Anyone getting heifers contract reared willing to say what they are paying per head per day?
No...your advisor can write a letter stating that you required to feed 16% for dietary reasons if you were buffering with silage at the time.
Some suppliers would have questioned you at the time of ordering to know if you had thought the order through
Thanks, it's hard to keep up to date with all these changes. I would usually google before I order but somebody had told me that 16% was ok in September and I just rang to order. Double checked with the salesman at the time and he said it was fine too. Trust nobody....
€1.40, up from €1.20
Doesn't leave a lot out of any surplus
Anybody having trouble with a build-up of fats on clusters and any solutions for it, I'm assuming chlorine would shift it but not easy to get now.
Who are you supplying, using this new descaler its double the strength of ordinary stuff, along with serpent in the final rinse, seems to work...
are you hot washing it. Acidic descaler will shift that. Clorine is banned i thought.
Glanbia, where did you buy that?
Almost every day at this stage, the detergents im using are solid useless as far as I can see, it is that's why I was wondering is there any other way of getting rid of it.
did you try hydrosan
Used the powder years ago, didn't realize they had a liquid, might give it a go.
Use circodine cf powder in plant here. Seems to do the job. Still can use chlorine based product if an issue appears just make sure to double rinse after it, but it wouldn't do much for milkstone anyway
We use the powder stuff all the time. Find it great.
Get into ark farm solutions …on there ch free detergent and descale few years now …2/3 hot washes max per week ….any tbc or thermos high results were down to me nor topping up drums …..far better priced than any of the other players in market
Is your water hot enough and are you using enough? Hard to imagine that kind of build up without something not right about your wash routine. What are your tbc's like?
Tbcs were fine up to last test, gone haywire now over 3000
Was speaking to the lorry driver, was surprised to hear Chlorine is still used in the processing plants.
That's just for the professionals 😆 us ejeets couldn't be trusted with something that works 🙄
Ironically the area milk advisor admitted they use it all the time as they can't keep the plant right other wise
If the clusters are like that the propeller/ impeller? In the milk pump is likely coated as well so best to check it and change it if so. Changed mine and rest of machine was fine and it had rock hard milkstone on it.
Probably a minority ruining it for the rest of us as usual.
I'm calling lots 65 & 66 tomorrow....
You’ll have to throw in a full bucket to shift it, on a hot wash
had that problem this year
switched to ark farm since and no issues since. Glanbia were zero help to me, had a high thermo for 2 months
If Glanbia are anything like Arrabawn they’ll try and brain wash you into bananas expensive products from deosan and Gea ……I went thru the deosan stuff and one other and spent a fortune before ark products were recommended and haven’t looked back since ….2/3 hot washes max per week and a lot cheaper …reps and owners actually care and want to fix any issues too
are they worth half of it, would cost a small fortune to get them reinstalled and moved
I know guys in the UK from the UK forums that buy second hand ones for parts. These lads would be running robots for years now and fix them themselves.
If they want 200 now what were they new?
What would 3 new cost if your able to claim grants
I got a price last year for boumatic two cow robot €219000 all in . No building work needed just plug and play.
Is that thermodurics or tbc.if it's tbc there something not being washed.we seem to need alot of descaling very regularly as in twice a week
I use three different detergents alternative days. Works ok
