Dairy Farming General

wouldn't agree delaval, it's all relevant. all in it's own box like a good filing system.

frazzledhome wrote: »

Had a group from Brittany visit this am. Lovely people really enjoyed them.

I was surprised but perversely delighted that they had no idea of how much a litre of milk in their tank cost. They knew the cost of what they imported on farm but no idea how much a kg of maize produced on farm is

Our processor took a bunch of us on a trip to Belgium and Luxembourg a few yrs, and similar there, farming was the family vocation and they were in it for the long haul, regardless of how much or little they made

things are starting to wind down here abit first of the herd on oad from today

reseeding saturday 9 acres and paddock on front of house. have to fence new land rented down the road for replacements today, looking forward to letting them out after tb test. 13 left to calve by 1st May, hopefully things calm down from there!

God it's weather like this I long for the slatted shed and blocking in silage. Rain rain and more f**kin rain. The farm I'm on is heavy enough for the area and if it continues we will be making more mud than milk. Forcasted about 60mm of rain for tonight which should be fun. Cows are milking fairly well still, 14 litres fat 6.38% protein 4.54% and scc sitting at 130,000. Putting one herd on once a day tomorrow so will be interesting to see what difference that makes. Starting to get busy again getting ready for winter, fencing winter crop etc and have 80 heifers arriving on the first of May to.

C0N0R wrote: »

God it's weather like this I long for the slatted shed and blocking in silage. Rain rain and more f**kin rain. The farm I'm on is heavy enough for the area and if it continues we will be making more mud than milk. Forcasted about 60mm of rain for tonight which should be fun. Cows are milking fairly well still, 14 litres fat 6.38% protein 4.54% and scc sitting at 130,000. Putting one herd on once a day tomorrow so will be interesting to see what difference that makes. Starting to get busy again getting ready for winter, fencing winter crop etc and have 80 heifers arriving on the first of May to.

Rain all next week too, don't think the land out here can take the rain aswell as at home. One thing for sure the cows don't handle it well at all might have to look into putting everything on once a day next week due to the wether. They wont be long losing condition in this weathe.:mad:

trixi2011 wrote: »

Rain all next week too, don't think the land out here can take the rain aswell as at home. One thing for sure the cows don't handle it well at all might have to look into putting everything on once a day next week due to the wether. They wont be long losing condition in this weathe.:mad:

You would have better draining land than me I would say to. Yea long range forecast would drive you to the pub! How do you find 24 hour breaks work in wet weather?

trixi2011 wrote: »

24 hr breaks working ok at the moment. Yip would be better draining down here ok but the pie shaped paddocks are a disaster the fronts of the paddocks look like they have been ploughed at this stage. My track is ****ed taking an hour and Half to get the cows in and cow flow is ****. Sure we could dry off and hit for the pub for the rest I the season

Two gateways in each paddock is a bit of a saving grace here, pie shaped paddocks are an awful prick that way. Cow flow is smashing at the moment, grain is bound to be helping that though. I've rugby tonight and looking at the rain forecasted mite be giving that a miss!

Wrecked today, could do with a holiday ran down as hell!

Last cow calved, calf there to meet me this morning. Rang relief guy. Monday evening I'm out of here for 2 days. Catch up on a bit of r & r ( ahem) with the wife. Back then to start the AIing on Thursday. Happy days!