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At our
East Montpelier Location, 700 cows are milked in our Germania double 15 parallel
parlor
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Cows
are milked three times a day, each shift has two milkers
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We can
milk just over 100 cows per hour
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The
cows on average produce about 88 lbs. per cow per day
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Herd average is 26,500 lbs.
milk, 1020 fat, 920 protein
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The
somatic cell count runs about 175,000
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Fairmont Dairy in East Craftsbury currently milks
320 cows and have 50 dry cows
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Cows at the Dairy are milked in
a double 8 Alfa Laval parallel parlor with milk metering
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The current
average is 85 lbs per cow per day,
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Herd average 25,500 lbs. milk, 950 fat, 870 protein
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Cows are bedded
with sand
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All calves are custom raised
at the heifer facility in East Montpelier
- Bred heifers return to
Craftsbury and are kept in a rented barn until they are
close to calving
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The forage to concentrate
ratio of the TMR is 64:36, with 70% of the forage coming
form corn silage and 30% from haylage
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We grow all our own haylage
and corn silage
- All grain is purchased through
a local feed company
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Fairmont Farm, Inc. does all
the cropping work in East Craftsbury
- In addition to
Tucker, the Dairy employs four full time employees and one
part time employee
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We
use proven bulls from the top 100 TPI list and also participate in
young sire programs
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About 35% of our herd is registered
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All
cows are set up to be bred by 80 days
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The
voluntary waiting period is 50 days
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Our
calving interval runs about 13.1, with services per conception at 2.6 for
pregnant cows and average days open is 121
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The
cows are fed once daily, we feed three different rations to our milk cows
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Calving interval is 12.8
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All cows on both farms are beeded with sand
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Manure is handled as liquid and semi liquid
