Dairy Chitchat 3

Say my name

Timmaay wrote: »

Do I shove him outa the way with the bale spikes?

I've never actually 'minded' the four rams on a loader before for rising a loader.

Maybe I've been blind but I've never seen four over the usual two.

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

Capacitor went on compressor on milk tank this evening. Service man was here within 20 minutes

He knows where the yard is now though unfortunately!

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

He knows where the yard is now though unfortunately!

Aye, it's laughable at this stage

Waffletraktor

Say my name wrote: »

I've never actually 'minded' the four rams on a loader before for rising a loader.

Maybe I've been blind but I've never seen four over the usual two.

Their frenc i think, certainly theymade/make one's with 4 lift rams.
http://www.m-x.eu/en/products/front-loaders/t400/models.aspx

Dakota Dan

whelan2 wrote: »

Capacitor went on compressor on milk tank this evening. Service man was here within 20 minutes

Why does the bulk tank always act up on a Sunday evening? I had the temperature regulator go one time it was shorting the tank and causing the switch to trip. The service changed the wire going to the tank and had to go away for more wire and after all that it was the temperature regulator.

whelan2

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Why does the bulk tank always act up on a Sunday evening? I had the temperature regulator go one time it was shorting the tank and causing the switch to trip. The service changed the wire going to the tank and had to go away for more wire and after all that it was the temperature regulator.

Has been taking ages to cool this last few days. Was putting it down to warm weather, extra milk and every day collection. Glad it happened today as I'm away at the weekend

Brown Podzol

Say my name wrote: »

I've never actually 'minded' the four rams on a loader before for rising a loader.

Maybe I've been blind but I've never seen four over the usual two.

Looks like hydraulic self leveling?

Timmaay

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Looks like hydraulic self leveling?

Yep. Actually works well, less linkages to wear out and it's more compact than a convention self leveling system (especially with low roofs!).

visatorro

What brand of loader is That Tim?

Timmaay

visatorro wrote: »

What brand of loader is That Tim?

Sigma maybe? Some sort of loader that was bought in batch for landini. Nothing special about it I'll admit, quickie would definitely be better but you'd obviously pay a decent few quid more.

Gawddawggonnit

whelan2 wrote: »

Has been taking ages to cool this last few days. Was putting it down to warm weather, extra milk and every day collection. Glad it happened today as I'm away at the weekend

By the time the auto wash is finished in the milking parlor the tank should be finished cooling, even at 40+ degrees.

Gawddawggonnit

Just out the gate with the mowers and thunder with rain for about five minutes. Looks like rain has canceled play. Forecast reckoning it’ll be like this for the week.

Peas, vetch, barley and crimson that’s about the height of my pocket DD into multicut sorghum mid October. Should have used Balansa instead because the crimson doesn’t like the competition from the peas and vetch.
These crops really do need to be well wilted because they’re full of juice.

Reggie.

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Just out the gate with the mowers and thunder with rain for about five minutes. Looks like rain has canceled play. Forecast reckoning it’ll be like this for the week.

Peas, vetch, barley and crimson that’s about the height of my pocket DD into multicut sorghum mid October. Should have used Balansa instead because the crimson doesn’t like the competition from the peas and vetch.
These crops really do need to be well wilted because they’re full of juice.

So your plan worked

Gawddawggonnit

Reggie. wrote: »

So your plan worked

Swimmingly!!

Pain for the lads who came in this morning, to go home again. Got a half days pay all the same.

Country closed down today. Took me two hours driving around to try and buy a sleeve of cigs.

Brown Podzol

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Swimmingly!!

Pain for the lads who came in this morning, to go home again. Got a half days pay all the same.

Country closed down today. Took me two hours driving around to try and buy a sleeve of cigs.

Backy fever.:rolleyes:

Reggie.

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Swimmingly!!

Pain for the lads who came in this morning, to go home again. Got a half days pay all the same.

Country closed down today. Took me two hours driving around to try and buy a sleeve of cigs.

Give up the fags

Bass Reeves

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Reggie. wrote: »

So your plan worked

Swimmingly!!

Pain for the lads who came in this morning, to go home again. Got a half days pay all the same.

Country closed down today. Took me two hours driving around to try and buy a sleeve of cigs.

With all the diesel or petrol used it would have been cheaper to take the hit on buying 20 in a local shop rather than searching for a smuggled sleeve off a sleeveen of a red haired boy or his French equivilent

Say my name

Bfat 3.89%
Pr 3.44 %
2.2 solids /cow.
4kgs 15% pr meal.

Grass is growing again so ground on the home block will be closed up for silage now.
Have roughly 150 bales of silage left over
from the winter. Compared to last year when I had to beg for silage.
Leased ground away from the farm is being baled for silage today. Slurry out tomorrow.

Easiest spring calving ever with no jack used and no cleanings held and no real calf mortality bar one or two with stupid problems.
Fr stockbull out this last week with the cows and seems to be doing his job well.
Angus bull will be out with the heifers this week.

whelan2

Say my name wrote: »

Bfat 3.89%
Pr 3.44 %
2.2 solids /cow.
4kgs 15% pr meal.

Grass is growing again so ground on the home block will be closed up for silage now.
Have roughly 150 bales of silage left over
from the winter. Compared to last year when I had to beg for silage.
Leased ground away from the farm is being baled for silage today. Slurry out tomorrow.

Easiest spring calving ever with no jack used and no cleanings held and no real calf mortality bar one or two with stupid problems.
Fr stockbull out this last week with the cows and seems to be doing his job well.
Angus bull will be out with the heifers this week.

No ai?

Say my name

whelan2 wrote: »

No ai?

Not for a good few years.

The bull is able for the numbers I'd have.

kerry cow

have ye started bulling yet or waiting another few days ??
bulled today would be calving when ?

tanko

kerry cow wrote: »

have ye started bulling yet or waiting another few days ??
bulled today would be calving when ?

Time up Jan 22nd.

orm0nd

kerry cow wrote: »

have ye started bulling yet or waiting another few days ??
bulled today would be calving when ?

Over 30 % ai'd in last 7 days and a few to the he stock bull. We were keeping track of the heats and decided to go. Will adjust lambing dates later to avoid 2 peaks clashing.

orm0nd

tanko wrote: »

Time up Jan 22nd.

285 from to day is Feb 1st

Mooooo

orm0nd wrote: »

285 from to day is Feb 1st

283 is what some calculators use now with dairy stock

whelan2

orm0nd wrote: »

285 from to day is Feb 1st

A lot of the new genomic bulls would be calved earlier. Starting ai tomorrow here.

orm0nd

whelan2 wrote: »

A lot of the new genomic bulls would be calved earlier. Starting ai tomorrow here.

Will be using some later this week. Want to keep certain bloodlines in the herd. Most are 285 to 290.

mahoney_j

kerry cow wrote: »

have ye started bulling yet or waiting another few days ??
bulled today would be calving when ?

This day next week and heifers Saturday week to fixed time ai

Mooooo

What bulls ye using?

Timmaay

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Just out the gate with the mowers and thunder with rain for about five minutes. Looks like rain has canceled play. Forecast reckoning it’ll be like this for the week.

Peas, vetch, barley and crimson that’s about the height of my pocket DD into multicut sorghum mid October. Should have used Balansa instead because the crimson doesn’t like the competition from the peas and vetch.
These crops really do need to be well wilted because they’re full of juice.

Beautiful wet week of weather ahead of us here also, and not a moment too soon for this farm haha, the pigtail pegs are getting harder and harder to drive into the ground which means a drop in grass growth will rapidly follow due to a lack of moisture!

Keepgrowing

Timmaay wrote: »

Beautiful wet week of weather ahead of us here also, and not a moment too soon for this farm haha, the pigtail pegs are getting harder and harder to drive into the ground which means a drop in grass growth will rapidly follow due to a lack of moisture!

I didn’t believe you, checked Yr and a lovely wet week promised. We’ve a lot of reseeding to get done but will gladly wait. Today was one drying hash day here

Keepgrowing

kerry cow wrote: »

have ye started bulling yet or waiting another few days ??
bulled today would be calving when ?

Heifers on Saturday all fixed time ai.

Cows will start day after May holiday which is 7th. 12th Feb due date for cows calving

alps

Keepgrowing wrote: »

I didn’t believe you, checked Yr and a lovely wet week promised. We’ve a lot of reseeding to get done but will gladly wait. Today was one drying hash day here

Just finished levelling, heap of stones in it....gonna be favourite dad when I tell the crew at no.e what they'll be at tomorrow...has to be finished and out the gap by tomorrow evening..

GrasstoMilk

Timmaay wrote: »

Beautiful wet week of weather ahead of us here also, and not a moment too soon for this farm haha, the pigtail pegs are getting harder and harder to drive into the ground which means a drop in grass growth will rapidly follow due to a lack of moisture!

Digger arrived in the yard here today to start work on reclaiming some ground and piping a few springs . Typical.
He has to finish off a yard/road beside our new tank before he goes to the land, one phone call at 3pm to the local stone crew, 10 lorry loads of broken stone tipped in the yard by 7pm this evening. Great service at such short notice (he let me know that too)
Hopefully we'll get that yard tidied up before rain arrives on Wednesday!

whelan2

Mooooo wrote: »

What bulls ye using?

fr4545
fr2035
fr4600 sexed
fr4379
fr4688
lek

visatorro

I asked before and got no response, wondering if anyone has synchronised cows before or know about success rates. Running bulls here this years. It's the only way I can ai the cows really. If I ring ai company the rep is hardly going to say its a waste of time and money!

mahoney_j

Mooooo wrote: »

What bulls ye using?

Fr 4728
Fr 4911
Fr 4513
Fr 2239
Fr 4738
Fr 4600
Fr 4751

Mooooo

visatorro wrote: »

I asked before and got no response, wondering if anyone has synchronised cows before or know about success rates. Running bulls here this years. It's the only way I can ai the cows really. If I ring ai company the rep is hardly going to say its a waste of time and money!

Could you set up to ai after milking morning and evening? Or go once a day after morning milking but if one is still in heat she may need a second serve the next morning. Don't have experience or figures of it but everything would want to be right sync cow's, higher % wouldn't hold and then you would prob have to ai in 18 to 21 days as repeats would be coming in at the same time which may be too much for the bulls

Mooooo

Anyone ever flush a cow? Had a mastitis break down here and an old cow may not be cured properly. Has been bulling like clockwork and has calved every year for the last 9 on the button. Have a couple of fleckveih heifers that may do

orm0nd

anybody on here using Panatec ?



https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/novel-feed-additive-reverses-acidosis-and-lifts-fertility-and-health-on-co-limerick-farm/

mahoney_j

orm0nd wrote: »

anybody on here using Panatec ?



https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/novel-feed-additive-reverses-acidosis-and-lifts-fertility-and-health-on-co-limerick-farm/

Nope but read article ,using actisaf in nut this year as well as megafat and sodium bicarbonate and feeding 1 kg nis at feed barrier before pm milking ,so far so good milk up butter fat up and good solid dungs

Timmaay

kerry cow wrote: »

have ye started bulling yet or waiting another few days ??
bulled today would be calving when ?

Usually go 1st of May for both cows and heifers, but calves not really hitting the ground properly until 7th Feb last 2 yrs, was planning on pulling it back a week, that would mean this Wednesday, I'll decide then though ha, might leave it afew more days, not feeling the love for farming at the minute after going down with tb last Friday.

A week earlier would be no harm thought because I often end up under pressure in Nov with poor weather and not enough cubicles on the home yard forcing me to dry off afew rows early.

Say my name

Timmaay wrote: »

not feeling the love for farming at the minute after going down with tb last Friday.

.

Ah crap!!

Sorry to hear that Tim.

visatorro

Mooooo wrote: »

Could you set up to ai after milking morning and evening? Or go once a day after morning milking but if one is still in heat she may need a second serve the next morning. Don't have experience or figures of it but everything would want to be right sync cow's, higher % wouldn't hold and then you would prob have to ai in 18 to 21 days as repeats would be coming in at the same time which may be too much for the bulls

Not really as I don't be around to watch heats or draw out cows. My stick to the bulls for this year anyway so

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

Not really as I don't be around to watch heats or draw out cows. My stick to the bulls for this year anyway so

I tail paint the cows with spray on stuff, take out those that are marked each morning. Ai in the morning only. Young lad is on heat detection this year. He has been writing down heats for last few weeks. I will only do 5 weeks ai at most and then bull will go in. Text ai man night before that I have cows for him next morning. Top up tail paint every 3 days with a different colour

Gawddawggonnit

Timmaay wrote: »

Beautiful wet week of weather ahead of us here also, and not a moment too soon for this farm haha, the pigtail pegs are getting harder and harder to drive into the ground which means a drop in grass growth will rapidly follow due to a lack of moisture!

Got 18mm in 20minutes last evening.
Most of it ran off the ground because, like yourself, the ground is like the road.
Still, we’ll never say no to rain from now until September.

Timmaay

whelan2 wrote: »

I tail paint the cows with spray on stuff, take out those that are marked each morning. Ai in the morning only. Young lad is on heat detection this year. He has been writing down heats for last few weeks. I will only do 5 weeks ai at most and then bull will go in. Text ai man night before that I have cows for him next morning. Top up tail paint every 3 days with a different colour

Have many cows not cycled? How are you gonna intervene with them?

Freejin

I think it's not recommended but does anyone tail paint maiden heifers? What's the reason it's not recommended?

Mooooo

visatorro wrote: »

Not really as I don't be around to watch heats or draw out cows. My stick to the bulls for this year anyway so

May be worth looking at those heat time things, collars for cow's that tell if they are in heat. Tbh most of the time it's at milking I see the cow in heat, either tail paint gone or the vasectomised bull following or after marking them if he's in. If doing ai you will need a way of drafting out cow's. I don't have a drafting gate only me getting in front of them and directing em out of the collecting yard. A pain sometimes, esp since feeders went into the parlour.

whelan2

Timmaay wrote: »

Have many cows not cycled? How are you gonna intervene with them?

I don't do anything with them. Keep it simple. Calving interval 371 days.