Dairy chit chat II

K.G. wrote: »

Weanlings Strip grazed with how much ration?

Yes and 1.5 kg of heifer rearer nut

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Choice here of letting cows out or getting FYM spread.

Either will cause a lot of damage:(

Far too wet here....looks like we could have to rehouse the dung....

Bought cefimam dry cow today fir 6€/cow

straight wrote: »

Cows in by night for the past week. Out every morning for 3 hours and hardly worth the hassle. Yields have dropped below 13 litres on 3 kg nuts. In calf heifers and heifer calves in today.

What’s silage like ??

straight wrote: »

Second cut bales. Not tested.

More than likely the problem

K.G. wrote: »

Grazing?,are ye out-day-night.covers, %closed.no grazing here at the minute as the fields with covers all have some issue with them and alot of the feild cover has disappeared with opehlia so could close fo r winter with no bother

45% closed (although that's a movable feast depending on the pgc of 1st paddocks closed, alongside the afc, and finally the weather come later in Nov). Afc 950, but growth at a guess is over 30, and demand 43. Cows not happy however, hard to bring in, hard to get out of the parlour, and have to be shoved back onto next paddocks. Maize will probably get opened soon and about 5kgdm fed just before the evening milkings, to help put some condition on the cows.

mahoney_j wrote: »

Cows out full time in at 3 every afternoon for bales and z grazed grass .74% area grazed cows will be housed at night next Monday and remain out at day till afc hits 650
In calf heifers in today
Bull weanlings in yesterday
Heifer weanlings our on grass been strip grazed and will be for most of winter

How do you balance the bales and zero grazed grass? Have the option here to zerograze which would help curtail silage use.

Cows in full time here with a week. There going out again tomorrow... In by nite with a month

einn32 wrote: »

How do you balance the bales and zero grazed grass? Have the option here to zerograze which would help curtail silage use.

Load of Z grass last 2 days ,bale ofcsilage in each day with the grass

whelan2 wrote: »

Plan to let mine back out tomorrow during the day.

Let mine back out again today, prob have enough grass till Tuesday or so, been a few weeks since they moved so fast going to the field as when I let them off this am, was like spring all over again

mahoney_j wrote: »

Are he compensated in any way for that because of the extra water/detergent etc used

We got a very small payment in May, I got 600 euro, tbh I have been collected more or less every day for 3 years with zero communication from Glanbia about it, the only reason we got money in May was I complained to FMP. We were apparently to get a bonus of I think 1cpl according to fmp contract with glanbia but this was never honoured. 600 euro fell long short of 1cpl :mad: Rang recently and apparently the market isnt as good as they thought, yet we were still being collected daily, think they have a 5 year contract. I only find things out off the milk man. Had to laugh at farm services lad saying he orgainised the extra payment, I orgainised the extra payment , if I didnt complain we wouldnt have got it

They have 15 suppliers on the run, afaik all liquid suppliers, I suppose to keep the 365 day supply. I dont understand why they have never communicated with us what the plans are. Also why mention an extra payment in the fmp contract if they weren't going to honour it. Milk goes to lough egish. A good hour away. Drogheda plant is 5minutes away from all of us

A friend had to have a card replaced in his bulk tank. It blew 18 hours after the electricity came back after Ophelia. He used a generator during the outage. The service contract company claim they are not responsible for any damage caused during and subsequent to the storm....

Has anyone had any experience with a situation like this?