All things Dairy

[coomoo]

Purpose built cubicle house, 14ft head to heads, 11ft passageways, light, airy, open but not drafty.


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Then converted loose house into cubicles, 11ft head to heads, low roofs, bare 9ft passageways. 7ft from heal to wall, most things we are told not to do.
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Both on deep sand, run as 1 yard.
Why are the cows queuing to get into the sub standard shed? We could have got another 120 cubicles in the purpose built shed if we used the same dimensions as the converted shed!
So all the "experts" want one thing, the cows want something completely different!
People say cows love kennel houses cubicle sheds, this would be similar dimensions.

Any ideas why?

Neck rail in new shed looks awkward with being on underside?

 

[Jdunn55]

How long are peoples passports taking to arrive? Its been two weeks here and I'm keen to get some beef calves gone as they're taking too long and costing a fortune in powder now

 

[Dragon]

Applied for some last weds,came back yesterday.

 

[Beef farmer]

Neck rail in new shed looks awkward with being on underside?

Could be, the diagonal measurement from curb to neck rail is the same. Just those cubicles are mounted slightly higher so it was put underneath to keep the cows honest

 

[Dragon]

Bit concerned they wouldn't come back for our ski trip in January.

Applied for some last weds,came back yesterday.

Was for our children, bit concerned they wouldn't be back in time for holiday.

 

[coomoo]

Could be, the diagonal measurement from curb to neck rail is the same. Just those cubicles are mounted slightly higher so it was put underneath to keep the cows honest

Might affect lung space with measurements between neck rail and bottom bar worth a look if it continues.

 

[FarmerWasty]

How long are peoples passports taking to arrive? Its been two weeks here and I'm keen to get some beef calves gone as they're taking too long and costing a fortune in powder now

For me theyve been 2-3 weeks behind all year. But i cant believe my eyes, tagged calves and registered on Tuesday. Passports came today! Someone must be on a different kind of powder.

 

[lazy farmer]

How long are peoples passports taking to arrive? Its been two weeks here and I'm keen to get some beef calves gone as they're taking too long and costing a fortune in powder now

I’d be checking online that I’d actually applied for them. Plenty times over my career I’ve failed to press send or the internet has failed or I’d fallen asleep,

 

[Yosemite Sam]

I was talking about this with my neighbour today. He said his passports were taking along time to arrive, and he does his online. I used to do this , but have changed over to the telephone service, and they seem to arrive within a week or 10 days.

 

[Headless chicken]

 

[Princess Pooper]

How long are peoples passports taking to arrive? Its been two weeks here and I'm keen to get some beef calves gone as they're taking too long and costing a fortune in powder now

applied last Friday, arrived today (applied online)

 

[Slowcow]

Heifers going onto fodder beet this afternoon. Chomp chomp crunch!

Nice to stand in sun and watch them pull it up after a few days pulling it up for them in the rain

 

[vantage]

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You been on a course somewhere?

 

[Martyn]

Time to get backing fences up🫣
@Slowcow do your run back onto grass or have bales along side you beet?

 

[lazy farmer]

Time to get backing fences up🫣
@Slowcow do your run back onto grass or have bales along side you beet?
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Squares rather than strips

 

[Martyn]

Squares rather than strips

You mean give them squares rather than move up the field? I ran out of daylight yesterday but going to quarter the remaining grass patch if that makes sense

 

[lazy farmer]

You mean give them squares rather than move up the field? I ran out of daylight yesterday but going to quarter the remaining grass patch if that makes sense

 

[Headless chicken]

You been on a course somewhere?

Pinched from a regen group on Facebook. I thought it was quite fitting

 

[vantage]

The Largest Farm in the Entire World Is Bigger Than 11 U.S. States!

Farms are important parts of the food and agriculture chain in the world. The largest farm in the entire world is larger than 11 U.S. states.

a-z-animals.com

Looks really impressive at first glance, but 100,000 cows on 22.5 m acres doesn’t really cut it.

 

[Slowcow]

Time to get backing fences up🫣
@Slowcow do your run back onto grass or have bales along side you beet?

Run back into a steep grass field I laid up in July , there's loads of nice grass at the moment, not the thatch I was hoping for!

Ad lib hay while they on the beet, will probably move ring feeder into beet field later on.