Dairy chit chat II

K.G. · 05-02-2018 08:39PM

Six calved milking machine tomorrow evening.......hopefully

3 the square · 05-02-2018 09:07PM

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Anyone know the price per acre of land just for 2 cuts of silage?
Fertiliser it yourself

200 euro

kowtow · 06-02-2018 02:09PM

darragh_haven wrote: »

I'm going to them on Wednesday collecting other stuff, on my way down from the North. Shur I throw a few bags on for ya COD

Sent you a PM!

Gawddawggonnit · 06-02-2018 03:45PM

Got a call earlier from the VP of my Coop looking for a meeting ‘very soon’...
About what? Wouldn’t commit so I said come to my place...

Hmmm. Small Coop that processes 1bln litres of cows milk and 200mnl litres goats milk....could be interesting...

Gawddawggonnit · 06-02-2018 03:52PM

Milk replacer prices.

Elvor precision €1545/t delivered.
Elvor dami veau €1550/t.

Bought another product called Neoveau (61% skim 25% pr) €1600/t. Just to try it.

Minerals.
I only use minerals for milkers and the same one for years...€425/t.

Prices are falling.

Morris Moss · 06-02-2018 03:52PM

Question folks, was asked to genotype a few calves, how long would you be waiting for results back?

mahoney_j · 06-02-2018 04:07PM

Morris Moss wrote: »

Question folks, was asked to genotype a few calves, how long would you be waiting for results back?

2 weeks ,sooner u get them off sooner u get results .u could have the next superstar ai bull so worth the wait ,9.5 times out of 10 amounts to nothing tho .lost count of amount of calves tested here and none came to anything

mahoney_j · 06-02-2018 04:09PM

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Milk replacer prices.

Elvor precision €1545/t delivered.
Elvor dami veau €1550/t.

Bought another product called Neoveau (61% skim 25% pr) €1600/t. Just to try it.

Minerals.
I only use minerals for milkers and the same one for years...€425/t.

Prices are falling.

In lovely old Ireland everything been talked up ,meal ,fertliser ,minerals etc we must be a real soft touch

blackdog1 · 06-02-2018 04:27PM

Gawddawggonnit wrote:

Milk replacer prices.

Gawddawggonnit wrote:

Elvor precision â‚¬1545/t delivered. Elvor dami veau â‚¬1550/t.

Gawddawggonnit wrote:

Bought another product called Neoveau (61% skim 25% pr) â‚¬1600/t. Just to try it.

Gawddawggonnit wrote:

Minerals. I only use minerals for milkers and the same one for years...â‚¬425/t.

Gawddawggonnit wrote:

Bought another product called Neoveau (61% skim 25% pr) â‚¬1600/t. Just to try it.

Unreal prices. God knows what they'd charge us for that 60% skim one close to 3k a tonne i recon.

kevthegaff · 06-02-2018 05:19PM

Is everyone going to replacer, I've always fed whole milk. Improved performance?

blackdog1 · 06-02-2018 05:33PM

kevthegaff wrote:

Is everyone going to replacer, I've always fed whole milk. Improved performance?

No just switched because of outbreak of crypto. Now I'm set up for it with water heater in calf house it's so easy and its costing 24-26c a litre. Can't beat milk for performance. If you have no disease problems I would feed replacer to heifers and waste milk to bulls.

Gawddawggonnit · 06-02-2018 06:04PM

blackdog1 wrote: »

Unreal prices. God knows what they'd charge us for that 60% skim one close to 3k a tonne i recon.

You’re from The Peoples Republic blackdog?
ODT from Carrigtwohill are passing here everyday. It’d take one of the lads here two mins to load a palet or two...~€100 for transport...

Elvor salesman says it’ll be sub €1500 from first March.
Pm if interested.

Gawddawggonnit · 06-02-2018 06:05PM

blackdog1 wrote: »

No just switched because of outbreak of crypto. Now I'm set up for it with water heater in calf house it's so easy and its costing 24-26c a litre. Can't beat milk for performance. If you have no disease problems I would feed replacer to heifers and waste milk to bulls.

Fag box calc says around 20cpl...

PMU · 06-02-2018 06:33PM

Keepgrowing wrote: »

We're off. A few days late but 299 to go

me too, but I kept them in for the snow to clear. did yours eat much today

blackdog1 · 06-02-2018 08:34PM

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

You’re from The Peoples Republic blackdog?
ODT from Carrigtwohill are passing here everyday. It’d take one of the lads here two mins to load a palet or two...~€100 for transport...

Elvor salesman says it’ll be sub €1500 from first March.
Pm if interested.

I think you'll be getting alot of pm's! let me know what you think of the precision and the 60% skim one. I might try and get that myself based on your recommendation

Reggie. · 06-02-2018 10:04PM

blackdog1 wrote: »

I think you'll be getting alot of pm's! let me know what you think of the precision and the 60% skim one. I might try and get that myself based on your recommendation

Same as

Say my name · 07-02-2018 12:30PM

How's everyone getting on with their ICBF reports?

I got 3 five stars on mine. So I'm about average on that one.

Pleased with my milk performance though.
Fat + Protein kgs/cow 524.
Litres per cow per day 19.66.

All spring calving. Hol/fr cows with a few Monty crosses.

Timmaay · 07-02-2018 12:50PM

Overall I'm down on production per cow, which I could get hung up on, but I know the 2 or 3 reasons for that and can fix the this yr. However fertility figures well up on previous years, 70% 6wk calving rate, crap by most you compact spring lads but that's come a hell of along way here from our ayr calving days, Hopefully push that up towards 75/80% this year.

6 5stars but that's only out of the Glanbia liquid pool, so fairly meaningless metric in my view.

atlantic mist · 07-02-2018 12:57PM

any one get a section done lately? Just got bill from vet 400 euro for section

whelan2 · 07-02-2018 12:58PM

atlantic mist wrote: »

any one get a section done lately? Just got bill from vet 400 euro for section

Did both survive? How much of that was drugs?

jaymla627 · 07-02-2018 12:59PM

Say my name wrote: »

How's everyone getting on with their ICBF reports?

I got 3 five stars on mine. So I'm about average on that one.

Pleased with my milk performance though.
Fat + Protein kgs/cow 524.
Litres per cow per day 19.66.

All spring calving. Hol/fr cows with a few Monty crosses.

Two five stars here 608kgs ms per cow and 22.13 litres sent a day, im scrapping the barrel on the rest of the kpi's

atlantic mist · 07-02-2018 01:04PM

cow survived milking away back on twice a day, must go at stitches in next few days, calf was a deformed smallemberg case

only injection given was 1 bottle of pen strip after section

glad to still have her, part of 400 is call out fee and injection

alps · 07-02-2018 02:08PM

Chart showing clearly that there is no entrepeneurs profit from high cost systems...no matter what the price of milk is...

The outliers however are supermarket contracts in red dots, and French and Italian regional and speciality cheeses in green dots...

Figures are for year ended Q1 2016, so will not include the extremely low prices later in '16..

alps · 07-02-2018 02:24PM

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GrasstoMilk · 07-02-2018 02:57PM

jaymla627 wrote: »

Two five stars here 608kgs ms per cow and 22.13 litres sent a day, im scrapping the barrel on the rest of the kpi's

Aw just because ye didn't get a few more stars on them?!
61/65 stars here

mahoney_j · 07-02-2018 03:04PM

587 kgms ,86% 6 week in calf rate ,100% heifers calved 22/26 months ,371 day ci,4.16% fat 3.6 p .128 ebi,supplied milk from 04/02 to 22/12 and milked oad from 15/11 to dry off

K.G. · 07-02-2018 03:31PM

alps wrote: »

Chart showing clearly that there is no entrepeneurs profit from high cost systems...no matter what the price of milk is...

The outliers however are supermarket contracts in red dots, and French and Italian regional and speciality cheeses in green dots...

Figures are for year ended Q1 2016, so will not include the extremely low prices later in '16..

Everyone is thinking where is my dot

Mooooo · 07-02-2018 03:42PM

What is entrepreneurs profit?? See different phrases thrown around like free cash etc only seems a load of bollix,

kowtow · 07-02-2018 05:01PM

alps wrote: »

Chart showing clearly that there is no entrepeneurs profit from high cost systems...no matter what the price of milk is...

The outliers however are supermarket contracts in red dots, and French and Italian regional and speciality cheeses in green dots...

Figures are for year ended Q1 2016, so will not include the extremely low prices later in '16..

Is that individual farms or countries?

If I remember correctly, we're pretty expensive on a total economic cost basis, at least in the european context. Difficult to get an up to date price / litre to place us on that graph but I think there were only a couple of countries more expensive than us - at least in 2012.

I recall that the Italians may well have been one of them!

Edit : Total costs were about 4.50 per kg solids in the 2012 analysis, Denmark and Italy were more expensive (4.75 and 5.25 approx) .. UK was about 3.30-3.50 (had to pluck these figures by eye off a graph so they aren't exact).

mf240 · 07-02-2018 05:35PM

Icbf report here all five stars on top as usuall and all one stars on bottom. My only worry are these guys getting money to make charts that I don't want or need

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