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awaywithyou · 15-09-2015 09:47PM

Gdt up 16.5%...

http://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/dairy-news/dairy-general-news/gdt-index-continues-to-climb

Sorry see now over milk price thread that this has been mentioned already

Brown Podzol · 15-09-2015 10:01PM

Incalf heifer sick with mastitis in two quarters today. Housed and treated. Probably the end of her dairy career before it began. A 227 ebi HZO x OJI x UYC in calf to HMY.

whelan2 · 16-09-2015 06:04AM

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Incalf heifer sick with mastitis in two quarters today. Housed and treated. Probably the end of her dairy career before it began. A 227 ebi HZO x OJI x UYC in calf to HMY.

Had one last summer she's milking away on 3 spins

mahoney_j · 16-09-2015 09:43AM

Cows gone fair lazy last few days ,slow to get out of paddock ,slow to walk to parlour slow to come into parlour and some too fookin lazy to lift their tails to take a dump resulting in in ****ty asses and udders .on the plus side p hit 3.95 and still doing 22.3 ltrs and nearly 1.9 kg solids !!!

WheatenBriar · 16-09-2015 09:54AM

Letter from glanbia on milk culturing to help identify the cause of a high SCC in a cow

€20 a sample not inc vat at 13.5% so nearly €23 a sample :eek:

What is the cost break down in that charge?

kevthegaff · 16-09-2015 10:06AM

WheatenBriar wrote: »

Letter from glanbia on milk culturing to help identify the cause of a high SCC in a cow

€20 a sample not inc vat at 13.5% so nearly €23 a sample :eek:

What is the cost break down in that charge?

Government 13.5%
Laboratory 10%
Glanbia 76.5%:-D!

Greengrass1 · 16-09-2015 11:12AM

WheatenBriar wrote: »

Letter from glanbia on milk culturing to help identify the cause of a high SCC in a cow

€20 a sample not inc vat at 13.5% so nearly €23 a sample :eek:

What is the cost break down in that charge?

We're doing it. Haven't done one in 6 yrs.

Don't want to see the days of high scc again
It's a 100e fir 8 samples is it not? Thats what we're being charged

Buford T. Justice XIX · 16-09-2015 11:12AM

mahoney_j wrote: »

Cows gone fair lazy last few days ,slow to get out of paddock ,slow to walk to parlour slow to come into parlour and some too fookin lazy to lift their tails to take a dump resulting in in ****ty asses and udders .on the plus side p hit 3.95 and still doing 22.3 ltrs and nearly 1.9 kg solids !!!

I thought it was just my girls chillin' on the way to the parlour.:)

RightTurnClyde · 16-09-2015 11:31AM

mahoney_j wrote: »

Cows gone fair lazy last few days ,slow to get out of paddock ,slow to walk to parlour slow to come into parlour and some too fookin lazy to lift their tails to take a dump resulting in in ****ty asses and udders .on the plus side p hit 3.95 and still doing 22.3 ltrs and nearly 1.9 kg solids !!!

Ya , they're gone lazy as sh1te here aswell. In fairness mahoney yours are milking great though. The bad weather over the weekend wiped 2lts off the cows here, down to 19.5. Probably a combination of weather, long walk and 12 hr blocks. FTY is averaging 3 kgs. But I'm going to give them an extra 0.5kgs across the board. I feel the lower yielders are suffering a little. Most of those low yielders are 1st calvers (40%). Don't want them to start winding down too early in the season. Very happy with BCS, but I want to keep them tipping along.

whelan2 · 16-09-2015 11:33AM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I thought it was just my girls chillin' on the way to the parlour.:)

have 1 real lazy one here that sits down in the collecting yard

WheatenBriar · 16-09-2015 11:51AM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

We're doing it. Haven't done one in 6 yrs.

Don't want to see the days of high scc again
It's a 100e fir 8 samples is it not? Thats what we're being charged

113.50 with the vat
I'm just puzzled at the celtic tiger pricing

orm0nd · 16-09-2015 12:31PM

mahoney_j wrote: »

Cows gone fair lazy last few days ,slow to get out of paddock ,slow to walk to parlour slow to come into parlour and some too fookin lazy to lift their tails to take a dump resulting in in ****ty asses and udders .on the plus side p hit 3.95 and still doing 22.3 ltrs and nearly 1.9 kg solids !!!

my collie is a pure gift these dark mornings , she is steady as a rock now but the cows still remember her from her training days when she often pinched a heel or two

on yard duty while milking she patrols the exit & collecting yard & any lady not standing to attention gets reprimanded

Buford T. Justice XIX · 16-09-2015 01:05PM

whelan2 wrote: »

have 1 real lazy one here that sits down in the collecting yard

Do you have to clean the yard after every milking for her?

I have on old girl that sits like a dog when she hears the tractor coming and wanders up to the yard really slowly, first out of the paddock, last in at the gate to the collecting gate.

whelan2 · 16-09-2015 01:30PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Do you have to clean the yard after every milking for her?

I have on old girl that sits like a dog when she hears the tractor coming and wanders up to the yard really slowly, first out of the paddock, last in at the gate to the collecting gate.

no she finds a clean corner, she is so slow, when you get her up in the field she stretches, does a crap, then piddles then another dung ,only then will she think of moving she's only a heifer

mahoney_j · 16-09-2015 02:35PM

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Ya , they're gone lazy as sh1te here aswell. In fairness mahoney yours are milking great though. The bad weather over the weekend wiped 2lts off the cows here, down to 19.5. Probably a combination of weather, long walk and 12 hr blocks. FTY is averaging 3 kgs. But I'm going to give them an extra 0.5kgs across the board. I feel the lower yielders are suffering a little. Most of those low yielders are 1st calvers (40%). Don't want them to start winding down too early in the season. Very happy with BCS, but I want to keep them tipping along.

Ya happy with how things are going but there starting to wind down now .base feed was set at 2 kg but I've risen it to 2.5 and now 3 kg from this am .also dropped Mac feed from 6 to 5.5 kg so will see what average feed rate is in a few days as max drop or increase is 0.5 kg .there won't be much variation though .cows were in second grazing of new reseed for last 2 days so that kept things up .decision to go on 18% nut a few weeks ago kept cows and heifers up and has paid off .somewhere between 6 and 6.50 euro in milk been produced daily per cow and parlour feed cost of 94 cent leaving margin of 5/5.50 after feed

mf240 · 16-09-2015 03:11PM

whelan2 wrote: »

no she finds a clean corner, she is so slow, when you get her up in the field she stretches, does a crap, then piddles then another dung ,only then will she think of moving she's only a heifer

Sounds like suday moring after a feed of ale:D

trixi2011 · 16-09-2015 09:59PM

Anyone know what sort of money x breed or nz freisin Feb born heifers are making/ worth

Timmaay · 16-09-2015 10:38PM

trixi2011 wrote: »

Anyone know what sort of money x breed or nz freisin Feb born heifers are making/ worth

1250/1350

trixi2011 · 16-09-2015 10:40PM

Timmaay wrote: »

1250/1350

Weanlings/maidins would be what I'm after

Greengrass1 · 17-09-2015 09:25AM

Only finished milking now.
Spent a bloody hr and a half gathering up cows and calves this morning
12 acres of 1800 cover tramped into the ground too

WheatenBriar · 17-09-2015 10:27AM

Anyone here using the Kingswood mobile apps?
How do you find it?
How does it synch up with the pc version
I see it now live registers calves on the spot which is handy
Does it cost extra?
I've been using the pc programme for years

Deepsouthwest · 17-09-2015 12:31PM

mahoney_j wrote: »

Cows gone fair lazy last few days ,slow to get out of paddock ,slow to walk to parlour slow to come into parlour and some too fookin lazy to lift their tails to take a dump resulting in in ****ty asses and udders .on the plus side p hit 3.95 and still doing 22.3 ltrs and nearly 1.9 kg solids !!!

Cows gone v lazy here as well, get them all out on the farm road and they just stop dead. In another month they won't even want to leave the yard. Often wonder how u guys with 36/48 hr breaks handle cows at the moment, it must be torture trying to get them after the first grazing.
I will be using a fence from nxt wk on, in field where they get three grazings, the smallest bit will be kept for the last grazing. Anyone else doing this?

Buford T. Justice XIX · 17-09-2015 03:04PM

WheatenBriar wrote: »

Anyone here using the Kingswood mobile apps?
How do you find it?
How does it synch up with the pc version
I see it now live registers calves on the spot which is handy
Does it cost extra?
I've been using the pc programme for years

Using it here. I find it fine registering calves and inputting animal remedies but I can't look up the end of withdrawl periods on the phone which is a right pain.

It might be that I am missing some way of doing it though?

Freejin · 17-09-2015 05:07PM

Could any of ye tell me what size compressor a fella would need for operating a 12pt Cashman type feeder setup ie. 6 hoppers each side?

leg wax · 17-09-2015 08:05PM

Freejin wrote: »

Could any of ye tell me what size compressor a fella would need for operating a 12pt Cashman type feeder setup ie. 6 hoppers each side?

i have a 100ltr here working 4 on each side and it would easy do your six#'

visatorro · 17-09-2015 08:06PM

Freejin wrote: »

Could any of ye tell me what size compressor a fella would need for operating a 12pt Cashman type feeder setup ie. 6 hoppers each side?

150 litres should be plenty. depends on how many rows your milking. if your milking 10 rows then the compressor will prob kick in 3-4 times during milking.

Milked out · 18-09-2015 10:10AM

Turning in the cows thus morn and they were their usual lazy selves till 2 of em decide to go thru the wire and where did they end up but on top of the feckin silage pit and me in the field moving the fence. They have no bother doing that and yet I still have to push and shove every one of em in and out of the field!

Deepsouthwest · 18-09-2015 11:13AM

Milked out wrote: »

Turning in the cows thus morn and they were their usual lazy selves till 2 of em decide to go thru the wire and where did they end up but on top of the feckin silage pit and me in the field moving the fence. They have no bother doing that and yet I still have to push and shove every one of em in and out of the field!

Nightmare, did they destroy it?

Milked out · 18-09-2015 12:15PM

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Nightmare, did they destroy it?

Haunted, only put a few holes in it, had put mats up the length of the pit when we were covering it and we walked on them when putting up the tyres, one cow walked up to the top on those mats and back down again, was ****ting it when saw her at the top in case she'd go down the steep side

Deepsouthwest · 18-09-2015 12:34PM

Milked out wrote: »

Haunted, only put a few holes in it, had put mats up the length of the pit when we were covering it and we walked on them when putting up the tyres, one cow walked up to the top on those mats and back down again, was ****ting it when saw her at the top in case she'd go down the steep side

U dodged a bullet there I'd say. Remember it happening here around 20 yrs ago, absolutely destroyed the top foot or two of the pit. Hope I never have to see that again.

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