Milk Recording on our Irish Dairy Farm
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2020
- Hey guys, we're back with some milk recording for you all. We typically milk record about 4 to 5 times a year. It provides us with invaluable information about the production of each of our cows. It helps us with making lots of decision on the farm, particularly around breeding.
We might actually do a video on that - how we use the milk recording results to select bulls etc. Let us know if that's something you'd like to see!
As always, please do give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed the video - it really helps us. And subscribe if you'd like to stay up to date with the farm.
Lots of love,
PK, MK & Freya xx
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This vid popped up on my feed just now and I got all excited, till I seen the date. Hope all is good with ye, miss your videos and hope to see ye back at it again.
Thanks a million for the comment - sorry for the disappointment! We’ve just uploaded again after a bit of a hiatus. Hopefully you’ll see a bit more of us in 2024 all going well 😊👍🏼
I was always confused about this, thanks for sharing!
That looks like so much fun oh my goodness 👌👌👌
Haha you wouldn’t believe all the fun we had Paulas! I think you’d love it 😆😅
Very cool tidy set up there , great team work love the channel guys 👍
Thanks a million Thomas. Great to hear that 🤗
👍👌🇨🇦❤, a very clean milk palour, makes for a happy work space for cows and you, and you take such gr8 care in maintaining a very high standard of both, well done
Thank you so much 😊 We try to keep it as clean as we can. You’re right - it makes for a much nicer workplace for both us & the cows. You’d look forward to milking time when it comes around 😃
Enjoyed well done 👍
Congrats all the equipment Is incredibile clean. Seems brand new
Thanks a million - we like to keep the parlour as clean as possible. It’s nice to have a clean workplace 😊
Progressive milk meters some job and so much more accurate compared to the old style way👌👌👌
Absolutely James! 😄 I (Maria) have only had experience of the current system so I’ve been a bit spoilt 😆
Hi from Australia love your videos, only just found you,
Hope all is well on the other side of the world with ye! Thanks a million John, glad to hear you’re enjoying the videos 😊
Great video guys..we've used them DIY meters our last 2 recordings..find them a great job..how are ye for grass and silage?..been a great year for grass down here in west cork
Hi David. Thanks a mil, glad you liked it! 😊
Ya they’re a good job alright, pretty straight forward to operate.
We’re not too bad, wouldn’t have as much grass this autumn as other years but we’re managing fine. We should have enough silage for a 5 month winter so hopefully we don’t need it all 😅 Great to hear that, are ye hoping to keep the cows out into November weather permitting?
Love it I'm from USA had have a small farm post more plz when y can
Hey Christina. Thanks so much for your comment. Whereabouts in the USA are you from? Glad to hear you’re a fellow farmer 😊 Yes will do - we just have a new video uploaded today. Hope you like it 😌
Neat system ,do you hire the meters & how often do you record .Thanks
Yes we hire the meters from Progressive Genetics. They drop them off and we usually have them for a few days.
We milk record about 4 - 5 times a year. This was number 4 so we’ll probably get another recording in before the end of the year 😊
Where are loketed at.? would love to come se the paulor 😀
I hope I can your there in 2021. I am from philippines. Hope you notice me, best regards. Nice video :)
Thanks Charina, really glad you enjoyed the video 🤗
USA dairy guy. What is size of herd? Average liters per day? What day of grazing season? Have been working with team to look at peak yields and annual yields. Among 1.5 million Holstein and Jersey, peak yields are reaching about 112 kg per day 3X. Jerseys a bit lower than Holsteins at 99th percentile. I work with colleagues in Wales and Liverpool among others.
Hey Jack! Thanks for your comment. We milk 140 cows and they average about 5,700 litres/year or just over 30 litres/day at peak milk production. We milk twice a day.
That sounds like very interesting research. We have about 50% Holstein Friesians and 50% Jersey crosses in the herd and would notice the difference in litres but the higher solids in the crosses often makes up for that loss. Would be interested to hear more about your research. Best of luck with it 😊
Great video, have ye scanned yet?
Hi Pádraig. Thanks a million, glad you liked it 😊 Yes we scanned a couple of weeks ago and ended up with 7% empty after 11 weeks so we were very happy with that.
@@keanefamilyfarm that's great results, we were happy to with 12 out of 138
What times are ye milking at now and do ye take students from the ag college's
Hi Killian. We’re milking at 6am at the moment as we have some help back on the farm now. We’re also down to 6 rows so milking doesn’t take longer then 1.5 hours now 😊 Getting lazy with the darker mornings 😅
We have taken students in the past but probably won’t be at the moment due to COVID (we live with Pádraig’s parents who are both over 70 so have to be a little bit more careful) 👍🏼
Fine parlour, how many units?
Thanks a million 😊 It’s a 20 unit Boumatic parlour 👍🏼
"get you're milk samples., 5 for fifty (50p)". Do you feed the cows extra meal or milk early the day before to bump up the yeild readings for the recording?
No we like to keep them on the same amount of supplementation so that we have a good idea of what they’re producing & this helps inform lots of other decisions on the farm (grass decisions, breeding etc.) 😄👍🏼
How much times a year do ye do it we do it 6 times a year
Very annoying job
Hi Cormac. Fair play doing it 6 times a year! I’d like to do it more but I agree, it’s a bit of an annoying job alright 😅
We usually do 4-5 times a year. This was number 4 so we’ll probably get another one in before the end of the year 👍🏼
milking how many cows?
We’re milking 140 cows 😊
Can you tell me where you got the tray that you have around your neck
We got the tray from Progressive Genetics. We hire the milk meters from them as well so they provide the tray & bottles etc.
Are you three the only employees here to work in your farm
I don't know if you look at other Dairy Farming web sites. I follow a young chap in Saskatchewan Canada, he goes by the name of 'SaskDuch Kid' ua-cam.com/channels/0iNuhadNDm2nIqLTao85YQ.html is the link to his UA-cam channel. His operation is very different to yours but they still have the same goal of producing a quality milk product and he is good with his videos.
Thanks for the link John - really appreciate that. He has super videos! Really interesting to see how other systems operate but all with the same end goal of producing milk 😊
God I hate doing that
Haha it’s one of those jobs alright, not usually pleasant!