Dairy chit chat II

Timmaay

Is the land mobility page in the ifj gone now?

whelan2

Bearings gone in the fan on the compressor of my milk tank. Glad of the bulk tank maintenance contract.

whelan2

Timmaay wrote: »

Is the land mobility page in the ifj gone now?

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tanko

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

A weanling bull got in with a bunch of my heifers last March. He got a few and we didn't realise till breeding time in may.
Now these were scanned incalf in early may and we scanned them all again a month ago and scanner says there's 2 of the bunch that the weanling got to that are not incalf.
Could they have been so far gone incalf that he couldn't tell?
I haven't seen these animals bull all year and was going to sell them.
I'm having second thoughts now

Highly unlikely that he couldnt tell if hes any good at the job. He should be able to tell by hand without the scanner at that stage anyway.

Timmaay

whelan2 wrote: »

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Wayyy more farmers with opportunities than people looking for partnerships hmmm.

einn32

Timmaay wrote: »

Wayyy more farmers with opportunities than people looking for partnerships hmmm.

From talking to people the last while most lads/lasses just want a job on farms now it seems.

Although Ireland is probably unique in that farms are still small enough to get involved in somehow but for most countries farms are too big to buy in to for most. Plus you don't have certain headaches if you're just a worker. But working for yourself is nice.

straight

Got a new drum of avalksan here and it clogged up all the pipes in the auto wash for the tank. Never had that problem before, it's just a bad drum. Replaced all the pipes and they blocked again straight away. Did any of ye have similar problems?

Mooooo

Pulled a calf that was co.ing backwards there while ago, got stuck a bit thought she was gone but kept rubbing the chest and neck for about 10 mins and the world of fluid came out her nose eventually. Haunted. Does anyone have those suction devices for clearing the calves after such a calving? At they any good?

Wildsurfer

Yeah I bought one at ploughing a few years ago, Mullinahone stand I think. I use it a few times every year, usually twins or calf presenting backwards. Usually just to help clear out the lungs, the calf would be fine without it probably. But once I actually brought a calf back from the dead with it. Well maybe an exaggeration but chest barely moving and eyes glazing over. It sucks one way to clear fluid, and the other side is to pump in air. That was some feeling, I was on a high for the day! So I would definitely have one, just so you can tell yourself that you did everything you could for calf even if it does die. But keep it in the calving box for the season, if you have to go looking for it in an emergency it will probably be too late to be of any help.

charolais0153

Wildsurfer wrote: »

Yeah I bought one at ploughing a few years ago, Mullinahone stand I think. I use it a few times every year, usually twins or calf presenting backwards. Usually just to help clear out the lungs, the calf would be fine without it probably. But once I actually brought a calf back from the dead with it. Well maybe an exaggeration but chest barely moving and eyes glazing over. It sucks one way to clear fluid, and the other side is to pump in air. That was some feeling, I was on a high for the day! So I would definitely have one, just so you can tell yourself that you did everything you could for calf even if it does die. But keep it in the calving box for the season, if you have to go looking for it in an emergency it will probably be too late to be of any help.

This it?
http://www.mullinahonecoop.ie/catalog/partdetail.aspx?partno=VET00500

Wildsurfer

charolais0153 wrote: »

This it?
http://www.mullinahonecoop.ie/catalog/partdetail.aspx?partno=VET00500

Sin É. Mine was in a little bag, I see they've upgraded to a neat box now.

mahoney_j

About 10 days grass left ,cows still out day and night but in daily at 3 for buffer of bales and z grazed grasswhich is comming to an end Tuesday .4 kg meal and knocking out 1.56 kgms .full herd still milking and that will continue till 06/12 when dry off starts ,this is last Sunday iof twice a day milking and will go oad full time for December .last 2 months have been tuf going at times weather wise but this is the best and most consistent year growth wise I remember ,milk price is the icing on the cake

cute geoge

mahoney_j wrote: »

About 10 days grass left ,cows still out day and night but in daily at 3 for buffer of bales and z grazed grasswhich is comming to an end Tuesday .4 kg meal and knocking out 1.56 kgms .full herd still milking and that will continue till 06/12 when dry off starts ,this is last Sunday iof twice a day milking and will go oad full time for December .last 2 months have been tuf going at times weather wise but this is the best and most consistent year growth wise I remember ,milk price is the icing on the cake

You are saying it was tough going with the last two months and you still with cows out day and night .Imagine if your were on wet ground in the west so with the last two months and haven eaten well in to your winter silage stocks .With the last three months ,it is no better then 2012 that says a lot about the year it was!!!

mahoney_j

cute geoge wrote: »

You are saying it was tough going with the last two months and you still with cows out day and night .Imagine if your were on wet ground in the west so with the last two months and haven eaten well in to your winter silage stocks .With the last three months ,it is no better then 2012 that says a lot about the year it was!!!

I can only imagine and thank my lucky stars regularly that I’m farming the land I am

Keepgrowing

mahoney_j wrote: »

About 10 days grass left ,cows still out day and night but in daily at 3 for buffer of bales and z grazed grasswhich is comming to an end Tuesday .4 kg meal and knocking out 1.56 kgms .full herd still milking and that will continue till 06/12 when dry off starts ,this is last Sunday iof twice a day milking and will go oad full time for December .last 2 months have been tuf going at times weather wise but this is the best and most consistent year growth wise I remember ,milk price is the icing on the cake

Is that 4kg average on fty?

mahoney_j

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Is that 4kg average on fty?

3.8 kg to be precise on fty basis ,3 to 5 kg max

jaymla627

Was looking through the farm soloituons job page their, the amount of jobs advertised looking for milkers was pretty eye-opening, had to laugh though not one job advertisement had salary verified, always found in my experience when applying for jobs like the above if salary rates weren't specified in the job add the rates where usually pretty dire

Pidae.m

Peeps what the furthest anyone who is milking/running an 70/80 cow herd on there own with only all heifers kept living from the farm.

Heard of a chap who twice a day commuted 35 mile round trip... had to go home for mammys dinner at one. He done it for twenty years until he got married & built a house there this year.

simx

Pidae.m wrote: »

Peeps what the furthest anyone who is milking/running an 70/80 cow herd on there own with only all heifers kept living from the farm.

Heard of a chap who twice a day commuted 35 mile round trip... had to go home for mammys dinner at one. He done it for twenty years until he got married & built a house there this year.

Sounds like half his day was gone going for dinner hA

kevthegaff

Pidae.m wrote:

Peeps what the furthest anyone who is milking/running an 70/80 cow herd on there own with only all heifers kept living from the farm.

Pidae.m wrote:

Heard of a chap who twice a day commuted 35 mile round trip... had to go home for mammys dinner at one. He done it for twenty years until he got married & built a house there this year.

Know a relation milking cows 100 k round trip at least!

whelan2

anyone use Biocel chlorine free dairy detergents?

Keepgrowing

kevthegaff wrote: »

Know a relation milking cows 100 k round trip at least!

Milked on out farm over weekend 60 k round trip so 240 k for the 8 milkings. Great bit of peace tbh.

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

anyone use Biocel chlorine free dairy detergents?

pure chem I'm fairly sure is the brand of mine. buy off magenta

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

pure chem I'm fairly sure is the brand of mine. buy off magenta

Was at an open day today. Was talking to a rep got barrel of detergent for €250. Free pump thrown in.

George Sunsnow

I was talking to a Neighbour today who sold fresh calved heifers for €1750 each last week
It’s a good liquid herd but is there that much of a fire under dairy cows now?

whelan2

George Sunsnow wrote: »

I was talking to a Neighbour today who sold fresh calved heifers for €1750 each last week
It’s a good liquid herd but is there that much of a fire under dairy cows now?

Very few for sale . I bought ten a while ago , they were hard enough got

Gawddawggonnit

George Sunsnow wrote: »

I was talking to a Neighbour today who sold fresh calved heifers for €1750 each last week
It’s a good liquid herd but is there that much of a fire under dairy cows now?

I can buy fresh calved heifers fro less than half that.

RedPeppers

George Sunsnow wrote: »

I was talking to a Neighbour today who sold fresh calved heifers for €1750 each last week
It’s a good liquid herd but is there that much of a fire under dairy cows now?

I was at a dispersal sale last week of young spring calving cows who were been milked oad. Anything nice was making that kind of money.

atlantic mist

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

I can buy fresh calved heifers fro less than half that.

is that due to blue tongue virus? if they are consistently cheaper than us how is it no one has started buying in france and selling in ireland/uk going by your purchase price you couldnt loose money, make you wonder why uk buyers come to ireland instead of france.

Theyd surely make your purchase price being killed in the factory provided their not bags of bones

tanko

Saw a 2014 FR cull cow 725kgs sell for € 950 in the mart this week. She was announced as having a "red card".
Was she an english cow?