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

whelan2

Anyone who has had any lwr calves do they calve much before their due date?

Dawggone

Extended the height of the water canon to 3.8m but need a bit more. On target for 24t/ha dm or more if we keep getting this warm weather for grain fill.

Mooooo

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyone who has had any lwr calves do they calve much before their due date?

Ranged from 7 days early to on time depending on the dam I guess in the spring. Younger cows seem to be out of shorter gestation bulls as well soore likely to be early I spose

Keepgrowing

Dawggone wrote: »

Extended the height of the water canon to 3.8m but need a bit more. On target for 24t/ha dm or more if we keep getting this warm weather for grain fill.

How much of a cost is irrigation? Do you have to pay for extraction

Dawggone

Keepgrowing wrote: »

How much of a cost is irrigation? Do you have to pay for extraction

€6/25mm/ha was the cost for electricity but I've changed provider since I last costed and now elec is 60% cheaper.

Edit. It's my own surface water that's collected during the winter for summer irrigation.
I still have to pay a tax on every cubic meter pumped.

It one was to start from scratch and install an irrigation system, it would never pay. A neighbor spent €300k on a system to irrigate 13ha.

Buford T. Justice XIX

How to fix Fonterra, a bit of analysis of the NZ dairy giant from NZ.

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11686635

Buford T. Justice XIX

Cows here on a go slow today. 2km/hr yesterday. Struggling to get to 1.4 today.

Dawggone

Irrigating rainbows...

farmerjj

Got a cow here who had bad blood clots in one quarter last week, was stripping it out but not the clots are gone its just a small bit of blood and no milk,anything I can do or just leave be?

Mooooo

Is quarter swollen? Get some golden udder or similar and rub on to the quarter. Did u tube her? Normally milk returns to normal post clots if just a belt or something. Was milk watery initially? Is cow any way sick with it?

Buford T. Justice XIX

farmerjj wrote: »

Got a cow here who had bad blood clots in one quarter last week, was stripping it out but not the clots are gone its just a small bit of blood and no milk,anything I can do or just leave be?

As Moooo said, if she is sick, she will need treatment.

If not, you might be as well tubing her anyway. A few of mine get clots every so often and they seem to develop into mastitis unless they get a course of tubes.

Get a milk sample tested for scc either way as blood or blood clots will cause your scc to sky rocket.

Keepgrowing

Just got a massive tbc 180 Feckin tank again. All sorted now, always the tank

Edit; it was 7 the collection before.

pedigree 6

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Just got a massive tbc 180 Feckin tank again. All sorted now, always the tank

Edit; it was 7 the collection before.

Something wrong with automatic washer?

RightTurnClyde

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Just got a massive tbc 180 Feckin tank again. All sorted now, always the tank

Edit; it was 7 the collection before.

Will the coop let you do a retest, or is that a definite penalty

Keepgrowing

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Something wrong with automatic washer?

No but something wrong with the tool who's job it was to replace descaler

Keepgrowing

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Will the coop let you do a retest, or is that a definite penalty

Will make a call in am. I'd say it should be ok as it's usually under 12

Keepgrowing

Keepgrowing wrote: »

No but something wrong with the tool who's job it was to replace descaler

Me btw

Mooooo

Most coops would be sound about it, esp if consistently low anyway. Tank here gives a warning when descaler or detergent out, glad I got it as easy to forget about it esp the descaler

Morris Moss

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Just got a massive tbc 180 Feckin tank again. All sorted now, always the tank

Edit; it was 7 the collection before.

Haha that's nothing, I was milking for a neighbour 2 weeks ago and got a tbc of 144million!!! I turned the tank on in the morning and it was running fine, came back in the evening and the milk was 30 degrees, the air was too hot for the fan and tripped the tank.

pedigree 6

Morris Moss wrote: »

Haha that's nothing, I was milking for a neighbour 2 weeks ago and got a tbc of 144million!!! I turned the tank on in the morning and it was running fine, came back in the evening and the milk was 30 degrees, the air was too hot for the fan and tripped the tank.

Was milking a few weeks ago and forgot to turn on milk tank cooler.
Put one milking into it that evening and only realised I never turned on tank before milking next morning. Had to let it out and wash before milking.
Tank tripping is a good one must remember that.;)

whelan2

Surprise calf this morning, shouldnt be any due for at least another 3 weeks, first calver angus heifer calf , she had a drink and all before I found her, all's good

farmerjj

Mooooo wrote: »

Is quarter swollen? Get some golden udder or similar and rub on to the quarter. Did u tube her? Normally milk returns to normal post clots if just a belt or something. Was milk watery initially? Is cow any way sick with it?

No I didn't notice the milk been watery, its v red at the moment,given here a cream on the quarter morning and evening,didn't tube her, she doesn't seem sick, the cloths weren't to bad this morning just red milk / blood, 9days now

stretch film

farmerjj wrote: »

No I didn't notice the milk been watery, its v red at the moment,given here a cream on the quarter morning and evening,didn't tube her, she doesn't seem sick, the cloths weren't to bad this morning just red milk / blood, 9days now

Had two this year cleared up in end.Put udder mint on them . Put it down to bull pucking them away from a cow he was interested in .
One of the cows was a nympho so she was after everything.

Dawggone

farmerjj wrote: »

No I didn't notice the milk been watery, its v red at the moment,given here a cream on the quarter morning and evening,didn't tube her, she doesn't seem sick, the cloths weren't to bad this morning just red milk / blood, 9days now

10cc of a coagulant into the quarter after every milking until clear.
I forget the name. Vet will have it. Comes in glass vials.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Milk lorry, fertiliser lorry and JCB arrive in the yard at the one time.

Kovu

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Milk lorry, fertiliser lorry and JCB arrive in the yard at the one time.

That sounds like the start to a bad joke

Buford T. Justice XIX

Kovu wrote: »

That sounds like the start to a bad joke

Yeah:eek:


The milk lorry couldn't come out till the fert lorry had finished dropping off. The JCB arrived and had to reverse up to the main road because the yard tractor is stuck in gear and can't reverse so the fert lorry can get out of the milk lorrys way.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

On the plus side, a heifer down with a few weeks stood while all this was going on so it worked out well for everyone. Well, everyone bar the milk lorry man:)

Brown Podzol

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Yeah:eek:


The milk lorry couldn't come out till the fert lorry had finished dropping off. The JCB arrived and had to reverse up to the main road because the yard tractor is stuck in gear and can't reverse so the fert lorry can get out of the milk lorrys way.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

On the plus side, a heifer down with a few weeks stood while all this was going on so it worked out well for everyone. Well, everyone bar the milk lorry man:)

She got up when she saw the JCB.

Keepgrowing

Brown Podzol wrote: »

She got up when she saw the JCB.

Lol, beat me to it

Buford T. Justice XIX

Brown Podzol wrote: »

She got up when she saw the JCB.

LOLs:D

It might have been the shower of Fs by the milk lorry driver at me too.