Dairy Chit Chat- Please read Mod note in post #1

Mehaffey1

Good bosses keep good staff as well. Our relief milker gave my boss a bottle of wine, chocolates and a Christmas card saying 'Thank you for all your kindness and giving me a job. I really enjoy working here'.

Shock is its his first agriculture job and he's only been here two months. Today me and him scraped 15 minutes off the fastest afternoon milking done this year, no shortcuts or cows in the collecting yard early.

whelan2

Lad that does a few milkings for me got knee surgery done last week , so I am doing all the milkings, getting a bit fed up at the minute getting up early every morning. Is anyone milking autmn calvers once a day as a 1 off or would it cause problems?

frazzledhome

whelan2 wrote: »

Lad that does a few milkings for me got knee surgery done last week , so I am doing all the milkings, getting a bit fed up at the minute getting up early every morning. Is anyone milking autmn calvers once a day as a 1 off or would it cause problems?

Don't do it. I did one Sun pm cost €1400 in lost milk and phuckin Scc hardship

Timmaay

whelan2 wrote: »

Lad that does a few milkings for me got knee surgery done last week , so I am doing all the milkings, getting a bit fed up at the minute getting up early every morning. Is anyone milking autmn calvers once a day as a 1 off or would it cause problems?

Milking times all over the shop this week, from 7.30 am start to get it outa the way to 9.30am hungover ha, if I had to go to 10am it wouldn't bother me but my dad would do some serious moaning haha. Evening milking usually done by 6pm, only started at 6pm tonight as I was out but that's the exception. It's as close to OAD as I'll go.

whelan2

was dosing my springing heifers there. Got a new dosing hook free with the dosing, every pipe possible fell off while dosing:rolleyes: ffs, think I will have to invest in some hose clips.

keep going

whelan2 wrote: »

was dosing my springing heifers there. Got a new dosing hook free with the dosing, every pipe possible fell off while dosing:rolleyes: ffs, think I will have to invest in some hose clips.

If it s the same as mine take off the two pipes halve one and put the two shorter ones back on , much tidier set up then

3 the square

whelan2 wrote: »

was dosing my springing heifers there. Got a new dosing hook free with the dosing, every pipe possible fell off while dosing:rolleyes: ffs, think I will have to invest in some hose clips.

what are you dosing the heifers for ??
only doing mine for lice this year.

whelan2

3 the square wrote: »

what are you dosing the heifers for ??
only doing mine for lice this year.

Did them for fluke and worms. Then did them for lice and rotavec corona.

wats the craic

here i thought i would have another 10 days off , but one of the cows calved this evening about 11 days early . bonus its a fr heifer from fyk

Milked out

wats the craic wrote: »

here i thought i would have another 10 days off , but one of the cows calved this evening about 11 days early . bonus its a fr heifer from fyk

3 heifers springing nicely here, wouldn't be surprised if they calved in the next week. Have you any more looking like they'll calve. Was the same here with aut calvers one calved about 2 weeks before the rest

wats the craic

ya have ten in the calving pen on the slatts . most of them are springing well . as my uncle says about fr bulls they are fast bastards when it comes to calving . to be honest i was getting bored not milking

Timmaay

wats the craic wrote: »

ya have ten in the calving pen on the slatts . most of them are springing well . as my uncle says about fr bulls they are fast bastards when it comes to calving . to be honest i was getting bored not milking

Ya can come up here and milk for me if ya like!

wats the craic

abit of a drive from the hook head .......

visatorro

wats the craic wrote: »

ya have ten in the calving pen on the slatts . most of them are springing well . as my uncle says about fr bulls they are fast bastards when it comes to calving . to be honest i was getting bored not milking

calving pen on the slats?

wats the craic

ya with a straw lie back

wats the craic

visatorro wrote: »

calving pen on the slats?

ya with a straw lie back

Kovu

Howdy! There's a poster in the Safety and Off Season who is looking for a bit of advice and opinions with some dairy matters. Any input over there would be much appreciated.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057542191

Dawggone

Cows down to 27 liters as the quality is down on the grass now. Thinking on bringing them in at night next week or maybe bring them in full time...

freedominacup

Dawggone wrote: »

Cows down to 27 liters as the quality is down on the grass now. Thinking on bringing them in at night next week or maybe bring them in full time...

Swings and roundabouts. If weather improved a bit and we got a couple of fine days I'd be thinking about turning ours out. More grass than we've ever had this time of the year. I'll be erring on the side of earlier closing from now on.

Dawggone

freedominacup wrote: »

Swings and roundabouts. If weather improved a bit and we got a couple of fine days I'd be thinking about turning ours out. More grass than we've ever had this time of the year. I'll be erring on the side of earlier closing from now on.

Ah, I'm leaving a good few liters behind me Free. Plenty grass but the good is gone now. No clover growing now as its too cold.

mahoney_j

Dawggone wrote: »

Ah, I'm leaving a good few liters behind me Free. Plenty grass but the good is gone now. No clover growing now as its too cold.

Cmonnn now dwag down with that talk of litres !!!!!!

Greengrass1

499 kgs milk solids sold per cow for 15
Up from 477 last yr.
Worked out the difference in mp. Was a bad idea 😕

Dawggone

mahoney_j wrote: »

Cmonnn now dwag down with that talk of litres !!!!!!

That's all it is, protein gone under 3.2

stanflt

Greengrass1 wrote: »

499 kgs milk solids sold per cow for 15
Up from 477 last yr.
Worked out the difference in mp. Was a bad idea 😕

590 as of yesterday- won't do the 600

freedominacup

Dawggone wrote: »

Ah, I'm leaving a good few liters behind me Free. Plenty grass but the good is gone now. No clover growing now as its too cold.

I was only bouncing the ball back to you dawg. It would be hard enough to make the grass budget stretch over ninety days. If they do go out I'd only be allowing around five kg dmi from grass. It wouldn't be chasing extra output that's a certainty. Big health benefits though. Much less pressure on housing. On the fine days they'd stay out until evening milking and get a lot of their down time out of the way in comfort then spend most of the night eating.

Dawggone

freedominacup wrote: »

I was only bouncing the ball back to you dawg. It would be hard enough to make the grass budget stretch over ninety days. If they do go out I'd only be allowing around five kg dmi from grass. It wouldn't be chasing extra output that's a certainty. Big health benefits though. Much less pressure on housing. On the fine days they'd stay out until evening milking and get a lot of their down time out of the way in comfort then spend most of the night eating.

I'll be doing essentially that from next week. Protein has fallen to the floor and production is way back as they should be kicking on by now.

Greengrass1

stanflt wrote: »

590 as of yesterday- won't do the 600

Much meal Stan?
730 kgs here

Greengrass1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUcPnUtsHlg

visatorro

from the same man that brought in countless montys and other such ladies with papers et all,,,,,,,,,,,, to rear calves

trixi2011

Greengrass1 wrote: »

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUcPnUtsHlg

Very beefy looking girls there wouldnt be my cup of tea