Dairy Farming General

whelan2

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Yeah we did same bit he gave use a piece of **** lad that fitted it says he's never fitted s tank any different off him. It wouldn't cool yesterday. Came out to milk in the morning and tank was at 18 degrees

did you send the milk?

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

did you send the milk?

Yeah milk advisor said send it on. Was 1.9° at collection. Didn't smell the best though.
May try fill that tank at evening milking and smaller tank in morning

whelan2

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Yeah milk advisor said send it on. Was 1.9° at collection. Didn't smell the best though.
May try fill that tank at evening milking and smaller tank in morning

how often is yyour milk collected, we still on everyday collection here

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

how often is yyour milk collected, we still on everyday collection here

Every second day atm

Buford T. Justice XIX

Just got the BVD results for the twin heifers from last week. Both tagged the same time, one negative which was exposed to a lot of animals, one positive which wasn't exposed to anything only its own mother before tagging.

Those results just don't make sense

Panch18

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Yeah milk advisor said send it on. Was 1.9° at collection. Didn't smell the best though.
May try fill that tank at evening milking and smaller tank in morning

Could you only put half of 1 milking into the tank and the other half into the tank? that way then the old tank won't be under as much pressure to cool such a large volume in 1 go

Greengrass1

Panch18 wrote: »

Could you only put half of 1 milking into the tank and the other half into the tank? that way then the old tank won't be under as much pressure to cool such a large volume in 1 go

tried that wasn't enough power for bigger tank and it kept tripping out.
We need to upgrade supply and bring bigger power cable to parlour

Panch18

Greengrass1 wrote: »

tried that wasn't enough power for bigger tank and it kept tripping out.
We need to upgrade supply and bring bigger power cable to parlour

Had fierce problems ourselves with power when we put up the new parlour - bloody trip switches would trip in the middle of milkings. Had to get ESB to up the power coming down the line to us (at a nice cost) and bigger cable into the parlour. Been ok since thank god

mahoney_j

Greengrass1 wrote: »

tried that wasn't enough power for bigger tank and it kept tripping out.
We need to upgrade supply and bring bigger power cable to parlour

Gg obvious to anyone reading ur posts here that ur a young ,energetic.ambitious dairy farmer but maby a bit to cautious (no way a criticism).u need to sit down with ur dad and a planner asap and put a plan in place to
1 add more units to ur parlour
2 new/second hand tank with spare capacity
3 put in slurry storage
4 cubicles
Tams 2 grant coming up with a 60/% grant.id advise u to start planning now to get above issues sorted and avail of this.think unread somewhere where it was taking up 35/40 hours a week to just milk with current nos which ain't sustainable long term as well as adding more cows..you'll be investing in ur business and future and have good control of it,while ur young bite the bullet ,get a plan in place talk to the bank and by the time ur 35/40 it'll be all paid for .

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

Gg obvious to anyone reading ur posts here that ur a young ,energetic.ambitious dairy farmer but maby a bit to cautious (no way a criticism).u need to sit down with ur dad and a planner asap and put a plan in place to
1 add more units to ur parlour
2 new/second hand tank with spare capacity
3 put in slurry storage
4 cubicles
Tams 2 grant coming up with a 60/% grant.id advise u to start planning now to get above issues sorted and avail of this.think unread somewhere where it was taking up 35/40 hours a week to just milk with current nos which ain't sustainable long term as well as adding more cows..you'll be investing in ur business and future and have good control of it,while ur young bite the bullet ,get a plan in place talk to the bank and by the time ur 35/40 it'll be all paid for .

Don't worry mj we have all our prices have tams1 grant for parlour and tank and had a lad out last week giving price on 150 cow lagoon.
rep coming to give price in Tower next week.
We'll do certain amount every yr
unlike most farms we have a mortgage to look after for the land that's most important firstly.

I have every intention of spending money but ye have to be making it first

trixi2011

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Every second day atm

Could you go to every day collection until after peak save you messing with 2. Tanks , we're on twice a day collection over here at the moment working out pretty good and no messing around with extra tanks

mahoney_j

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Don't worry mj we have all our prices have tams1 grant for parlour and tank and had a lad out last week giving price on 150 cow lagoon.
rep coming to give price in Tower next week.
We'll do certain amount every yr
unlike most farms we have a mortgage to look after for the land that's most important firstly.

I have every intention of spending money but ye have to be making it first

Fair point but you also have to spend money to make money!!,anyway cows milked off out for a big dirty burger and chips and maby a large bottle of colonmels finest with the wife and child

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

Fair point but you also have to spend money to make money!!,anyway cows milked off out for a big dirty burger and chips and maby a large bottle of colonmels finest with the wife and child

Out in maynooth herr was milked by 6 started at 3.30 though
only man at a table full of women :D
gf beside me though

Mad4simmental

Greengrass1 wrote: »

only man at a table full of women :D
gf beside me though

I think that's called whiped GG :-)

visatorro

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Out in maynooth herr was milked by 6 started at 3.30 though
only man at a table full of women :D
gf beside me though

only one thing worse than a woman, a group of them!!

Dawggone

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Out in maynooth herr was milked by 6 started at 3.30 though
only man at a table full of women :D
gf beside me though

Studied philosophy in Maynooth. Great times. Many, many, many women.

Oh the memories!

Blackgrass

Say hello to the lil sis, she's there doing something, again....

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

only one thing worse than a woman, a group of them!!

:eek:

whelan2

Panch18 wrote: »

Had fierce problems ourselves with power when we put up the new parlour - bloody trip switches would trip in the middle of milkings. Had to get ESB to up the power coming down the line to us (at a nice cost) and bigger cable into the parlour. Been ok since thank god

same here, we are the only ones on our line, so if the electricity goes off i cant ring anyone to see if theirs is off too

Dawggone

Blackgrass wrote: »

Say hello to the lil sis, she's there doing something, again....

Career student??:)

Blackgrass

Dawggone wrote: »

Career student??:)

On her 3rd course brains to bur if was to apply herself, lets just say when your mammies favorite you get a free ride.... :rolleyes:
No concept of real world/job while my other 2 sisters never received any help, at all.
Only what she doesn't know is her cash cow is drying up in a about 9 months.

mahoney_j

Anyone have any experience of terras looped water system??.seriously need to upgrade water system here as only have 1/2 inch water pipe carrying water to cow paddocks which with extra cow nos now is coming under pressure ,only thing saving me is 180 and 250 gallon troughs in cow paddocks.have to drill a well this summer and really think I need to sort this now at same time.thinking of going with 1 inch loop and fast flow valves

orm0nd

mahoney_j wrote: »

Anyone have any experience of terras looped water system??.seriously need to upgrade water system here as only have 1/2 inch water pipe carrying water to cow paddocks which with extra cow nos now is coming under pressure ,only thing saving me is 180 and 250 gallon troughs in cow paddocks.have to drill a well this summer and really think I need to sort this now at same time.thinking of going with 1 inch loop and fast flow valves

in much the same boat as your self, & we are fighting against a hill all the way

we did loop some of the silage ground and it seemed to improve pressure and waterflow,

heard nothing but good reports of the terra system

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

Anyone have any experience of terras looped water system??.seriously need to upgrade water system here as only have 1/2 inch water pipe carrying water to cow paddocks which with extra cow nos now is coming under pressure ,only thing saving me is 180 and 250 gallon troughs in cow paddocks.have to drill a well this summer and really think I need to sort this now at same time.thinking of going with 1 inch loop and fast flow valves

Main line here is 1" with 3/4" going up to trough serious job with fast flow ball cocks. Wouldn't take alot for us to do a loop system would just need to put it under ground last 150 meters

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

any oe else notice milk recording results are taking longer? recorded on monday of last week, still no results

Recorded last sunday/monday, top 5 scc this morning and results emailed to the PC by 10 am.

Normally have to chase the results, usually 8-9 days.

Hope this lasts.:)

jaymla627

mahoney_j wrote: »

Anyone have any experience of terras looped water system??.seriously need to upgrade water system here as only have 1/2 inch water pipe carrying water to cow paddocks which with extra cow nos now is coming under pressure ,only thing saving me is 180 and 250 gallon troughs in cow paddocks.have to drill a well this summer and really think I need to sort this now at same time.thinking of going with 1 inch loop and fast flow valves

Where having problems here getting water up to paddocks that are up a hill from water pump hooked 3/4 inch water pipe into piping for washdown pump, flow rate now is 70 litres a minute with fast flow valves where before water wasnt even able to travel to these troughs the beauty of it is have 4,000 litre tank for washdown pump so it dosent run dry when cows are drinking at peak times after milkings

frazzledhome

2" main line here, on group scheme. 3/4 to troughs fast flow valves 300 g troughs. Cows hard set to drop water level.

One spot where we have a hill we continued with 2" to top and on to 11/2 from there. All done our selves pipe on top of ground

Sacrolyte

jaymla627 wrote: »

Where having problems here getting water up to paddocks that are up a hill from water pump hooked 3/4 inch water pipe into piping for washdown pump, flow rate now is 70 litres a minute with fast flow valves where before water wasnt even able to travel to these troughs the beauty of it is have 4,000 litre tank for washdown pump so it dosent run dry when cows are drinking at peak times after milkings

Is your farm water pressure driven by a washdown pump?

WheatenBriar

frazzledhome wrote: »

2" main line here, on group scheme. 3/4 to troughs fast flow valves 300 g troughs. Cows hard set to drop water level.

One spot where we have a hill we continued with 2" to top and on to 11/2 from there. All done our selves pipe on top of ground

What's your annual water bill?

jaymla627

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Is your farm water pressure driven by a washdown pump?

No just a line that goes to the 40 acres of paddocks uphill from well, its turned off when cows arent up grazing these paddocks