Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Those comments coukd be picked up by someone as the truth and spin horror stories. I'd suggest keeping your I'll informed nonsense to yourself.

Its laughable in fairness given how little is sold internationally, whats the point, most "top" bulls now either go back to seville/pivotal so the inbreeding issue is another red flag, the most intresting point re the above bulls progeny is their terrible tb resistant scores, used a pivotal bred stock bull to clean up cows here, genomically tested them and the ai bred stock, pivotal bred where coming back at 10% plus with the ai bred american genetics at 7% and lower with some really low, under 3%...

Their going to have a serious issue with outcross sires shortly given they wont as a rule use forigen bulls to solve the above

got letters wanting to genomicslly test poteintal bull calves …and another one wanting to contract mate some cows /heifers .binned both ,been using international bulls based around gtpi last few years ,in no panic to go use any high ebi bulls as far too much a gamble and don’t fit in with my breeding goals

Its the same everywhere lad ive no bother getting help on the farm vet neither but anything else its hard elecrican builders are getting so much money in other sectors there probably doing us all a compliment showing up at any stage.

As long as all going well, would be better with 5 problems than 8 problems on the one day

I have a relief milker that milks four times a week, that's every week of the year that we are milking and a college student that works 8-6 on Saturday with me.

I am in the yard every day for 8-9 weeks, 1st 6 weeks are very busy, but that's the trade off I am willing to make. Outside of those weeks no problem getting away from the farm. I find it a very simple way to farm

I think you can reduce a lot of the risks by having facilities in place. A lot of problems are caused by insufficient facilities. When we expanded after quotas, we had a couple of years tight on calf space. Built a basic calf shed so we can hold all calves if we have to and it's night and day in terms of managing calves.

We had a great Christmas here with kids, a couple of hours in the yard does everything. Cows were once a day since 1st December so we have had a very handy 6 weeks, in my view you sacrifice a lot in the second have of the year when you go spilt calving to save not a lot in terms of labour in the spring

Youve the whole plan wrong lad rent a heap if ground double production hire a nepalese buy a mobile home or caravan for them buy auto calf feeder auto draft heat detection auto, upgrade parlour to all auto acrs specially sit back relax.

Correct me anyone if im wrong but did the positive farmers conference start after the old farm apprenticeship board master farmers had there annual get together to boast who was milking the most cows.That was another big farmer scheme where those tough enough to survice 3yrs of poorly paid hardship never had any real hope of becoming what they trained for but i knew a few who completed it and they were tough men back in the day big shots tried to start it again accepting foreigners but as it would need funding to pay the experts to train them it never got going but they tried any way.