mahoney_j wrote: » 587 kgms ,86% 6 week in calf rate ,100% heifers calved 22/26 months ,371 day ci,4.16% fat 3.6 p .128 ebi,supplied milk from 04/02 to 22/12 and milked oad from 15/11 to dry off
mf240 wrote: » Icbf report here all five stars on top as usuall and all one stars on bottom. My only worry are these guys getting money to make charts that I don't want or need
mf240 wrote: » Keep the head down, you'll get there. Do you feed any meal at all?
mahoney_j wrote: » Meal what’s that. ??,lots of feeding in grass docks and nettles !!!
cosatron wrote: » As the auld lad says, the only numbers I’m worried about are the ones on the bottom of the milkcheque
GrasstoMilk wrote: » That's true but my milk cheque is an awful lot better since I started chasing compact calving, 24 month calving for heifers
Timmaay wrote: » The milk cheque has always be reasonable here thankfully . My workload and stress levels are a different matter now that we are getting there with compact spring on calving.
whelan2 wrote: » Whats your calving interval?
mahoney_j wrote: » Calving heifers early and at 22/25 months and high 6 week in calf rates are biggest drivers of solids and heifers lasting here .hard slog for few weeks in spring but worth it
Timmaay wrote: » 402 days! Meaningless enough figure here also, because there are a few big hos who only calf down every 2nd spring, (they do about 14lk across the 2 yrs with no extra feed over the rest), they add a few days each to the CI, milking on culls also doesn't help.
freedominacup wrote: » How does it help retention rates for heifers?
whelan2 wrote: » That's not too bad, 371 here in top 5% ,when will you finish calving?
GrasstoMilk wrote: » Ground temps are fairly good here. First paddock grazed off and calving going good
Reggie. wrote: » How did ya break it?
kowtow wrote: » Is that individual farms or countries? If I remember correctly, we're pretty expensive on a total economic cost basis, at least in the european context. Difficult to get an up to date price / litre to place us on that graph but I think there were only a couple of countries more expensive than us - at least in 2012. I recall that the Italians may well have been one of them! Edit : Total costs were about 4.50 per kg solids in the 2012 analysis, Denmark and Italy were more expensive (4.75 and 5.25 approx) .. UK was about 3.30-3.50 (had to pluck these figures by eye off a graph so they aren't exact).
Say my name wrote: » I'm on my third paddock here. I got a good response to my early spread urea and slurry. I had my first cow bulling today and it's not yet 3 weeks since start of calving. The way the weather could be looking though I could be very lucky to have put it out as early as a Sudden stratospheric warming is currently occurring and more than likely we might be getting easterly winds at the end of Feb start of March and who knows how long they'll last and could be put in the freezer. If it does come Very cold and frosty I'll graze off the heavy covers that got urea on dampish ground and if it stays damp and mildish I'll keep going the way I'm going on the drier land and sure the grass will still be growing behind me.
Sillycave wrote: » Are we heading for a cold end of Feb start of Mar? Was going to go with urea early next week? Too but it out or not??🀔
Mooooo wrote: » Had a cow with the blister out at one, said id leave her be for an hour went back in to the house to boil the kettle and fell asleep before the fecking thing was boiled awoke at 5 and out to the shed to find cow stretched and calfs head out and swollen, got the calf out alive and sat the cow up but has paralysis on the side she was lying on. Turned her to other side sitting up and will leave her be for a bit. The one I'm not there for and this happens, all the rest were spat out. Bull was fr 4019 and a big Calf, have 6 more from him and they are tiny feckers
einn32 wrote: » Always the way. Does anyone not go check calvers at night?
