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

Greengrass1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVu7NvnFPww&feature=youtu.be

On s lighter note. Nice video of the cows out in Africa sent by Bothar.
Dad always on about doing it. Will definitely send one some yr

jack o shea

can they be vacinated for salmonella while still milking?is now the time to do it?thought i seen blood on a cows tail yest but cudnt find her today to look into it furthur,do they still pass blood when in calf?

freedominacup

Greengrass1 wrote: »

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVu7NvnFPww&feature=youtu.be

On s lighter note. Nice video of the cows out in Africa sent by Bothar.
Dad always on about doing it. Will definitely send one some yr

It'll shock you how hard it is to give them a heifer. Not what they want at all. Cash all the way. The grandmother left a small bequest to buy a heifer for them from our herd. The uncle was executor and had to go to serious rounds to convince them to take the heifer.

Greengrass1

freedominacup wrote: »

It'll shock you how hard it is to give them a heifer. Not what they want at all. Cash all the way. The grandmother left a small bequest to buy a heifer for them from our herd. The uncle was executor and had to go to serious rounds to convince them to take the heifer.

I'm surprised at thst. Few yrs ago it was mad with up to a 100 going over each yr. Hear v little about it the last few yrs

Deepsouthwest

freedominacup wrote: »

It'll shock you how hard it is to give them a heifer. Not what they want at all. Cash all the way. The grandmother left a small bequest to buy a heifer for them from our herd. The uncle was executor and had to go to serious rounds to convince them to take the heifer.

I have to agree, great organisation and all, but I've tried to offer an animal more than once about 5 yrs ago, and they never followed up my offers. Unusual

whelan2

Timmaay wrote: »

Both abortions here from 10days ago have tested positive for salmonella. Thankfully no more abortions since.

Are you in the disease screening scheme in Glanbia? If you are , jiust wondering if anything ever showed up for salmonella? I got a positive on it during the summer and I vaccinated everything for it. Both tests since the positive one have been negative

whelan2

jack o shea wrote: »

can they be vacinated for salmonella while still milking?is now the time to do it?thought i seen blood on a cows tail yest but cudnt find her today to look into it furthur,do they still pass blood when in calf?

August is the ideal time to vaccinate, no problem doing them while still milking

kowtow

Mehaffey1 wrote:

It's becoming less and less common to see a NZ farm running on grass and silage alone. Supplementing on platform Fodder Beet in Autumn and Palm Kernel is becoming very popular. This system in a good payout year can pump away on Pk for a substantial amount of DM needed.

What the journal doesn't point out is that supplementation became necessary when land prices rose, in order to make the figures stack up.

As I have been repeating ad nauseam for years, if grass only production is a risk free profit maker in any market, the price of grass (i e land) will increase until it isn't.

In a relatively fluid land market like NZ I suspect this will have been a significant factor.

kowtow

stanflt wrote:

Only issue is that the pke doesn't leave milk suitable for cheese production

Some of us would say that about silage or maize as well!

Deepsouthwest

kowtow wrote: »

Some of us would say that about silage or maize as well!

Wish we could get that message to reverberate around the rest of the world

have2flushtwice

has the SFP payment been delayed until January for anyone?

kevthegaff

Talk of the drought starting to affect cattle/sheep trade in nz, GDT could be up 10% next trade

whelan2

What bulls are people using on abo stock?

mahoney_j

whelan2 wrote: »

What bulls are people using on abo stock?

Lwr or dovea have a serious bull coming through with over 400 ebi with equally good milk and solids figures fr 2249'

whelan2

Got a call from pg there, that they are doing a sort of level pay system over the year. Pay the same amount each month off your account, might suit some people

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

Got a call from pg there, that they are doing a sort of level pay system over the year. Pay the same amount each month off your account, might suit some people

Could suit alot. Could be looking at ai bill of 3k plus in may

Milked out

mahoney_j wrote: »

Lwr or dovea have a serious bull coming through with over 400 ebi with equally good milk and solids figures fr 2249'

LWR's sire is abo so no good there on abo stock. Some of the new proofs are up so you can check them against the catalogue only for ones with calving recorded first I think. The bull search facility won't be updated till the 21st tho

RightTurnClyde

mahoney_j wrote: »

Lwr or dovea have a serious bull coming through with over 400 ebi with equally good milk and solids figures fr 2249'

Is LWR related to ABO? Son?
(Could be completely wrong)

Edit: Milked out got there in front of me

RightTurnClyde

have2flushtwice wrote: »

has the SFP payment been delayed until January for anyone?

Issue with transfer of entitlements here, so no payment yet. Finally got to talk to someone that should know yesterday and they're saying it will probably be Jan before payment but they are working to get them done for Christmas.
All paper work is done and correct. Apparently the IT issues.

have2flushtwice

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Issue with transfer of entitlements here, so no payment yet. Finally got to talk to someone that should know yesterday and they're saying it will probably be Jan before payment but they are working to get them done for Christmas.
All paper work is done and correct. Apparently the IT issues.

thanks for that.

RightTurnClyde

have2flushtwice wrote: »

thanks for that.

H2ft, is your hold up down to entitlement transfers or a PCP or is something else entirely

Mehaffey1

kevthegaff wrote: »

Talk of the drought starting to affect cattle/sheep trade in nz, GDT could be up 10% next trade

Talking in the pub last night and people off loading culls left right and centre, some even drying off first year milkers etc. These are on farms with pivot irrigation and all those bells and whistles.

Rain moving in here at the mountains but the plains won't get much relief at all.

Mehaffey1

Post to 'NZ Farming' Facebook page

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Hey guys I've got an anonymous question if you wouldn't mind putting it up? So there's a fairly good chance we are going to have to sell up this season and I'm wondering what people's feelings on the dairy cattle market is atm. I've got straight jerseys, BW 145/45 and PW 145/70, averaging 1.9ms in the November herd test (on a grass only diet) and scc average of around 90 ..... What would you market them for? What would YOU pay for them lol?? Are many herds selling this year? And what would you charge for R1 & R2 straight jersey daughters of these cows with even higher bw/pw 😬 sorry for the long question! Cheers team

First comment from ' Mr. Bailey'
Hi Guys
I own and run Canterbury Livestock Ltd based in Ashburton very interesting reading your comments depending if you are in South or North but in the South Island most dairy farmers are down 10-15 % on numbers and they are still dropping numbers because of dry and finance reasons
There will not be a lot of herds getting sold
as one line there will be a lot of top ups
We are signing incalf freisain xbred heifers up for $1500-$1600 top line the other day was signed up for $1720 with BWs 180
Herds - good low in put herds doing 400-450 kgs still going to bring $1700-$1800 with good records
We got a line of 1100 2rd calvers on market for
$1950-$2000 people are showing a lot of interest
So for you Jersey herd its finding the buyers wanting Jerseys but they are normally $100-$200 below freisain herds
Feel free to ring

Looks like a nice herd of cows on the way out although no talk of herd size. Prices being thrown around also look to be 20% shy of the bumper 2013 season that's for sure.



Greengrass1

Started AI this morning. Hadn't planned to start until 20th. 7 bulling - hard to pass them by.
Only picked bulls the other day. Could only find 4 that suited us

stanflt

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Started AI this morning. Hadn't planned to start until 20th. 7 bulling - hard to pass them by.
Only picked bulls the other day. Could only find 4 that suited us

What are you using

Greengrass1

stanflt wrote: »

What are you using

Lwr used 6 of him this morning
Next gen brigade
Fr 2032
And KJO

whelan2

Used nearly all lwr here. And pat and bb on the rest

frazzledhome

Nothing served here yet. Will let in HE Bulls Xmas week till Jan 20th or so.

Did it last year and calves sold like hot buns, last thing I need is another 2 groups of animals on the farm

alps

whelan2 wrote: »

Used nearly all lwr here. And pat and bb on the rest

LWR has Hugo on both sides of his breeding. Last year on 2 occasions AI companies asked me to breed cows to a son as a granson of the cows sire.......

Is anyone else uncomfortable with this. ?

Or is it my strong Catholic upbringing creating such a sense of guilt?

stanflt

alps wrote: »

LWR has Hugo on both sides of his breeding. Last year on 2 occasions AI companies asked me to breed cows to a son as a granson of their sire.......

Is anyone else uncomfortable with this. ?

Or is it my strong Catholic upbringing creating such a sense of guilt?

That's less than 6% inbreeding
I'd be fine with it- work away