always enjoy seeing your cow's........British Friesians are my type of cow......good strong long lasting cow's and worth a few quid in the barren cow ring.......i sold one last week came back £l;l78 for a 11 year old cow, your cows are always clean........a real credit to how well you look after them
Good on you Richard, I only found your channel a couple of months ago and I really enjoy it. I only retired from dairy farming last year for health reasons but utube keeps me sane now 😅😅is 😅
Always interesting watching milk recording. You may be interested, the latest extra test on the cows milk we are now using in Australia is a indication of conception rate tested before breeding, so helps to identify which cows are going to be best to use sexed semen on and which will have low conception and benefit from a high fertility bull, use mostly best bull on those cows.
Interesting , i didnt realise they had change the times it is done ,when i was working we did evening and morning that way it was closer to a 24 hour test .Also we had an amazeing scots lady did it in winter she allways had a flask of coffe laced with rum ,mind you i think it was rum with a bit of coffee weaved out the parlour many a winter morning with her ,great days
In the United States, we call it DHIA. This stands for Dairy Herd Improvement Association. We call the person who comes a milk tester. Our testers get to weigh the milk with a scales on farms that use bucket milkers (mostly Amish). On farms with pipelines they bring milk meters, or use the farmers own electronic meters if he has them. By the way, our milk trucks do not use a meter like yours does, instead we use a calibrated stainless steel dip stick that is marked in centimeters. There is a chart hanging in the milkhouse that tells the driver how many pounds are in the tank after he measures it. Thanks for your videos, it is interesting to see how other dairy farmers do things.
Hi Richard. My dad used to work for the MMB in the late 50's early 60's doing the Milk sampling. He lived in Frome and his patch was Somerset. He did not have a company car but was on milage and driving a 1953 Morris Minor traveler. He would get up at the crack of dawn and drive to the farm do the recording and then come home have breakfast and then do his other job working at a farm near Frome for the rest of the morning then home for Lunch and then oft to the same farm to do the PM recording. From memory he worked for the MMB for about 10 years and I think the Morris got through 2 engines. I dont think that where designed to do the milage in those days
Good work and video. I worked with frs in tipperary Ireland between 2002 to 3008. I milked record between 2003 to 2007. 2 farms first year went up to 9 farms year later. I did a lot driving to farms pick up trays and bottles in local co op drop trays back to the lab. There was a lot paper work to it. I gave it up because I had to much work to do at home. Time was sitting me
Interesting Video Richard - Richard & Juliet 😹 Not a coffee drinker, maybe 1 Mug of latte per week. When I was on the Dairy farm used to take a full flask on Black coffee. Had first cup of the day in the milk tank room with a splash from the top of the tank. I then topped up the flask with more top tank milk. 4 cups from a 3 cup flask and maybe why I only have latte nowadays.
I used to do milk recording for NMR, ok to work for but didn't have a company van and some of the farm roads knocked hell out of my car, PPE was not issued either !
That was interesting but surprising that as this is recording data by individual cow, the sample tube isn’t washed out between each cow. Surely you transfer some data from one cow to the next,, however smalll?
Good morning Richard, I have worked in the farming industry and never seen anything like this testing it was very interesting thank you very much Richard, You take care of yourself and stay safe.🐄🐄🐄🌧️⭐️👍👌
So...... At 10:00 when the lady is taking samples, isn't she getting cross contamination by using the same measuring tube drawing samples ❓❓❓❓ Seems dubious to me. I don't see her cleaning the test tube between samples.
Why does she put it in a test tube then into the jar ? Surly there's a risk of cross contamination,also just put pot to nipple and bosh job done :) or get the Duke to milk the old fashioned way lol :)
so we have specific amount of milk we take from each cow, each milking. so we have a sampler for the morning milking and one for the afternoon milking, based on what time the milkings take place.
