All things Dairy

[lazy farmer]

It's amazing how many different ways there are to put milk in a tank when you think of it, it the great side to dairy, we have friends with four sons, they milk three/four of them in the parlour and milk 180-190 in less than two hours, but they do every milking like that, do what ever suit yourself and pays the bills!

This time of yr I milk 260 on my own/ a little help at the end in 1hr 30 at night 1hr 40 in the morning. Absolute bliss working away on my own with a podcast/radio playing in my earphones. It’s part of the reason I hate milk recording. Too many people in the pit makes feel very claustrophobic.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

@Holsteinfriesian90 first Google heifer last night View attachment 983803View attachment 983802

Looking good. Nice cow too.

 

[RJ1]

This time of yr I milk 260 on my own/ a little help at the end in 1hr 30 at night 1hr 40 in the morning. Absolute bliss working away on my own with a podcast/radio playing in my earphones. It’s part of the reason I hate milk recording. Too many people in the pit makes feel very claustrophobic.

You've probably answered this many times before but can I ask what parlour you've got with that number of cows?

 

[lazy farmer]

You've probably answered this many times before but can I ask what parlour you've got with that number of cows?

Not a problem. 20/40 delavel with batch feeders and NO tech
Yield for us is a collective thing so we record quarterly for Johnes etc
Very little mastitis current avg cell count 155
As we block calve there is little need for individual feeding. If a cow is over producing or getting tooo thin she I stays with the herd but is milked once a day.
we do have a very good gravity based shedding gate and race on the exit of the parlour which makes sorting cows footbathing etc extremely easy in a No tech situation.

 

[farmeronecow]

Not a problem. 20/40 delavel with batch feeders and NO tech
Yield for us is a collective thing so we record quarterly for Johnes etc
Very little mastitis current avg cell count 155
As we block calve there is little need for individual feeding. If a cow is over producing or getting tooo thin she I stays with the herd but is milked once a day.
we do have a very good gravity based shedding gate and race on the exit of the parlour which makes sorting cows footbathing etc extremely easy in a No tech situation.

Any pictures of your shedding gate/race? I’m in the process of planning one so interested in what other people have got

 

[lazy farmer]

Any pictures of your shedding gate/race? I’m in the process of planning one so interested in what other people have got

The shedding gate itself has offset hinges so unless there is a Gale it always ants to shut. So from the pit I pull a string that opens the latch and a wire that pulls the gate open.

 

[Cowmansam]

What’s going on there

 

[Beef farmer]

What’s going on there

Good job he didn't upload any of them dodgy pics..

 

[Happy hillbily]

Be a bit quicker milking for a few weeks. Untill the next 8 calve before the end of the month.
7 off to the hill to be with the drys and heifers.

 

[Princess Pooper]

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24hrs away from the farm Friday night/Saturday. First agri show Ive been to for over two years. Mrs G was invited to judge Longhorn classes and Any other Native classes at Moreton-in-Marsh show. Spent ages looking at this display, it was built in the back of a lorry and the side opened up. I was very envious of the four head bottle filler in the corner!
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I've worked at a show with the old boy that runs that stall, quite a character. Very politically incorrect, have to censor him a bit when working with kids!

 

[lazy farmer]

Whoops!!!

 

[lazy farmer]

Good job he didn't upload any of them dodgy pics..

Thank god I don’t actually have any dodgy photos!
P.s anybody think the upgrade is actually a better way of uploading photos?!

 

[Beef farmer]

Thank god I don’t actually have any dodgy photos!
P.s anybody think the upgrade is actually a better way of uploading photos?!

No, and still can't upload videos.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

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24hrs away from the farm Friday night/Saturday. First agri show Ive been to for over two years. Mrs G was invited to judge Longhorn classes and Any other Native classes at Moreton-in-Marsh show. Spent ages looking at this display, it was built in the back of a lorry and the side opened up. I was very envious of the four head bottle filler in the corner!
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4 head filler on the antique trailer and this guys makes his living with a single! Puts a lot of milk and yogurt through it.

 

[Uggman]

rep in this morning, telling us, he had just sold an artic load, 29 ton, of organic soya, at £1,000/ton, and very little profit. If true, which it probably is, organic dairy farmers, seriously need a premium, on the milk.

 

[Sid]

rep in this morning, telling us, he had just sold an artic load, 29 ton, of organic soya, at £1,000/ton, and very little profit. If true, which it probably is, organic dairy farmers, seriously need a premium, on the milk.

I think he was pulling your leg.

10%ish over priced from what I was told this morning

 

[More to life]

I think he was pulling your leg.

10%ish over priced from what I was told this morning

so dirt cheap then

 

[vantage]

I think he was pulling your leg.

10%ish over priced from what I was told this morning

Probably on a Fortnum and Mason aligned contract!

 

[Sid]

so dirt cheap then

Well 10% is a fair discount

Probably on a Fortnum and Mason aligned contract!

Organic protein is expensive, hence why we like ☘ .
Dropped 3% protein and kilos on concentrate last winter, fingers crossed for this winter!

 

[som farmer]

I think he was pulling your leg.

10%ish over priced from what I was told this morning

thankfully it was not for us, 10% still puts it at £900, which is still a big 'ouch', and that price would have been 4 wks ago.