> 5.30am: Get in cows,
> ...
> 4pm: Cups on 6pm: Finish milking, lock cows away, go home!
hmmmm, i'm lazy
when i'm grazing (about 9 months of the year it's something like this)
8am. Head cow (#84) gives me a roar as she's coming in for milking.
8.05 Cups on (80 cows)
9:30 Finished milking... in for breakfast
9:30-10am Breakfast, post, paper
10am-4pm as william said: feet other cattle, clip, maintainance, change
fences (48 hour allocations)
4pm: #84 is in the yard again and gives a roar.
4:05 Cups on
5:30-6pm Finish milking and any other bits and pieces.
We don't milk in the winter so it's much less stressful. i'll give it
about 4 hours a day for everything as we're not milking then cos
everything is inside.
Well i'm not really lazy, i just don't do things unless i have to.
Whether laziness leads to efficiency, i don't know, you make up your own
mind.
Mike C
IRL
> 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!
