Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Not too many doing that though. Pity you're getting out of dairying, you're quite good at it.

I'd have my doubts you'll get that part, how would you attach it back on?

I'll try that. Thanks

When did stan decide to quit what happened he is some operator.

Oh God sorry I thought he was being serious, are the robots coming so...

Your current thoughts and methodology are correct unfortunately. They be jigging about, scuttering, they could lose their "let down" before you get a chance to milk them, they could even get upset and try climbing over each other to get out.

Its a pity there isn't more activity on here to help you pass the time!

Are you feeding the heifers nuts before calving? It would help their appetite post calving

Maybe a fencing post in behind them instead of the chain, they wont move as much then. Best of luck with it all

When we put in our last parlour we were delayed aswell ended up milking nearly 40 in mobile units. Only thing that helped a bit was having 4 of them. It makes a big difference time wise. Absolute torture but we forget these things quickly.

We had a sump pump in pit aswell so I wasn't carrying out buckets of milk from the pit.

Could someone please explain low lactose in freshly calves cows please?

Feeding 72dmd ad lib silage and 6.5kg 18% protein nut.

Butterfat to protein ration is well below 1:1.4 so shouldn't be ketosis.

75% heifers in the tank. I have been a naughty boy and not giving them the three days out of the tank. As soon as milk is white it goes in.

Im not sure what the cause is. The first three cows calves early and only had 6 weeks dry. That shouldn't affect heifers though.

Other possibility is that I was collecting that milk for 5 days to keep the driver happy. That meant 10 washes in a small volume so had a water warning of 7% too. Could that be it?

There was great prices for the last of the balintosig herd today. 8k for in calf heifers.

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Three herds local to me less than 100 cow herds going this spring. They had it planned since last year though. Two I think didn't bother putting the cows incalf last year. Just sell off fat in the factory. Looks like all three will be leasing out their farms. Carnew Mart is usually getting the clearances around here. I see more big lots of farms being put up for 10 year leases this year. Lads are afraid like the cattle prices and want to cash in this year.

what do lads look for when buying ration for the spring? Just looking to improve things a bit here, feel there should be another liter or two in them at peak. Wondering if I should be paying more attention to ingredients in ration rather than just focusing on price