Each animal has a numbered collar. The feed station electronically reads the collar number when the calf goes to the feed station. The computer knows what each animal is entitled to, records the visits and what was drunk. You can view individual animals through the hand held device. Its how I knew number 20 wasnt feeding. It started appearing in the 'entitled' list. When I looked at the records for number 20 I could see 0% consumed. When I pushed it up to the station, it refused to drink. As it had been feeding fine up to that point, there was obviously something wrong. One of the others was always on the entitled list but it fed when you pushed it up. Nothing wrong with it other than it was lazy. A pain, but nothing to worry about. It is an amazing bit of kit. When its time to wean the animals, the system reduces the number of feeds automatically against a pre-defined profile. They have two batches of calves in there. The system will have a feed profile, and each animal a start day. So in this case, the second batch is running about 10 days behind the first. The first batch will be on reduced feeds for weaning while the second batch is still getting the full number of feeds. Not sure exactly what the profile is, but you could have something like, day 1-10 1l feeds 5 times a day, minimum gap between feeds 1 hour. Day 11-20, 1.5l feeds 4 times, gap 1 hour. Day 21-30, 2l feeds 3 times, gap 1.5 hours. Day 31-40, 2l, twice, gap 2.5 hours. Day 41-60, 2l, once. Day 61 on, nothing. Nothing for you to do, the computer does the lot. When youre feeding calves on a milk bar, its hard to see if anything is behaving oddly unless its just standing in a corner while everything else is feeding. Also, on a milk bar, one calf could be drinking faster than others and getting more than its share. The auto feeder gives them a set amount, no more.
Sorry no farming to report, but you can't get further "away from football" thread title than spending money on something logical.... Just installed two new patio doors at the back of the house - a 2 metre two panel, and the other a 4 metre 3 panel. My 40 year old Anglian hardwood/aluminium patios were shot - wood rotting in bottom corners allowing some damp through, and the double glazed units were breaking down - like looking out into a fog. Good service but time to change. Went for quality UPVC instead and ordered replacements from up around remote's neck of the woods (I think) if Macclesfield is in Cheshire. Kraut product made under license up there, and now they're in, they look it too. Maybe a few quid lighter in the pocket than going local, but like most things, you tend to get what you pay for. Had three local window fitters I know to do the honours - there are things I won't touch personally, quite apart from the sheer bloody weight of the things. The old Anglian gear came out suprisingly easily and the replacements fitted like a glove - like as if they grew there. That was the first step over, now to my subsequent involvement and absence from the forum, and also the CCS for the Mansfield game. The damp that got through over recent years had damaged the oak flooring butting up to them and I've had to replace it. Fortunately, I've kept lengths of the original stuff I laid 25 years ago in the garage roof space so at least I had the exact same to match. The old patio doors all came out and the new ones went in in a day, but cutting in the new flooring has taken me the best part of a bloody week.......
Out of sheer boredom with this bloody rain pissing down preventing me from doing some external odd jobs I need to sort, just bought a couple for tickets online for tonight's Euromillions draw - probably a fiver wasted, but what the hell. Happened to have £7 sitting in my Lottery account when I logged in to buy them so had a couple of quid left. Still hammering down outside, so I clicked on the online instants and bought a "Lucky Puckshot" game for the 2 quid left - I couldn't believe the outcome. Completed a boosted row of the pink symbols and won 400 quid. I checked on the odds of that particular result in the game details, and it says 2.4 million to one. Despite the temptation to carry on playing, I've withdrawn it into my bank account - mind you I'll admit I have left 20 quid in there so I could have another go again later if this rain doesn't stop.........
Winner winner slap up dinner. 9c in Hull and bright sunshine at the minute. Forecast to pish it down just in time for us leaving the pub for tonight's match, hey ho. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Dry and very windy in cheshireland. Cant remember the last time I placed any sort of bet. 15-20 years maybe.
Tempting, but not as tempting as the opportunity to watch dross, come home disappointed ,and hurl abuse at a referee who also happens to be a Met copper. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I'm in no way advocating betting/ gambling on here in any shape or form. To each their own, but there's more to life than sheep.........
Not averse to the odd bet just havent for some time. Never had an on line account. I seem to be spending more time with cows than sheep these days.
Online accounts can be a route to disaster for some - they remove the necessity to go out and find a betting office for instance. Making it too easy to part with your money is a definite issue. It's pushed in your face every time you turn on a Sky Sports football game - and it's not just Sky. It's all very well telling people they should have more self control - some just can't help themselves and therein lies the problem. The mass exposure and the promotion of online gambling is damaging real people who just can't help themselves.
Its one of the reasons I wont bother with an account. I have decent self control but can imagine times where Id see it as 'something to do'. I suppose if you treat it as a hoby and allocate a manageable budget its fine, but I can see how it could get away from you.
The "something to do" issue is a very real threat for idle hands. I've never had that problem as I always seem to have more things to do than time to do them. I used to have a BetVictor account for the horses back in the day, but haven't used that for probably 10 years now - lost all interest. I have a B365 account for occasional City football wagers - I don't use it for anything else - and a National Lottery account to fund the family regular selections by DD rather than finding a shop with a lottery terminal like in the "old days". The beauty of the Lottery Direct Debit account is that they pay any winnings directly to your bank and not into your lottery account which could tempt you to spend it. The very occasional Euromillions ticket I might buy like today for instance is funded either by cash already in my lottery account from previous winnings or by sticking the odd fiver in on the day. That's as far as it goes and will stay like that - I accept others might be tempted to "chase their losses" - very, very dangerous!
