Dairy chit chat II

rangler1

Signpost wrote: »

Does anyone know of an iPhone app or other cheap way to do up a map of the farm with accurate areas? I've always worked off an old map I had of the farm and took 10% off the measurements but had a guy in with GPS for a job and some fields are a mile out. Would love to be able to map it as they are fenced etc but couldn't justify paying a company 7 euro an acre for a pocket map... Surely something that you can drive around with and then it gives you back a map of it

Is it fields or paddocks you want to measure ?, I find Planimeter good....matches the BPS measurements anyway, it'll measure the fields and if the paddocks are different greens on your map you can measure some too

https://acme.com/planimeter/

stanflt

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

8 cows had the backs raw on each other tonight. Half tempted to start breeding in AM but going to hold off till Saturday.

That's about 15% of your herd or even more if you take out your autumn bullers

GrasstoMilk

stanflt wrote: »

That's about 15% of your herd or even more if you take out your autumn bullers

7% of what cows I've to bull for spring

whelan2

40% served since last Monday , they are having really strong heats too

freedominacup

whelan2 wrote: »

40% served since last Monday , they are having really strong heats too

Something similar here with this morning's lot.

stanflt

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

7% of what cows I've to bull for spring

How many are you milking no gg- sure if you've 90 cows to submit that mean your milkIng 106 as you won't submit 15% due to natural culling- or are you including these
How many heifers to submit ??
Jeez you'll be busy next spring


Any autumn calvers or did you give that up?

whelan2

I wonder if the weather comes as bad as they say will it affect the amount of animals coming in heat?

stanflt

whelan2 wrote: »

I wonder if the weather comes as bad as they say will it affect the amount of animals coming in heat?

How bad are they suggesting

whelan2

stanflt wrote: »

How bad are they suggesting

Thunderstorms, frost etc. Looking at yr.no it doesnt look that bad

Mooooo

3.61 p 3.78bf last test, scc 261 but treating a cow since so will see next test. I'd say the autumn calvers and the few fresh are keeping the p up as normally would be lower but will see if I can hold it going into may, with the 6cent difference between top and bottom 10% in the coop you'd want to have a good few extra litres to make up that difference

atlantic mist

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Timmaay

Tb testing all done in just over 2hrs, vet rocked up while I was milking the last 2rows, we did calves while they were being fed etc, all went nice and as smoothly as I could of hoped for! I'll get him back on Thursday for the start of milking and get them done as they exit the parlour.

whelan2

Calving interval of 375. Teagasc man said spring calving lads would be happy with that never mind liquid people

pedigree 6

whelan2 wrote: »

Calving interval of 375. Teagasc man said spring calving lads would be happy with that never mind liquid people

Get back to us when it's 365.:D

Ah no it's good to see the hard work paying off through breeding, better conception, on top of health (vaccinations, biosecurity) and better pick ups of heats.:)

Injuryprone

Timmaay wrote: »

Tb testing all done in just over 2hrs, vet rocked up while I was milking the last 2rows, we did calves while they were being fed etc, all went nice and as smoothly as I could of hoped for! I'll get him back on Thursday for the start of milking and get them done as they exit the parlour.

You're fair lucky with your vet. Will he be happy to wait around while cows are milking? I know the answer I'd get off my fella if i made such a suggestion.

jaymla627

Injuryprone wrote: »

You're fair lucky with your vet. Will he be happy to wait around while cows are milking? I know the answer I'd get off my fella if i made such a suggestion.

Have crush built beside parlor here with cows exiting through it from parlor when needed, always run cows through crush for testing when milking, we simply just have two rows milked before he arrives so no waiting around....
vet came here at 7 the other morning and had 120 cows and 40 heifer calves tested before nine, alot less stressful on the cows when they"re not having too spend a couple of hours standing around on concrete between getting milked and then having to be put through a crush afterwards

GrasstoMilk

What sort of oil is used on the blades for cattle clippers?

RightTurnClyde

Have a calf here whose back legs are not functioning after getting scour. He's over the scour, drinking perfectly, and appears to be fully rehydrated. He is dunging fine aswell.
He's very alert and the front legs have full power, but back legs have no power, and he's knuckling them (like a cow that's been hurt during calving) Any ideas?

Buford T. Justice XIX

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Have a calf here whose back legs are not functioning after getting scour. He's over the scour, drinking perfectly, and appears to be fully rehydrated. He is dunging fine aswell.
He's very alert and the front legs have full power, but back legs have no power, and he's knuckling them (like a cow that's been hurt during calving) Any ideas?

Joint ill?

I'm treating my blind calf for something similar though she has full function of the right leg back, the left is very, very slow in getting back to full function.

Injuryprone

Did you inject him in the rump by any chance? Vet injected a calf with pneumonia years ago, and he developed similar symptoms after a couple of days. Needle must've pinched a nerve he said. Came right by itself over time.

3 the square

Any one know what if anything happens when ur next door neighbour goes down with t b ?
Only had the one cow with it.

pedigree 6

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

What sort of oil is used on the blades for cattle clippers?

You probably have the tails cut by now.:pac:

But i'd say Milking Machine oil would do the trick.
(I don't have one myself):(
Milking machine oil would be nice and thin for it though i'd say.
Open to correction here.:o

The part time boy

3 the square wrote: »

Any one know what if anything happens when ur next door neighbour goes down with t b ?
Only had the one cow with it.

I think they be looking to test you . We had test with the neibour got tb. Dunno how many cows.

Is your neighbour a reactor or douthfull ?

yewtree

pedigree 6 wrote: »

You probably have the tails cut by now.:pac:

But i'd say Milking Machine oil would do the trick.
(I don't have one myself):(
Milking machine oil would be nice and thin for it though i'd say.
Open to correction here.:o

We use milking machine on ours aswell seems to work grand

3 the square

The part time boy wrote: »

I think they be looking to test you . We had test with the neibour got tb. Dunno how many cows.

Is your neighbour a reactor or douthfull ?

Reactor I'd say
I've my annual herd test at the end of may will they leave me alone till then ??

Buford T. Justice XIX

3 the square wrote: »

Reactor I'd say
I've my annual herd test at the end of may will they leave me alone till then ??

They probably will if there is only one reactor or they will move your herd test forward if they are worried.

Water John

I think they now give a very narrow timeframe for your TB test in adjacent farms.

3 the square

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

They probably will if there is only one reactor or they will move your herd test forward if they are worried.

Persumley they can't lock a person up just cos his neighbour has it ??

RightTurnClyde

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Joint ill?

I'm treating my blind calf for something similar though she has full function of the right leg back, the left is very, very slow in getting back to full function.

Maybe, but he was on a heavy dose of antibiotics while he had scour because he got pneumonia aswell. I'm wondering was it because he was down for a few days and lying on one side has deadened his leg. But that wouldn't explain why both his back legs are dead

GrasstoMilk

pedigree 6 wrote: »

You probably have the tails cut by now.:pac:

But i'd say Milking Machine oil would do the trick.
(I don't have one myself):(
Milking machine oil would be nice and thin for it though i'd say.
Open to correction here.:o

Nope clippers arriving tomorrow. Sick of using the shears cutting tails. They can be got at a very good price