Aren't your milking intervals pushing the limits a bit Mike?
Michelle.
On 3/6/07, M�che�l � C�os�in <farmercash@eircom.net> wrote:
>
> > 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!
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