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One morning I need to get the cows done early dumbass here let's the wire down directing to parlour and cows head for a gallop to the last fecking field on the pasaage

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mahoney_j

K.G. wrote: »

Weanlings Strip grazed with how much ration?

Yes and 1.5 kg of heifer rearer nut

visatorro

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Choice here of letting cows out or getting FYM spread.

Either will cause a lot of damage:(

Hard seeing milkers out again. Spreading dung tomorrow, maybe ploughing in spring!

alps

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....

whelan2

Dung out. Cows in full time for over a week. My dad said he has never seen the outfarm as wet at this time of year.

GrasstoMilk

Bought cefimam dry cow today fir 6€/cow

straight

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.

mahoney_j

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

mahoney_j wrote: »

What’s silage like ??

Second cut bales. Not tested.

mahoney_j

straight wrote: »

Second cut bales. Not tested.

More than likely the problem

Keepgrowing

AFC 1000
Growth 35
Out day and night. In at 3pm for bales.
Don't know what's closed as of yet target 700 on 15 November. Regardless of cover cows will come I then.

In calf heifers will be housed on Saturday. Weanlings will remain at grass with heavier ones housed in Jan and lighter ones remaining at grass. They will get 2 kg of beef bargain basement beef nuts

Timmaay

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.

yewtree

12 grazings total left left only. Cows on 4kg of meal second cut bales by night the last 5 nights. 13.5 litres 4.15 pr 5.59 fat.
Will drop farm cover to 600, our early closing should still allow us to open in feb at 1000 kg dm ha.
Incalf heifers and weanlings still out anout 2 weeks left each.
Back end has been a bit of a torture here, but overall 17 has beena good year all things considered

einn32

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.

einn32

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Bought cefimam dry cow today fir 6€/cow

I was told cephaguard is cheaper?

awaywithyou

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

K.G.

anybody put in the minimum feed system from ids in a batch feed system in a parlour.it allows you to put out 1\4 kg ration out for the summer instead of 1 kilo i8n the normalsystem

mahoney_j

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

Milk wasn't collected today, first day since Christmas day. Amazing how much less time the tank is cooling

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

Milk wasn't collected today, first day since Christmas day. Amazing how much less time the tank is cooling

We're just gone on 3 and 4 day collections until Christmas.

whelan2

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

We're just gone on 3 and 4 day collections until Christmas.

Would love that. Everyday collection is crap

George Sunsnow

Out day and night here,silage for an hour before the evening milking
Like Timmay,this part of Wicklow had a very dry summer so ground conditions whilst the trickiest in places I’ve ever seen at this time of the year here either,given the amount of constant rain in the last 8 weeks it’s manageable
Today was a great day
Still hoping to keep the cows out by day and possibly night until December as usual
The only year we haven’t been able to do that here was in 2010 when they were put in for good on the night of nov 25th
The following day there was 10 inches of snow and the fields were covered in snow in this neck of the woods until the day after Stephens day :eek:

whelan2

Plan to let mine back out tomorrow during the day.

simx

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

whelan2 wrote: »

Would love that. Everyday collection is crap

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

whelan2

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

alps

whelan2 wrote: »

600 euro fell long short of 1cpl :mad: Rang recently and apparently the market isnt as good as they thought.

To be fair.....it shouldn't be put back on you to subsidise a product that is not going as well as planned..that loss or cost should come from the total liquid milk returns...

Is it surprising at all that a UHT product, sold on the GDT auction should be sourced from liquid milk suppliers? I thought liquid milk quotas had their origins in fresh milk deliveries to the cities and towns.

whelan2

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

kevthegaff

Cows out by day here for another 2 weeks hopefully and in full time, cows not milking well since power gone for 4 days and silage full time for 4 days, back to 13 litres. Dried off a few low performers, lame ladies this evening wick may increase average

alps

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?

Signpost

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

We're just gone on 3 and 4 day collections until Christmas.

You must have huge capacity to carry 4 days do you? Were on 3 here for a few weeks and it was a struggle for a start, def would never manage 4!