All things Dairy

[Spudley]

I put the wee calves out yesterday. View attachment 880360View attachment 880361

Ha ha oops, at least she made it to the parlour and didn't carry on her travels!

 

[it's not over]

Ha ha oops, at least she made it to the parlour and didn't carry on her travels!

And her 21 mates

 

[som farmer]

bacto saga, I jump to 70, next 19, no real change, sometimes wonder how accurate the test is, handled to many times, but relieved it went back down !!!!!!

 

[I thats it]

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Few new calves

What sort of money were they costing? They've gone dear in these parts.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

 

[farmboy]

What sort of money were they costing? They've gone dear in these parts.

Gave just under £200/head

 

[Durry cows]

Gave just under £200/head

Dairy heifers? They look nice what breeding?

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

There’s this marvellous thing called artificial insemination. It’s where you can use the best bulls in the world to use on your cows and the little buggers are kept in a Flask so they don’t try and kill you and you can have as many different bulls as you like.

But providing you buy well bred bulls you can use the same genetics, and its a job you don't have too think about, because you know a bull unlike a lot of staff won't cut corners he'll do his best to get them incalf, I personally can't put a high enough price on not having to think or worry about fertility. No one should ever hit a bull, worst thing you can do, you just need a good sensible dog and you'll never have a problem. (or that's what I've found)

 

[farmboy]

Dairy heifers? They look nice what breeding?

Yeah. One group was Mostly Ayrshire sired out of crossbred cows the other mainly Norwegian red and dairy shorthorn sired out of crossbred cows

 

[Manney]

bacto saga, I jump to 70, next 19, no real change, sometimes wonder how accurate the test is, handled to many times, but relieved it went back down !!!!!!

We've gone from 10 to 20 since a change of tanker driver.

 

[dinderleat]

But providing you buy well bred bulls you can use the same genetics, and its a job you don't have too think about, because you know a bull unlike a lot of staff won't cut corners he'll do his best to get them incalf, I personally can't put a high enough price on not having to think or worry about fertility. No one should ever hit a bull, worst thing you can do, you just need a good sensible dog and you'll never have a problem. (or that's what I've found)

Buying well breed bulls and the best bulls are slightly different. a lot of people tend to say ‘I’ve just bought a new bull he just Didn’t quite make it to the Ai stud so he must be good?!’ But each to their own plus I’m using all sexed so I’m yet to find a bull that throws just heifers.

 

[jimmer]

Buying well breed bulls and the best bulls are slightly different. a lot of people tend to say ‘I’ve just bought a new bull he just Didn’t quite make it to the Ai stud so he must be good?!’ But each to their own plus I’m using all sexed so I’m yet to find a bull that throws just heifers.

But we've all had the bull that threw tonnes of bull calves , so where's his opposite?

 

[pappuller]

But we've all had the bull that threw tonnes of bull calves , so where's his opposite?

In yer neighbours field [emoji23]

 

[dinderleat]

But we've all had the bull that threw tonnes of bull calves , so where's his opposite?

They are often talked about in the pub, the bulls also seem to get better as you drink more.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

AHH, the pub?.

Anybody else remember the pub?

 

[Beef farmer]

AHH, the pub?.

Anybody else remember the pub?

Those were the days

 

[Sid]

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Few new calves

Lost their organic status now then?

 

[farmboy]

Lost their organic status now then?

No, bought cos they are organic

 

[Grazer]

I used sexed semen 20 years ago, and one of the calves born was a bull. Cos I'd used it on a good cow and it was a good sire, I kept him as a stock bull. He had 65% heifers over 3 years of working. Was probably 80 or 100 calves a year.

Unfortunately the sires proof for a poor scc grew and grew - Critchel Principal, and so all his daughters had terrible scc! ?

 

[som farmer]

Buying well breed bulls and the best bulls are slightly different. a lot of people tend to say ‘I’ve just bought a new bull he just Didn’t quite make it to the Ai stud so he must be good?!’ But each to their own plus I’m using all sexed so I’m yet to find a bull that throws just heifers.

old AI chap told us the best bulls in the world, go as bobby calves, that was years ago, genomics are here now, but then it was matching a good cow, to a bull, that one thought would turn out right, and some did, others didn't. Old man bought a well bred hol bull, well bred, ever so quiet, lovely to handle, he broke his own rule, 1 yr hfrs, 1 year cows and out, we used him over a lot of hfrs and cows, ended up with about 80 hfrs, none of which beat 4000 litres. Yet very well bred, plenty of milk behind him, lesson learnt.
The reverse side, with more grazing type cows, do you actually want a pli 700 plus bull ? Because if you use one of them, on your 6000 litre grazing type cow, it isn't going to work out that well.