Dairy chit chat II

pedigree 6

freedominacup wrote: »

Yer over thinking it.

Check out my edit.:)

It's a bit sexist having the woman wearing white runners though.
Shame on em.
It just shows what Teagasc think of women.:rolleyes:

Freejin

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I had a cow calve this spring with a blue bull calf. She was supposed to be in calf to a friesian but I reckon the AI man mixed up the straws and either put a Shorthorn or Belgian Blue on the cow by mistake. There is no Shorthorn breeding in her that might account for the blue colour that I can find anyway.

Anyway, I had a lad here today looking to buy the calf but I would have to change the breed on the card to Belgian Blue for him.

I have an ER94(b) here but I'm wondering what reception changing the breed would have with the Dept especially as I don't have a BB bull?

Had similar situation here a couple of weeks back,registered a calf as an Angus when it was a limousine, sent off the form er94b with the card, new card back a couple of days later ,no problem

GrasstoMilk

Anyone else changed there bull choices with the new ebi run?
Changed mine, was told there would be no issue changing straws. A lot of the bulls I picked have dropped a good bit

mahoney_j

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Anyone else changed there bull choices with the new ebi run?
Changed mine, was told there would be no issue changing straws. A lot of the bulls I picked have dropped a good bit

Just after going through some of Bulls I had picked and changes will be made ,one bull I had taken a decent punt on was fr4182 now sub 200

GrasstoMilk

mahoney_j wrote: »

Just after going through some of Bulls I had picked and changes will be made ,one bull I had taken a decent punt on was fr4182 now sub 200

I had picked Otto. Hes dropped 100€ gone out of my pick now.

stretch film

mahoney_j wrote: »

Just after going through some of Bulls I had picked and changes will be made ,one bull I had taken a decent punt on was fr4182 now sub 200

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

I had picked Otto. Hes dropped 100€ gone out of my pick now.

is the unwavering belief in genomics still justified guys...

superb technology to select test bulls but after that im not sure:(

Buford T. Justice XIX

stretch film wrote: »

is the unwavering belief in genomics still justified guys...

superb technology to select test bulls but after that im not sure:(

Isn't that what the two lads are doing, selecting test bulls?

GrasstoMilk

stretch film wrote: »

is the unwavering belief in genomics still justified guys...

superb technology to select test bulls but after that im not sure:(

We happened to have a meeting with Prograaaove genetics one day last week and Seamus Hughes explained it all to us.

What happened was 17 months of data allgot put in at once which should have been put in along as it was available it skewed up everything big time.

Yep it's meant alot of the bulls I chose last year and this year have dropped but on the plus side the genomics are getting much more reliable. A lot of the bulls in the catalogue now are 60-65% reliable where as last year you'd be looking at 45-55% reliable.
That's what has me stuck with it

mahoney_j

stretch film wrote: »

is the unwavering belief in genomics still justified guys...

superb technology to select test bulls but after that im not sure:(

100% yes ,results here backing up my faith in it in spades

stretch film

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Isn't that what the two lads are doing, selecting test bulls?

Yes .

Question is who over the year's used 100% test bulls .

whelan2

stretch film wrote: »

Yes .

Question is who over the year's used 100% test bulls .

Indeed and what price did we pay for them?

stretch film

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

We happened to have a meeting with Prograaaove genetics one day last week and Seamus Hughes explained it all to us.

What happened was 17 months of data allgot put in at once which should have been put in along as it was available it skewed up everything big time.

Yep it's meant alot of the bulls I chose last year and this year have dropped but on the plus side the genomics are getting much more reliable. A lot of the bulls in the catalogue now are 60-65% reliable where as last year you'd be looking at 45-55% reliable.
That's what has me stuck with it

How many different bulls will you use across the herd out of interest.

What was the reason given for the increase in reliability.

Buford T. Justice XIX

stretch film wrote: »

Yes .

Question is who over the year's used 100% test bulls .

I'd say well over 80% of my bulls the last few years were test bulls. The rest were used on heifers and used for specific cows in the herd and, even then, the proven bulls matched up well with the genomic bulls.

GrasstoMilk

stretch film wrote: »

How many different bulls will you use across the herd out of interest.

What was the reason given for the increase in reliability.

I've 6 this year. 5 on the cows and 2 for the heifers

He probably did say but I can't recall now

Sam Kade

I've a second calver that made a springing overnight, no sign of springing yesterday, her pin bones are down now and she's 19 days early. I'd say there could be trouble calving her, possibly backwards calf.

tanko

Sam Kade wrote: »

I've a second calver that made a springing overnight, no sign of springing yesterday, her pin bones are down now and she's 19 days early. I'd say there could be trouble calving her, possibly backwards calf.

Maybe she got a belt ftom another cow, a backways calf on its own would hardly cause that.

Timmaay

I'm trying to hook up the water on some leased land, a 250m or so section of 3/4inch was laid down several years ago but never connected up. I connected it up just now, and nothing flowing through it at all. 1st metre on each side appears to be free of dirt etc. Any ideas on a way to free it, other than digging it up and cutting it along the length till I find the blockage?

pedigree 6

Timmaay wrote: »

I'm trying to hook up the water on some leased land, a 250m or so section of 3/4inch was laid down several years ago but never connected up. I connected it up just now, and nothing flowing through it at all. 1st metre on each side appears to be free of dirt etc. Any ideas on a way to free it, other than digging it up and cutting it along the length till I find the blockage?

You're not going to like this.
But it's most likely a slug or slugs crawled into the pipe if an end was open.
Not sure how to get the buggars out bar if you know where a join is and open it and flush em out.

cjpm

Timmaay wrote: »

I'm trying to hook up the water on some leased land, a 250m or so section of 3/4inch was laid down several years ago but never connected up. I connected it up just now, and nothing flowing through it at all. 1st metre on each side appears to be free of dirt etc. Any ideas on a way to free it, other than digging it up and cutting it along the length till I find the blockage?

You need higher pressure to clear it. Hook it up to a compressor and GRADUALLY bring up the pressure

leg wax

i wounder why it was never used, new roll of pipe rolled out in 20 mins, fooking around with that god only knows, but some lads love hardship,,,,,,,,,,, now you will unblock it to piss me off

Timmaay

leg wax wrote: »

i wounder why it was never used, new roll of pipe rolled out in 20 mins, fooking around with that god only knows, but some lads love hardship,,,,,,,,,,, now you will unblock it to piss me off

Yeh thinking strongly about this ha, would be bloody annoying to have to bury a 100m section that goes across the middle of a field

Sam Kade

tanko wrote: »

Maybe she got a belt ftom another cow, a backways calf on its own would hardly cause that.

I know a backwards calf wouldn't cause it, what I meant that the calf will be twisted some way awkard inside her. Anyway when I handled her the calf was dead and only the head coming and both legs well down. He's lined up now only to give her time as she isn't open enough yet.

freedominacup

Timmaay wrote: »

Yeh thinking strongly about this ha, would be bloody annoying to have to bury a 100m section that goes across the middle of a field

Go with inch and a quarter at least if you're going to replace it.

pedigree 6

That's impressive.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/90734280/hard-graft-puts-young-glenavy-dairy-farmer-in-enviable-position

GrasstoMilk

Someone on here had rigged up an empty gas cylinder for freeing water hose of ice.
Filled it with air, connect onto pipe and blast the air through the pipe

Keepgrowing

Like this?

dar31

Anyone have measurement for batch crush.
Height of front rail and back rail or are they the same

whelan2

Would it be too much of a jump to go from a 20% nut to a 15/16%. Cows out during the day in at night

Mooooo

whelan2 wrote: »

Would it be too much of a jump to go from a 20% nut to a 15/16%. Cows out during the day in at night

Should be ok going down to 14 next load from 18, was at 24 previously

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

Would it be too much of a jump to go from a 20% nut to a 15/16%. Cows out during the day in at night

That's what we did, cows out fulltime