Dairy chit chat II

pedigree 6

whelan2 wrote: »

If its a one off ,I'd just let it rinse and start milking

Ah we're started milking now.

A funny thing happened as we were getting the cows across the road.
The cows were on the road and they were looking back behind us then some of them took off and then all took off galloping.
My father and myself were behind them and he says "what's wrong with them this evening. "
So we turned around to see what they were looking at.
And who was it only the parish priest out for a power walk.
My father says to him "We should have you every evening to get the cows across the road".

It was funny at the time.:)

pedigree 6

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Plotting how to get away with murder if they repeat it?

Start off there and I'll hum along.:)

Water John

Ah, the power of the Parish Priest.

pedigree 6

Water John wrote: »

Ah, the power of the Parish Priest.

In fairness to the cows.
A priest (or anyone) powerwalking is a bit unusual to them.

visatorro

Before grazing, straight after, fortnight later

visatorro

Grazed ten days

freedominacup

visatorro wrote: »

Grazed ten days

Ahh???

visatorro

freedominacup wrote: »

Ahh???

Trying to post examples of my world class grass management. Maybe just aswell they won't post,

Buford T. Justice XIX

Milk supply nationally down 3% so far this year, down 10% in Kerry so far.

kevthegaff

Buford T. Justice V wrote:

Milk supply nationally down 3% so far this year, down 10% in Kerry so far.

Surprising

visatorro

Now

charolais0153

visatorro wrote: »

Now

Not yet:D

mahoney_j

kevthegaff wrote: »

Surprising

I reckon with a good or half decent April/may there will be a massive surge in supplies

Timmaay

Between matching my litres produced to my liquid contract, and pushing calving back afew days in February, I'm a huge number of litres back on the 1st 3 months of last yr. I'll hopefully make it all nicely back up while produced off cheap grass over the summer and into the back end which have tended to be drier than springs as of late.

einn32

cjpm wrote: »

Had a heifer with a blind teat last year.

She had another calf this year and now there is milk in that quarter, teat looks perfect, however the teat is a little bit tough and the milking machine will not milk her out.

I have to milk her by hand in that quarter. Any tips to get her milking in that quarter very much appreciated.

Would just leaving it alone be an option? It's probably too late now as she's been stimulated.

pedigree 6

After reading MT Cranium's weather forecast for the southeast tonight, I chickened out and brought the cows back in there now.
Better to er on the side of caution and give the cows a nice straw bed inside than have them tear up the paddock stuck in the ditch from snow I feel.

Keepgrowing

pedigree 6 wrote: »

After reading MT Cranium's weather forecast for the southeast tonight, I chickened out and brought the cows back in there now.
Better to er on the side of caution and give the cows a nice straw bed inside than have them tear up the paddock stuck in the ditch from snow I feel.

You were right. Place white here this morning but was no bother getting them in

Keepgrowing

Cows will be staying in today and tonight by the looks, some water in that snow

Mooooo

No snow here gonna chance em out for a few hours all feed gone from passage

Mooooo

Mooooo wrote: »

No snow here gonna chance em out for a few hours all feed gone from passage

Feckin jinxed it just started snowing

orm0nd

Jack Farell1 wrote: »

Mod Snip

did you join boards just to post this ?

Timmaay

Serious amount of standing water, but ground still ok thankfully. Only after going out now (was prescanning this morning), fingers crossed that we don't get too much more rain before this dry spell due later in the week, putting the milkers back inside is not an option now, drys and calves in the cubicles!

whelan2

Timmaay wrote: »

Serious amount of standing water, but ground still ok thankfully. Only after going out now (was prescanning this morning), fingers crossed that we don't get too much more rain before this dry spell due later in the week, putting the milkers back inside is not an option now, drys and calves in the cubicles!

Im avoiding going near my cubicle shed today. Cows are not happy

Buford T. Justice XIX

I figured out why my pitface sheared anyway. While I was feeding today, another section sheared just to where last year's and this year's silage met so nothing to bind the two sections together, I'm figuring?

freedominacup

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I figured out why my pitface sheared anyway. While I was feeding today, another section sheared just to where last year's and this year's silage met so nothing to bind the two sections together, I'm figuring?

Happens every time. Just use the fallen stuff asap.

whelan2

Looks like a very wide pit. How wide is it?

Mooooo

Do or have many of ye used the likes of grasstec?. Will be doing a road and rejigging paddocks and that just wondering would it be worth getting them in for mapp8ng and that. Did ye find it worthwhile?

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

Looks like a very wide pit. How wide is it?

80 foot wide. i used to have 2 x 40 foot pits but as numbers went up I made 1 x 80 foot pit and then used the earth bank at the side when numbers rose again.

I'm running out of free pit space now:pac:

I'd be across the pit in 4 or 5 days and 8 days now so I might think about putting a wall along the middle to keep the face fresher, a bit down the line now though.

Wildsurfer

Mooooo wrote: »

Do or have many of ye used the likes of grasstec?. Will be doing a road and rejigging paddocks and that just wondering would it be worth getting them in for mapp8ng and that. Did ye find it worthwhile?

Have you a half decent Teagasc advisor who knows his way around a computer? My Teagasc advisor can do all that using online maps and some mapping program. He can put in roads, fence lines, get accurate acreag etc. He then prints out and laminates maps for me. Grasstech maps and whiteboards are nice but very pricey.

Injuryprone

Mooooo wrote: »

Do or have many of ye used the likes of grasstec?. Will be doing a road and rejigging paddocks and that just wondering would it be worth getting them in for mapp8ng and that. Did ye find it worthwhile?

Can't tell you anything about grasstec....

But i did mine myself by just copy and pasting Google maps into cad and tracing over it. There was a clearly identifiable paddock on the map which i then went out and measured to scale the tracing. It ended up about 95% accurate. Took about half a day overall to get the initial map done. Spent plenty more messing with different layouts until i settled on one.

Might be worth bearing in mind if you know anyone with cad