Dairy chit chat II

Mooooo · 16-04-2018 09:52AM

Forgot to turn the scrapers on last night and with grass in the diet they get fair dirty on the cubicles. A couple bulling as well and a heifer or two. Will stick to April 20 start date

einn32 · 16-04-2018 11:42AM

Mooooo wrote: »

Forgot to turn the scrapers on last night and with grass in the diet they get fair dirty on the cubicles. A couple bulling as well and a heifer or two. Will stick to April 20 start date

I left them on because I knew I would forget if the cows came in! It's miserable then the next morning without them on. I left the cows out full time the last two nights but it's looking like in tonight.

visatorro · 16-04-2018 01:42PM

kevthegaff wrote: »

At foto zoo today for the twins birthday, Feck hardly saw an animal with them all taking to shelter!! Came back fuse blown in parlour as esb upgrade yet to happen, rejigging around has up and running

Heading that direction tomorrow!

Mooooo · 16-04-2018 06:14PM

Bit of rain falling now....

kowtow · 16-04-2018 08:15PM

Mooooo wrote:

Bit of rain falling now....

I said to the boy tonight I might have been the last to get cows out this year but I'm damn sure the last to put them back in tonight!

At least the girls took pity on me and bunched up under a ditch for the last couple of hours so they'll have some bit of a paddock to go back to if it ever dries out.

Gawddawggonnit · 17-04-2018 06:55AM

Knocked 64ha of cc for pit yesterday. Mix of winter rye, vetch, peas and crimson clover. Will continue knocking more today as forecast for next week is awful.
Lots of spraying and primary tilling to be done also. Busy for a few days before it breaks down again.

GrasstoMilk · 17-04-2018 10:43AM

Thinking of letting the 2 teasers out with the cows from day one of breeding here. Finding heats are quite short in the cows. They are in good bcs, similar to most year I reckon but the weather isn't really ideal on them for bulling. Maybe when if the weather settles down they might be more active

Mooooo · 17-04-2018 10:53AM

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Thinking of letting the 2 teasers out with the cows from day one of breeding here. Finding heats are quite short in the cows. They are in good bcs, similar to most year I reckon but the weather isn't really ideal on them for bulling. Maybe when if the weather settles down they might be more active

If there's too much activity they will fla themselves and could be no good for end of the season when they would be needed most. Weather and consistent diet should do it

Keepgrowing · 17-04-2018 01:14PM

Grass is bursting out of the ground. Recorded 70 on the covers over 600.

If only found could be let dry out. Got out of jail last night, lot of wind but only 8mm of rain. I was expecting carnage this morning in the paddock but only slight damage at the gap.

GrasstoMilk · 17-04-2018 03:52PM

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Grass is bursting out of the ground. Recorded 70 on the covers over 600.

If only found could be let dry out. Got out of jail last night, lot of wind but only 8mm of rain. I was expecting carnage this morning in the paddock but only slight damage at the gap.

Recorded to 60s and 70s here but the average was 30.
It needs to step up another gear !

Timmaay · 17-04-2018 04:43PM

Rd3 on this dry 7ac, but no laneway access to it, and each bloody grazing its bucketed down! Definitely worth investing in a spur laneway!

Timmaay · 17-04-2018 04:46PM

And yeh grass flying out of it, magic day definitely came afew days ago, another bag or so of 18 6 12 and will aim to close off half the milking block for a leafy cut in mid may.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 17-04-2018 08:22PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Rd3 on this dry 7ac, but no laneway access to it, and each bloody grazing its bucketed down! Definitely worth investing in a spur laneway!

Worth a thread on its own, I'd say.

whelan2 · 18-04-2018 09:50AM

Anyone part taking in the icbf sexed semen trial?

alps · 18-04-2018 09:53AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyone part taking in the icbf sexed semen trial?

No...

All risk taken by the farmer
Would have to drop DIY AI
Smaller choice of Bulls and mostly only genotyped proof..

All the gain to the Ai companies and no recognition of the cost and financial risk to the farmer...

If corporates want to create a product for their financial gain, they need to pay farmers to test it.

farisfat · 18-04-2018 10:15AM

Timmaay wrote: »

Rd3 on this dry 7ac, but no laneway access to it, and each bloody grazing its bucketed down! Definitely worth investing in a spur laneway!

That's some ground....what fertilizer usage to date.
Started r2 today still in at night.

Gawddawggonnit · 18-04-2018 10:27AM

Collected a Kiwi from the plane last night. He’s been in Eu for the last fortnight so well rested and no jet lag.

His father told me that he’s a good driver with loads of experience...

Sent him off raking at nine with a map in hand. At half past nine he rings saying he ‘touched’ an esb pole. He decided that he’d enough room to pass between two poles with the rake fully extended.

Rake’s à write off and Kiwi’s packing his bag.
Lovely.

Dairy farmers and kit just don’t mix.

Mooooo · 18-04-2018 10:29AM

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Mooooo · 18-04-2018 11:07AM

alps wrote: »

No...

All risk taken by the farmer
Would have to drop DIY AI
Smaller choice of Bulls and mostly only genotyped proof..

All the gain to the Ai companies and no recognition of the cost and financial risk to the farmer...

If corporates want to create a product for their financial gain, they need to pay farmers to test it.

It comes every few years a push on sexed semen but they've feck all done to make it more reliable

kowtow · 18-04-2018 11:16AM

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Collected a Kiwi from the plane last night. He’s been in Eu for the last fortnight so well rested and no jet lag.

His father told me that he’s a good driver with loads of experience...

Sent him off raking at nine with a map in hand. At half past nine he rings saying he ‘touched’ an esb pole. He decided that he’d enough room to pass between two poles with the rake fully extended.

Rake’s à write off and Kiwi’s packing his bag.
Lovely.

Dairy farmers and kit just don’t mix.

If he touched an ESB pole then that rake is bigger than it needs to be.

Reggie. · 18-04-2018 12:15PM

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Collected a Kiwi from the plane last night. He’s been in Eu for the last fortnight so well rested and no jet lag.

His father told me that he’s a good driver with loads of experience...

Sent him off raking at nine with a map in hand. At half past nine he rings saying he ‘touched’ an esb pole. He decided that he’d enough room to pass between two poles with the rake fully extended.

Rake’s à write off and Kiwi’s packing his bag.
Lovely.

Dairy farmers and kit just don’t mix.

Been telling ya that for a while. That one of the new claas rakes?

blue5000 · 18-04-2018 12:26PM

kowtow wrote: »

If he touched an ESB pole then that rake is bigger than it needs to be.

Oh very well spotted.:D

Reggie. · 18-04-2018 01:13PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Oh very well spotted.:D

Took me a sec to get that

Gawddawggonnit · 18-04-2018 01:33PM

kowtow wrote: »

If he touched an ESB pole then that rake is bigger than it needs to be.

Lol.

Still call them ESB poles even after all these years.

EDF!!

Gawddawggonnit · 18-04-2018 01:37PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Been telling ya that for a while. That one of the new claas rakes?

Yep. Just a year old.

Tractor insurance will cover 75% of the price. Trying to pick up a demo model atm.
I wouldn’t mind changing makes. The Claas’ rotors are too flexible and can ride over crop especially lucerne, iykwim. Any other good makes?

Timmaay · 18-04-2018 01:41PM

farisfat wrote: »

That's some ground....what fertilizer usage to date.
Started r2 today still in at night.

Only maybe 30% of the farm that dry, and what I failed to mention each of them 3times I've been grazing covers of only 8/900 ha, needs must, because I don't have enough cubicles beside the parlour for all the milkers to leave them inside so have very little choice other than push on through that 30%.

Reggie. · 18-04-2018 02:59PM

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Yep. Just a year old.

Tractor insurance will cover 75% of the price. Trying to pick up a demo model atm.
I wouldn’t mind changing makes. The Claas’ rotors are too flexible and can ride over crop especially lucerne, iykwim. Any other good makes?

We had this chat remember

kowtow · 18-04-2018 04:22PM

As a matter of fact I'm thinking of doing a little raking job this silage season much to the amusement of the parish.

What they don't know is that I plan to organise a highly intensive training course with Reggie in advance.

I'm going straight to 'Elite'

Reggie. · 18-04-2018 05:10PM

kowtow wrote: »

As a matter of fact I'm thinking of doing a little raking job this silage season much to the amusement of the parish.

What they don't know is that I plan to organise a highly intensive training course with Reggie in advance.

I'm going straight to 'Elite'

Nothing's happening till I receive that cheque

kowtow · 18-04-2018 05:27PM

Reggie. wrote:

Nothing's happening till I receive that cheque

Having a bit of trouble getting the Bank of Ireland to quote for the Cayman Island Dollars you requested

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