Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

AAlso If you were picking out cows, drafting system not in yet, and opened and closed gate off same panel too many times it goes into error mode

You'd Pick up second hand air cashman feeders which are bulletproof on donedeal

Have Dairymaster feeders here, never any bother

Made the control box myself very simple with a timer to adjust the feed rate and a toggle switch for each feeder so you can swith them on or off individually and another swith for each side of the parlour.

Had air orby feeders for years in the parlour. Never had much issue. Only thing I found was the drop down pipe from the auger wasn't wide enough. If I filled the hopper at the end of milking the nuts would gate in the small pipe would block and I'd have to go up and give them a kick. Think they were 40mm.

There's plenty of comment on oneills on the YouTube thread, one thing I dont like is how the feeder are set up. Whatever about the feeders themselves but the cows were able to knock the pipes off the trough aswell. I personally like the idea of giving a thin cow or heifer more meal even if your not set up as feed to yield.

Cashman feeders top class equipment and backup.

You have miles more flexibility in terms of changing feed rates from one milking to the next (could be a change in weather or a paddock short of grass) and also ease of feeding different amounts to different cows or groups of cows (say heifers v's older cows). The difference in price with the IDS ones drops significantly once you bring grant into play...and if there's a woman on board in your operation...you'd be on 60% grant

An enthusiastic young lad was buying calves off a super farmer for a couple of years. Decided to genotype his herd. The super farmer will telling porkies about his breeding practices!

I genotyped everything this year. I'm not sure there a major benefit for me as I don't sell stock and normally use a fr stock bull. Hard to see how the beef value will make that much difference to calf price in the long term. Sure im committed now ill keep at it.

Hard to believe all the carrying is not a health and safety issue.

YYou Couldn't make that **** up.

So one arm of the government are promoting new builds, while the Dept of the Environment are trying to discourage them.

Milk recorder was saying she was in a farm the other day 36 cows, 8 unit parlour, 1.5 hours milking .

That doesn't make sense. No wonder some people consider TAMs and government policy to be anti dairy farmer.

I would consider upgrading to feed to yield some time. Might never happen.

simple answer is yes …especially as it’s free …at least to get herd done now ….you have correct sire for every animal and when doing calves it’s corrects any errors on dams/sires/sex before blue card issued ….i had no issues with samples been empty or damaged

Don’t even have to do that I’ve 2 Herefords running with cows …just picked whichever one at random when registering calves ….once genotype off any error is corrected automatically before card issued