Our Ladies...

A Day in the life of our Cows.....

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We milk once a day so our ladies are milked in the morning and throughout the year they are fed in two milking mobs (the older cows and the younger heifer mob) we separate them like this so the younger mob isn't bossed about by the older cows and the older ones produce more milk and generally milk out faster. A friesian cow can produce up to 20lts of milk each day, a happy cow is always known to produce a little more. 

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         After milking the ladies quietly amble back to a fresh paddock and will be given another paddock later in the afternoon for their night paddock, generally a little closer to the cowshed for the morning milking. We start milking our ladies as two year old heifers and this way they are nice and big and their first calving is manageable for them, we also ensure their first calves are from a beef breed that is easy calving for them and we use Wagyu which are known for being smaller calves, we use Wagyu for all our calves aside from the sexed semen replacement calves that we keep and produce on farm ourselves so we know they get the best possible start to life.

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           In a dryer summer we supplement their grass diets with silage (grass we have cut and baled when its growing in abundance in December) and in winter we feed Kale and Swede crops/ silage/ baylage/ hay and we lock up extra paddocks of grass so they feed those off too.