freedominacup wrote: » At the bones of 1500/acre it's probably a bit rich for dawgs blood.
kowtow wrote: » If that farm was in Ireland it would be on the market for €5 billion. The worst of the cattle would be available by separate negotiation, and the oil would already have been sold to someone else.
whelan2 wrote: » Reseed that I sowed with barrow in September 2013. Was pretty crap last year. Injected slurry into it this spring. Worked out well
Greengrass1 wrote: » Anyone else get there coop performance report? Ours is not accurate at all. Dunno what it's any good for tbh
frazzledhome wrote: » Got ours completely in accurate. No relation to icbf, don't know where info comes from. 6 wk calving wrong CI wrong %heifers born in 6 weeks wrong % heifers calved <2 yrs wrong Irrevelant report and have thought so from the get go
Milked out wrote: » I see that fonterra's new mozzarella plant will be going all year round with farmers supplying winter milk for it, is this a start, or continuation, of production costs rising for the farmers over there? I know it prob makes up a small amount of volume for them but has tgere always been a winter milk element over there?
Cow Porter wrote: » on herdplus are ye recording cows that wont be bulled at To Be Culled? are ye changing the purpose of dry cull cows from milking to beef from the day they leave the parlour? are ye recording dry off dates? only thing i noticed was our milk solid drop in march - a result of holding a good bit of milk into april. must take a proper look now
trixi2011 wrote: » Always been winter milk over there specific to areas close to the factory and large population bases AFAIK, think they still would be grass based systems 2
C0N0R wrote: » Aye would be referred to as town supply, some of the ones I came across seemed to be heading more towards a Holstein type cow. Farm I was working on calved down 90 autumn cows and milked a few carryover a through winter, synlait were offering a bonus for it but they didn't consider it after the one year, left them quite tight for grass in the first round even with having a higher cover going into winter. Luckily I left that farm when spring calvers were dried off but I heard it was an awful pain in the hole even though they were only milking 120.
Milked out wrote: » I assume maize can be grown over there relatively cheaply if they can grow lucerne as well? Would a winter diet or buffer be feasible for them
Timmaay wrote: » Fresh calved 2nd lac cow here with what I think was milk fever yesterday. She sat down in the holding yard, I thought she had just slipped so got her up, but she never ate her nuts, and was sitting down outside in the yard afew minutes later. I threw a bottle of calcium under the skin, and she has been ok since. She wouldn't be a huge yielding cow, and young and healthy otherwise. Am I likely to have an underlying problem? Cows are getting 2.5kg of a grass spec nut with plenty minerals and calcium etc, should I be uptting this. Could bump this up (but don't want to), or possibly add it into the water if I shell out for an new pump to drip feed it in. Or could it be anything else?
dar31 wrote: » Very important to give a second bottle 24 hrs later or cal Boluses the drop off after the first bottle can lead to sub clinical milk fever and sometimes a full relapse
Timmaay wrote: » 100mls bottles take the hassle out of this at least, give it to her in the parlour.
whelan2 wrote: » how much do you give, we use the 400ml bottles , is it 4 x 100ml bottles or is the 100ml bottle as strong as 1 x 400ml bottle?
Timmaay wrote: » 1 strong as 4
whelan2 wrote: » can it be given in the vein?
Greengrass1 wrote: » Put new tail paint on cows about 5 days ago. Bloody stuff has gone like a rock on them. Had a cow bulling yesterday and not a bit of it came off
Cow Porter wrote: » What brand?
