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Dairy Chit Chat- Please read Mod note in post #1

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  • #9902
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    Water John wrote: »
    Boys and their toys, Ped. Enjoy.

    I'll send the paperwork on to you and you can fill out the books. ;)

    This farming lark would be a grand life then.:D


  • #9903
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,609 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    Right that's everything dried off this morning.

    Time now to do the paperwork and get the angle grinder and welder going again.
    Wohoo.:D

    Lazy sod


  • #9904
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Only out to save me the effort of clearing the cubicles, they won't bloody clean anything out for me ha.


  • #9905
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    Right that's everything dried off this morning.

    Time now to do the paperwork and get the angle grinder and welder going again.
    Wohoo.:D

    Angle grinder and welder getting plenty abuse the last few days here, I definitely need to get going at the PM soon also, I want to get a handle on what sort of tax bill I will have next November, and if I need to do anything about it before the end of this year ha. Any troublemakers or poor yielders in the parlour are getting dried off without a 2nd thought now, I'd be tempted by OAD but it would prb come back to bit me in late Jan with the liquid, plus my dad would probably have a heart attack ha.


  • #9906
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Signpost wrote: »
    My biggest problem with a feeder is you need a second tractor / loader. Atm I've a good tractor & loader that I keep fresh. Have a quad for fertiliser and a a small tractor that started about 5 times this year, usually because it was in the way. Drop the loader in minutes and can do all the work I need it to, loader on it feeds everything in the sheds etc. Even to get a tub feeder cheap prob talking 10k+ (guess, feel free to correct me), your definitely talking another 15 / 30 k to have the tractor to drive it for mixing it & in most instance your still going to be buying in your beet etc. As much as I would fail to see a fault in what they are doing its hard to justify the expense at the same time!

    are the diet feeders with their own engines very expensive, have seen a few on farms,
    I'm always amused at two drivers driving around the yard after each other just to feed cattle


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  • #9907
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    Right that's everything dried off this morning.

    Time now to do the paperwork and get the angle grinder and welder going again.
    Wohoo.:D

    Why so early?


  • #9908
    Signpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Signpost


    rangler1 wrote: »
    are the diet feeders with their own engines very expensive, have seen a few on farms,
    I'm always amused at two drivers driving around the yard after each other just to feed cattle

    I didn't know there was such a thing as a diet feeder with its own engine! Have me interested now!


  • #9909
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,745 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    rangler1 wrote: »
    are the diet feeders with their own engines very expensive, have seen a few on farms,
    I'm always amused at two drivers driving around the yard after each other just to feed cattle
    Lad here has one seems happy with it, oh brought it to be relined last year.


  • #9910
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Why so early?

    Starting to calve in the middle of January and ......... I ran out of meal. :D


  • #9911
    Signpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Signpost


    http://www.farmersjournal.ie/low-cost-loan-scheme-looks-set-to-be-delayed-236654 - If they wait much longer the price of milk will have picked up and they wont be needed anyway, although this could be their plan all along.


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  • #9912
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,851 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Raised that loan earlier for discussion. For instance, if you borrow 90K. you could pay back circa €33K in years 4,5 and 6.
    The interest rate is fine but they really need to be long term loans.


  • #9913
    Signpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Signpost


    I personally think its a bad idea. Either coop loans or agreed low interest rate loans with the bank would be a better plan, but thats only my 2c worth!


  • #9914
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Signpost wrote: »
    I didn't know there was such a thing as a diet feeder with its own engine! Have me interested now!

    engines to suit them can't be that expensive if someone was handy enough to fit them themselves, it's not as if they'd be a hard worked engine.


  • #9915
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    Right now I'm definitely finished for the year.:pac:

    We might give out about the price of milk (and rightly so).
    But the lorry drivers have nothing to do with any of that business.
    So...................

    2016_11_18_17.jpg


  • #9916
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,745 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    Right now I'm definitely finished for the year.:pac:

    We might give out about the price of milk (and rightly so).
    But the lorry drivers have nothing to do with any of that business.
    So...................

    2016_11_18_17.jpg
    Wouldnt get away with a tub of sweets here, 50 euro at least


  • #9917
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Wouldnt get away with a tub of sweets here, 50 euro at least

    You supply a lot more milk than I do.:pac::D
    (I'm only a poor small farmer).:D


  • #9918
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    You supply a lot more milk than I do.:pac::D
    (I'm only a poor small farmer).:D

    Money always works as a gift...hate the amount of sweets and biscuits that come here at chrismas......hate christmas, bah humbug.

    Have to admit that it's an efficient way of moving rubbish around the country though


  • #9919
    Keepgrowing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Keepgrowing


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Money always works as a gift...hate the amount of sweets and biscuits that come here at chrismas......hate christmas, bah humbug.

    Have to admit that it's an efficient way of moving rubbish around the country though

    Lol


  • #9920
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Money always works as a gift...hate the amount of sweets and biscuits that come here at chrismas......hate christmas, bah humbug.

    Have to admit that it's an efficient way of moving rubbish around the country though

    Happy Christmas Rangler.:p

    XjStX.jpg?1


  • #9921
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,851 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Ah Ped, at least a bottle of whiskey.
    No history down our way of giving anything.


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  • #9922
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    Happy Christmas Rangler.:p

    XjStX.jpg?1

    Thanks
    At least you knew better than send me a religious pic...;)


  • #9923
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,851 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Should we limit it to 'Seasons Greetings' to be very PC?


  • #9924
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    Water John wrote: »
    No history down our way of giving anything.

    Meaaan oul h**rs.;)


  • #9925
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,745 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Just filled out the Glanbia census, no mention at all of the msa, why is that? Btw comment section was full on mine


  • #9926
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,826 ✭✭✭visatorro


    Lorry man here gets loads of bottles. He brings them to his local and the barman gives him cash


  • #9927
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    11% not in calf, couple of problem ones to be culled as well


  • #9928
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    11% not in calf, couple of problem ones to be culled as well

    How long a breeding season?


  • #9929
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,745 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    11% not in calf, couple of problem ones to be culled as well
    is that cows or heifers or everything? Bull or ai? Bought a bull here today.


  • #9930
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Buford T. Justice V wrote:
    How long a breeding season?

    That's a secret lol


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  • #9931
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    whelan2 wrote:
    is that cows or heifers or everything? Bull or ai? Bought a bull here today.

    Stock Bulls everything, but giving some few problem cows estrumate


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