All things Dairy

[Cows 'n grass]

Cows still smashing residuals. I've still got 9 nights and 19 days grazing then I think they'll be in.

 

[som farmer]

ours will still be going out in dec, this autumn has been fantastic, and it's still growing.
silage pits look hardly touched, another month, and the day's start lengthening again.
latest our cows have been still out, for years, but, we may have a late spring, you never know, weathers nearly as unreliable, as the weather forecasters !

 

[Beef farmer]

ours will still be going out in dec, this autumn has been fantastic, and it's still growing.
silage pits look hardly touched, another month, and the day's start lengthening again.
latest our cows have been still out, for years, but, we may have a late spring, you never know, weathers nearly as unreliable, as the weather forecasters !

Your calving now?

 

[som farmer]

Your calving now?

nearly finished, they are quite happy walking out, graze a bit, 3hrs, back in on a ration. Milking well, but, butterfat's have topped this week at 4.8, protein 3.7, which is rather surprising, should be lower, not complaining though. Weather looking iffy next week onwards, so on their last few days. And we have no help at the moment, them out for a few hours, makes life easier.

 

[som farmer]

nearly got tempted to work out the price per litre, at our constituents, at arlas 36.69ppl, but didn't want to get overexcited !!!

 

[LTH]

Bonny Morning

 

[Jdunn55]

Flying up, can see the black and whites in it now

 

[Jdunn55]

One of my holstein heifers, she's a bit of a slow eater so comes back in and has an extra kg, well worth it when she's still doing 35l at 120 dim, back in calf and on track for 9000l on the same diet as my friesians

 

[pine_guy]

No slow milker is ever worth it!!!
Your obviously overfeeding your Friesians so either go holstein or go lower input and keep BF or Xbreds.

No seriously it's up to you do what you want

He said slow eater not milker.

 

[Jdunn55]

No slow milker is ever worth it!!!
Your obviously overfeeding your Friesians so either go holstein or go lower input and keep BF or Xbreds.

No seriously it's up to you do what you want

She's no slow milker! Touch her teats and you have to get the cluster on ASAP! Just takes ages to eat for some reason!

As an average the cows are having 2kg of cake but there's a lot of variation within that, some are on 0-1kg (mostly stale heifers) and some are on 6-8kg (mostly freshish cows doing 30-50l)

 

[lazy farmer]

Very proud of this.it’s a picture of the paddock next to my house. For as long as I can remember it has been used for the hospital group. (Consequently the grasses are a bit old school) but now we don’t have a hospital group anymore it can revert to main herd grazing

 

[Jdunn55]

Group of nice 3rd+ lactation cows in first this morning, and a major victory, found the heifer who has been allergic to lying in the cubicles in a cubicle voluntarily for the third day in a row about bloody time, it's amazing what lying in sh!t can do to a cow, stopped her cycling, went from 20l down to 10l and thin from not eating enough as she's stiff and sore, she came bulling yesterday for the first time in over a month, milk is back up to 15l already and she just looks happier

 

[Tirglas]

She's no slow milker! Touch her teats and you have to get the cluster on ASAP! Just takes ages to eat for some reason!

As an average the cows are having 2kg of cake but there's a lot of variation within that, some are on 0-1kg (mostly stale heifers) and some are on 6-8kg (mostly freshish cows doing 30-50l)

Sorry my bad!!!

 

[Lewis]

People in the know able to value this 3rd calver for me. She doesn't go in the robots voluntarily and we have persisted for 2 lactations so time for her to go pastures new, unless she has a eureka moment over the coming days.
Calved last night.
Pesky daughter.
VG85 when last classified 2020
1st Lac 7500kgs/4.55f/3.33p/45scc
2nd Lac 8300kgs/5.11f/3.67p/61scc
Low Johnes ,bvd,lepto, salmonella vaccinated, closed herd. Good feet. Served 4 times for 3 calves.
All grass based system.
Value?
Pics are of her in her working clothes this morning.

 

[TheRanger]

£850-£1000 if TB4

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

£850-£1000 if TB4

Your £500 out even if she was tb1

 

[Milkcow365]

Your £500 out even if she was tb1

Jeez she’s worth more than £500

 

[Lewis]

£850-£1000 if TB4

Worth that on the culls

 

[Jdunn55]

I think this just about sums up this year

 

[Spudley]

Surely worth £1400 if you can get some milk on her.