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Dairy chit chat II

Mooooo

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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Floki

whelan2 wrote: »

Is he still doing the daffodils? Is some of the land still leased out. What full time farming is he doing?

Still doing the daffs and back at the onions.

5 pages of it in the magazine.

alps

Spotted this....kinda liked it

If animals were not meant to be eaten.... why are they made of food?

Signpost

Was talking to a fella today who is basically a vegetarian on medical grounds but he referred to meat as death warmed up, have to say I enjoyed it

Buford T. Justice XIX

https://twitter.com/teagasc/status/932949899754303490

Gawddawggonnit

Mooooo wrote: »

Anyone teat sealing heifers?

Wtf??

You must have a fair strong pair of arms on you!!

Easier keep them clean?

Wildsurfer

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Wtf??

You must have a fair strong pair of arms on you!!

Easier keep them clean?

Have to agree with you here. Teat sealing heifers is just a fad being promoted at the moment that will die out as soon as lads see sense.

blackdog1

Dunno guy who does my cows feet swears by it. Says some heifers have no plug at all protecting them.

Mooooo

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Wtf??

You must have a fair strong pair of arms on you!!

Easier keep them clean?

Cubicles overstocked here, any dry shed is taken up with youngstock as locked up atm. Nearly always have a few heifers who calve down with mastitis. Any reports I've heard of it is that it has reduced such instances to zero. Not all my heifers will.be calved at the start as well so more risk of picking something up at or near calving. One night where the scrapers stop could undo all the work with cleanliness as 2 weeks before calving teat ends are more open
It would be done in a turnover crate

freedominacup

Wildsurfer wrote: »

Have to agree with you here. Teat sealing heifers is just a fad being promoted at the moment that will die out as soon as lads see sense.

They're a bit like bell bottom jeans. Due a revival twenty odd years after their first go round.

whelan2

Mooooo wrote: »

Cubicles overstocked here, any dry shed is taken up with youngstock as locked up atm. Nearly always have a few heifers who calve down with mastitis. Any reports I've heard of it is that it has reduced such instances to zero. Not all my heifers will.be calved at the start as well so more risk of picking something up at or near calving. One night where the scrapers stop could undo all the work with cleanliness as 2 weeks before calving teat ends are more open
It would be done in a turnover crate

What's the charge for the turnover crate? And do you put in the tubes ir the lad who owns the crate

Mooooo

whelan2 wrote: »

What's the charge for the turnover crate? And do you put in the tubes ir the lad who owns the crate

10er a heifer I think, haven't contacted anyone yet afaik person with crate tubes also. If you don't have a problem no need to do it but if having issues may as well try it.

yosemitesam1

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Anyone have the subscription to see where it's all going to go? These expansion targets are just getting silly at this stage.

Gawddawggonnit

Mooooo wrote: »

10er a heifer I think, haven't contacted anyone yet afaik person with crate tubes also. If you don't have a problem no need to do it but if having issues may as well try it.

Reminds me of the practice, many moons ago, of people cutting off the blind teats of heifer calves...

Not condemning you Mooo.

Gawddawggonnit

yosemitesam1 wrote: »

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Anyone have the subscription to see where it's all going to go? These expansion targets are just getting silly at this stage.

Growing world population??
Cheapest producers of dairy on the planet?? (Blow the competition out of the market!)
Sure what else would ye be at??

whelan2

yosemitesam1 wrote: »

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Anyone have the subscription to see where it's all going to go? These expansion targets are just getting silly at this stage.

who will milk all these cows? it's hard enough to get lads now

whelan2

How do people with robots dry off cows? Is it with a crate? Or to treat a cow with mastitis

jaymla627

whelan2 wrote: »

How do people with robots dry off cows? Is it with a crate? Or to treat a cow with mastitis

A lot of lads use the old milking parlour and keep one side of it and a few units, seen a very fancy 16 unit up for sale that's only done 4 years been replaced by robots, some hit to take financial given what it would of cost to put in and what's the plant is worth secondhand

yewtree

jaymla627 wrote: »

A lot of lads use the old milking parlour and keep one side of it and a few units, seen a very fancy 16 unit up for sale that's only done 4 years been replaced by robots, some hit to take financial given what it would of cost to put in and what's the plant is worth secondhand

Cant give second hand stuff away at the moment., the grants are ruining them, i think i saw that parlour on donedeal he will be lucky to get 25% of what he paid for it

farisfat

whelan2 wrote: »

who will milk all these cows? it's hard enough to get lads now

Robotic rotary.

Timmaay

jaymla627 wrote: »

A lot of lads use the old milking parlour and keep one side of it and a few units, seen a very fancy 16 unit up for sale that's only done 4 years been replaced by robots, some hit to take financial given what it would of cost to put in and what's the plant is worth secondhand

Chap near me did this, but said it was a disaster, cows not use of going in and lining up in a parlour etc, he said instead he started to lock them into the robot, and dried them off sitting beside them, while they still got nuts.

whelan2

Any reports on punchestown?

simx

whelan2 wrote: »

Any reports on punchestown?

Read a couple lads saying 'twas good, had plans of going but backfilling tank and organising feed barriers etc. Put a stop to it

jaymla627

Finally managed to get a lorry load of fert bought today, 18:6:12 coming in at 350 a ton and 24:2.5:5 at 320 delivered in yard, some reps where hinting at 70 euro plus increases on last year and even at that wouldn't give a price

degetme

Any rough prices for
urea
can
0 7 30?

degetme

degetme wrote: »

Any rough prices for
urea
can
0 7 30?

Also does the above fert store well in half tonne bags if store in dry shed for two years?

degetme

degetme wrote: »

Any rough prices for
urea
can
0 7 30?

Also does the above fert store well in half tonne bags if store in dry shed for two years?

jaymla627

The more info that's being published on the new nitrates action plan the more it looks like it's going to be pointless drawing down a sfp if your dairy farming and stocked intensively, would cost north of a 100k here to even attempt to be fully compliant and at that would be touch and go, not going to submit any info re area/land farmed for 2018 to the department hopefully will fall off their rader totally

Willfarman

I suspect that would be more likely to raise a flag? You still have a herd number.

jaymla627

Willfarman wrote: »

I suspect that would be more likely to raise a flag? You still have a herd number.

Last 5 years have exceeded the 250kgs limit and am now going into silly numbers will be up over 500kgs next year, problem is I rent a lot of ground over 5 times my grazing block but haven't the maps and land owners won't allow us to export slurry on paper but 90% of slurry I produce is spread on this ground, have never had a inspection touchwood and I reckon when they have no hold over your re fines on sfp the department don't give a fiddlers but given the crazy numbers of 500kgs plus been put up in the system it will trigger a red flag

Willfarman

Interesting case! Do you have to show land farmed to retain a herdnumber?