Dairy chit chat II

GrasstoMilk

K.G. wrote: »

The problem with moving away is slurry and work.is it all covered between the two places

Nope be an open yard. Nearly at the point of calling someone in to see can they come up with something else. That yard is main highway to fields and to silage pits.

alps

Brought heiers home from rearer yesterday....they are an absolute cracking bunch....cant wait for spring to see them calved down and out to grass...

Spent hours and hours splitting out what we were going to bring home....it was like Pat Shortt in the sweet shop trying to decide...

freedominacup

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Nope be an open yard. Nearly at the point of calling someone in to see can they come up with something else. That yard is main highway to fields and to silage pits.

My oul fellas biggest fault was that he couldn't look at any square of concrete without allocating at least two uses to it. Avoid that walk if you can at all. The messing and hardship you appear to be letting yourself in for if you don't change the plans will be endless. I'd only start using it if I was immediately going to work on replacing it with something that would work well long term.

whelan2

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Nope be an open yard. Nearly at the point of calling someone in to see can they come up with something else. That yard is main highway to fields and to silage pits.

I got teagasc advisor and a builder to come to my yard at the same time. They saw things I wouldnt have thought of. It's good to get some one from outside in.

Mooooo

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

How far can you put a feeding area away from where cows will be for the winter?
Probably will have to go 50 ft away for one here as shed is in the middle of the yard and can't put a feeding passage right out side

Would a feed trailer do for this winter? Move it and lock them back when you want to use the yard and put it back when done?

Mooooo

First casualty of the season, pulled a dead calf from a 6th calver. Id say stress from the storms and housing with the heifers has em calving early. Tight for space as heifers shed damaged in storm. May put close cows outside with round feeder in paddock near yard

GrasstoMilk

whelan2 wrote: »

I got teagasc advisor and a builder to come to my yard at the same time. They saw things I wouldnt have thought of. It's good to get some one from outside in.

Had teagasc advisor out aswell as my own DG. Came up with the same ideas as I had.
It would double up as a collecting yard fir cows and be very handy for buffering.

alps

Had a really nice bit of Irish butter with the dinner.....

A few miles under the hood as well........

Buford T. Justice XIX

alps wrote: »

Had a really nice bit of Irish butter with the dinner.....

A few miles under the hood as well........

Irish? Isn't that made in Belgium with that stamp?

atlantic mist

https://www.progressivedairy.com/news/industry-news/wisconsin-holstein-sets-new-national-single-lactation-milk-production-record

alps

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Irish? Isn't that made in Belgium with that stamp?

Led to believe it's Arrabawn made and sent to Belgium for packing....

Maybe the "cost" of getting to market from our island is only too high after the packaging stage...

It really is nice though....the unsalted flavour was a nice change dripping wet down over the potatoes...umm

kowtow

atlantic mist wrote: »

https://www.progressivedairy.com/news/industry-news/wisconsin-holstein-sets-new-national-single-lactation-milk-production-record

2500kg of milk solids in the one lactation, from one cow.

You wouldn't begrudge her the odd scoop of nuts in the parlour.

GrasstoMilk

Every cow clipped and singe'd today. Should leave them clean for the winter months and for drying off

alps

Farmer Ed wrote: »

When the markets start to drop. Don't worry or co op managers will be the first to share the sad news with us so in the meantime there is little to be gained by us giving them ideas. Meanwhile a lot of farmers haven't still seen the results of strong markets fully passed back to them.

On a related note. Has anyone noticed that there in a new government in NZ supported by the green party? Could this have any effect on NZ output? Just wondering?

I spent a few days with a top executive of Environment Canterbury Regional Council, on a totally non farming pursuit.....hic..

Completely understanding of dairy farming, its day to day operations, it's financial capability etc...wouldnt in any way think of him as a tree hugger of any sort, but just in pursuit of cleaning up the water....

He was convinced that the only solution to agricultural contamination of waterways is winter housing...not so much fertilisers, not so much stocking rate, not even irrigation, but the run off from their wintering systems and damage during bad weather events is extreme.

This was last year, and he knew the difficulty was that farmers could not afford housing, and that some mechanism would need to be found to finance the remedy., believing that that remedy needed to come from the marketplace...

So to answer your question, I couldn't see a reduction in output from there, but the source of funding for this environmental clean up will n interesting..

Waffletraktor

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Every cow clipped and singe'd today. Should leave them clean for the winter months and for drying off

Whats the idea of singe-ing their legs?(hair) other than getting projectile shyte all over your new parlour?

GrasstoMilk

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Whats the idea of singe-ing their legs?(hair) other than getting projectile shyte all over your new parlour?

Singe-ing unwanted udder hair that catches dirt and gets pulled when wiping cows down pre milking in winter months.
Less bacteria around the udder the better

Waffletraktor

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Singe-ing unwanted udder hair that catches dirt and gets pulled when wiping cows down pre milking in winter months.
Less bacteria around the udder the better

Is that for winter milkers/ off straw more so than cubicles?

GrasstoMilk

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Is that for winter milkers/ off straw more so than cubicles?

I did every milker. Do them twice a year. Solves slot of kicking I find. Stray hairs getting pulled with clusters going on would be sore I'd imagine.

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

I got teagasc advisor and a builder to come to my yard at the same time. They saw things I wouldnt have thought of. It's good to get some one from outside in.

When I was doing something with shed here, three fellas had three very different ideas about where to build. Nearly left me more confused. In design process for a little abode for me and the chiefs here, Iv stopped asking people what they did because everyone has a different take on things! You'd change your mind everytime you spoke to someone.

Brown Podzol

alps wrote: »

Brought heiers home from rearer yesterday....they are an absolute cracking bunch....cant wait for spring to see them calved down and out to grass...

Spent hours and hours splitting out what we were going to bring home....it was like Pat Shortt in the sweet shop trying to decide...

Sure haven't ICBF them picked for you .EBI.

alps

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Sure haven't ICBF them picked for you .EBI.

Haha....these have all been based on Effective Buying Income.....and the creation of it..

C4d78

On Dry Cow Therapy has anyone used Cephaguard?
I’ve been using Ceapravin for past number of years and it’s been successful.
Just thought the idea of 1 day withdrawal after calving in Cephaguard would be great as opposed to 4.
But are the tubes as good as Ceapravin??

kowtow

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Singe-ing unwanted udder hair that catches dirt and gets pulled when wiping cows down pre milking in winter months.
Less bacteria around the udder the better

Do you only clip the tail and then singe the rest?

Tempted to do this but would like to have a decent plan before starting.

Haven't enough milkers that we can afford to be setting fire to them.

whelan2

C4d78 wrote: »

On Dry Cow Therapy has anyone used Cephaguard?
I’ve been using Ceapravin for past number of years and it’s been successful.
Just thought the idea of 1 day withdrawal after calving in Cephaguard would be great as opposed to 4.
But are the tubes as good as Ceapravin??

Using cefimam which I assume is the same.

cosatron

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Every cow clipped and singe'd today. Should leave them clean for the winter months and for drying off

nice bit of kit. Is that available to buy or a diy job.

GrasstoMilk

cosatron wrote: »

nice bit of kit. Is that available to buy or a diy job.

Bought it online from fane valley I think

mahoney_j

C4d78 wrote: »

On Dry Cow Therapy has anyone used Cephaguard?
I’ve been using Ceapravin for past number of years and it’s been successful.
Just thought the idea of 1 day withdrawal after calving in Cephaguard would be great as opposed to 4.
But are the tubes as good as Ceapravin??

Using it here ,super product because of short withdrawl ,35 days and 24 hours after calving ,all cows in tank on third milking after calving no issues ,scc averaging 88 for year ,vet tells me it’s a better product than cepravin

Mooooo

Anyone replace scrapers recently? Have old ones here and sick and tired of bits falling off them so was gonna price around. Tracks and that are fine it's just the scraper body I want to replace in 4 passages

Wildsurfer

C4d78 wrote: »

On Dry Cow Therapy has anyone used Cephaguard?
I’ve been using Ceapravin for past number of years and it’s been successful.
Just thought the idea of 1 day withdrawal after calving in Cephaguard would be great as opposed to 4.
But are the tubes as good as Ceapravin??

It's expensive though, €15 per cow I think? Supposed to be a better cure rate for high scc than cepravin so thinking of just treating the worst offenders with it here

Brown Podzol

C4d78 wrote: »

On Dry Cow Therapy has anyone used Cephaguard?
I’ve been using Ceapravin for past number of years and it’s been successful.
Just thought the idea of 1 day withdrawal after calving in Cephaguard would be great as opposed to 4.
But are the tubes as good as Ceapravin??

Using it here with 4 years. Excellent product.