- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
A friend 'rescued' this for me. Need to make a new finger for drying off, any basic instructions/tips for its use?
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- Thread starter skylane
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A friend 'rescued' this for me. Need to make a new finger for drying off, any basic instructions/tips for its use?
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Put all the cows on there in line with their future calving date if PD'd IC or served or day they calved if fresh calved then just keep it upto date, ran interherd and now uniform but still keep my brayboard running, love how visual it is.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
- Location
- Shropshire
Put the cow in on its last calving date on say blue then as you serve turn to white and place on her expected calving date once in calf turn green once dry another colour
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Original version of this was a free circular sticker from the '60's Farmer's Weekly where you stuck it to a 3' diameter circle of soft pinboard and mounted on a bolt on a square backboard so it would spin, then used springy curtainwires to denote each different stage of the annual breeding cycle and had a few different coloured flat headed writeable mapping pins for each cow which.
Worked well.
Worked well.
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
They arent cheap but will never go wrong, bet your computer cost twice what a bray does and bet that still isnt going in 30 years! The magnets arent cheap either! I'm 30 and swear by mine despite having Interherd and Crystal! I dont let anyone move the magnets bar me and take photos of it if i go away for a few days incase people fiddle!
Some would say i am obsessed.....
Whilst at college a girl on my course thought the bray board in the dairy office looked untidy so reorganised the magnets into neat lines.......
Whatever Data I am looking at I still find that a pictiorial view which can be viewed at a distance is invaluable....
- Location
- Shropshire
- Location
- South Molton
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Someone's going to busy calving soon - That's a calendar to be justifiably proud of......
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
The bray board is slightly different colours. At calving she's white at the days date, heat pre service she goes to green and moves to the nearest green pointer, when served she goes orange and moves under the orange pointer which is 280 days from predicted calving date, subsequent services move to the next ring towards the centre of the board, when she is pd+ she goes purple, dried off she goes yellow and blue was always for steaming up pre calving but we use blue to denote twins once pd+.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
How many on there ?
- Location
- Shropshire
The blues on the left are the last weeks worth I’m actually not very pleased you see the dip after week 4 Had a tb test during service and it really threw the job had a fair few slip back round at 30 odd day served thanks to a hopeless tester making it an all day job
- Location
- Shropshire
330 there’s another 65 heifers to go I only put them up once calved the 30 blue at the right hand side are barrens to go
- Location
- Shropshire
I’m not due to start calving until tomorrow but these Norwegian calves seem to come early did last year too doesn’t say so on the bull proofs but they definitely go a week early
- Location
- Shropshire
I just use the colours the same as on my uniform system as it makes it less confusing when I first come here they had one set off colours on the board and a different on the computer
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Be a long while before mine has that many on it (if ever)!
A while back I bought a pallet load of old stock dairy fittings etc off ebay and already had more than my moneys worth out of it. Had a dig through this morning and pulled out 110 magnets for the calendar so something to aim for.......
- Location
- Shropshire
I have contemplated sticking another board up and going odds on one evens on another gets very fiddly when serving as I can have top to bottom in a segment square to square touching have to use tweezers as I’ve big numb fingers and just knock them all off
- Location
- Shropshire
Keep spare numbers on a little plate of metal in numerical order too so not such a mither trying to find them
- Location
- Shropshire
A mate of mine was building numbers up ready to split the herd and milk off two farms had 700 odd squares on a board he was just moving some over and the boss man thought it was funny to Chuck a crow banger into the office landed on the board and every single number fell off I swear I would have cried
- Location
- Derbyshire
You can get these wall charts for Transition Disease from AHDB. I can put you in touch with someone who can post you one if it helps. Its huge. You just write in the line number and calving date in the relevant month and there are stickers that come with it that you stick next to any cow that gets a relevant transition problem... if you go over a trigger point, flag it with the vet/nutritionist. Best thing about it is it helps when deciding which cows may get sexed semen or not.
