Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Are people genomically testing their beef breed calves out of the dairy cows?

Or am I the only eejit doing so?

I have the genomic tags now for all calves but if I only send in samples for the dairy bred calves, will the blue cards come back quicker for the other calves when registering? The lab is seemingly taking a direct debit for samples received too. So what's the point if the dept will issue blue cards without the sample going in? The question is will they though now?

I sent in samples Monday last week for testing. Still no blue cards.

If you're in the genomic scheme and you don't send in a genomic sample, the calf won't be registered.

Last year when the genomic testing was delayed, they issued the blue after a certain amount of days of receiving the samples wether the result was ready or not. Don't know if they're doing that this year.

she needed shackles on her the day it happened.
I personally only give down cows a day here. They’re very unlikely to get up after that because the muscles get cramped and she hasn’t the energy to keep trying plus they take up alot of your time and it’s usually in the middle of calving when you’re busy enough already.

put her out on grass and put shackles on. It doesn't end well with the splits, but you never know and at least give her a chance. we had one that hurt her back and just about got her out of the shed into a paddock she was out there for 2 weeks and calved and we looked out one morning and she was up.

I'm not thanking that. Commiserations.

A turning worm? 13 degrees Celsius. Cows shut out.

That’s some land you have.

We were doing a bit of maintenance work this week with a digger. The man that had the digger is same contractor that spreads our slurry.

The tractor that is on the slurry cord is on tracks, it would travel any sort of wet land, no matter what.

He told us after driving across one of the fields in the digger this week that under no circumstances could he try travel the land here now even with the tractor on tracks. He said he’d be swallowed.

The cows will probably end up going out in April.

And before any of you ask — the farm has been drained, redrained and drained some more 😂😂

Boggles my mind how good some people’s land is in comparison that ye can have cows out now 😂😂

That bit is the very best I have. It got fertiliser recently. In a few days time when that is grazed the rest won't be as pretty.

There's a slope on that ground and south facing I think makes it and there's no water coming in from neighbouring land.

Locally though land would be the same as that on other farms. There's a farm a half mile away and it'd be only a few weeks the farmer would have cows in for in the winter not grazing. There's just the right slope and kind of hill on his farm. We don't really burn up in summer or get it too savage that we can't get grazing. But you'd still need your roadways and paddocks obviously. There's a small number of cows there anyway so they'd do feck all damage. Not like 300 cows going through a gapway.