Being A Dairy Farmer

Today the cows will stay in the shed I have fed them a good feed of silage I am sure they will be much happier inside nice and dry.

The fields are absolutly saturated if i was to turn the cows out today they would make such a mess they will be better off inside.

I can not believe that it is the start of July and i am housing my cows. This time last year the fields were so dry that the grass was hardly growing.

Milk yield is down about 200 litres hardly supprising considering the amount of rain we have had.

Anyway hope the sun shines a bit more this week.

I was up last night at 3am a cow was having twins. I assisted the birth unfortunatly one did not make it the other calf is fine it was a heifer.

After she had calved she would not stand up, she had milk fever, so i gave her 2 bottles of calcium this sorted her out and about twenty minutes later she was able to stand up. Got back to bed at 4am.

This morning the cow and calf are fine and doing well. Today my brother and Dad and the two lads that help us have gone to the Cheshire Show they have taken three animals to show. I have been left to get on with things on my own should be a peacful day.

I have just got back in for breakfast. Morning milk is finished, we are currently milking about 320 black and white Holstein cows and have about 280 youngstock.

Last night we had one cow calve and this morning i have AI'd two cows.

Anyway must get on with the days jobs.

This is my first blog so please bear with me.

I have started this blog to share some information about the work we do as dairy farmers producing the countries fresh milk each day.

I am also interested to get feedback from other people as to what they think about farmers and the work we do.