A typical efficient day on a pastoral dairy farm:
5.30am: Get in cows, chip thistles or weeds while they are walking,
set up new paddock.
6.00am: Cups on.
8-8.30am: Finish milking, lock away cows, inside for breakfast.
9.30am to lunchtime, lunchtime to 3.30pm: Feed out any supplements in
the next breaks/paddocks in advance if possible, set up
paddocks/breaks, pasture walk if necessary, R&M.
3.30pm: Get in cows
4pm: Cups on
6pm: Finish milking, lock cows away, go home!
During calving we get fresh cows and their calves up at 2pm for
afternoon milking.
During mating we draft out cows on heat as the rows leave the shed and
the AI tech comes sometime after 8am, takes 0.5 to 1 hr.
Pretty simple really! And if you are really onto it you can head off
to the beach between milkings lol!
Cheers
Michelle.
On 3/6/07, Gunthorp Farms <hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com> wrote:
>
> Vaughan,
> Did you do an article in the SGF on labor efficiency with pasture
> livestock? I've been trying to find an article or something to point people
> to for information on the basics behind a low labor operation. There are a
> couple discussions going on the pastured pig and pastured poultry list that
> really point to the need for these people to understand the principles
> behind raising "relatively" large numbers of animals without huge time
> commitments.
> Greg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "leon" <leon@grazinginfo.com>
> To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Owenlea Farm update
>
