Dairy chit chat II

Gawddawggonnit

darragh_haven wrote: »

Selling fodder here. Neighbour asked 10 days ago would I sell him bales. Their all pre-sold before they're made. So offered him very good quality pit silage. He didn't want it. Rang Saturday saying he'll take all the pit silage we have spare.
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A different neighbour had it bought 8 days ago.

I’d a messer like that before Xmas when I advertised maize for sale. He offered to take it off my hands for €25/tdm. It’s making €95/tdm today...I offered it to him this morning at €125.

Gawddawggonnit

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Not a rib of regrowth. Was following grazed paddocks with soiled water/slurry. Anyone see issues with spreading this with the temps that are coming. Worried about the soiled water burning the grass with the temps they are talking about.
The cold is a pita for growth but grazing and soil condition is excellent.

I’ve seen it to burn grass on the wheel tracks after tractor and tanker, but the grass may have been frozen when spreading.

Mooooo

Slurry heading out here now, put he cows in a paddock out the way but they said they preferred the one next to it. Will be coming in 2night anyway

Farmer2017

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Not a rib of regrowth. Was following grazed paddocks with soiled water/slurry. Anyone see issues with spreading this with the temps that are coming. Worried about the soiled water burning the grass with the temps they are talking about.
The cold is a pita for growth but grazing and soil condition is excellent.

Not a sign of regrowth Nd anything not grazed s goin back into ground. Spread a paddock here that had 400 on it a month ago with 3000 gallons slurry. 100 on it today

simx

whelan2 wrote: »

What are you selling the nr bulls for?

Got €130/head for 2 wk old fr lookalike nr bulls

GrasstoMilk

alps wrote: »

Anyone see a regrowth....?

22% grazed....not a solitary sign of a single new shoot....

My first grazed paddocks yes, but It is a New Zealand grass that just loves to grow and grows all winter at double the normal winter growth rates.
Apart from that very little!

Timmaay

Farmer2017 wrote: »

Not a sign of regrowth Nd anything not grazed s goin back into ground. Spread a paddock here that had 400 on it a month ago with 3000 gallons slurry. 100 on it today

How will heavier covers fair out in this weather? Got about 14acres of stuff that is 16/1800 to get through, surely it won't knock back as much as the lighter 300-700 covers?

Buford T. Justice XIX

So I went online and on other sites over the last few days on water heaters and rang a few today as well.

Very hard to get delivery times and instillation dates but I went with Flogas in the end. 1800 euro + vat for the whole shebang with an option of a second heater added later if I think it's needed. Instillation in 3 weeks but they will supply the heater and a cylinder of gas before the end of the week, weather permitting.

I also added some crystal thingy that is supposed to dramatically reduce limescale problems for an extra 200 euro. I was talking to two lads that had it done and were very happy with both the gas and the crystal thingy.

Costs about a euro a day to heat 66gallons of water to 80 degrees (1liter of gas @ 58c/l) against 4 euro a day for the same output from a 66gallon electrical heater (costing 1,400 + vat and 3 weeks delivery).

I hate being without hot water especially with snow coming:(

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

Reading the farmers journal there, there's a major increase in empty bvd samples this year, in some batches of 30 there was 10 empty :eek: it's across all suppliers. Main problem here this year is results are taking longer, posted on a monday and not getting results until Saturday. Also results are up on line but text doesnt come for a day or 2 after this , anyone else finding this?

Where do you send samples to? Mine go to enfer. Sent Thursday got results today, normally fairly quick. Always have an odd empty one, I used to put it down to tagging a boisterous calf and the sample falling out.

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

Where do you send samples to? Mine go to enfer. Sent Thursday got results today, normally fairly quick. Always have an odd empty one, I used to put it down to tagging a boisterous calf and the sample falling out.

Enfer. Always post on a Monday from same post box

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

Enfer. Always post on a Monday from same post box

Two stamps? They don't like one stamp!

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

Two stamps? They don't like one stamp!

I get the post office to print off a dozen €1.65 stamps. Kills me to put 2x €1 stamps on them

trixi2011

Keepgrowing wrote: »

As of this morning we've enough heifer calves born for replacements in 2 yrs time. Super run of heifers all Norwegian Red, Fr starting next week.

First time crossing with NR but really happy with calving ease and vitality

What made you change to nr ? Bought 20 xbreed ñr and pure nr last spring along with a another group of Irish fr heifers . Ñr seem really fertile and well able for walking long distances don't think any of them took mastitis but there milk components let them down a little have plenty of litres tho. Much prefer them to the fr batch I bought at the same time

Keepgrowing

jaymla627 wrote: »

If you have mortelaro issues steer well clear, the nrx here are chronic bad for it over 50% having issues with it compared to 15% for the rest of the herd, don't respond well to foot-bathing/treatment either and it's a constant battle with them to keep them right, just glad I only have a couple here, wouldn't like to be dealing with half a herd of them

:)

Keepgrowing

trixi2011 wrote: »

What made you change to nr ? Bought 20 xbreed ñr and pure nr last spring along with a another group of Irish fr heifers . Ñr seem really fertile and well able for walking long distances don't think any of them took mastitis but there milk components let them down a little have plenty of litres tho. Much prefer them to the fr batch I bought at the same time

There was a lad saying earlier that they have crap feet ;)

Keepgrowing

yewtree wrote: »

What bulls did you use? I have never used NR here but often thought about it! I think the lower ebi and not knowing a lot about the bred put me off.

EKE Dovea. Used on half the herd. Only used 3 bulls others Fr2443 and AKK

Keepgrowing

whelan2 wrote: »

What are you selling the nr bulls for?

€100 so far

Timmaay

http://inews.co.uk/news/uk/shoppers-may-forced-buy-inferior-milk-america-post-brexit-trade-deal-us/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=jp_reshare

Bit of scare mongering going on in this article, along some questionable facts, but interesting read all the same, scc limit of 750 in the states!

GrasstoMilk

Oldest cows here are NRX. A set of twins infact. They both started there 10th lactation this year and will be going for number 11 hopefully.

freedominacup

Motor went on milking machine. Only going again now thanks to the lads in ers waterford for hanging on for us to collect replacement. One thing did work though. Oul boy went to co-op for salt and came back with a ton bag of grit. 10ft wide strip from cow house to collecting yard and collecting yard free of snow and ice. Just have to monitor it now and keep it gritted.

alps

Just in from morning duties...milking machine finally off at 1pm..
Few thawing issues earlier, just like to have all wash down hoses and everything operating ( well hot water to the hands actually). Had first 2 rows milked when noticed 2 downers, one wrapped around the back of 2 mushroom cubicles and one older lady blocking the scraper in the middle of the passage.

Was scorned yesterday by the slurry contractor for having the cows out, that it was ridiculously cold, and we would definitely have trouble..

He was right..

All ok now I reckon, "breakfast eaten" and we can get the rest if the day back in track...

Mooooo

Miss my old low roof on the parlour, new roof has it freezing very easily now

blackdog1

Mooooo wrote: »

Miss my old low roof on the parlour, new roof has it freezing very easily now

was at a farm in the past that had a small frame over the parlour and had a pool cover and reel over the frame and when it got cold he just pulled it over the parlour to stop it freezing and when he was finished he could wind it up easily. great job.

yewtree

Parlour frozen solid this morning, my own fault didn't really drain it properly, had 4 cows calved after milking last night and never went back to drain it and leave clusters hang. finished milking at 2pm today.
Looks like we will miss the worse of it but still one of the coldest days I remember working in.

Mooooo

US farmers are lobbying hard to get a US UK export deal post brexit

kevthegaff

jaymla627 wrote:

If you have mortelaro issues steer well clear, the nrx here are chronic bad for it over 50% having issues with it compared to 15% for the rest of the herd, don't respond well to foot-bathing/treatment either and it's a constant battle with them to keep them right, just glad I only have a couple here, wouldn't like to be dealing with half a herd of them

I have 10 of them and they have the best feet in the herd, Bro has around 30 of them and he says he never lifts them.

kevthegaff

Buford T. Justice V wrote:

Costs about a euro a day to heat 66gallons of water to 80 degrees (1liter of gas @ 58c/l) against 4 euro a day for the same output from a 66gallon electrical heater (costing 1,400 + vat and 3 weeks delivery).

Bought a 300 litre atlas for 450 plus vat. Technician said gas gives trouble with lime and silt, and their does be silt here. Grand to have hot water again tho, It will only be on for a 3 hrs a day in 6 weeks time .

kevthegaff

kevthegaff wrote:

I have 10 of them and they have the best feet in the herd, Bro has around 30 of them and he says he never lifts them.

I'm going to be controversial, there feet are by far better than jerseys

Bo dearg

kevthegaff wrote: »

I have 10 of them and they have the best feet in the herd, Bro has around 30 of them and he says he never lifts them.

Have some here too and i'd agree great feet never lifted. Calves are healthy out very docile and full of vigour. Sold a NRx bullock last year 640kg at around 19 mts old

jaymla627

kevthegaff wrote: »

I'm going to be controversial, there feet are by far better than jerseys

Jersey crosses preform a lot better here, it's specifically mortelaro that's their problem compared to the rest of the herd maybe it's just the bull their off specifically , no problems with locomotion etc, used a fleck bull here last year and really impressed with the calves so far, throwing a lot of colour and bull calves should bring 200 euro handy