Dairy chit chat II

Waffletraktor wrote: »

There is also fook alll straw and fodder left with yields going to be well back for a second year.

I waz talking to a straw merchant (never knew suck a job existed) over in your part of the world Waffle about 2 weeks ago. i was over visiting an old relation, and visited a few farms too. He maked 22,000 big squares last year. But he said that he's contracted to send straw to ireland this harvest. He said he is sending straw to Hollandfor the past decade.

longgonesilver wrote: »

Are you first to be collected in the load?

If there is an automatic sampler on the lorry and the driver puts a sample bottle on during washing, so that the sampler won't be drippling around the hose there could be water in the sample bottle before the driver even begins to suck milk.

If there is no bottle on the sampler when the lorry comes into the yard, there could still be water in the sampler, on the sample side, it is not a lot but one squirt in a hundred is one percent, one in fifty would be two percent, might be enough to trigger a fail, the test is fairly sensitive,

We had a fussy/,precise/,concitious driver here and he used to ',premilk' the sampler by turning the stainless wheel, at the start of each load.

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Would that have been in the S/E as I know they backload straw in curtain siders to holland? Be expensive straw as anything east of the M1 motorway up the middle of England even the Welsh say is too expensive due to haulage.
Straw merchants usually do forage supply aswell, 3 months work 9 months talking up the prices:pac:.

You wouldn't want to be depending on English straw considering it costs 5/600 euro to move a load of straw from the southeast to the west of Ireland. All the surplus straw in England is in the east. Looking up maps it's 300 miles from Cambridge to the boat + cost of the ferry. Wales has had similar issues to here and have no reserve's either so all the handy straw will end up there leaving only the further away stuff available.

Timmaay wrote: »

Got nearly a km of 3/4inch piping in the rented land that I can milk off, flow rate at the end of this no surprise is crap enough. 140gls water trough here, would 1000l IBC as a holding tank help much? Or bigger trough? Or am I wasting my time if the flow rate isn't there? 120cows, only there by day, and I'll only have to graze them there maybe 5rotations for the yr, so not worth spending a huge amount on.

If you're in it this week you'll get most of your outlay back over the next few days if you simply buy 1"1/4 or 1"1\2 piping for the run plus the fittings needed to join the lengths and tap into whatever troughs are on the run. No bother to lose 4l per cow in dry weather. 140 gals are fine for that number providing the flow is there. All the circular troughs and most of the 200 gal plus ones we had here are gone. Impossible to keep clean and all they'll buy you is a few minutes if the flow isn't there. High output ball cocks needed as well.

Timmaay wrote: »

Got nearly a km of 3/4inch piping in the rented land that I can milk off, flow rate at the end of this no surprise is crap enough. 140gls water trough here, would 1000l IBC as a holding tank help much? Or bigger trough? Or am I wasting my time if the flow rate isn't there? 120cows, only there by day, and I'll only have to graze them there maybe 5rotations for the yr, so not worth spending a huge amount on.

Put in a 500 gallon concrete trough. It will be full every morning when they go out. Says the lad with a 90 gallon jfc in couple of fields:D

Mooooo wrote: »

Any advice on best way to dry off a cow doing 37 L. Keeps developing clinical mastitis and sick of trying to cure it. Wouldn't have condition to go straight to factory

Keep inside and feed on straw.

Anyone an idea as to why my scc is so sporadic?
Yesterday's collection came in at 112 the collection before was 62 before that it was 89 and before that was 74.
I'm happy enough with where it is but just the jumping around is a bit annoying. I'd be very happy if it stayed around 60/70.
There's two cows on OAD, they got a bit lame so just trying to help them along

Timmaay wrote:

Got nearly a km of 3/4inch piping in the rented land that I can milk off, flow rate at the end of this no surprise is crap enough. 140gls water trough here, would 1000l IBC as a holding tank help much? Or bigger trough? Or am I wasting my time if the flow rate isn't there? 120cows, only there by day, and I'll only have to graze them there maybe 5rotations for the yr, so not worth spending a huge amount on.

I have a 3/4 inch pipe coming from an ibc out of a stream feeding 12 500 gallon troughs going well over a kilometre.

Timmaay wrote: »

Got nearly a km of 3/4inch piping in the rented land that I can milk off, flow rate at the end of this no surprise is crap enough. 140gls water trough here, would 1000l IBC as a holding tank help much? Or bigger trough? Or am I wasting my time if the flow rate isn't there? 120cows, only there by day, and I'll only have to graze them there maybe 5rotations for the yr, so not worth spending a huge amount on.

What hp is your water pump?

Any opinions on this?

25% protein, 24% fats and 57% skim milk powder.

milk collected twice today

Mooooo wrote: »

Any advice on best way to dry off a cow doing 37 L. Keeps developing clinical mastitis and sick of trying to cure it. Wouldn't have condition to go straight to factory

It's summer time Mooooo

Sunshine
Hurling
Relaxing

Do you really need the hassle?

Up the ramp as soon as withdrawals allow

alps wrote: »

It's summer time Mooooo

Sunshine
Hurling
Relaxing

Do you really need the hassle?

Up the ramp as soon as withdrawals allow

U forgot cold cider and 99ss

whelan2 wrote: »

Teagasc and Frs are trying to run a beginners milkers course in Navan. The are looking for people who are on social welfare, farmers spouses or drystock farmers that might be interested in earning extra money. Might suit some people

Can't believe that people work for the rates quoted on here, but I know one farmer near here giving €50 for a 2 hr milking......OK some families are stuck for money, But !!!!!
Also know another farmer that uses a relief milker a lot, now I see why.