Dairy chit chat II

visatorro

GrasstoMilk wrote:

What sort of mats have ye got in your cubicles? Mayo mat still a decent one?

Have mayo mats in eight years. They started off fine but between lifting and bolts holding them in going rotting and coming out there's a couple of days work to be done in the shed this year. They are comfortable but I wonder are the big rolls a better job long term. Or is there easyfix ones that join together.

Mooooo

Easy fix single ones are too soft, cows went thru em here anyway. Would go for the rolls if they could be afforded but the standard single one from local place here is good compromise of soft and tough dunno the brand name

GrasstoMilk

visatorro wrote: »

Have mayo mats in eight years. They started off fine but between lifting and bolts holding them in going rotting and coming out there's a couple of days work to be done in the shed this year. They are comfortable but I wonder are the big rolls a better job long term. Or is there easyfix ones that join together.

We have a few old mayo mats that are 18 years old but haven't been used in the last 14 years. I'll be using them but don't know a whole lot about matts. Had a company in today pricing up the job, have no problem buying the cubicle but the mattress they usually sell is a mad price. Definitely the real job to go with but our budget won't be stretching to the price of it

visatorro

Mooooo wrote:

Easy fix single ones are too soft, cows went thru em here anyway. Would go for the rolls if they could be afforded but the standard single one from local place here is good compromise of soft and tough dunno the brand name

Iirc the pasture mat roll was nearly twice the price of mayo mats.

GrasstoMilk

visatorro wrote: »

Iirc the pasture mat roll was nearly twice the price of mayo mats.

That's what we looked at today. Serious job but we won't be going with it

mahoney_j

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

What sort of mats have ye got in your cubicles? Mayo mat still a decent one?

Easy fix mats that join together like a jig saw ,,excellent quality too .sould of loved the mattress but not in winter milk and cows not milked for a long time out of sheds so didn’t bother

Mooooo

visatorro wrote: »

Iirc the pasture mat roll was nearly twice the price of mayo mats.

Single mats down here are about 45/50 A space the rolls up on 100

stretch film

Mayo mats here.
You'll be asked to measure each cubicle to a half inch and given a size of mat that will expand to meet its neighbour .
Can't see any advantage of a roll over a run of mats tightened into each other like that.
A hard wearing mat that are easier cleaned over any other I've here.

Never wrestle with pigs

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

That's what we looked at today. Serious job but we won't be going with it

Condons mats are worth a look, 30mm and connect together. Made in Germany and last years. Iv seen mats in a shed 10 years old like new. I'm going for them. Priced them at €55+ but you'd be buying more than me so might get them better than that.

Gawddawggonnit

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/comment/mike-brady-our-most-successful-farmers-dont-wallow-but-see-opportunity-in-crisis-37168635.html

Gawddawggonnit

https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/grassland-management/irish-dairy-farmer-achieving-29-percent-return-capital


CoP...

straight

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/comment/mike-brady-our-most-successful-farmers-dont-wallow-but-see-opportunity-in-crisis-37168635.html

Another man living off the backs of farmers.

straight

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/grassland-management/irish-dairy-farmer-achieving-29-percent-return-capital


CoP...

The family labour figure should be at least trebled.

Gawddawggonnit

straight wrote: »

The family labour figure should be at least trebled.

I honestly thought that it looks like a well run family Farm with a well thought out strategy for the future. Easy to treble the labour figure if you want.

Gawddawggonnit

Had to do a milking this am because a gobshyte didn’t turn up...and didn’t even have the courtesy to ring.
Fired.

I can’t remember when I milked last but it was 41.4* in the parlor...unpleasant!!

straight

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

I honestly thought that it looks like a well run family Farm with a well thought out strategy for the future. Easy to treble the labour figure if you want.

In reality you have to if you have a family etc. But that changes the headline.

whelan2

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Had to do a milking this am because a gobshyte didn’t turn up...and didn’t even have the courtesy to ring.
Fired.

I can’t remember when I milked last but it was 41.4* in the parlor...unpleasant!!

That's probably why he didn't turn up

Reggie.

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Had to do a milking this am because a gobshyte didn’t turn up...and didn’t even have the courtesy to ring.
Fired.

I can’t remember when I milked last but it was 41.4* in the parlor...unpleasant!!

That'll crown ya

Gawddawggonnit

Reggie. wrote: »

That'll crown ya

It’ll be 50+ this pm!
Someone put a thermometer into the parlor...you’re better off not knowing so I removed it just now.

Gawddawggonnit

whelan2 wrote: »

That's probably why he didn't turn up

Lol you’re probably right...

Funny thing is he’s owed a months wages!

Reggie.

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Lol you’re probably right...

Funny thing is he’s owed a months wages!

He'll be back so

Waffletraktor

Reggie. wrote: »

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Had to do a milking this am because a gobshyte didn’t turn up...and didn’t even have the courtesy to ring.
Fired.

I can’t remember when I milked last but it was 41.4* in the parlor...unpleasant!!

That'll crown ya

You would have had similar overseas on duty?

Reggie.

Waffletraktor wrote: »

You would have had similar overseas on duty?

Regular. In Liberia any sort of movement resulted in an hour or two of serious sweating

Gawddawggonnit

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

It’ll be 50+ this pm!
Someone put a thermometer into the parlor...you’re better off not knowing so I removed it just now.

I rigged up fairly high powered fans in the pit...BLISS!!

They’re a bit too powerful but the cows love the cooling breeze (tempest!), and had a job to get them out of the parlor. Not a fly to be seen either. Once they enter the ring yard they are thoroughly drenched with water and those fans really cooled them down. All went and ate instead of just panning out on the cubicles. Result.

freedominacup

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

I rigged up fairly high powered fans in the pit...BLISS!!

They’re a bit too powerful but the cows love the cooling breeze (tempest!), and had a job to get them out of the parlor. Not a fly to be seen either. Once they enter the ring yard they are thoroughly drenched with water and those fans really cooled them down. All went and ate instead of just panning out on the cubicles. Result.

I saw a rig in Portugal in a restaurant. A very fine spray in front of the fans. Better than aircon in an outdoor setting. For the real rolls Royce job like. A sprayer nozzle would probably be the thing.

Gawddawggonnit

freedominacup wrote: »

I saw a rig in Portugal in a restaurant. A very fine spray in front of the fans. Better than aircon in an outdoor setting. For the real rolls Royce job like. A sprayer nozzle would probably be the thing.

Have that system here for cubicles but the fans need more power. Plenty power in them in the confine of the parlor though. Hard to get the cows out of the parlor now.

GrasstoMilk

How many days after breeding can a scanner pick up a pregnancy?

visatorro

GrasstoMilk wrote:

How many days after breeding can a scanner pick up a pregnancy?

30

Gawddawggonnit

visatorro wrote: »

30

Boys here need 36days.

They can accurately sex the calf from 45-65days.

Mooooo

30 days minimum, prob no harm to leave a bit longer. To check at the 30to 35 days vet uses his hand with the probe, any later and he can put the probe into a curved pipe for scanning, super job cows hardly feel it and no **** flying in the parlour