Dairy Chitchat 3

Say my name

mf240 wrote: »

Don't leave any meal in the feeders or augers

And maybe if there is a bit of a kink in milk pipes or wash pipes leave the clusters on the ground to prevent any cracks appearing from inaction and perishing during the winter.

Buford T. Justice XIX

I think I'll not price this option just yet.
https://twitter.com/CowPlan/status/1208814631952760832?s=19

mr.stonewall

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I think I'll not price this option just yet.
https://twitter.com/CowPlan/status/1208814631952760832?s=19

Might be cheaper than straw over 2-3 years Scrape of dung and a run of the wash down hose or pressure washer after each calving. Would be interested in the price aswell

GrasstoMilk

Say my name wrote: »

And maybe if there is a bit of a kink in milk pipes or wash pipes leave the clusters on the ground to prevent any cracks appearing from inaction and perishing during the winter.

Noel to come service her before we start. It's getting all new rubber. 3 years since we put the new machine in and all its had is new liners. Very happy with the Silicone

GrasstoMilk

mf240 wrote: »

Don't leave any meal in the feeders or augers

Have 200 odd kg in the bin still. Going to use it up training the heifers

alps

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I think I'll not price this option just yet.
https://twitter.com/CowPlan/status/1208814631952760832?s=19

Would it qualify under the new calf facilities grant?

Base price

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I think I'll not price this option just yet.

Is the thick grey layer some sort of composite foam?

mf240

Hard to beat straw for calving.

GrasstoMilk

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I think I'll not price this option just yet.
https://twitter.com/CowPlan/status/1208814631952760832?s=19

I think they only really suits systems that calve year round or ones that dont try calve 90% in 6 weeks
I wouldnt like to be putting 10 cows a day or more at peak through that

Gawddawggonnit

Dawg milking cows...what’s the world coming to!

*Feck, I hate that job.

Waffletraktor

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Dawg milking cows...what’s the world coming to!

*Feck, I hate that job.

Were ye able to organise not being abandoned like one other year, be tough otherwise makes the time of year something to dread not relaax.

Gawddawggonnit

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Were ye able to organise not being abandoned like one other year, be tough otherwise makes the time of year something to dread not relaax.

Unfortunately nobody will work on Xmas week, so it’s down to myself, my wife and daughter. It’s not so bad this year as we’ve drastically reduced the amount of beef cattle. Still it’s 12-14hr days...

I feel sorry for my daughter because she hasn’t known Xmas with years, but such is life!

whelan2

Have had a tbc problem for a good while. Staying around 35. Did in plate cooler?Tank is clean, Descaled etc. Still stayed the same. Emptied the water out of the tank on the air compressor the other day. Down to low 20s now. Thst would have been some milkings before it was emptied and some after. Would never think that would impact tbc

Buford T. Justice XIX

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Dawg milking cows...what’s the world coming to!

*Feck, I hate that job.

Think of it as further processing adding value to your crops:P

GrasstoMilk

whelan2 wrote: »

Have had a tbc problem for a good while. Staying around 35. Did in plate cooler?Tank is clean, Descaled etc. Still stayed the same. Emptied the water out of the tank on the air compressor the other day. Down to low 20s now. Thst would have been some milkings before it was emptied and some after. Would never think that would impact tbc

Yeah they're fairly rotten tbh. We have a 3 stage filter on ours that filters out the dirty moisture

Injuryprone

whelan2 wrote: »

Have had a tbc problem for a good while. Staying around 35. Did in plate cooler?Tank is clean, Descaled etc. Still stayed the same. Emptied the water out of the tank on the air compressor the other day. Down to low 20s now. Thst would have been some milkings before it was emptied and some after. Would never think that would impact tbc

How does the air compressor affect the milk line? Sure wouldn't that just be connected to feeders and gates etc

whelan2

Injuryprone wrote: »

How does the air compressor affect the milk line? Sure wouldn't that just be connected to feeders and gates etc

We have the air plurge system for blowing out the milk line at the end of milking. Milking machine man said to try it. It never crossed my mind that it would cause the high tbc. Lad from dairies has been out too

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

We have the air plurge system for blowing out the milk line at the end of milking. Milking machine man said to try it. It never crossed my mind that it would cause the high tbc. Lad from dairies has been out too

Mine tipped up around the 20s aswell. Can't find reason for it yet either.

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

Mine tipped up around the 20s aswell. Can't find reason for it yet either.

Very annoying.

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

Very annoying.

What's the limit for winter milk?

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

What's the limit for winter milk?

30

Gawddawggonnit

whelan2 wrote: »

We have the air plurge system for blowing out the milk line at the end of milking. Milking machine man said to try it. It never crossed my mind that it would cause the high tbc. Lad from dairies has been out too

Air purge here also and have to hold 6-7 milkings in tank but very rare to have tbc issues. TBC always between 6-8k.

TBC issues usually stem from the tank.

Gawddawggonnit

Crazy in France right now.
I traveled by car to and from Eindhoven last weekend and the traffic in France was much much heavier than in the Low Countries which is usually the opposite way around.

The golden parachute public pension brigade are losing their crap about their pensions being reduced to parity with private sector pensions. In Ireland it’s the
teachers and cops (etc) that get the golden pensions, in France it’s the railroad workers...thus only 12-15% of trains are running. Bumper to bumper trafic for the Xmas hols.
Here’s hoping that Macron holds his ground on this one...it’ll make taxpaying that bit easier knowing that my hard earned euros aren’t going to pay the pensions of a shower that never did a proper days work in their lives.
Rant over.

dmakc

What's the best way to improve a cow's BCS or bring heifers on a bit from now til calving? People say meal will only make the calf bigger which kind of defeats the purpose of preparing the cow? Who gets the greater benefit...

cute geoge

It does no harm to feed a kilo or so of meal if you are worried that the meal only will make the calf bigger then oats could be fed .

Mooooo

Had an arrival this morning. Bull that wasn't able for work in season managed to bull a cow last March. Little aa heifer. Cow won't be fit for tank for 30 days.

Timmaay

dmakc wrote: »

What's the best way to improve a cow's BCS or bring heifers on a bit from now til calving? People say meal will only make the calf bigger which kind of defeats the purpose of preparing the cow? Who gets the greater benefit...

Id be alot more worried about the cow calving down with a low bcs than the risk of the calf getting too big. Feed her on.

GrasstoMilk

2Kg of oats and a bit of soya

K.G.

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Crazy in France right now.
I traveled by car to and from Eindhoven last weekend and the traffic in France was much much heavier than in the Low Countries which is usually the opposite way around.

The golden parachute public pension brigade are losing their crap about their pensions being reduced to parity with private sector pensions. In Ireland it’s the
teachers and cops (etc) that get the golden pensions, in France it’s the railroad workers...thus only 12-15% of trains are running. Bumper to bumper trafic for the Xmas hols.
Here’s hoping that Macron holds his ground on this one...it’ll make taxpaying that bit easier knowing that my hard earned euros aren’t going to pay the pensions of a shower that never did a proper days work in their lives.
Rant over.

Yeah was on the phone yesterday to someone living in paris,total wipeout people walking 4 or 5 hpurs to get to and from work

Mooooo

Mooooo wrote: »

Had an arrival this morning. Bull that wasn't able for work in season managed to bull a cow last March. Little aa heifer. Cow won't be fit for tank for 30 days.

Fcuk it number 2 landed now. Both alive and healthy anyway