How many should you milk?
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- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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How many should you milk?
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
The plan is to keep selling until I feel like I'm in control, probably 60-90 in milk and 15-25 dry
TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Got a pair of 5th calvers here that are twins that are either 12.5% or 25% blue. Tremendous cows. Their mother was hopeless right enough.
Good luck
A good answer. Sometimes less is more.
Hope you have a good trade and it sounds like your taking control
- Location
- somerset
we sold a lot of ours, kept back the odds and sods, couldn't say we were overcrowded, but they have jumped up 2 litres.A good answer. Sometimes less is more.
Hope you have a good trade and it sounds like your taking control
whether they stay, or go, l honestly don't know. Think l/we were lucky to get some gone, but its not my decision to make, and l don't/can't milk them. And pretty well completely out of it now, so cannot say a definite 'they go'.
- Location
- somerset
grass sample
21% protein
13 ME
12.5% sugar
000 nitrates
w/wold cover crops after maize. £60 acre sub from wessex water.
rather surprise with this result, had half rate urea, not that long ago, obviously leached out, but didn't expect it to analysis that well, and there's a massive amount of grass there, nearly waste high in places.
One cut, back into maize.
21% protein
13 ME
12.5% sugar
000 nitrates
w/wold cover crops after maize. £60 acre sub from wessex water.
rather surprise with this result, had half rate urea, not that long ago, obviously leached out, but didn't expect it to analysis that well, and there's a massive amount of grass there, nearly waste high in places.
One cut, back into maize.
- Location
- Co. Antrim
Oats finally going into the ground today
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
I do worry about her sometimes !!!!
Still cheaper than a horse though
Still cheaper than a horse though
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Newbarton seb bounty fresh with her first, and it's a heifer
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Amazing what a bit of shampoo can do
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Good luck.
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Yes hope they sell well for you
- Location
- East Lancashire
Good luck 
- Location
- somerset
l should think you are pleased with your prices. £850, to £1900 and £1337 av
looked good titivated up.
looked good titivated up.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Thanks did OK
5 did really well,
As an average they did just shy of £1350
Take out the bottom 3 and they did £1600
5 did really well,
As an average they did just shy of £1350
Take out the bottom 3 and they did £1600
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Thanks, the 3 that were a bit plain I should have kept in hindsight, pleased with the other 5, I know for next timeThey looked well online.
Very clear people didn't want dry cows, 3 quarter cows or anything not great condition
I reckon I could have made a lot of money with some of the cows up their, lots under £1000
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
I thought the crossbred ones sold well. Like you said some of them you could have had 1 or 2 calves out of them and still made money.
- Location
- somerset
when we sold, faults were a no go
and surprised us, the 'empty' cows, were knocked hard, despite some giving a lot of milk.
picking them out, it was a job to know quite what to send, surprised at how old some were, you don't tend to notice those that give no trouble, just plod on under the radar.
kept back some fr hfrs, that were not giving a lot, but +ve oct, they would have sold better than the 'empties'.
might sell fresh come october.
your last comment, 'could have made money, on those under 1k'
thought you were pedigree ............
but goes to show, plenty on here 'advising' out the peds, and in with x's or non ped, were not to far from being right.
now you know the mkt, couple of good cows a month, should help your bank balance.
when we restarted milking, cheap cows were all we could afford, 3/4 cows
, and we didn't have cubicles, so non lyers as well, no cc to worry about, not high cc though, + some beef hfrs, from that we grew into a fair herd.think my comment at the time, 'beggars can't be choosy', just about summed it up.
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Dry cows don’t pay the cow finance I think tends to be the issue