Cows gorging cake

[Jdunn55]

And why wouldn’t he fancy an attractive young female?!

Because he's now pee'd off his owner who has barricaded him into jail and told him that if he misbehaves again, I personally will slice his balls straight off and tie them around his neck

 

[Jdunn55]

Good news is everyone is still alive and seemingly fine, but news is I'm only now getting the idiots in for milking spent all day doing repairs and of course the landlord came around today to do an inspection (all prebooked just typical the cows had to choose today to be a bunch of knobs ) anyway I'm smiling for now, got to pay bills ASAP so I expect that will wipe any smile off my face rapidly....

 

[Beef farmer]

Big Bertha just chilling acting all inoccent after hoovering up 630 quids worth of cake.

 

[sidjon]

Big Bertha just chilling acting all inoccent after hoovering up 630 quids worth of cake. View attachment 999252

Was just a small snack for her

 

[betweenthelines]

Bit more milk in the tank after this afternoon's milking a @Jdunn55 will have everything on ad lib cake tomorrow!

 

[dinderleat]

It could be worse @Jdunn55 the previous tenant had a torrid time with some urea.
Head up get some proper heavy duties gates and posts made up no bloody chains

 

[Jdunn55]

It could be worse @Jdunn55 the previous tenant had a torrid time with some urea.
Head up get some proper heavy duties gates and posts made up no bloody chains

Yes I can only imagine what the next morning would have been like, trouble is heavy duty gates cost an absolute fortune at the moment

Milk was up tonight
sh!t was loose tonight

Going to have to give in and see if I can find some spare change in the cash flow forecasts for some part time help I think

 

[dinderleat]

Yes I can only imagine what the next morning would have been like, trouble is heavy duty gates cost an absolute fortune at the moment

Milk was up tonight
sh!t was loose tonight

Going to have to give in and see if I can find some spare change in the cash flow forecasts for some part time help I think

If you only had the dairy farm to look after you would have loads of time spare……

 

[Sid]

So in the latest antics of why I've had a f**king enough, a portion of the milkers (25ish) escaped last night and have broken through my gates (and of course bent them in the process) ans then helped themselves to a tonne of dry cow rolls, 1-2 t of calf cake and half a tonne of grass seed
Do I need to worry about anything? They seem OK this morning, just look out for acidosis, or is there something more to worry about?

Look at it in these positive ways, your not organic if you were it could have been £500/t cake.....or on the other positive side, its so expensive you wouldn't have bought any at all

 

[Jdunn55]

Look at it in these positive ways, your not organic if you were it could have been £500/t cake.....or on the other positive side, its so expensive you wouldn't have bought any at all

The dry cow rolls had reassure coline in, so would have been just over £500

 

[Jdunn55]

If you only had the dairy farm to look after you would have loads of time spare……

I wouldn't, since my relief and I parted ways I told dad I haven't got time to come over every day, I go over once a week to go through the sheep for lameness and thats it, the farm and land is now in a massive state again that I'm going to have to sort out at some point

 

[dinderleat]

I wouldn't, since my relief and I parted ways I told dad I haven't got time to come over every day, I go over once a week to go through the sheep for lameness and thats it, the farm and land is now in a massive state again that I'm going to have to sort out at some point

Just got to keep plugging away at it eventually you will get on top of things

 

[lazy farmer]

The dry cow rolls had reassure coline in, so would have been just over £500

What on earth is that ? And how have my cows survived without it?!

 

[dinderleat]

What on earth is that ? And how have my cows survived without it?!

It’s cheaper than your feeder wagon

 

[Jdunn55]

What on earth is that ? And how have my cows survived without it?!

It's the same as using kexxtone bolus's, from memory the kexxtones cost £30/cow and the coline costs £7 per cow and does exactly the same thing

 

[som farmer]

The dry cow rolls had reassure coline in, so would have been just over £500

min bolus at dry off, dry cow blocks, and dry cow min, in ration, maize and haylage, and only calciumed a couple, more of a just in case, 60 + calved. £500/T cake, no way.

 

[lazy farmer]

We would spend £5 a cow on dry cow Minerals £1 a cow on mag flakes and £1.5 a cow on Boluses the rest is roughage and silage.

 

[som farmer]

We would spend £5 a cow on dry cow Minerals £1 a cow on mag flakes and £1.5 a cow on Boluses the rest is roughage and silage.

i forgot the mag flakes !
transition rations, are well understood, and very effective.
perhaps snake oil salesmen, in some cases, are to effective !

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

It's the same as using kexxtone bolus's, from memory the kexxtones cost £30/cow and the coline costs £7 per cow and does exactly the same thing

Would you give every cow a kexxtone bolus though? Probably work out cheaper to use the bolus least you can target individual cows then.

 

[In the pit]

Dry cows here
1kg cake in parlour and standing hay
230 calved
No rfm
6 milk fevers