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Dairy chit chat II

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  • #9182
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,840 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    That sounds about right for that number of cows.
    This shyte is fairly real

    The lads on Midwest radio were on about him yesterday morning.


  • #9183
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    That sounds about right for that number of cows.
    This shyte is fairly real

    It's not that unusual. Giving an extra 4kg of meal and maybe 40% more silage than this day last year per head. Cow numbers up 10% deliveries per day up by 20%. I thought this time last year that I should have been feeding stronger certainly on meal this year seems to be proving me right.


  • #9184
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,519 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    That sounds about right for that number of cows.
    This shyte is fairly real

    If I was his partner I'd kick his butt, It doesn't need to be broadcast....it's really not helping our image.
    he could be selling €5000 +/day worth of milk


  • #9185
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Every time I tell myself "this is the worst farming year of my life" , I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where Bart says this is the worse day of his life, and Homer just goes, no, worst day of your life...so far :p


  • #9186
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,748 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Every time I tell myself "this is the worst farming year of my life" , I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where Bart says this is the worse day of his life, and Homer just goes, no, worst day of your life so far :p

    Profit monitor figures for 2018 will be interesting


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  • #9187
    stretch film
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭stretch film


    Lads keep your own ears to the ground (pun intended) on availability of certain straights .along the lines of injuryprones post a while ago.


  • #9188
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    This year isn't a patch on 1984 no rain from April to September and there wasn't half the crying about it even though there were plenty farmers stocked at a cow to the acre and over. I know a man that grew peas for Eirn foods in 1984 and the peas got no rain from the day they were planted to the day they were harvested. The following year was very wet for the whole summer and plenty trouble making fodder until the Indian summer cane in September and October.

    Yes ‘84 was a drought year Dan,but both winter and spring cereals were a bumper crop. I remember getting IR£1 for small square bales of straw...must’ve been something wrong with the baler because there were thousands of bales that ‘disappeared’...:)

    ‘76 was catastrophic for everything.


  • #9189
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    wrangler wrote: »
    If I was his partner I'd kick his butt, It doesn't need to be broadcast....it's really not helping our image.
    he could be selling €5000 +/day worth of milk

    Just starting to polish the begging bowl is all...
    Must get the situation out there.


  • #9190
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭mf240


    He has his land rented to the lads. But they call him a partner just to make him feel important. Id say he only be in the way if you were busy.


  • #9191
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭mf240


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Just starting to polish the begging bowl is all...
    Must get the situation out there.

    I sold the violin for two small square bales and a bag of pke


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  • #9192
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Just got 3-4mm with thunder and lightning. Everyone off to watch the soccer now for the w-end.

    My second job beckons for the next couple of days...bloodstock transport, groom, sponsor, patron and general dogsbody.


  • #9193
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    mf240 wrote: »
    I sold the violin for two small square bales and a bag of pke

    Obviously a Stradivarius...seeing you got two small squares thrown in.


  • #9194
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Alfalfa (lucerne) hay isn’t much good for milking cows. Excellent for young stock.

    In the form of hay it retails at about €90/t...~€45/big square.

    Alfalfa in wraps is a brilliant feed for dairy cows. Retails at about €140/ton. At around 30%dm, 4kg is equal to a kg of soya, but feeds out better iykwim.

    * Extrême caution when buying...
    If baled (wrapped) before any flowers appear it should be 23-24% protein. Quality plummets rapidly when flowers appear...

    Likewise with alfalfa hay. Good hay would come in at about 18% protein, but as the flowers appear it plummets rapidly.

    The dregs of alfalfa is when the seed has been harvested...that means that it was way past flowering and resulting hay (straw!) would be only gutfill.

    I’d buy hay or straw over the phone, but I’d go see alfalfa before buying.
    Careful now.

    I had a look at that alfalfa hay today. Very dusty to my mind, looked to be an awful lot of stem. I couldn't see anything that looked like flowers but I couldn't see much leaf either. Maybe a function of the big square balers but it seemed to be chopped? I wouldn't be rushing to buy atm. Any thoughts dawg?


  • #9195
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,123 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Alfalfa (lucerne) hay isn’t much good for milking cows. Excellent for young stock.

    In the form of hay it retails at about €90/t...~€45/big square.

    Alfalfa in wraps is a brilliant feed for dairy cows. Retails at about €140/ton. At around 30%dm, 4kg is equal to a kg of soya, but feeds out better iykwim.

    * Extrême caution when buying...
    If baled (wrapped) before any flowers appear it should be 23-24% protein. Quality plummets rapidly when flowers appear...

    Likewise with alfalfa hay. Good hay would come in at about 18% protein, but as the flowers appear it plummets rapidly.

    The dregs of alfalfa is when the seed has been harvested...that means that it was way past flowering and resulting hay (straw!) would be only gutfill.

    I’d buy hay or straw over the phone, but I’d go see alfalfa before buying.
    Careful now.

    I had a look at that alfalfa hay today. Very dusty to my mind, looked to be an awful lot of stem. I couldn't see anything that looked like flowers but I couldn't see much leaf either. Maybe a function of the big square balers but it seemed to be chopped? I wouldn't be rushing to buy atm. Any thoughts dawg?

    Sounds like glorified straw, good quality stuff should be dark green, with little our no dust


  • #9196
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Cows going into 1st cut after grass now, 36days after it was cut. Best covers have about 1100 on them, worst, 500, which is a gr of 13/day.


  • #9197
    stretch film
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭stretch film


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I had a look at that alfalfa hay today. Very dusty to my mind, looked to be an awful lot of stem. I couldn't see anything that looked like flowers but I couldn't see much leaf either. Maybe a function of the big square balers but it seemed to be chopped? I wouldn't be rushing to buy atm. Any thoughts dawg?

    Out of interest how much could you have taken . Any nutritional analysis on it.
    What price.


  • #9198
    straight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭straight


    I see murphy water troughs come with their own stop valve now. Do any of you have any experience of them. They don't look very frost proof.


  • #9199
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,447 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    straight wrote: »
    I see murphy water troughs come with their own stop valve now. Do any of you have any experience of them. They don't look very frost proof.

    Have 6 of them. I've no issue with them although some do. We have stop valves on outside of every trough and turn them off when cows leave the paddock.


  • #9200
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    stretch film wrote: »
    Out of interest how much could you have taken . Any nutritional analysis on it.
    What price.

    180 I think. Very pricy on any basis. I won't be a customer for them in the short term but never say never.


  • #9201
    Timmaay
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    straight wrote: »
    I see murphy water troughs come with their own stop valve now. Do any of you have any experience of them. They don't look very frost proof.

    I saw one with a 3 or 4inches of solid ice in the Friday morning of the big snow here, and not a bother on it since.


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  • #9202
    kevthegaff
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    wrangler wrote:
    If I was his partner I'd kick his butt, It doesn't need to be broadcast....it's really not helping our image. he could be selling €5000 +/day worth of milk

    In fairness wrangler dairy farmers are great violin players..


  • #9203
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I had a look at that alfalfa hay today. Very dusty to my mind, looked to be an awful lot of stem. I couldn't see anything that looked like flowers but I couldn't see much leaf either. Maybe a function of the big square balers but it seemed to be chopped? I wouldn't be rushing to buy atm. Any thoughts dawg?


    Where is this available kilmeaden ?
    Have they much of it
    Tks


  • #9204
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    mf240 wrote: »
    He has his land rented to the lads. But they call him a partner just to make him feel important. Id say he only be in the way if you were busy.

    He wasn't very impressive drying off one of the cows a few years Avon on ettg.


  • #9205
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,748 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Cows had no water last night. Disaster. Luckily there's 4 big drinkers in the collecting yard. Ball valve was blocked.


  • #9206
    freedominacup
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    ellewood wrote: »
    Where is this available kilmeaden ?
    Have they much of it
    Tks

    It looked like they had taken in an artic load. Kilmeaden. Plenty bales there yesterday.


  • #9207
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭visatorro


    Is molasses any use feeding on straw or hay? For milkers


  • #9208
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,609 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Not too sure, have you a diet feeder? We fed straw with one of those liquid feed products back in 2013. Not sure what was in it. Are you trying to conserve silage?


  • #9209
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    freedominacup wrote: »
    It looked like they had taken in an artic load. Kilmeaden. Plenty bales there yesterday.


    Sound thanks
    Got sorted with a few from them this morning
    It will stretch what I have for another bit because there feck all else around here at the moment


    Won't be feeding ad lib with price of them
    But would incalf heifers be ok with
    3kg alfafa 3 kg meal and 3 kg grass

    If grass goes completely how much alfafa and meal together can u feed ??


  • #9210
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭visatorro


    Just trying to feed cows, willing to try anything. I know you'd put molasses on poor silage to make them eat it, does it reduce demand I suppose is what I want to know

    Yeah have diet feeder


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  • #9211
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,748 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Interesting views on the last few pages of this thread https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057883435


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