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<blockquote data-quote="Jdunn55" data-source="post: 8509833" data-attributes="member: 81760"><p>Do a stint this summer with [USER=6883]@Beef farmer[/USER] when he's calving for a month or two if you, it's one thing I wish I could have done before starting up myself. </p><p></p><p>Don't rush it either, get as much experience as you can elsewhere, grazing systems are fine but it may be well worth you doing some time on high input, high output herds to see if you don't actually prefer that. If I had my time again, I would have gone to Canada for a year and probably new zealand and possibly somewhere in Europe like the Netherlands or Denmark when straight out of college.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately an opportunity presented itself and I thought it too good to be true, in hindsight I didn't have enough experience and it's caused me countless problems, I'm sort of clawing it back now but shutting stable doors once horses have bolted (or gates once the cows are on the silage clamp in my case) gets to be fairly draining.</p><p></p><p>I was only 20 when I started making plans too, it was out of complete desperation to start milking my own cows.</p><p>If you ever want any advice on what not to do feel free to send me a message. </p><p></p><p>You'll get a lot of good advice on here and elsewhere, listen to it but don't let it confuse you either. Make a plan and try to stick to it, you'll have to adapt to an extent but changing systems after 12 months isn't the best way to do things (don't ask how I know this...) so make sure you're going to be happy with the system you choose (grazing, hiho, tad, oad, 10 in 7, robots, block calving, ayr calving etc) hence the advice to do a stint on several different systems</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jdunn55, post: 8509833, member: 81760"] Do a stint this summer with [USER=6883]@Beef farmer[/USER] when he's calving for a month or two if you, it's one thing I wish I could have done before starting up myself. Don't rush it either, get as much experience as you can elsewhere, grazing systems are fine but it may be well worth you doing some time on high input, high output herds to see if you don't actually prefer that. If I had my time again, I would have gone to Canada for a year and probably new zealand and possibly somewhere in Europe like the Netherlands or Denmark when straight out of college. Unfortunately an opportunity presented itself and I thought it too good to be true, in hindsight I didn't have enough experience and it's caused me countless problems, I'm sort of clawing it back now but shutting stable doors once horses have bolted (or gates once the cows are on the silage clamp in my case) gets to be fairly draining. I was only 20 when I started making plans too, it was out of complete desperation to start milking my own cows. If you ever want any advice on what not to do feel free to send me a message. You'll get a lot of good advice on here and elsewhere, listen to it but don't let it confuse you either. Make a plan and try to stick to it, you'll have to adapt to an extent but changing systems after 12 months isn't the best way to do things (don't ask how I know this...) so make sure you're going to be happy with the system you choose (grazing, hiho, tad, oad, 10 in 7, robots, block calving, ayr calving etc) hence the advice to do a stint on several different systems [/QUOTE]
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