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[Farmer Keith]

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Looks as if the spring calvers have forgotten to dry off their cows. It brings the @lazy farmer production thread question into all the more relevance where the hell is all this milk coming from if everyone is 1-2 litres down because of forage.

Same week last year was ridiculously cold IIRC possibly accounts for the savage drop in 2022s figures.

 

[Wee Willy]

ours have just started flying this last couple weeks,calved a lot of cows and heifers mind but this Decembers milk recording was way ahead of December 22’s recording on yield and f&p is way ahead also

That's the "Jersey Effect".

 

[TheRanger]

That show just what a tiny insignificant proportion of the national herd are block spring calving. I would estimate that somewhere between 50-75% of cows in spring calving herds will be dried off in the fortnight leading up to Christmas. There are aren't many cows calving now apart from in AYR herds and yet there's only a tiny blip in national production.

When would spring calvers further north and in south of scotland start calving? I genuinely have no idea, but there wont be much grazing happening until April/May up here.

 

[In the pit]

When would spring calvers further north and in south of scotland start calving? I genuinely have no idea, but there wont be much grazing happening until April/May up here.

Is the figure 5/7 % proper spring calvers in the country

 

[Farmer Keith]

When would spring calvers further north and in south of scotland start calving? I genuinely have no idea, but there wont be much grazing happening until April/May up here.

Plenty in Cumbria out mid to late feb. We’ll be the first week in March but the farm is at 600ft.

 

[easy farming]

Plenty in Cumbria out mid to late feb. We’ll be the first week in March but the farm is at 600ft.

I would think the difference between Cornwall and Dumfries wouldn't be more than three weeks.

 

[supercow]

I would think the difference between Cornwall and Dumfries wouldn't be more than three weeks.

3 months more like!!

 

[Farmer Keith]

3 months more like!!

Depends how you manage it. 15 years ago we would turn out mid to late April. We essentially stopped grazing the cow ground with sheep over winter, put up some electric fencing and built some tracks and knocked 6-8 weeks off our winter. Inspite of being 30 miles south Dumfries will have a better climate to here due to the Gulf Stream.

 

[lazy farmer]

Depends how you manage it. 15 years ago we would turn out mid to late April. We essentially stopped grazing the cow ground with sheep over winter, put up some electric fencing and built some tracks and knocked 6-8 weeks off our winter. Inspite of being 30 miles south Dumfries will have a better climate to here due to the Gulf Stream.

Steady or you’ll start soon be in trouble with the Ayr zealots!

 

[Homesy]

That show just what a tiny insignificant proportion of the national herd are block spring calving. I would estimate that somewhere between 50-75% of cows in spring calving herds will be dried off in the fortnight leading up to Christmas. There are aren't many cows calving now apart from in AYR herds and yet there's only a tiny blip in national production.

Bloody autumn calvers then. It’s all our fault

 

[DairyGrazing]

That show just what a tiny insignificant proportion of the national herd are block spring calving. I would estimate that somewhere between 50-75% of cows in spring calving herds will be dried off in the fortnight leading up to Christmas. There are aren't many cows calving now apart from in AYR herds and yet there's only a tiny blip in national production.

Very few people block calf properly its all about calving between the 4th of January and the 4th of December. Last few weeks beef only so you have no calves on milk over Christmas.

 

[bar718]

Steady or you’ll start soon be in trouble with the Ayr zealots!

What @Farmer Keith forgets to mention is that he farms on the biggest sand castle known to man and tells you how good spring is but then normally goes very quiet for some reason around mid June until mid August only to then tell us how his cows stay out most of the autumn even in a wet autumn.

 

[crashbox]

What @Farmer Keith forgets to mention is that he farms on the biggest sand castle known to man and tells you how good spring is but then normally goes very quiet for some reason around mid June until mid August only to then tell us how his cows stay out most of the autumn even in a wet autumn.

I know that feeling #autumnblock

 

[lazy farmer]

What @Farmer Keith forgets to mention is that he farms on the biggest sand castle known to man and tells you how good spring is but then normally goes very quiet for some reason around mid June until mid August only to then tell us how his cows stay out most of the autumn even in a wet autumn.

I knew one would turn up in the end

 

[yin ewe]

Steady or you’ll start soon be in trouble with the Ayr zealots!

There's room for us all.

 

[Farmer Keith]

What @Farmer Keith forgets to mention is that he farms on the biggest sand castle known to man and tells you how good spring is but then normally goes very quiet for some reason around mid June until mid August only to then tell us how his cows stay out most of the autumn even in a wet autumn.

You need to come for a look around, bring your flip flops

 

[daveydiesel1]

You need to come for a look around, bring your flip flops

Tff field trip it is then, do you supply lunch or better still i think seeing as its christmas a full christmas dinner with all trimmings and desert would be in order, obviously FOC

 

[Farmer Keith]

Tff field trip it is then, do you supply lunch or better still i think seeing as its christmas a full christmas dinner with all trimmings and desert would be in order, obviously FOC

You’ll be lucky, there’s some hungry buggers in the yard to start with without fetching a troop of keyboard warriors in!

 

[Jdunn55]

You’ll be lucky, there’s some hungry buggers in the yard to start with without fetching a troop of keyboard warriors in!

Shouldn't they be out grazing?!

 

[Jdunn55]

Arla announcement on Friday?

1ppl up is my bet...