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Dairy chit chat II

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  • #8222
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Hopefully all be finished with tomorrow. . Didn't need it on top of everything else

    We must come across as some paranoid bunch.


  • #8223
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,519 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Yes


    Did you do a postmortem, what did that say


  • #8224
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,403 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Went over to dries easier on and found one thrown on the ground dead. Dunno what the he'll happened her, good condition really scratching my head.10 left to go with one in the calving box

    Out in the field?
    Then usual suspects of dumped rubbish or milk fever (especially when you say in good condition).


  • #8225
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,609 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Say my name wrote: »
    Out in the field?
    Then usual suspects of dumped rubbish or milk fever (especially when you say in good condition).

    No in cubicle shed. Perhaps slipped but would hardly be gone in the couple of hours since I last looked at em. She wasn't due till May, on baled silage wasn't even worried about her. In good knick but not very fat either. Will talk to get in morning but Knackery is a good distance from them and vets are busy and there is only one lad Id want to do the pm but at the same time she's gone now rest seem fine so dunno. If it stays any way dry the rest will be out at the week end and get silage in the field


  • #8226
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Making a couple of pits of silage today and tomorrow. Ryegrass and crimson clover mix. Also cc mix of peas, wheat, vetch and balansa clover.
    Temps are much lower than normal but grass has exploded so may take out some grazing paddocks also.


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  • #8227
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Early start.


  • #8228
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,609 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Making a couple of pits of silage today and tomorrow. Ryegrass and crimson clover mix. Also cc mix of peas, wheat, vetch and balansa clover.
    Temps are much lower than normal but grass has exploded so may take out some grazing paddocks also.

    Will the lower temps make it harder to wilt the clover?


  • #8229
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,609 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Umbilical contractor is in the area was gonna go over grazed ground but it don't think twud even take his tractor without track8ng it.


  • #8230
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Will the lower temps make it harder to wilt the clover?

    It’s 22* with a good breeze...be grand.


  • #8231
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Umbilical contractor is in the area was gonna go over grazed ground but it don't think twud even take his tractor without track8ng it.

    If it won’t take a tractor it must be a fairly messy job grazing it.


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  • #8232
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,609 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Going in from opposite side of paddocks and back fencing. It's the rain in the last 3 days has made it much softer, wasn't too bad till then


  • #8233
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,751 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    I signed up for the sexed semen trial. Well I didn't sign anything. Straws still haven't arrived. A week of breeding done. Thinking of telling them pfo. What do ye think. Promised that they will be here everyday


  • #8234
    Mooooo
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    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    It’s 22* with a good breeze...be grand.

    We can only dream, 6 degrees with a constant drizzle


  • #8235
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Making a couple of pits of silage today and tomorrow. Ryegrass and crimson clover mix. Also cc mix of peas, wheat, vetch and balansa clover.
    Temps are much lower than normal but grass has exploded so may take out some grazing paddocks also.

    What is the cost per acre to establish those crops? How many cuts from the ryegrass crimson mix? At what yield? I assume the other mix is one cut only?


  • #8236
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,623 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Early start.

    No raking? Rake do too much damage to clover?


  • #8237
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Early start.

    Is the harvester part of the cuma and the tractors and trailers yours and neighbours?


  • #8238
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,623 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Muckit wrote: »
    Is the harvester part of the cuma and the tractors and trailers yours and neighbours?

    Spot a dirty deere there. Thought he had better taste :D


  • #8239
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,705 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    It’s 22* with a good breeze...be grand.

    Jaysus sounds like bliss


  • #8240
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,449 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I signed up for the sexed semen trial. Well I didn't sign anything. Straws still haven't arrived. A week of breeding done. Thinking of telling them pfo. What do ye think. Promised that they will be here everyday
    Signed up for the gene Ireland straws here and still haven't got them. 7 days of breeding done here too.
    I reckoned I'd have enough fr straws along with these for the first round of AI and repeats. I'll have to use them on repeats in the second 3 weeks now I reckon. Technician only gets deliveries on a Wednesday so illl be well over half way by then even if they do arrive


  • #8241
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,751 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Hopefully all be finished with tomorrow. . Didn't need it on top of everything else

    All sorted. Just shows how easy these things can happen.


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  • #8242
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,623 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    All sorted. Just shows how easy these things can happen.

    Once your happy


  • #8243
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,751 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Once your happy

    Would be happier if it never happened


  • #8244
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,623 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Would be happier if it never happened

    True but it's better than a dragged out fight


  • #8245
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,282 ✭✭✭alps


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    It’s 22* with a good breeze...be grand.

    Sitting in the sunshine in a field just N of Paris...it's divine...

    It's absolutely marvellous to get a shot of sunshine on the face after the months of drudgery.

    Silage cut in quiet a few places...trees fully leafed out...looking forward to Summer at home now...


  • #8246
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,751 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Signed up for the gene Ireland straws here and still haven't got them. 7 days of breeding done here too.
    I reckoned I'd have enough fr straws along with these for the first round of AI and repeats. I'll have to use them on repeats in the second 3 weeks now I reckon. Technician only gets deliveries on a Wednesday so illl be well over half way by then even if they do arrive

    Rep from pg was here. The straws arrived in Enfield last night. He is going to drive over there now to get them. No one has gotten them yet.


  • #8247
    K.G.
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,498 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    alps wrote: »
    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    It’s 22* with a good breeze...be grand.

    Sitting in the sunshine in a field just N of Paris...it's divine...

    It's absolutely marvellous to get a shot of sunshine on the face after the months of drudgery.

    Silage cut in quiet a few places...trees fully leafed out...looking forward to Summer at home now...
    I mean you no harm but when i first read your post i hoped you would be struck down by lightning for painting that picture as we sit here in rain,cold,muck,half eaten fields and uneasy cattle


  • #8248
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭visatorro


    23litres
    3.80 fat
    3.36 pr
    scc, abit higher than i'd like to post!!
    urea 37
    3kg hi energy 18%.

    half calved before christmas. one left to calf here.
    will look at changing down meal for next fill maybe. plenty of grass but growth slowed this week. strip grazing heavier cover. clean out not great.
    recording tonight to find high cell count one.


  • #8249
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    alps wrote: »
    Sitting in the sunshine in a field just N of Paris...it's divine...

    It's absolutely marvellous to get a shot of sunshine on the face after the months of drudgery.

    Silage cut in quiet a few places...trees fully leafed out...looking forward to Summer at home now...

    The life of the idle rich.


  • #8250
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,282 ✭✭✭alps


    K.G. wrote: »
    I mean you no harm but when i first read your post i hoped you would be struck down by lightning for painting that picture as we sit here in rain,cold,muck,half eaten fields and uneasy cattle

    The OH is looking after the show at home, and if she saw that post, I'd never again set foot on home soil...


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  • #8251
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Daddy on daycare duty while mammy hard at work in the background ha.


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