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Dairy chit chat II

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  • #4982
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    White Clover wrote: »
    Fair play to you. Best of luck with em. There's lads around here dreaming.......looking for 400 or 450 for friesian Bull weanlings!

    If you drop the calves to me at 3 months old, I'll buy you a few pints!

    Bring a €100/hd for heifers and bulls and I'll buy you a few pints!!


  • #4983
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭alps


    We're competing against French stock for the sale of ours to Britain...or should I say "not competing" against them


  • #4984
    George Sunsnow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭George Sunsnow


    What are not in calf cows in good condition making roughly,straight out of the parkour at the moment does anyone know?
    Either in the factory or the mart
    Thanks


  • #4985
    atlantic mist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭atlantic mist


    sunsnow i sent a few in last week half were paid at 3.20 per kg and other half at 3.1 per kg all out of parlor. reasonable condition 260-320kg dead weight


  • #4986
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    alps wrote: »
    We're competing against French stock for the sale of ours to Britain...or should I say "not competing" against them

    Why send them to the U.K. when the Irish are falling over themselves to buy atm?


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  • #4987
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Passed the herd test, first hurdle done. Dec now and hopefully a clear out before calving. Dung sample came back for a cow with rumen fluke. Have cows a dose for worms as well and dries vaccinated with rotavec


  • #4988
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Passed the herd test, first hurdle done. Dec now and hopefully a clear out before calving. Dung sample came back for a cow with rumen fluke. Have cows a dose for worms as well and dries vaccinated with rotavec

    Neighbour just went down again. Some 12 reactors. 3 farms bounding each other that can't seem to shake it.


  • #4989
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Neighbour just went down again. Some 12 reactors. 3 farms bounding each other that can't seem to shake it.

    Do they have any other animals on the farms besides bovines?
    I wonder would there be some sleepers among them if they did.


  • #4990
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Neighbour just went down again. Some 12 reactors. 3 farms bounding each other that can't seem to shake it.

    Sickener. We were read on the severe scale so they seemed clean enough. What would be an inconclusive on a normal reading would be a reactor on the severe reading. Have the department been out to check for badgers etc? Any deer about?


  • #4991
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Neighbour just went down again. Some 12 reactors. 3 farms bounding each other that can't seem to shake it.

    Neighbours were finally depopulated. Last 8 or 10 animals. 3 oldest cows walking with lesions. No reactions to blood or skin tests while everything else went down. Your neighbours could have a similar problem. Dept refused to depopulate mu neighbour though he and they knew he had at least one animal that was beyond reacting to the test. This is his second depopulation this decade.


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  • #4992
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Floki wrote: »
    Do they have any other animals on the farms besides bovines?
    I wonder would there be some sleepers among them if they did.
    A dog, a cat and a horse. The other two farms the same though one has a chicken flock for eggs. Nothing obvious there anyway.
    Mooooo wrote: »
    Sickener. We were read on the severe scale so they seemed clean enough. What would be an inconclusive on a normal reading would be a reactor on the severe reading. Have the department been out to check for badgers etc? Any deer about?
    The badgers are down to a 'manageable' population according to the guy I was talking to when inspecting badgers here last year. Whatever that means but I think it means reducing overcrowding and reducing the stresses that go with that. No deer, thankfully.


  • #4993
    awaywithyou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Neighbour just went down again. Some 12 reactors. 3 farms bounding each other that can't seem to shake it.

    Who?


  • #4994
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    awaywithyou wrote: »
    Who?

    The mechanic.


  • #4995
    awaywithyou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    The mechanic.

    Sound..... Serious outbreak for a herd of his size


  • #4996
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    awaywithyou wrote: »
    Sound..... Serious outbreak for a herd of his size

    Yeah and a 2 week old baby as well. Some people get more than their fair share of troubles.


  • #4997
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Anyone get their silage tested yet?


  • #4998
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    whelan2 wrote:
    Anyone get their silage tested yet?


    Arrabawn were meant to do it for free, no sign of yet..


  • #4999
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,731 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Anyone get their silage tested yet?

    Yep mixture of haylage at 69 dmd to rocket fuel at 83 dmd dm from 23 to 58% and crude p from 11 to 19.5


  • #5000
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭alps


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Yep mixture of haylage at 69 dmd to rocket fuel at 83 dmd dm from 23 to 58% and crude p from 11 to 19.5

    Hope you have them stacked in their relevant heaps Mahoney....we spent 3 night going through poor dry scutchy type stuff till we got back to good tack....some hit on the milk tank...it was a costly day we stacked them in front of good silage...


  • #5001
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,731 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    alps wrote: »
    Hope you have them stacked in their relevant heaps Mahoney....we spent 3 night going through poor dry scutchy type stuff till we got back to good tack....some hit on the milk tank...it was a costly day we stacked them in front of good silage...

    Yep have done,introduced some good silage with z grazed grass during week,solids and Ltrs up


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  • #5002
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Are ye putting stock in sun/mon lads or what are yer plans.? Calves on outfarm will be coming to the yard as river running below the fields. Calves at home have shelter where they are. With temps up is nearly prefer to keep em out as may have to house cows.


  • #5003
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Are ye putting stock in sun/mon lads or what are yer plans.? Calves on outfarm will be coming to the yard as river running below the fields. Calves at home have shelter where they are. With temps up is nearly prefer to keep em out as may have to house cows.

    My plan is to house Monday morning. May not have power for scrapers or milking by Monday evening though.


  • #5004
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    House all stock?


  • #5005
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Mooooo wrote: »
    House all stock?
    No, just cows. No shelter where they are, the drys have plenty of shelter.
    Plus I only have 120' of feed space atm so there will be lots of pushing and shoving which I don't like:(


  • #5006
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    My plan is to house Monday morning. May not have power for scrapers or milking by Monday evening though.

    Have you a generator yourself or someone you can call on with a generator on a tractor?

    I bought a generator myself today and bought cables to run off it. It'll run the milking machine and tank. Put the oil and petrol in it and started it up. Going grand. Went to plug in the cables and they're too small. Now with shops shut tomorrow I have to wait till Monday morning to get the correct cable to run from the generator to the ...cut off switch. Getting tight for time here and wexford and Waterford looks to be getting hit every bit as bad as cork and Kerry.

    The last bad storm Darwin we had no power for six days.
    Seriously dreading this.


  • #5007
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Floki wrote: »
    Have you a generator yourself or someone you can call on with a generator on a tractor?

    I bought a generator myself today and bought cables to run off it. It'll run the milking machine and tank. Put the oil and petrol in it and started it up. Going grand. Went to plug in the cables and they're too small. Now with shops shut tomorrow I have to wait till Monday morning to get the correct cable to run from the generator to the ...cut off switch. Getting tight for time here and wexford and Waterford looks to be getting hit every bit as bad as cork and Kerry.

    The last bad storm Darwin we had no power for six days.
    Seriously dreading this.

    From my reading of the storm i doubt it'll be as bad as your saying


  • #5008
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Floki wrote: »
    Have you a generator yourself or someone you can call on with a generator on a tractor?

    I bought a generator myself today and bought cables to run off it. It'll run the milking machine and tank. Put the oil and petrol in it and started it up. Going grand. Went to plug in the cables and they're too small. Now with shops shut tomorrow I have to wait till Monday morning to get the correct cable to run from the generator to the ...cut off switch. Getting tight for time here and wexford and Waterford looks to be getting hit every bit as bad as cork and Kerry.

    The last bad storm Darwin we had no power for six days.
    Seriously dreading this.
    No generator. I'll have to wing it. I'm planning to milk around 10 on Monday and that's it till Tuesday morning, assuming we have power.


  • #5009
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    From my reading of the storm i doubt it'll be as bad as your saying

    Hope your right but I don't want to be without power again for days and cows to be milked.

    There's been no downgrades. If anything it's stronger than they thought it would be at this stage.
    Be as prepared as you can be for the worst.


  • #5010
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    From my reading of the storm i doubt it'll be as bad as your saying

    They're forecasting 17mph winds for the midlands and not much rain, are you getting similar, relieved to hear it myself, 33 of us going to belgium monday morn for a few days to see where our groups lambs go and see a few farms......and we won't be drinking any alcohol :D

    Didn't know what we were going to come back to


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  • #5011
    George Sunsnow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭George Sunsnow


    My thoughts on that storm

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=104969255&postcount=2715


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