Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

thats a shocking repose from your milk manager jay, he could be as much of your issue as the driver…..its common practice since i started milking the driver puts on the tank, the driver can arrive at any time of day or night, we appreciate each other…respect is everything in business….

every new driver that gets trained the owner of transport show them how to put on the wash on each tank, we never asked, were in food production hygiene is everything and a tank should always be closed, who knows what could crawl into it…

are you on the advisory committee? can you ask for it to be made mandatory….as its the standard every where outside loais

the biggest problem i see in tirlan is the inability to be able to sit down with anyone internally to resolve an issue, no matter how simple or complex they go on the defensive…..you'l have to go through council and board to get any satisfaction and you'l need as many people ringing them about it or they simply wouldnt bother….you have 3 issues milk manager, transport company and the individual driver…..

If he is not able to turn off cooler and turn on washer , the milk manager will have to arange a suitable time for him to collect , so that you will be there to supervise

I'd say you should get him to call out and test the machine. Even if 1 or 2 clusters are open the rest should be able to stay on the cows. I can't figure out your solution. Unless you are milking heifers with short shiny teats but even after a week that should sort itself

Theirs a really sinister element involved with this lad, all the above was done last year, after he forgot to collect us on a sunday collecton and had to ring milk manager on a monday morning wondering what the story was, no one in the factory had informed him re not been collected it was the first he heard of it, in the wind up a different lorry came that evening took 8k of milk from tank and the ole chap thinking he had emptied the tank, but hadnt bothered putting the wash on, as was usual at the time, put on the wash, with a 1000 litres of milk still in the tank….

The latest stroke he tried pulling involved leaving the pump running dry for a good 10 minutes after tank was emptied and was trying to say the yard been on a hill, the pump wasnt fit to lift the milk, learnt this from the driver who had been collecting the milk for the 4 months previous who had been sent up to do a collection to see was their actually a issue, when i mentioned the above re him spending half a hour in the yard when it should of been 10 mins, max to empty the tank

I already have HolxNR. About 30% of them are excellent but the rest aren’t.
I’d be wary of the 3 way cross for the reasons that Ginger22 points out. If they went back into Hol or Monty, I’d be more confident.
There’s a guy getting out of dairy and joining his farm to his neighboring cereal farm. His production level is 6600L on grass based, so not bad at all..but this is his first foray into a 3 way cross.
Interesting point…a Hol x Jer is called ‘an Irish’ and a 3 way cross is called ‘a Kiwi’.

Get a nest camera. Set it up on WiFi. Sends a notification every time a person walks past and automatically records previous 3 hours of notified movements. Easy to download the video too. Can get ones with built in floodlights too.

Make sure you have notices up that CCTV is in operation and has some sentence for monitoring people for safety and quality purpose . If this does turn into an issue and co-op go to sack him there case will fall apart as he not know the camera's were there or being used to monitor him

My father used to say that water was as important as feed to a cow. And would go around and empty any old water in the troughs in spring. I do the same. I emptied one this evening and found the bones of a rat or bird or something the water was rancid. Its a good habit to check the water troughs after the winter