Dairy - what's your daily routine?

just do it

So what times do you start and finish milkings. What other daily jobs do you do e.g. feeding calves etc. How long do they take? What other less frequent jobs are there specific to dairy?

onyerbikepat

Are ya getting the Itch?

sh1tstirrer

Not milking but I did in the past like everything it depends on your setup and how organised you are.

just do it

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Not milking but I did in the past like everything it depends on your setup and how organised you are.

Exactly. It would be interesting to see the variety and some lads might pick up a few tips

Timmaay

Depends on the time of the year. Spring, 7am-8pm, working like a blue arsed fly every day, between calving, milking, feeding calves and stock. 8pm-12midnight on call for calving! Outside of spring, Aim for cows in the holding yard for 7.30, breakfast for 9.30, Then I try to use the morning for the regular chores, be that moving fencing in the summer, or feeding stock in the winter. Once they are done I would move on to tasks which need to be done, or hopefully be able to put the feet up for most the afternoon! (once a week if I'm lucky!). Aim for cows in the holding yard for 5pm, and I have training Tue/Wed and Fri nights at 7pm, aim to be finished by 6.30, but 6.45 is much more realistic! Sundays are the bare minimum, often have races then anyways and can be gone from 9am till 5pm. I've definitely got this routine better settled over the last 6months, my athletics does suffer at times when I'm either too late for training, or utterly shattered from a hard day on the farm, but that's life, the aim is to minimize them days! New parlour is a must for me moving forward I'll admit, Spring and summer this year I was up to 14rows, just too long spent in the parlour and I could never manage to finish on time for training, and cow numbers here will probably keep on rising.

oxjkqg

6.30 - 8.30 milking, check heifers and nuts to calves etc
8.30-9.30 breakfast
1pm lunch
5.10 - start getting cows home for milking
7.15 - finish and evening to self.

Of course thats varies from time to time, with silage making and calving and different jobs,

Sunday is 99% of the time just the 2 milkings. the odd time at silage but thats it.

Mehaffey1

New Zealand Farm - Milking 730 + roughly 25 colostrum/penicillin cows

4.00am bring cows in
8.30am milking finished including treatments, drafting, hose up and plant wash, 3 in the parlour at this stage (40 a side)
9.30am back from breakfast and sort out strip grazing, feeding out, minerals, other jobs
12.00pm lunch
1.00pm Bring cows in
5.00pm milking finished without colostrum/penicillins milked in evenings.

Routine is key

mahoney_j

6.30 out of the cot
7,00 cows in parlour
8.15 breakfast
9,15 check stock,move wire spread fertliser etc
1.00 spud time
2.00 continuation of 9.15
4.00 round up cows
4.30 cups on
5,30-6.00 clock off and close yard gate.Day is long enough dont work after 6 unless essential
evenings gym 3 nights a week ,Family time etc
FRIDAY EVENING i give an hour every wek in office going through bank account ,Paying bills etc.Most important hour of week

Sunday Milking only and take every sunday evening off from mid june on
Work to live not live to work

Dawggone

Cups on 6:30am.
Cups on 5:30pm.

I only occasionally milk.

Good staff with initiative are the answer.

Fulltime office staff for paperwork.

I'm the one going around putting out the fires.

As Frazz said a while back.... you'll find me where the fire burns hottest.

freedominacup

Dawggone wrote: »

Cups on 6:30am.
Cups on 5:30pm.

I only occasionally milk.

Good staff with initiative are the answer.

Fulltime office staff for paperwork.

I'm the one going around putting out the fires.

As Frazz said a while back.... you'll find me where the fire burns hottest.

They'd want to have initiative at 35/hr.

just do it

Dawggone wrote: »

Cups on 6:30am.
Cups on 5:30pm.

I only occasionally milk.

Good staff with initiative are the answer.

Fulltime office staff for paperwork.

I'm the one going around putting out the fires.

As Frazz said a while back.... you'll find me where the fire burns hottest.

Ye're managers not farmers

Dawggone

freedominacup wrote: »

They'd want to have initiative at 35/hr.

You're not wrong.

just do it

freedominacup wrote: »

They'd want to have initiative at 35/hr.

40 hr week = €72,800 pa :eek:

stanflt

9 am out of bed
Milking finished and calves fed by dinner
3pm milk again and home by 5

No point being late twice in the one day!!!!!

Greengrass1

stanflt wrote: »

9 am out of bed
Milking finished and calves fed by dinner
3pm milk again and home by 5

No point being late twice in the one day!!!!!

No wonder them cows give so much milk in tge morning.
Ye forget about them every second morning