How do you fetch your cows in?

[Beef farmer]

When it's sunny and there giving 15 liters and having very little cake, they forget there selves and think they are suckler cows

 

[Beef farmer]

When that happens this year I'm going OAD

 

[Rossymons]

When that happens this year I'm going OAD

Thats what drove me to it last year. Bliss.

 

[mixed farm]

Walk with a dog, the going for them is fast and the journey back is only as fast as your slowest cow so don't see the point of a quad. And while you walk check on the farming forum

 

[Headless chicken]

Walk with a dog, the going for them is fast and the journey back is only as fast as your slowest cow so don't see the point of a quad. And while you walk check on the farming forum

That’s my issue the going there isn’t going to be all that fast I don’t think. But totatlly agree only as fast on the way back as the slowest cow

 

[lazy farmer]

our farm is split in half by a lane so we run a day and night block which whilst not ideal in terms of regrowth means we don't have to move fences immediately. the only time we leave cows behind is in November when the tracks go to sXXt and they loose motivation. hopefully we have rectified that problem. So no nobody goes back for stragglers.
things to remember we run a small lame group so no lame animals are asked to walk any distances. Our cows are xbreds so tend to want to crack on with things(unless they've had a break out!) and thirdly our cows are xbreds so very rarely/never get sick in the field and unable to come home. Last season we had one occasion where an animal had staggers for the second season running she was treated and came home with herd the following day. she has been culled...........

 

[lazy farmer]

our farm is split in half by a lane so we run a day and night block which whilst not ideal in terms of regrowth means we don't have to move fences immediately. the only time we leave cows behind is in November when the tracks go to sXXt and they loose motivation. hopefully we have rectified that problem. So no nobody goes back for stragglers.
things to remember we run a small lame group so no lame animals are asked to walk any distances. Our cows are xbreds so tend to want to crack on with things(unless they've had a break out!) and thirdly our cows are xbreds so very rarely/never get sick in the field and unable to come home. Last season we had one occasion where an animal had staggers for the second season running she was treated and came home with herd the following day. she has been culled...........

thinking about it having the farm split in half this yr will become an advantage as the aim after the bulls go in is to run the farm with one person after lunch once the teaser bulls go in. so moving fences in the morning will become a plus.

 

[Sparkymark]

Our feeder tractor becomes the rounding up tractor when the feeder gets dropped of in summer. A working horn is essential. Seems to have worn a few horns out over the years!
And its great to have a cab when its raining.

 

[alan6430]

We’ve had a quad bike for as long as I can remember. 25years maybe. We are on our third one. Had it New last year.

How can anybody farm without one

 

[lazy farmer]

We’ve had a quad bike for as long as I can remember. 25years maybe. We are on our third one. Had it New last year.

How can anybody farm without one

bugger knew i was doing something wrong...........

 

[frederick]

bugger knew i was doing something wrong...........

If you actually had a hill you'd change your mind.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

We’ve had a quad bike for as long as I can remember. 25years maybe. We are on our third one. Had it New last year.

How can anybody farm without one

We didn't have one until last year. I've no idea how we ever managed without it.

 

[lazy farmer]

no id just weigh less as you know i loooooooooooooooath machinery.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Horses for courses I guess.

I'm rarely off mine especially when I start calving.
I nearly would have to calve inside without one.

Try to swap them every 3 years or so.

 

[bigw]

Quad bike here as said above I don't know how people can do without one. Our land is ring fenced and most rented stuff is neighbouring so we use the quad a lot for checking and shifting cattle. We use it for gathering up and shifting calves too.

 

[Princess Pooper]

We walk for the near paddocks which are small, can easily round up stragglers on foot. Quad for our further paddocks which are larger, or for silage aftermaths which are further again and do not get paddocked up. The sods can ignore you for ages if they are enjoying the fresh bite which is usually full of clover, so the quad is needed to get around them anyway.

Sorry to disillusion those of you that think all Holsteins are waiting at the gate to come back in within 5 mins of going out.

Simples,

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Mine like to move at a good pace most of the year

Next year I'm planning to try 24hr paddocks instead of 12 so i don't know whether they'll still move as well when they're completely stuffed and still leaving half a paddock of grass ?

 

[Ed15677]

Quad here.
Lift any cows that aren't waiting.
Then set my fences for the next grazing.
By the time that is done they have plodded most of the way back themselves.

This as well + a bat latch so most are up before we leave the yard

 

[kipperdog]

A second entrance to the paddock which is further from parlour saves having to lock them in.They will gather at the near one for milking.One way non return system.

 

[pappuller]

I would imagine walking and catching up on Snapchat would be the choice of some on here