Scanning 391 Cows in 3 Hours!! Will We Reach Our Target?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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We are scanning our milking cows to see who is pregnant and who is empty.
Will we reach our target of 90% in-calf?
We also vaccinate the cows for Salmonella
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That’s a great result! Considered pretty good for over here in NZ. What do you you usually average for your heifers empty rate?
Thanks! Normally 3-4% in the heifers
All these kiwi farmers seeing how its done on the other side of the world
Hi, your cows are crossbred HolsteinxJersey? They look small to be Holstein. If so. Why are better that cows cross?
Yes they are crossbreed. They suit out hrassbased grazing system better than holsteins
Where you get your Bluetooth earpiece
It's plantronics, think you can get them on Amazon
Why a target of 90%?
Surely you want all of them producing? Or am I missing the point
100% would be awesome but pretty near impossible, over 95% is considered really really good 👍
Think of it from a human perspective, can take multiple 'attempts' to get pregnant.
Our breeding season is only 10-11 weeks long. And our conception rates are targeted 60+%. Because we are a spring calving grass based farm we can't keep breeding until 100% are in-calf as then there would be some calving in the summer
Great MT rate mate mine was 14% , trying to get sub ten%. Cheers from New Zealand
How you come you guys don't scan and jab the cows while there on the platform during milking? That's how we do it on my farm in nz
The injection was subcutaneous so we wanted to do it behind the shoulder, we have done intramuscular injections on the platform alright 👍 thought it might be too slow for milking to be scanning on the platform but might try it in the future when we have a proper vet stand set up. At the moment it's just pallets
@@MCMilkingIt fair enough mate cheers for the reply 👍
Was the vacine for samolia and do you vaccinate the empty cows
Ya and we skipped the empty cows. That's why we sprayed them
Sound job lad
Lovely rotary really looking the dogs bollox
Looks like the vets are putting their arm in every cow, is that right?
Yep that's right
Ok that's different to here. I'm in NZ and we scan using a wand. Only use the arm to confirm an empty cow. We can do 600 in about 3 hrs through the herringbone shed. Scanner is on a mobile platform that they move down the pit as they go.
Very efficient 👍 I think I have seen that before alright. Can they tell how many days In-calf with that?
The good operators can date from 35-110 days with 95+% accuracy.
We did only AI on our herd this season, so have dates for every mating.