fendt-man-matty Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 well because the farm i have always helped out on is beef and arable, i dont know a lot about dairy cows... so if a few people wanted to chip in their bit to what milking and all that is about. maybe a tipical dairy diary any info is always better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON. Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Cow's walks into parlour give them some cake wash of udder's put the cluster's on wait till she's given all her milk ACR will remove the cluster spray her with some dip open up gates and let them go repeat process till the collecting yard's empty bobs you uncle fanny's a stupid little red tractor your aunt :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 what he ^^^^ said also cows are milked for aprox 10 months and dryed off for 2 months until they calf and then milked for another 10 months and so on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fendt-man-matty Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 good info there, so what is a 'suckler' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 a suckler cow is a cow used for the purpose of rearing calfs for beef, the calf suckles the cows for about 9 months then is weaned off. i thought you knew about farming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fendt-man-matty Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 a suckler cow is a cow used for the purpose of rearing calfs for beef, the calf suckles the cows for about 9 months then is weaned off. i thought you knew about farming just not much about dairy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 i thought if you worked on a beef farm you would know what a suckler cow is thats all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fendt-man-matty Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 i dont know everything, thats why i like to ask instead of never knowing so for you dairy farmers, what would be your average day e.g get up a 5am and all that for a whole day \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDeereMan Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Or we have a differnt sort or dairy farm- milking goats 8:00am morning milking 11:00am washing parlour down 11:30 ish - scraping the yard out and cubicles for beef cows after dinner - using the diet feeder for feeding up 3:00pm bedding goats up 6:00pm afternoon milking Go to bed In summer there is always hay to mow and shake out and in autumn there is maize to lead Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massey Boy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 i think this is it in cows on my uncels farm 5:00 milking starts 6:00 still milking but my other uncel dose the scraping 6:45 finishes scraping 7:00 loaded up the straw chopper and do the bedding up 7:35 finish straw chopping 9:30 finish milking then do the feeding up rest of the day doing over work till 5:00 and dose the after noon milking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fendt-man-matty Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 i think this is it in cows on my uncels farm 5:00 milking starts 6:00 still milking but my other uncel dose the scraping 6:45 finishes scraping 7:00 loaded up the straw chopper and do the bedding up 7:35 finish straw chopping 9:30 finish milking then do the feeding up rest of the day doing over work till 5:00 and dose the after noon milking i takes 4.5hours to milk your cows?? how many roughly does he have some interesting facts there, it interesting the different rotas you's have (well goats are different suppose) roughly how many cows would some of you milk in 1 hour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabh7840 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 we can milk about 60 in an hour in an old 8 point parlour but when we get the new one goin well hope to be milking 100 plus per hour ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massey Boy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 i takes 4.5hours to milk your cows?? how many roughly does he have some interesting facts there, it interesting the different rotas you's have (well goats are different suppose) roughly how many cows would some of you milk in 1 hour i think it 4 or 4 1/2 he has 180 milking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich.new holland Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 we used to start at 7:15 and finnish about 9:45 depending if there are calfs that need feeding scraping is done by my uncle while my auntie is milking then after scraping he went out and fed the cows out in the fields then do a second milk at 5:45-6.00 and finnish at about 8:30 but we gave up milking about 3-4 years ago we had a herinbourne style and it had 8 each side \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 As per the title of topic. A cow. A bucket. A 3 legged seat or stool. A rope to tie up said cow. Warm hands. Transfer milk into lidded container. Stand in cold water for 1 hour to cool. Store in refrigerator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey man Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 two of us milked 192 cows in 75 mins through a dairymaster 24/48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 As per the title of topic. A cow. A bucket. A 3 legged seat or stool. A rope to tie up said cow. Warm hands. Transfer milk into lidded container. Stand in cold water for 1 hour to cool. Store in refrigerator. Drink. Just thought I better add that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I used to milk 44 cows in a 4 abreast Gascoign parlour up to 1997. took around 45 minutes to put the cows through. We started milking when Father bought the farm in 1961 with 13 cows and milked in a 4 abreast open bail at the bottom of the field 75 yards from the house. I remember well the winter of 1962/3 when we were under 20 foot drifts for 9 weeks and the roads were filled up to the insulators on the telephone poles and had to house the cows overnight through that winter in the only building we had at the time which was an old ex army nissen hut. The cows would come out in the morning and when they rose from their bedding, the iceicles hanging from the roof were as big around as your leg and they would break them off as they got up. Going down across the field, the nissen hut was buried under the snow and the cows made a tunnel in the snow from the hut and surfaced halfway down the field, remarkably, the water never froze up and the electricity never failed, we carried hot water for milking down from the house, could'nt find the tractor, that was buried, all bales of hay and straw was carried on our back. Fortunately, the milk lorry got to us by driving across the fields. It was the next year that we built an all-singing all-dancing state of the art covered yard for 25 cows and an adjoined milking parlour. Happy days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 On the dairy where i worked we milked 800 cows 3 times a day. we had a herinbourne style and it had 12 each side.Two employees in each shift milked the cows and clean the beds and flushed the walking lanes with water in the barn. Also after milking the cows they had to clean the herinbourne and the milking systeem. Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabh7840 Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 texas was that milking parlour ever turned off?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fendt-man-matty Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 thats the way to do it texas :D the 2 workers must have slept and just lived in the parlour aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 texas was that milking parlour ever turned off?? It was only turned off for a hour a day. Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 thats the way to do it texas :D the 2 workers must have slept and just lived in the parlour aswell We had 7 employees for milking, working in shifts from 8 hours a day. Each employee had one day off. Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey man Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 corrie meats down the ards hav a lithuanian mikin for them he sleeps in a room next to the parlour,boys i know who milk hav there parlour right beside a main road they hav to keep the door locked when theyre milkin anyone that knows them runs in and switches the parlour off while milkin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabh7840 Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 i would get the gun on them turnin the parlour off! thats no right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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