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    #9962
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    dried off some cows this morning, went to dose them with albex, it was a new pack picked up the box and the container fell out and the cap sheared off it on the ground ffs

    Butterfingers :D


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    #9963
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,109 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Butterfingers :D
    lucky it wasnt eprinex


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    #9964
    Timmaay
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    Dried off 7 today also, 4 of them culls. Just over 5 1/2 rows now, feeling like a right lazy phucker ha.


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    #9965
    frazzledhome
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    http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/pics-and-stats-from-rockwell-one-of-the-countrys-biggest-dairy-farms/


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    #9966
    frogloch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭frogloch


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/pics-and-stats-from-rockwell-one-of-the-countrys-biggest-dairy-farms/

    Is that micheal long who was manager at Greenfield if so good on him.:)


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    #9967
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    600+ cows. Are they run as one batch being milked in 1 parlour?


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    #9968
    caseman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭caseman


    just do it wrote: »
    600+ cows. Are they run as one batch being milked in 1 parlour?

    fella not to far from me milking 600+ through a 20 unit parlour.


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    #9969
    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    caseman wrote: »
    fella not to far from me milking 600+ through a 20 unit parlour.

    30rows!! or in different lots?


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    #9970
    caseman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭caseman


    Timmaay wrote: »
    30rows!! or in different lots?

    All in one lot


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    #9971
    frogloch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭frogloch


    caseman wrote: »
    All in one lot

    Imagine getting a farm relief milker in to milk them on his own.:pac:


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    #9972
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    frogloch wrote: »
    Is that micheal long who was manager at Greenfield if so good on him.:)

    Yes


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    #9973
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    caseman wrote: »
    fella not to far from me milking 600+ through a 20 unit parlour.

    North West?


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    #9974
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    caseman wrote: »
    fella not to far from me milking 600+ through a 20 unit parlour.

    That's the equivalent of milking 60 in a 2 unit parlour!


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    #9975
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    just do it wrote: »
    That's the equivalent of milking 60 in a 2 unit parlour!

    Not even close. At least your moving


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    #9976
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,109 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    just do it wrote: »
    That's the equivalent of milking 60 in a 2 unit parlour!
    did 360 cows in an 8 double up in england, 10 rows is more than enough for anyone to do


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    #9977
    caseman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭caseman


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    North West?

    sligo their in the plannig process for a new rotary


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    #9978
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    caseman wrote: »
    sligo their in the plannig process for a new rotary

    Thought so, know him


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    #9979
    freedominacup
    Registered Users Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Thought so, know him

    Brothers, out on the coast? Used to be fairly prominent in ihfa?


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    #9980
    alps
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    did 360 cows in an 8 double up in england, 10 rows is more than enough for anyone to do

    Is this "10rows" when the dairy man hits the wall?

    I know I've just had enough of it after 9, but what about someone working in a factory or production line doing the same thing for an 8 hour shift?

    Why do we stare flagging at 10 rows? Is it because we have so much other stuff on, or you can smell the breakfast? Could someone do an 8 hour shift milking cows?


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    #9981
    awaywithyou
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    caseman wrote: »
    fella not to far from me milking 600+ through a 20 unit parlour.

    sligo direction?

    didnt spot your response til after i posted...

    spent a few yrs teaching with one of his daughters....

    when he hoping to have rotary going??


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    #9982
    kevthegaff
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    Id love 600 cows:-P


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    #9983
    Wildsurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Wildsurfer


    alps wrote: »
    Is this "10rows" when the dairy man hits the wall?

    I know I've just had enough of it after 9, but what about someone working in a factory or production line doing the same thing for an 8 hour shift?

    Why do we stare flagging at 10 rows? Is it because we have so much other stuff on, or you can smell the breakfast? Could someone do an 8 hour shift milking cows?
    Often wondered this too, are we just conditioned to ten rows being enough. I'm sure there's staff in big Saudi and USA units doing a couple of hours per shift. I heard a big operator in Tipp who put down mattress foam on pit floor and sealed on top with a liquid rubber finish for operator comfort... Apparently it's like walking on a cloud! That would help with fatigue.


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    #9984
    keep going
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    alps wrote: »
    Is this "10rows" when the dairy man hits the wall?

    I know I've just had enough of it after 9, but what about someone working in a factory or production line doing the same thing for an 8 hour shift?

    Why do we stare flagging at 10 rows? Is it because we have so much other stuff on, or you can smell the breakfast? Could someone do an 8 hour shift milking cows?
    I suspect milking more than 10 rows will quite commo in the nsxt few years, what may be drive it is the ability to milk on ones own than speed through the parlour


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    #9985
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,109 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Would be grand if you were only milking but there's a lot of other work to be done and milking has to be done again in the evening. How long does it take to milk 600 cows in a 20 unit?


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    #9986
    jaymla627
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Would be grand if you were only milking but there's a lot of other work to be done and milking has to be done again in the evening. How long does it take to milk 600 cows in a 20 unit?

    Use to milk 670 through a 16 unit in our around five and a half hours it took if everything went to plan, would say 4 hours for 600 in a 20 unit, some torture on a good chunk of the cows that are spending 7-8 hours a day standing on concrete, cows on the farm above where run as the one herd but brought in around 200 a time


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    #9987
    whelan2
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    anyone milking once a day on a sunday?


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    #9988
    johnny122
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭johnny122


    Anyone pre spraying with virolac ? Do he wipe after or not? Have scc problems started pre spraying in hope of reducing it. Any ideas lads


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    #9989
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,109 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    johnny122 wrote: »
    Anyone pre spraying with virolac ? Do he wipe after or not? Have scc problems started pre spraying in hope of reducing it. Any ideas lads
    do you wear gloves? do you milk record? when were the liners last changed?


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    #9990
    jaymla627
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    Wildsurfer wrote: »
    Often wondered this too, are we just conditioned to ten rows being enough. I'm sure there's staff in big Saudi and USA units doing a couple of hours per shift. I heard a big operator in Tipp who put down mattress foam on pit floor and sealed on top with a liquid rubber finish for operator comfort... Apparently it's like walking on a cloud! That would help with fatigue.

    Good friend works out in Saudi on a large unit, and it's the lowest of the low that do the milkings they're basically robots, same in america with Mexicans....
    The 10 row rule is more for the cows then milker, anymore then a hour and a half between first cluster on and last cluster off your going to hit yields, have increased lameness, and certain cows being underfed as their hitting the paddock when all the nice stuff has already been clipped


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    #9991
    mahoney_j
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    johnny122 wrote: »
    Anyone pre spraying with virolac ? Do he wipe after or not? Have scc problems started pre spraying in hope of reducing it. Any ideas lads

    Better to do a recording first and find culprits and go from there.best advice I got re scc is just let cows in,give them a spray of water and unless dirty don't touch teats just put cluster on.once u find culprits do a milk culture test to find what bug is causing it and work through treatment plan with ur vet


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