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<p>That doesn't seem right, Crucial? 12 hours a day milking? Also, as this progresses, effeciencies will be quickly implemented.I also don't understand why they need a bigger milking platform that a 50 bale rotary would be for cows?</p>
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<p>I think it was something like 2500-3000 ewes. You can't use rotarys for sheep. There were three bays of about 50 per bay so that is 60 times you have to clear the bay, get the next lot in, clean and cup. Fast workers were moving down the line the whole time and the setup was well arranged and automated.</p>
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Crucial was the milking shed as automated as your average dairy cow shed? <br>
The article mentioned a part Chinese owned farm that was milking 3000 sheep I think, surely they must have a better set up than the one you mentioned.<br>
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<p>That is a little shed. :)</p>
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<p>Compare that to a forty bale heirring bone for cows.</p>
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<p>I hear you, regarding times though.</p>
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<p>That is a little shed. :)</p>
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<p>Compare that to a forty bale heirring bone for cows.</p>
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<p>I hear you, regarding times though.</p>
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<p>I don't know why you couldn't put them in a rotary?</p>
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<p>There are 3 bays like this. The shed is pretty big.</p>
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<p>I asked about rotary and they said it had been tried and didn't work that well. Remember that the milking time is less for an individual animal so the platform would have to rotate faster or be much smaller.</p>
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<p>This is actually an asian owned purpose built set up that had a lot of $ sunk into it. You should see the size of the feeding shed for winter. It was taking something like 6 hours a day just to do the feeding.</p>
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<p>They are looking at various efficiencies all the time, but finding the balance of numbers/staffing/infrastructure/output etc is still quite difficult. It certainly isn't the cash printing machine some believe it to be.</p>
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<p>The farm sizes need to be pretty huge as well given the number of animals involved. (those in milk + those in lamb + those drying off + ewe lambs)</p>
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<p>I'm not saying it isn't profitable just that effort and investment v profit makes it no better than many other options depending on market demand.</p>
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<p>From what I could gather, the milk broke even, any profit was in colostrum.</p> -
<p>This Google sat view shows a typical setup</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-46.2678031,168.7719958,502m/data=!3m1!1e3'>https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-46.2678031,168.7719958,502m/data=!3m1!1e3</a></p> -
<p>Interesting. I imagined it would be more profitable due to the higher solids per litre than cows.</p>
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<p>A freind of mine left Fonterra recently to head the Goat Milk Powder plant here in the Waikato. That seems to be kicking along ok at the moment</p> -
<p>It never ceases to amaze how you can raise pretty much any topic and the fernopedia has an answer, today we had Crucial with sheep milk and Siam with being paid to shag a ginger munter. Now that I think about it I don't think anyone actually asked Siam about that.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/Jamie-Gilts-Son-524458667726804/'>https://www.facebook.com/Jamie-Gilts-Son-524458667726804/</a></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="563637" data-time="1457574958">
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/Jamie-Gilts-Son-524458667726804/'>https://www.facebook.com/Jamie-Gilts-Son-524458667726804/</a></p>
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<p>Shes hot with piss poor judgement, any more pics?</p> -
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/77755353/ford-patents-incar-cinema-drawings'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/77755353/ford-patents-incar-cinema-drawings</a></p>
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/03/awkward-metal-bands/'>http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/03/awkward-metal-bands/</a>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/03/awkward-metal-bands/'>http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/03/awkward-metal-bands/</a></p>
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<p>Aaaaand. The thread is back to being awesome.</p> -
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/03/awkward-metal-bands/'>http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/03/awkward-metal-bands/</a></p>
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<p>This reminds me of a funny video I saw a couple months back, can anyone tell me how to embed youtube vids?</p> -
Just paste them in...sometimes you need to put the media tags on them, sometimes not' I have found you can paste the link or the shortened link and either work sometimes but not all the time.
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This reminds me of a funny video I saw a couple months back, can anyone tell me how to embed youtube vids?</p></blockquote>
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Just paste them in...sometimes you need to put the media tags on them, sometimes not' I have found you can paste the link or the shortened link and either work sometimes but not all the time.</p></blockquote>
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What TR said. Cut and paste the link and it should embed automatically, but if you are on your phone get rid of the "m." at the start of the link. Had all sorts of probs with that. -
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