappuller]

My own theory is it doesn’t suit high yielding cows.

Got the tee shirt for that one

 

[Adam@Rumen]

Anyone know how to electrify a Joz?
Buggers keep grabbing green top ring and stopping it

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Think it's great fun to chew it too

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ffs

 

[Bald Rick]

ffs

Jerseys for you. Only happy if they are causing buggeration

 

[Beef farmer]

I guess a greater reduction in cow numbers in the last 6 weeks too, making the difference in air pollution.

 

[Ducati899]

Got the tee shirt for that one

snap

 

[lazy farmer]

BF 6.3
Prot 4.2

I was wondering if the yield increase was just water or actual sellable stuff.

 

[Bald Rick]

I was wondering if the yield increase was just water or actual sellable stuff.

Rare to get both high solids and high yields but it is doable given the right forage quality and a willingness to put in the goodies

 

[Beef farmer]

So baldy what has your kgms done since you stopped the beet please?

 

[Bald Rick]

So baldy what has your kgms done since you stopped the beet please?

Kilograms of solids? Stayed the same or thereabouts.
Only thing that makes a instant difference is C16 fat. If we run out, butterfats drop by 0.6+% overnight

 

[coomoo]

Kilograms of solids? Stayed the same or thereabouts.
Only thing that makes a instant difference is C16 fat. If we run out, butterfats drop by 0.6+% overnight

C16 fat ???

 

[lazy farmer]

Kilograms of solids? Stayed the same or thereabouts.
Only thing that makes a instant difference is C16 fat. If we run out, butterfats drop by 0.6+% overnight

So taking out the beet made no difference at all.maybe even cost more depending on what the beet was replaced with.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

C16 fat ???

Don’t you mean C16 £££

 

[Bald Rick]

So taking out the beet made no difference at all.maybe even cost more depending on what the beet was replaced with.

Cost us absolutely no doubt. We bought 700t to spin the maize out
Interesting lesson

 

[Bald Rick]

Don’t you mean C16 £££

You have to keep doing the maths but on a constituent contract it often pays