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

Cow Porter

Greengrass1 wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/video-tipperary-teen-finds-method-of-spotting-mastitis-infection-in-milking-parlour-374765.html

Do you not have something like that in your parlour mj?

ffs who screens these entries to the young scientist awards, this is around with years in parlours, fits in same category with the lads from cork who "came up with" using washing up liquid in cmt test, another thing known for years. its giving a wrong message to all but most so to students that if they google something and claim they came up with it its ok.

anyway its a great tool to find problem early, alarm comes on and cmt her to find if/wheres the problem. Every cow has different conductivity so by right you need auto id for it to pick out the cow. A dehydrated cow will also throw it off,

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

Yep ,great job picks up mastitis a day to day and a half before clots ,can give high reading if showing strong heats but cmt test will negate that .

That's what I was thinking. Far play to the lad for coming up with it but he obviously didn't do much research

whelan2

First grazing of 2016. Ecoli cow out for a bite

frazzledhome

whelan2 wrote: »

First grazing of 2016. Ecoli cow out for a bite

You mingled her well. Reading your posts I thought she'd be a gonner

whelan2

frazzledhome wrote: »

You mingled her well. Reading your posts I thought she'd be a gonner

Was touch and go. Quarter is gone.

Deepsouthwest

frazzledhome wrote: »

You mingled her well. Reading your posts I thought she'd be a gonner

I thought the very same, when I heard she had declined even more after the vet had called I was sure it was curtains

Dawggone

Cow Porter wrote: »

ffs who screens these entries to the young scientist awards, this is around with years in parlours, fits in same category with the lads from cork who "came up with" using washing up liquid in cmt test, another thing known for years. its giving a wrong message to all but most so to students that if they google something and claim they came up with it its ok.

Very true.
99.999999999% of us will never have an original thought or idea. Plagiarism is what we do.

whelan2

Dawggone wrote: »

Very true.
99.999999999% of us will never have an original thought or idea. Plagiarism is what we do.

I was in the young scientists a long time ago. I agree though the projects should be vetted before all the work begins. Daughter has a project in it. She is in 6th class and they are all heading up tomorrow on the bus. Great experience for them

Dawggone

whelan2 wrote: »

I was in the young scientists a long time ago. I agree though the projects should be vetted before all the work begins. Daughter has a project in it. She is in 6th class and they are all heading up tomorrow on the bus. Great experience for them

Excellent.

Agri related project?

whelan2

Dawggone wrote: »

Excellent.

Agri related project?

Not really. It's about how long it takes a white flowers petals to change colour when different amounts of food colouring is put into it's water! They all were given different amounts to use over Christmas and had to take photos

Dawggone

whelan2 wrote: »

Not really. It's about how long it takes a white flowers petals to change colour when different amounts of food colouring is put into it's water! They all were given different amounts to use over Christmas and had to take photos

Quantifying transpiration is definitely agri related...
Best of luck to her.

Dawggone

Brussels equivalent of competition authority is investigating price fixing between dairy processors. Likewise with meat factories.


Anything to come from this?...


Edit.
It's only the French processors that are being investigated. Pressure from the farmers union has kicked it off...

Buford T. Justice XIX

Dawggone wrote: »

Brussels equivalent of competition authority is investigating price fixing between dairy processors. Likewise with meat factories.


Anything to come from this?...

They'll probably find against the processors for price fixing selling price to consumers and then fine the farmers that supplied the milk.

Then the price fixing for purchasing milk from farmers will be dropped due to lack of evidence..

I only wish I was joking:(

jay gatsby

Dawggone wrote: »

Very true.
99.999999999% of us will never have an original thought or idea. Plagiarism is what we do.

Know a very savvy (imo) businessman who says r&d for him stands for Rob and duplicate!

White Clover

Dawggone wrote: »

Brussels equivalent of competition authority is investigating price fixing between dairy processors. Likewise with meat factories.


Anything to come from this?...

With a bit of luck.....yes. Not feeling too lucky tho!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Nice stretch in the evenings:)

Mehaffey1

Up 400 litres in a day, the regrass is worth checking cows every hour for bloat lol

Dawggone

Spilling rain all day. 42mm so far today.

Biblical thunder and lightening during the milking resulted in power cut. Tackled tractor to the genny grand job. Half an hour later no power...feckin tractor with diesel filter problems.

I should be skiing like the lot of yeez.

visatorro

dunno whether its a sign of old age or exhaustion or what but left kicking bar on the same heifer this morning AND tonight. lucky got it on the slats both times! wonder what she'll be like to milk in the morning!!

seeing as I had a busy year I haven't milked as much. the people that do have created about twenty cheeky bastards that kick off when they have finished their meal. makes milking fairly frustrating

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

dunno whether its a sign of old age or exhaustion or what but left kicking bar on the same heifer this morning AND tonight. lucky got it on the slats both times! wonder what she'll be like to milk in the morning!!

seeing as I had a busy year I haven't milked as much. the people that do have created about twenty cheeky bastards that kick off when they have finished their meal. makes milking fairly frustrating

That drives me mad. I put the jump lead clamp on them if they kick it off. This crack of head butting the cluster off the cow in front annoys me too and is a new thing around here

browned

visatorro wrote: »

dunno whether its a sign of old age or exhaustion or what but left kicking bar on the same heifer this morning AND tonight. lucky got it on the slats both times! wonder what she'll be like to milk in the morning!!

seeing as I had a busy year I haven't milked as much. the people that do have created about twenty cheeky bastards that kick off when they have finished their meal. makes milking fairly frustrating

for that reason along I don't think I'd ever put feeders in the parlour. Would drive me mad having cows kicking off clusters regularly

frazzledhome

visatorro wrote: »

dunno whether its a sign of old age or exhaustion or what but left kicking bar on the same heifer this morning AND tonight. lucky got it on the slats both times! wonder what she'll be like to milk in the morning!!

seeing as I had a busy year I haven't milked as much. the people that do have created about twenty cheeky bastards that kick off when they have finished their meal. makes milking fairly frustrating

Had 2 at that this year and 1 that came into first row then stand in the way trying to get back on for nuts.

All 3 became Happy Meals

kowtow

Does anyone have a square stamped concrete surface under an auto scraper - I'm thinking of the type done with a grid roller that almost looks like square cobble stones.

Have two passages to do next week and the only roller I can find is the white plastic type which produces the square finish - probably great for grip but wonder would it be too deep a pattern with the scrapers?

There are diamond shape and tamping rollers (which produce a sort of deep brushed finish) but don't know of any locally. ...

freedominacup

kowtow wrote: »

Does anyone have a square stamped concrete surface under an auto scraper - I'm thinking of the type done with a grid roller that almost looks like square cobble stones.

Have two passages to do next week and the only roller I can find is the white plastic type which produces the square finish - probably great for grip but wonder would it be too deep a pattern with the scrapers?

There are diamond shape and tamping rollers (which produce a sort of deep brushed finish) but don't know of any locally. ...

Try your local hire shop. Star pavement roller will produce a reasonably shallow pattern. Only about a foot wide though.

C0N0R

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Up 400 litres in a day, the regrass is worth checking cows every hour for bloat lol

Over how many cows?

stanflt

First fatality of the calving season- calf no 20 arrived 40 days early but looks full term- a bull so not too bad

4 days to go before official start date and 20 calved already

mahoney_j

stanflt wrote: »

First fatality of the calving season- calf no 20 arrived 40 days early but looks full term- a bull so not too bad

4 days to go before official start date and 20 calved already

But that bull could of been the next superstar !!!!!!,can't win every battle .forst cows time up here 26/4 and already a bunch starting to soften up

Cow Porter

kowtow wrote: »

Does anyone have a square stamped concrete surface under an auto scraper - I'm thinking of the type done with a grid roller that almost looks like square cobble stones.

Have two passages to do next week and the only roller I can find is the white plastic type which produces the square finish - probably great for grip but wonder would it be too deep a pattern with the scrapers?

There are diamond shape and tamping rollers (which produce a sort of deep brushed finish) but don't know of any locally. ...

Carey tool hire cork do the type your on about I'm sure

Mehaffey1

C0N0R wrote: »

Over how many cows?

720 milking but only first herd of 400 cows fed new pasture between milkings. Was very happy since the 2nd Herd were grazing below average quality crap. Back down to normal again though, still feeding the same stuff!

frazzledhome

kowtow wrote: »

Does anyone have a square stamped concrete surface under an auto scraper - I'm thinking of the type done with a grid roller that almost looks like square cobble stones.

Have two passages to do next week and the only roller I can find is the white plastic type which produces the square finish - probably great for grip but wonder would it be too deep a pattern with the scrapers?

There are diamond shape and tamping rollers (which produce a sort of deep brushed finish) but don't know of any locally. ...

Have all passages, all walk areas and parlour grooved here. Some grooved mechanically some done with roller at pouring, no problems with scrapers.

A beer crate is really good at the job. If you place 4 together with a plank on top with a second person you could groove away