All things Dairy

[pine_guy]

View attachment 1042601Cows on a 4 acre silage fog last night, thought they’d be happy on that. But no, made a break for it. Electric alongside a knackered wire fence, there was a casualty
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Hoping it will stitch and dry off early.

Was a clean cut up and down, vet said better left and just dry her off. Blood was clotting and could draw milk from the end if it had been across and severed blood vesicles, which run up and down, it’s a different storey. Every days a school day.

 

[Jdunn55]

Was a clean cut up and down, vet said better left and just dry her off. Blood was clotting and could draw milk from the end if it had been across and severed blood vesicles, which run up and down, it’s a different storey. Every days a school day.

Good luck with her, I'd be interested to know how she gets on when she next calves in? Mine was fresh otherwise I would have probably done the same

 

[pine_guy]

Turning some hay and silage

Snap, got offered this standing grass. To far gone for the milkers, but will save buying hay for the drys. Field I’m turning is for bales to go along the edge of the clamp as it over flows, as we have some concrete to lay next it

 

[coomoo]

Tennents tonight

 

[Jdunn55]

Snap, got offered this standing grass. To far gone for the milkers, but will save buying hay for the drys. Field I’m turning is for bales to go along the edge of the clamp as it over flows, as we have some concrete to lay next it
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Love turning the hay, one job I always look forward to, been doing it since I was about 12/13 with a little pz haybob, that fell apart and got upgraded to a 4 star claas about 4/5 years ago and now on a 6 star which we got last year.

 

[som farmer]

Love turning the hay, one job I always look forward to, been doing it since I was about 12/13 with a little pz haybob, that fell apart and got upgraded to a 4 star claas about 4/5 years ago and now on a 6 star which we got last year.

nice job really, been turning today, cut some free pp, we have every year, it will be spread x1, rowed and baled, downside, its got to wait till the decent grass is fit.

 

[crashbox]

View attachment 1042679Tennents tonight

Used brewers last Summer, milk ureas currently about 200, plenty of maize buffer to go with the grazing.

Grains worth having?

 

[coomoo]

Used brewers last Summer, milk ureas currently about 200, plenty of maize buffer to go with the grazing.

Grains worth having?

Yeah got onto a contract at turn of year and they’ve done us really well. Have pushed our feed cost up fractionally but have 40 maidens ready to shift onto that aftermath from earlier picture tomorrow. Urea’s at 175ish av

 

[Princess Pooper]

Wormer and fly treatment time for the in-calf heifers. I hate it when presented with a line of tails when I want someone to go in the race!

 

[crashbox]

Wormer and fly treatment time for the in-calf heifers. I hate it when presented with a line of tails when I want someone to go in the race!

Looking good... but why the 'H'?

 

[3rdgenerationdairyman]

Starting to get some genomic results through for my own breeding now, pleased with them so far

What isaac bull are you using ?

 

[DairyGrazing]

Was a clean cut up and down, vet said better left and just dry her off. Blood was clotting and could draw milk from the end if it had been across and severed blood vesicles, which run up and down, it’s a different storey. Every days a school day.

Teat tape works wonders in a situation like that and maintains teat shape.

 

[Jdunn55]

What isaac bull are you using ?

The Isaacs daughters are from the previous owners mating, not mine but he's available from UK sires

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[Spudley]

Looking good... but why the 'H'?

Could be the year?

 

[som farmer]

Could be the year?

we have bought in cows, with letters, mainly from the 'south'. Its a good idea, representing the year of birth, except, each farm, seems to have different letter year, to the others.
And we have 2 cows, same age, same farm, one has an X the other a P, so ?

 

[sidjon]

we have bought in cows, with letters, mainly from the 'south'. Its a good idea, representing the year of birth, except, each farm, seems to have different letter year, to the others.
And we have 2 cows, same age, same farm, one has an X the other a P, so ?

Some have it as age and seen it with 3 way crossing as breed as well, to know what to serve too.

 

[Jdunn55]

@pine_guy this is my cows teat now, so there's hope!

 

[Wee Willy]

@pine_guy this is my cows teat now, so there's hope!

Do you put the cluster on that or let it run out?

 

[In the pit]

Lovely grass for cows to go at 2900 cover and silage came of at right time as grass was just starting to head so heading out the way , and just lengthening rotation while waiting for the rain to come back
30 cows to dry off end week or maybe next week and rest of herd early July and as cliff would say “ we’re all going on a summer holiday no more milking for a month or two”

 

[som farmer]

@pine_guy this is my cows teat now, so there's hope!

used to use canula's, but most times ended up with mastitis, and some cows took exception to inserting it. Now, depending on lac stage, we get a better result, by drying the quarter off.
Depends if the milk canal is damaged, have stitched a few up, and lots of salve, but its a bugger. As a kid, we had a cow go through the roof, of the old cow shed, and left a complete tit, hanging off a nail, 8ft up. Can't remember what happened to the cow, she walked out the shed, but l can recall mother being rather unamused, when l proudly brought the tit home, aged 7/8 !