Our Cow Facts

  • 1040 mature cows and 850 heifers

  • Milking occurs at two different locations in East Montpelier and East Craftsbury

  • At our East Montpelier Location 626 cows are milked in our Germania double 15 parallel parlor

  • Cows are milked three times a day, each shift has two milkers

  • We can milk just over 100 cows per hour

  • The cows on average produce about 82 lbs. per cow per day

  • Our rolling herd average is 27,060

  • The somatic cell count runs about 200,000

  • At our East Craftsbury location we milk about 275 cows in the double 6 herringbone parlor

  • We milk three times a day with one person in the parlor at East Craftsbury

  • These cows average about 80 pounds per cow per day with a 24,810 rolling herd average

  • All cows are bred by artificial insemination

 

  • All cows are bred artificially by our Genex technician

  • We use proven bulls on the first two services and young sires after that

  • About 35% of our herd is registered

  • All cows are set up to be bred by 80 days

  • The voluntary waiting period is 50 days

  • Our calving interval runs about 13.1, with services per conception at 2.6 for pregnant cows and average days open is 121

George, Mike and Donna

Casildo & Will

  • The East Craftsbury location is run as a seperate entity, Fairmont Dairy, LLC

  • The Dairy hires Fairmont Farm, Inc. to raise their calves until breeding age

  • The Dairy also hires the Farm to put in crops and spread liquid manure

  • All milking cows at the Dairy are bedded with sand

  • The cows are fed once daily, we feed three different rations to our milk cows

  • The ration consists of about 40% corn silage, 20% haylage, and 40% grain

  • We raise all of our own forages and purchase grain from local feed companies

  • Two manure pits in East Montpelier

  • One pit handles manure from sand bedded cows and the other is for the sawdust bedded cows

  • The main barn is bedded with sawdust and the manure is run through a separator

  • The liquids end up in the manure tank and the solids are sold

Fairmont Farm, Inc.

95 Lyle Young Road | East Montpelier, VT  05651 | 802-223-3868

www.fairmontfarminc.com | info@fairmontfarminc.com