3 Week Submission Rate Looks Good! A Shorter Mating? Put The Bulls Out?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- We are through the thick of our mating period now and will start to see the returns coming back through which is always the part that I hate.
I think its gone pretty well so there's a couple of big decisions I need to make around shortening it up and when to put the bulls out.
I've also shut up some silage and I need to get it off but the weathers not looking flash for the short term - บันเทิง
With the cows cycling earlier in their lactation and then becoming less active during the mating window, one might wonder if the cows are getting depleted in something? In the days before M.bovis , we often put a steer or two in with the cows before the end of A.I. , the other way to go is still do A.I on the cows even with the bulls in the herd as bulls can go infertile or go lame overnight. (Not really worried about keeping the calf if the cow is a late calver etc). With enviro companies the like of 'Mote' in Auckland developing 24/7 waste-water, stream, river monitoring (in-field and on-site monitoring of nitrites/ nitrates, BOD etc) Baleage is likely the way to go and have moderate sized, well sited baleage piles rather than large grass silage stacks/ bunks which require runoff tanks etc. Some of those farms in the UK with a building roof over the grass silage stack have a yearly rainfall half or less that of many NZ dairy districts.
Hi Andrew re the pit silage it’s certainly cheaper- we have found that dropping fences where possible to speed up exit from paddocks makes a huge difference also put old bags on the posts where the dropped gaps are so drivers know where to head- just a thought
I was watching Tom Pemberton about 6 weeks ago taking about the collars for the cows - he mentioned that he had been watching Once a Day Farmer and how well you were doing with the collars and how you were the reason he purchased them
Ahwell young Pemberton is a very slow learner. What he has to do is start making a lot of money to pay him massive debts.
I’ve watched toms channel from the very beginning there might be more savvy people out there however I wouldn’t mind being a pound behind him
Great video Andrew. Love to see the collars working so well for you. Great investment for you. Great to see technology working hand in hand with agriculture.
Having worked at AI centre non return rate showed regularly 10% - 15% less cows in calf compared to PD data but that was B4 collars so I’m really keen to hear if that difference narrows from your perspective 👍
“ because we have such a good Technician” 😂 love it
Got quite a few vlogs to catch up on. The weather has been miserable as sin. So much rain! Hope your summer/ our winter are not going to be as wet. But then again I am in Scotland.
I think you should definitely pull the bull out at 9 weeks don’t worry about doing short gestation at the end just let the bulls do there job. We went to the OAD discussion group on Wednesday, the farm we visited only do 7 weeks. I was talking to Susanne during calving saying wouldn’t it be great to not have this handful of cows left at the end of 6 weeks. So we are doing 7 weeks this season. Great video
Geez , 7 weeks, really , my first calf arrived 30th June and my last calf 24th October 😶 , I did leave the bulls out longer last mating but didn't think it was any where past 10th Oct calving.
Vet said some were due in December so culled those, bull must have got out a few times but I don't remember 🤷♂️
@@peasant5612 that’s a long calving 😂. Are you going to shorten it or are you not to worried? When we first shortened ours from 12 to 9 weeks we had a high empty rate for a couple seasons then it slowly got better
the collars are super cool, would be neat to work on a farm that uses them. good to see not many returns coming through and i'd defiantly put bulls out if it keeps going that way.
Interesting as always
Another great vid.... sir.. stay safe 🏴
Awesome work, yes fairly good AB up here too, especially considering the rough winter. 80-85% for 3 weeks. 4 weeks AB today
Love the fertility stuff, keep it up
👀🙄🐾👍It's good that mating is going well for you maybe you should try a couple of black angus
Just so you know - the proof of the pudding is in the eating is the correct saying!
What beef breed are you gonna put over those few cows. Great vid
Love your videos, how come you wait until February to scan? We scan at 35 days so we know exactly where the cows are up to, any cows like your ones that have missed a heat would see the vet to diagnose any potential issues. I guess your fertility is so good you don't have the worry of them going quiet etc. Cows look in great condition
Good morning, can you please when do you put tubes in the teats to the heifers and why?
Hi i like your video
Do you keep track of what each pregnant cow gives as in bull or heifer. Have you ever made a video of collecting and selling the bull calves, This is something I am very interested in as I don't think you have ever explained. If you get 100 heifers how do you choose which to keep If you only want 80? Thanks from Australia
Hello from northern Michigan USA
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Why not use Angus clean up Bulls. It prob different for you but here in wi we been getting $800 a black calf
Are your cows pure Jersey or with some brown Swiss?
Mainly jerseys with a couple of cross breeds
@@williammacky2360 thanks for the answer. Greetings from Poland
You guys are getting your AI done. So then your bulls may not have as many to mate.
Are your bulls good enough to keep replacements ? Why don't you keep a beef bull to run with the second grade cows to save on straws
We have the Allflex collars (had them for 4 years now), this winter (100% autumn calving) we submitted 96% in first 3 weeks, and based on scanning got over 65% conception rate using 75% sexed semen too. We only join for 9 weeks (all ai) and I’m getting tempted to cut back to 7 weeks next year. Also found with the collars that insemination timing is about 12 hours later than we used to do with visual aids (paint and scratchies).
Cows look good and looks like you have plenty of grass, wish we could get some sunshine here in southern victoria to make grass grow faster
Far out your results are amazing! How good would a 7-8 week calving be!
The info you can get from them is seriously cool though and definitely makes you think a bit more around efficiency 👍
Do you do it yourself or have techs?
Techs
Sir I am from India . I dream to be a NZ Dairy Farmer. Can you help me sir please ?
Buenas soy de cuba me gusta la ganadería pero aquí es muy difícil obtener tierras para ese desarrollo que variedad de pasto usted utiliza porque siempre veo los potreros verde, cuanto cuesta comprar una vaca de la raza que usted tiene.
Le ha costado mucho la inversión en su ganaderia
can you ai?