Dairy Chit Chat- Please read Mod note in post #1

kevthegaff

I'd need a meal shed, new low fill bin, feeder to mix it, and loader to fill the bin and feeder! Also extra work but better feed

Timmaay

Final scanning today of the late spring calvers. Fcuk me the bull was busy tail end of the breeding season, but saved the bacon of several cows ha! Anyway only 10empties in total , 6 of whom I want to cull, (about 5 others I want to cull also, but bull did the job on them ha), but biggest issue is the spread:

Feb 38
March 20
April 22
May 1
June 5

I'll probably go again with the 4 empties, these will be my only autumn calving cows next year (28 calving after April will easily fill the liquid quota), going to be hard to pull back many of them 28cows to March, but will try hard, will prb cut off breeding next year to avoid anything after 3rd week of April, a week a year about all I can do. Breeding has been the one torn in my side on the farm, I've struggling to make much impact on the spring calving spread, time to throw away the coils, estrumate etc etc, and get very ruthless, if a cow can't go incalf within the window she is gone.

keep going

Dawggone wrote: »

Definitely worth exploring Kg.

How much for, say, 24 in parlour feeders? 24 would be about right for 100cows?
How many kgs per 100cow herd of nuts per year?
Are we happy with the merchant making €100/ton margin?

The feeders are a no brainer but its the bin is the issue, once it goes in you tied to the merchant with a blower.my suggestion is to have a bin that can be filled with a loader in a house with the feeds init loader dosent leave the house and bin feeds the feeders.having said all that its the labour becomes the issue but then the debate becomes cheap straights versus renting land

kowtow

keep going wrote: »

The feeders are a no brainer but its the bin is the issue, once it goes in you tied to the merchant with a blower.my suggestion is to have a bin that can be filled with a loader in a house with the feeds init loader dosent leave the house and bin feeds the feeders.having said all that its the labour becomes the issue but then the debate becomes cheap straights versus renting land

I'm about to build a bin for the parlour and thinking of using a spare set of parlour augurs I have kicking around to lift from a hopper at ground level up into the bin. Can fill the hopper from loader or bag.

It won't be possible to blow into the bin for reasons of architectural merit.

visatorro

kowtow wrote: »

I'm about to build a bin for the parlour and thinking of using a spare set of parlour augurs I have kicking around to lift from a hopper at ground level up into the bin. Can fill the hopper from loader or bag.

It won't be possible to blow into the bin for reasons of architectural merit.

condon engineering make a bin which can be filled with a loader or blown in. don't know prices.
there is a video on their site.
you thinking of a nut or coarse ration/straights

kowtow

visatorro wrote: »

condon engineering make a bin which can be filled with a loader or blown in. don't know prices.
there is a video on their site.
you thinking of a nut or coarse ration/straights

Probably nuts at this stage but would be nice to keep the options open.

We're planning to build the bin ourselves as it's going in a bit of an odd position and apart from anything else will be too high for our old loader to reach comfortably (we have a high concrete apron around the parlour).

As we have spare augurs the idea occurred to us to have a hopper lower down and load / empty a bag into there, it's a small amount of feed and since we're actually going to integrate the bin inside a sort of building whether it will be fit to blow into at all is a bit doubtful.

Haven't really come up with a plan yet as other things more pressing.

frazzledhome

Just read s piece in the FINDO about a guy who's spent €300k on a milking parlour for 190 cows. Have people gone completely mad?

Greengrass1

frazzledhome wrote: »

Just read s piece in the FINDO about a guy who's spent €300k on a milking parlour for 190 cows. Have people gone completely mad?

I think it's bad enough owing less than that on land. Couldn't face it if it was for a bloody parlour

Timmaay

frazzledhome wrote: »

Just read s piece in the FINDO about a guy who's spent €300k on a milking parlour for 190 cows. Have people gone completely mad?

11.5k per unit!!! Just looking at it now, for once it isn't a clearly sponsored by Dairymaster article (looks like a Delaval parlour?).

kowtow

Timmaay wrote:

11.5k per unit!!! Just looking at it now, for once it isn't a clearly sponsored by Dairymaster article (looks like a Delaval parlour?).

Someone tell him it's costing him the best part of a fiver a side. Every side, ever.

Sacrolyte

What do you guys put down as the value of your cows for the purposes of yr. end accounts.

alps

Sacrolyte wrote: »

What do you guys put down as the value of your cows for the purposes of yr. end accounts.

Job for your accountant.....they increase in value quiet nicely while you have stock relief, and may tumble in value due to unforeseen circumstances at a later stage...
Need to plan carefully with that one. .

keep going

Do you know the way sometimes you see a building on th farmers journal and you go that makes no sencewell the other day I met a young fella with a good job who is taking over the farm at home and he was telling me that when you allow that he will qualify for 60 %grant and the fact he is in the high tax bracket basically means it will only cost him 20 % of the build, puts adifferent slant on things

kowtow

keep going wrote:

Do you know the way sometimes you see a building on th farmers journal and you go that makes no sencewell the other day I met a young fella with a good job who is taking over the farm at home and he was telling me that when you allow that he will qualify for 60 %grant and the fact he is in the high tax bracket basically means it will only cost him 20 % of the build, puts adifferent slant on things

Know what you mean, but in my experience anyway the guys who justify ex excessive spending on tax grounds often don't stay too long in the high bracket...

Timmaay

Serious cash flow drain also, ya gotta cough up the full amount for a few months while you wait for the department to undertake their extremely stressful and long days of sorting out your paperwork.

alps

Some pure useless info after inputing calving dates tonight... These are some of the straws used with the number holding/number used and AI Co.
GTW 19/24 Munster
XDO 6/9 Eurogene
CZF 4/4 Munster
WWT 14/18 Munster
FYA 7/12 Munster
YAD 8/13 Munster
KKG 5/12 Dovea
S2277 3/10 Dovea
RHS 1/4 Munster

Bit of a spread in quality me thinks...

frazzledhome

Sacrolyte wrote: »

What do you guys put down as the value of your cows for the purposes of yr. end accounts.

That's a figure you need to be careful with. I'd suggest that be be decided between you and your accountant. Your long term plan, stock relief etc has a big bearing on that figure

Greengrass1

Scc results back from milk recording.
6 lac cow spring calver 1.7 m scc. Incalf
Dry her off or treat and dry off?

A heifer calved 4 wks with scc of 1.4 mil. Tested her with cmt and nothing showed up. She has a bit of swelling on one quarter which could be causing?

visatorro

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Scc results back from milk recording.
6 lac cow spring calver 1.7 m scc. Incalf
Dry her off or treat and dry off?

if it were me id dry her off ta feck. sample and get tested if you had the patience. your hardly stuck for the milk

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

if it were me id dry her off ta feck. sample and get tested if you had the patience. your hardly stuck for the milk

if it was me she'd be out the gate this evening, but would cmt her first to see if there is a problem that could be treated

Greengrass1

visatorro wrote: »

if it were me id dry her off ta feck. sample and get tested if you had the patience. your hardly stuck for the milk

No not stuck. Just to get her right is all

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

if it was me she'd be out the gate this evening, but would cmt her first to see if there is a problem that could be treated

Why out the gate?
She's in late lactation
Every extra cow counts.

whelan2

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Why out the gate?
She's in late lactation
Every extra cow counts.

what is your scc. I have had a problem here for a while, got rid of the highest scc cow every month for a few months and its under 150 now.

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

what is your scc. I have had a problem here for a while, got rid of the highest scc cow every month for a few months and its under 150 now.

Eh 90 waa last collection.
This is her first time ever coming up with high scc

whelan2

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Eh 90 waa last collection.
This is her first time ever coming up with high scc

Well treat her in all quarters and dry her off .

kevthegaff

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Eh 90 waa last collection.
This is her first time ever coming up with high scc

Bottle of tylan she should come right, wouldn't bother with an older cow tho

mahoney_j

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Why out the gate?
She's in late lactation
Every extra cow counts.

At 1.7 m SCC and 6 lactation it'll be v hard if not impossible .out the gate so she won't infect some other cow

Brown Podzol

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Eh 90 waa last collection.
This is her first time ever coming up with high scc

Recent infection so. If she was mine I'd treat her and dry her off now if no other issues with her.

Milked out

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Eh 90 waa last collection.
This is her first time ever coming up with high scc

Find the quarter treat it then cepravin and a good long dry period. Worked on a few for me last year

Greengrass1

Milked out wrote: »

Find the quarter treat it then cepravin and a good long dry period. Worked on a few for me last year

Waiting on a new dry cow script. Someone messed up and put down tubes for 8 cows instead of 80 🙈