Keepgrowing wrote: I totally agree, I'm absolutly exhausted
Water John wrote: » Fearlessly on the processors side.
kowtow wrote: » Me too. Something about the third day of a crisis which really knocks it out of you. Still cut off here with about 50 yds of the boreen left to clear. Only way out by quad through paddocks. Water thawed at least, scrapers working just about and a small break from calving. Not made any easier by being half way through the parlour refurb and milking on one side with buckets!
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Two words John...Force Majeure. I only put the comment in to see some reaction...:)
wrangler wrote: » i thought his comment was aimed at me, I do wish john would ''quote'' the post he's commenting on According to the BBC news last night, their farmers aren't getting paid for milk they didn't sell.....are all the roads cleared well enough for milk collection with you
wrangler wrote: » A tweet to support my argument. .'' Wonder will the @KepakGroup @dawnmeatsgroup #abp et al pay for lost lambs & cattle in the storm @farmersjournal''
Mooooo wrote: » Coops are responsible for collection, are factories?
Mooooo wrote: » Dunno what dairygold are doing 're dumped milk yet, fortunate to have plenty storage here and yard cleared if lorry decides to come. I see glanbia are paying 20, should be base price unless it's the farmers yard that is the issue
whelan2 wrote: » Crap here again today. Had 2 calves born dead yesterday. Had to put a cow with a bad heart down and now waiting on vet as a calf is coming upside down and head not coming.......knackery lorry Will be busy
whelan2 wrote: » Cow euthanized. Womb ruptured when vet calving her. Didn't get calf out either
Water John wrote: » Bit of a though run there, Whelan. Hope next week is better. As someone has written here earlier, it's outside the door. Alps you are mostly correct, except the milk coop membership, that states they will take all the milk produced on your farm. Standard practice is, they collect from your premises. Any thing else being said or offered, is a distraction. I would agree the farmer should, clear his own entrance.
Keepgrowing wrote: » Whelan, it's been a tough week a real bastard for man and beast. The best of run places had losses this week that they wouldn't normally encounter. We have top notch facilities and have a shed of 45 bull calves get a serious chill the night before the snow despite our best efforts. All calves got 4 litres of beastings at birth were on adlib milk in a brand new shed and 2-3 weeks old. Wind just chilled them. We've been keeping the worst of them under lights and in our little hospital since. The lads who take care of them are gone home till 3.30 so I made a call, rang knacker and he's just left with the nine of them. It fookin killed me, I'm sitting in our little farm canteen not able to go home for a bit of grub I'm so upset. The other side is that the time they were taking was compromising the attention to the others. Since the warning was issued nobody has called to collect calves as they normally would do we're chocka and I'm concerned that this could have a knock on effect. I've guys coming in the morning to collect calves. Bvds I've posted I've no doubt haven't made Enfer or if they did they're closed till Monday ensuring a further delay. We've had 63 calvings up to midnight last night since this shyte began and this is testing us. I have to say we have great staff with one guy travelling 15 miles every morning and collecting a colleague on the way. Despite this they both have been here 1 hour early every morning since Wed to keep the wheels turning. Lift you head everyone we're all in the same boat and things will improve sooner than later. Just for perspective the morning after the storm we had to dig a track with the loading shovel for an ambulance to collect a little 11 yo boy whose a class mate of my second lad to get him to hospital. Thankfully all is well. So Fook the calves, cows and frozen pipes for an hour and have a sit down at the fire. I feel better now, rant over
Keepgrowing wrote: Lift you head everyone we're all in the same boat and things will improve sooner than later.
Keepgrowing wrote: It fookin killed me, I'm sitting in our little farm canteen not able to go home for a bit of grub I'm so upset. The other side is that the time they were taking was compromising the attention to the others.
kowtow wrote: » We lost a 2 day old calf here in the middle of it.. pneumonia I suspect after a wet and cold night when everything in the maternity pen was getting snowed on. We'd done all that could be done.. including leaving the newborns with their dams for the duration of the bad weather but with one thing and another we might have got it out and under a lamp quicker than we did. Kicking myself not least because it's actually the first calf we have lost (barring a stillborn) in five years of this. Out of the ordinary events will show up the stresses in every system small or large. There is no right or wrong way to avoid their effects and no way that you can plan for every specific outcome. The only thing we can all do is look back at the photos of this weather and remind ourselves that building some small buffer of comfort .. spare space, spare time, extra straw.. silage... wiring for a generator... a mobile water tank.. whatever it may be.. will pay huge dividends in reducing stress when the time comes for us to deal with the next unexpected event, and one way and another that event will come. The cows, unsurprisingly, recover much quicker than we do, so that's what we should concentrate on.
whelan2 wrote: » Wasn't a drop of milk in glanbia Drogheda on Friday. Strathroy on the other hand kept going....
Fixture wrote: » Don’t think NI got as badly hit by the storm in fairness
K.G. wrote: » Lorry driver was telling me this morning he had to back out two lanes as lads had done nothing to clear the snow.
