All things Dairy

[Happy hillbily]

Watching Adrian on I farm wefarm after lunch saw him using a pair of kolpin ratcheting Rhino grips to carry pigtail posts on the front of the quad. Look handy, anyone using them ?

 

[epfarms]

Late night calving twins out this cow, she’d have went on to hit 60L if it had been a single. Can never seem to get cows going after a set of twins.

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Recommend 3 days glycol to get them going

 

[Grassman247]

Are the walls in by choice or necessity?

In by choice, autumn calving, nothing more soul destroying than a frozen parlour but both ends having roller shutter doors so will be fairly nice in summer

 

[Grassman247]

hows the lagoon dig going ? concrete should be more freely available now hs2 is being delayed and smart motorways cancelled

Currently full of groundwater, need weather to dry up before resuming that job

 

[Jdunn55]

If hypothetically one was to be given 5 tanks of slightly out of date human-grade palm oil, would it be any good for feeding to cows/youngstock? Hypothetically...

 

[bigw]

If hypothetically one was to be given 5 tanks of slightly out of date human-grade palm oil, would it be any good for feeding to cows/youngstock? Hypothetically...

Are you serious? You've spent a fortune on cows and you would risk something cos its cheap!

 

[Jdunn55]

Are you serious? You've spent a fortune on cows and you would risk something cos its cheap!

No

I wouldn't risk anything that's why I'm asking, if it's fine to feed I would feed it, if it might be OK I won't feed it

There's nothing wrong with the actual product but I don't know if it's safe/any good for livestock

I'm asking

 

[frederick]

No

I wouldn't risk anything that's why I'm asking, if it's fine to feed I would feed it, if it might be OK I won't feed it

There's nothing wrong with the actual product but I don't know if it's safe/any good for livestock

I'm asking

Why would you feed them palm oil. Would you feed them out of date olive oil.
I know some fats for increasing butterfat are palm oil based but straight oil may achieve something completely different.

The only slight use I could see for it would be pouring it on drinking troughs to reduce second round bloat risk.

 

[Kiss]

Why would you feed them palm oil. Would you feed them out of date olive oil.
I know some fats for increasing butterfat are palm oil based but straight oil may achieve something completely different.

The only slight use I could see for it would be pouring it on drinking troughs to reduce second round bloat risk.

You’d do well to pour palm oil unless warmed up, even at room temperature you need a spoon to get it out of a jar

 

[O'Reilly]

No

I wouldn't risk anything that's why I'm asking, if it's fine to feed I would feed it, if it might be OK I won't feed it

There's nothing wrong with the actual product but I don't know if it's safe/any good for livestock

I'm asking

It would potentially knacker rumen function. The oil coats the microbes, and stops them working. Perversely it crashes butterfat s. Pigs might be able to use it. Let all the grazers know you've got it, so they can use it for bloat prevention as Frederick says. I think you can use veg oil in diesel engines, but I shouldn't tell you that, or you'll do something daft along those lines . Are these tanks ibc's?

 

[Jdunn55]

It would potentially knacker rumen function. The oil coats the microbes, and stops them working. Perversely it crashes butterfat s. Pigs might be able to use it. Let all the grazers know you've got it, so they can use it for bloat prevention as Frederick says. I think you can use veg oil in diesel engines, but I shouldn't tell you that, or you'll do something daft along those lines . Are these tanks ibc's?

So basically it's a load of crap, I'll tell them to keep it

Thanks

 

[Jdunn55]

Why would you feed them palm oil. Would you feed them out of date olive oil.
I know some fats for increasing butterfat are palm oil based but straight oil may achieve something completely different.

The only slight use I could see for it would be pouring it on drinking troughs to reduce second round bloat risk.

Because it might have been 20% protein and 50 me and result in an extra 3 litres per cow for every half a litre fed!

As I suspected its actually a load of rubbish and not worth bothering with

I was asking

I'm not fussed about expiry dates, I fed out of date calf powder during october-december, calves did just as well and no-one died

I also ate an Easter egg from last year which was one month out of date, so far I haven't been hospitalised from it

 

[som farmer]

grass samples, hoping the weather stays dry

 

[som farmer]

Jelberts had a good sale

 

[Beef farmer]

Jelberts had a good sale

Àverage

 

[Martyn]

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grass samples, hoping the weather stays dry

Dint know dean works for Harper's he used to be nwf.

 

[Mr Mackay]

Watching Adrian on I farm wefarm after lunch saw him using a pair of kolpin ratcheting Rhino grips to carry pigtail posts on the front of the quad. Look handy, anyone using them ?
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Thanks , just ordered a pair off Amazon - look very good either for my mole run prodder or some fence posts as you say

 

[som farmer]

Dint know dean works for Harper's he used to be nwf.

we moved with him. Son gets on well with him, he has practical knowledge.

 

[Keep On]

Àverage

1050?

 

[Manney]

Àverage

Top was 1700, bottom 420 and most around 1000.

Not sure what they paid for them 18 months ago