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Dairy chit chat II

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    mf240 wrote: »
    Get a grip man. Read a few labels get a few prices they are not selling below cost or close to it.

    Funny thing is their beef ration formulations are top class and literally no fillers, was told by the new account rep for my area that I'd be better of buying straights and mixing myself to get the nut spec I wanted and they had a god given right to put whatever crap they seen fit into their dairy feeds....
    it's pretty galling their tag line of the 5 year scheme been worth in real terms 34 cent a litre with the feed costs "savings" it just shows how little intellect they reckon their suppliers pocess


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,260 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    I did put a ? when I asked about below cost selling.

    Of course, it isn't below cost selling, esp with the ingredients going into it.

    Maybe Jam is right, feed the cows beef nuts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,482 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    Water John wrote: »
    I did put a ? when I asked about below cost selling.

    Of course, it isn't below cost selling, esp with the ingredients going into it.

    Maybe Jam is right, feed the cows beef nuts.
    I know a man doing it. Replaces the beef minerals with dairy.
    I can't see why more don't do it either tbh. Typically Meal is fed as an energy source. Makes sense tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Water John wrote: »
    I did put a ? when I asked about below cost selling.

    Of course, it isn't below cost selling, esp with the ingredients going into it.

    Maybe Jam is right, feed the cows beef nuts.

    Many years ago Fintan Conway in IFA used to say that it was costing the mill £80/tonne to mix a ration and we were mad not to be growing, sourcing and mixing our own rations.
    Fintan managed a William Wallers branch in Mullingar in the 1990s so he'd have good experience


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    what centres should cow cubicles be at..?? holstein friesian cows.....
    Go to page 50 in the PDF link below and they give all the dimensions but the standard seems to be 3'9". Yours would be bigger cows, I'm thinking, though.

    https://www.teagasc.ie/media/website/publications/2016/Dairy-Manual-Section3.pdf


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,260 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Philip Bouchar Hayes RTE1 ATM looking at Dairy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    Woohoo!

    On the ICBF report the herd ranking fat and protein (kg/cow) is 96% and the litres per cow per day is 99% out of 100 in Glanbia.

    I'm not putting up the rest of the categories. :D

    (Well, % heifers calves at 22 - 26 months is 100% ).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Floki wrote: »
    Woohoo!

    On the ICBF report the herd ranking fat and protein (kg/cow) is 96% and the litres per cow per day is 99% out of 100 in Glanbia.

    I'm not putting up the rest of the categories. :D

    (Well, % heifers calves at 22 - 26 months is 100% ).



    Fair going


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    stanflt wrote: »
    Fair going

    Ah ****e!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Can't beat the bit of sun on their backs


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭stanflt


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    Can't beat the bit of sun on their backs



    There's a stray broken in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    stanflt wrote: »
    There's a stray broken in

    She's the little token reindeer around the place, well able to hold her own with the rest though, wouldn't mind getting into a few pure bred danish jerseys, the fear of bringing in Johnes is all that's holding us back


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Collected two Dacians from the airport yesterday morning and both were straight into evening milking.

    It's so refreshing to have people around the place that actually *want* to work!
    Both fluent French also.

    Long may it last.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Collected two Dacians from the airport yesterday morning and both were straight into evening milking.

    It's so refreshing to have people around the place that actually *want* to work!
    Both fluent French also.

    Long may it last.

    I had to google Dacians, never even heard of a country called Dacia.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    I had to google Dacians, never even heard of a country called Dacia.

    There's a tiny stigma attached to their modern handle...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    I was having some trouble taking a dead animal off my CMMS with a few months and nobody could tell me why. It got to the stage where someone felt it necessary to threaten me with being restricted unless I resolved it but nobody could tell me why the animal wasn't being taken off and what I could do to sort it.

    Anyway after 3 months the animal was removed but I'm still in the dark as to what was done today that couldn't be done anytime in the last 3 months without threatening me?

    The system is pure fcuked up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭tanko


    So theyre from the Romanian part?
    Any Romanians ive met have either been brilliant workers or completely useless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    tanko wrote: »
    So theyre from the Romanian part?
    Any Romanians ive met have either been brilliant workers or completely useless.

    Maybe it's because you are mixing up Romanians with Romas, Romas are Brazilian travellers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Maybe it's because you are mixing up Romanians with Romas, Romas are Brazilian travellers.

    Brazilian Travellers. I've heard it all now, although there probably is such a thing.

    Here's a little bit about the Roma, Sam.

    screenshot_1.png

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

    Edit: I should read my own links before posting.
    Apparently there's 800,000 Roma living in Brazil.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Floki wrote: »
    Brazilian Travellers. I've heard it all now, although there probably is such a thing.

    Here's a little bit about the Roma, Sam.

    screenshot_1.png

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

    Edit: I should read my own links before posting.
    Apparently there's 800,000 Roma living in Brazil.

    I did a little research before posting :) Imade the same mistake on here a while back.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    I did a little research before posting :) Imade the same mistake on here a while back.

    I never knew there were Roma in Brazil. :pac:

    Everyday's a school day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    tanko wrote: »
    So theyre from the Romanian part?
    Any Romanians ive met have either been brilliant workers or completely useless.

    A good few worked with a crowd I worked for. They got the Irish in to do the jobs the english wouldn't do and the romanians in to do the jobs the irish wouldn't do :D Seemed to be great workers for the most part, like any workers though they'd take the piss if/when they could get away with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,811 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Do many people have hereford bulls with their heifers/dairy cows? Bought an angus bull for our angus herd this morning ,he also had a couple of hereford bulls , one of them took my fancy. What is their calving difficulty like ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,260 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    The head can be big. Had one years ago, generally placid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Water John wrote: »
    The head can be big. Had one years ago, generally placid.

    Definitely avoid if the head is big. Very placid bulls, like pet cows in comparison to fr bulls ha, calves unfortunately can be equally as placid and hopeless to suck etc, not good if you end up with an outbreak of scour during calving season.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,326 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    our present bull is classed as 8.5% calving difficulty, no issues with calving 2 year old heifers but we did have to help a few


    I bought 6 incalf heifers a few years and the calves were huge, had them for 2 months before calving so over feeding wasn;t a issue

    at the yearling stage our own cattle had them passed out and were far nicer looking stock


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    stanflt wrote: »
    Fair going

    Just to compare west cork averagef and p276kgs,litres,15.02,f%3.94,p%3.41,price 36.6,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Do many people have hereford bulls with their heifers/dairy cows? Bought an angus bull for our angus herd this morning ,he also had a couple of hereford bulls , one of them took my fancy. What is their calving difficulty like ?

    Had one with heifers this year Will know next spring, had a couple bwh out of heifers last year and no bother really, was there for calving but they managed alone anyway, think whitehead calves are easier to sell than aa imo maybe just around here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Bar the odd dead calf onmy time I jacked a calf was hereford out of heifers. Now all depends on bull but a small head important I think. No problem with aa, or bb


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    stanflt wrote: »
    Fair going

    The glanbia averages seem to be a moveable feast tbh. Not showing the same averages or top ten on my report. Average kg on mine is 277 for example. Average milk litres is 15.35.


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