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Could use a few more cows like this old girl

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Philip d

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Never had a cow milk even close to the amount this one is giving right now,she looks like any other cow in the barn you'd never pick her out as being the one giving the most,the 75 kg from yesterday = 165 lbs
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It's automatic the herd usually averages 2.3-2.7
milkings per day this cow is fairly fresh and is going
5x
 
Ya,I had one here that I never would have picked as a top performer,but when I ran the meters once a month,she'd run right up there at 120 pounds a day.
 
Watch out for her nutrition needs. She will need more nutrients than the other cows and may not get all of them in your regular feed ration. Had a good friend that had a few cows do this for a short time. They many times got sick from the high production. Example if your balancing your feed for 100 LBS of milk then she would need a balance for her 165 LBS of milk. The nutrient needs are not always linier and that is the issue. Her just eating 1 1/2 times what the other cows do may not get her the nutrients she needs. Talk to your feed guy and you may need to had feed her some additional stuff to keep her healthy producing this much milk.

Yes it is nice to have high producing cows when your milking. It is your 300 bushel corn high. LOL

Milking is still the hardest job in farming to me.
 
That's true for sure,I get hold of our rep on Monday,they're on automatic feed tables based on weekly production but it doesn't kick in till day 121 and before that it is standard for them all.
 
Hello Where abouts on PEI are you at? We have family in Abrhams Village and come up for the Acadian Festival from Upstate NY
 
Philip, How many cows do you have milking? Last year we did the concrete work for a parlor and they milk around 80. There is a robotic system in place in Fraser New York which is about 6 miles from where I used to farm. I would of needed only 10 cows with that kind of production!
 
We're milking 65 right now with one station, our average is just under 35 kg right now,not really high,we're hoping to add a second one in the next year and a half and would like to go to 78 cows to start.
 
They sell our oil as 5 US gallon or 18.9 l, 1 kg milk =.94l so with that math it would be @18.65 US gallon based on 75 kg?
 
That is a lot of milk. And this is one of the big advantages of a VMS , because she can go and get milked out 5 times a day , there is less stress on her udder , so lower scc. Also the size of the udder she would have to have to carry 82.5 lb of milk into the parlor for twice a day milking , it would not be a thing of beauty. How long have you had the robotic milking system ?
 
That's the best part of it all,we cracked 60 a bunch of times but never got 1 in the 70's before. We're 3 years in last month now. We had cows give 60 before in the parlor but they would be stepping pretty well and leaking at milking time
 
Hi , Located in Cole Harbour, ( Sidney Crosby home town) just outside Dart, originally from Annapolis Valley. Cheers, Murray
 
Just as there seems to be no upper limit to corn yields, there may not be an upper limit to milk yields. When I was in the business (although I now call myself a non milking dairy farmer) an annual increase of 5 % seemed to be the norm . It did not take long to double your production. As we learn more about the cow....and we still have a lot to learn...we will get even more milk out of her with a better quality of life for that cow. Ben
 
I remember @20 or close to it years ago there was a red cow,Cloverlands Skylar Cherry Red,as a 4 yr old she gave over 60 000 lbs in one lactation over 544 days,I heard at one test day she had @200 lbs/day
 
That's why I think records based on 305 days are not realistic any more. If that cow had been bred back at 100 days, it would have been very hard, on the cow especially., to dry her off at 305 days. If she is milking 100 plus pounds per day , just keep milking til her peak backs off, then breed her. I had a VG cow years ago that I could not get in calf due to a cystic ovary that would not respond to treatment. She was milking over 100 pounds, so I just kept feeding her....if I recall correctly, she milked at that level for 8 or 9 months before she backed off, and then eventually culled as a non breeder.Those standards were set 60 years ago based on the average producing cow at that time. Things have changed, especially the cow. Ben
 
They sure have Ben,at a milk recording meeting we were at last week one of the speakers said that most Holstein herds today have the genetic potential to exceed 32 000 lb average although most aren't meeting that number for numerous reasons. He said most cows today are like Ferrari's and were treating them like old pickup's.
 
" I now call myself a non milking dairy farmer"

Oh, you switched over to become a "Non-Dairy" dairy producer. LOL


:>)
 
We've had them in the 60's lots of times before they usually peak and within a couple weeks they are giving about 10 less and slowly give a little less as they keep going. She looks like any other cow in the barn,you never see her with a full udder.
 
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