Dairy chit chat II

kowtow

Keepgrowing wrote: »

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/is-it-possible-to-run-a-profitable-dairy-business-on-leased-land/?utm_content=bufferbdaaa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Looking forward to it!

yewtree

Keepgrowing wrote: »

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/is-it-possible-to-run-a-profitable-dairy-business-on-leased-land/?utm_content=bufferbdaaa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Always a good day wont make it this year, a bit of a spin for me and a few things on.
IGA does great work, nice to see it be drivem by farmers rather than just industry or teagasc

Buford T. Justice XIX

An article from the NZ Herald questioning the dairy industry's future direction.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11891843

Buford T. Justice XIX

And now a link from the Soccer forum on extremely rare and expensive butter.

http://www.saveur.com/worlds-best-fancy-butter

A bit off topic for most threads but probably right on the money for that particular thread:D

Gawddawggonnit

The man who suffered the heart attack is going to be ok but won't be able to work again....

So, due to unforeseen circumstances an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic...blah blah...

We're hiring milker/yardperson.

darragh_haven

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

The man who suffered the heart attack is going to be ok but won't be able to work again....

So, due to unforeseen circumstances an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic...blah blah...

We're hiring milker/yardperson.

Ohhhh. Its sooo tempting. Bit I'm lazy and i don't think it'd work out.


I'll send my son out in a few years......

freedominacup

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

The man who suffered the heart attack is going to be ok but won't be able to work again....

So, due to unforeseen circumstances an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic...blah blah...

We're hiring milker/yardperson.

I'm glad he'll be alright.

I just happen to know a fella with a big hardy buck of a 16 year old with good conversational French and a tractor license. This lad is certain he's ready for the big bad world. Everyone could get well out of this yet. Might take the pressure off you to get a man for a few weeks. There's another young lad up louth direction who has the same opinion of himself but probably lacking some if the language skills.

kowtow

freedominacup wrote: »

I'm glad he'll be alright.

I just happen to know a fella with a big hardy buck of a 16 year old with good conversational French and a tractor license. This lad is certain he's ready for the big bad world. Everyone could get well out of this yet. Might take the pressure off you to get a man for a few weeks. There's another young lad up louth direction who has the same opinion of himself but probably lacking some if the language skills.

If I could drag him away from second cut you could have him in a heart beat but at the moment he's booked solid. Am bargaining with him myself at the moment to get him to milk next Tuesday so I can go to Kilkenny.

Gawddawggonnit

freedominacup wrote: »

I'm glad he'll be alright.

I just happen to know a fella with a big hardy buck of a 16 year old with good conversational French and a tractor license. This lad is certain he's ready for the big bad world. Everyone could get well out of this yet. Might take the pressure off you to get a man for a few weeks. There's another young lad up louth direction who has the same opinion of himself but probably lacking some if the language skills.

Send 'em on. I didn't réalisé that you had a lad of that age.

Asked a lady worker to drop me to the tyre shop for my jeep this am...she couldn't find her way back so I suggested she follow me. She followed me back past the yard, and into the accountants offices 20km away...anyone with an iq better than their shoe size (not continental) will be considered...

freedominacup

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Send 'em on. I didn't réalisé that you had a lad of that age.

Asked a lady worker to drop me to the tyre shop for my jeep this am...she couldn't find her way back so I suggested she follow me. She followed me back past the yard, and into the accountants offices 20km away...anyone with an iq better than their shoe size (not continental) will be considered...

Not me. Kt and whelan. If my eldest was a year older he'd be heading for the airport now. It'd be some month for him regardless of whether or not he ever made a career of it.

whelan2

Bulls gone out from cows this evening.

Keepgrowing

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Send 'em on. I didn't réalisé that you had a lad of that age.

Asked a lady worker to drop me to the tyre shop for my jeep this am...she couldn't find her way back so I suggested she follow me. She followed me back past the yard, and into the accountants offices 20km away...anyone with an iq better than their shoe size (not continental) will be considered...

Ah Jaysus that's brutal

Gawddawggonnit

freedominacup wrote: »

Not me. Kt and whelan. If my eldest was a year older he'd be heading for the airport now. It'd be some month for him regardless of whether or not he ever made a career of it.

I wouldn't know myself with lads/lassies of that caliber. Honestly!



I've been lumped with a 15yr old young lady, daughter of a friend, to be "given a dose of reality", for the next month...born and bred in Sandycove. Generally all she's doing is riding shotgun with me but the hours are killing her.
I feel sorry for her as she is on a technology ban for her stay. Tough love.

mf240

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Send 'em on. I didn't réalisé that you had a lad of that age.

Asked a lady worker to drop me to the tyre shop for my jeep this am...she couldn't find her way back so I suggested she follow me. She followed me back past the yard, and into the accountants offices 20km away...anyone with an iq better than their shoe size (not continental) will be considered...

Why do you need people with small feet

Gawddawggonnit

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Ah Jaysus that's brutal

Lovely, lovely girl, but sadly nothing upstairs. Can't see her staying as she's having boyfriend problems.

Wouldn't inject an animal until a few months ago...I filled a bottle of Marbocyl with water, came flying into the yard in a cloud of dust, handed her the bottle of water and a syringe and told her all the calves would be dead within 12hrs if the didn't get the 'magic' vaccine. She can inject now. Hard slog.

K.G.

Was thinking of you today dawg at a farmwalk in west cork today.compact calving fr cows doing 24litres at 3.92 p and 3.97bf on 1.5 kilos.same cows last year were doing 1.5kilos solids last october

whelan2

New sensors in milk tank again today, have lost count of how many have gone into it now

kowtow

whelan2 wrote: »

New sensors in milk tank again today, have lost count of how many have gone into it now

There's an app for that.

But you'll need a "sensor sensor"

GrasstoMilk

whelan2 wrote: »

New sensors in milk tank again today, have lost count of how many have gone into it now

Have the same tank as you here and had no issues with it. It blew a cable going from the screen to the wash centre a few months back but that's all. There must be some reason your sensors are blowing? I have RCBOs on the tank that trip if any extra electricity is going to the tank they trip. Would find them tripped the odd time

Gawddawggonnit

Local lady with Alzheimer's has gone missing. Her daughter was caring for her and is very distraught. Understandably.

Two police helicopters with thermal imaging, cops and locals out all night. My young girl spotted her whilst riding out yesterday evening but made the mistake of leaving her to go for help.

Back out to search now.

bogman_bass

kowtow wrote: »

Yes - it's Bruce I had in mind if tutorial is the way forward.

He missed an Irish exemption by 6 days when he arrived here so whatever he does I suppose he would do 6+1... might have a look into coupling Ag Sc & Ag Economics..

We live in a world of qualification inflation

The job that you got with a leaving cert 20 years ago or a degree 10 years ago now needs a masters
Weather that is "right" or "fair" is irrelevant. It's where we are

In 3rd level even if it's in a field he loves he is still going to have to study for subjects that he hates.
He won't miraculously be able to start doing it then he needs to get into that habit now

Mooooo

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Local lady with Alzheimer's has gone missing. Her daughter was caring for her and is very distraught. Understandably.

Two police helicopters with thermal imaging, cops and locals out all night. My young girl spotted her whilst riding out yesterday evening but made the mistake of leaving her to go for help.

Back out to search now.

Very hard to see. Grandmother was staying with an aunt in bray one morning she decided she was heading home, out the door on to the road heading for the motorway, aunt had literally just gone into another room. Caught up with her in 2 minutes If she was on her own for any length of time god knows where she would have ended up

whelan2

Intresting discussion going on here http://j.mp/2ukN4tm

blackdog1

whelan2 wrote:

Intresting discussion going on here

If I was going to switch to any breed it would be pure British Friesian or Normande cows. I have students who come here with Normande cows doing 7000-7500 litres of milk a year with great solids. Great calf prices and cull cow too. Wouldn't touch a jersey or kiwi cross in a fit.

Buford T. Justice XIX

blackdog1 wrote: »

If I was going to switch to any breed it would be pure British Friesian or Normande cows. I have students who come here with Normande cows doing 7000-7500 litres of milk a year with great solids. Great calf prices and cull cow too. Wouldn't touch a jersey or kiwi cross in a fit.

Normande are supposed to have very poor feet. I had 2 half breds back when they came out first and their feet were very prone to white line disease.

Mooooo

whelan2 wrote: »

Intresting discussion going on here http://j.mp/2ukN4tm

Neighbour says good Jersey bulls are hard to find now already, doesn't seem like there is much investment in one of the parent breeds of that's the case

whelan2

blackdog1 wrote: »

If I was going to switch to any breed it would be pure British Friesian or Normande cows. I have students who come here with Normande cows doing 7000-7500 litres of milk a year with great solids. Great calf prices and cull cow too. Wouldn't touch a jersey or kiwi cross in a fit.

I went British friesian a few years ago. Big difference in herd health since.

kowtow

blackdog1 wrote: »

If I was going to switch to any breed it would be pure British Friesian or Normande cows. I have students who come here with Normande cows doing 7000-7500 litres of milk a year with great solids. Great calf prices and cull cow too. Wouldn't touch a jersey or kiwi cross in a fit.

They have a very high cheese yield too, like Montbeliardes (even on a solids for solids basis)

Have heard some who say they are bad tempered .

Why is the shorthorn not the archetypal Irish dual purpose breed? How do their solids hold up?

yewtree

kowtow wrote: »

They have a very high cheese yield too, like Montbeliardes (even on a solids for solids basis)

Have heard some who say they are bad tempered .

Why is the shorthorn not the archetypal Irish dual purpose breed? How do their solids hold up?

Some of the french breeds have poor solids % from herds i have seen, bad feet aswell for walking.
Very few lads stuck with monty/normendy

Mooooo

She's looking for better terms before she'll follow cows on the road.