kerry cow wrote: » Are these guys really farmers , who pump 12 millon into 1200 cows .that 10k per cow . Is it the real world ? The general joe soap can never aspire to that . We ll just keep plodding along . What do ye make of these guys who splash the cash and then become poster boys for us all to come visit .?
wrangler wrote: » He done it all by renting land for tillage, a very hard worker, I don't see his name in the top ten SBP anytime either. You know what they say ''the harder you work the luckier you get''
White Clover wrote: » If I had 12 million and wanted to milk cows, I'd milk 40 in a 10 unit parlour. No stress or headaches and still have my cows!
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?
visatorro wrote: » Is molasses any use feeding on straw or hay? For milkers
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Sure milk 50 which is just 1 rotation of the rotary and leave the rest of the lads finish off the next 600 #sorted
kevthegaff wrote: » Fair play to him, the next question which I don't know the answer is would it be wiser to invest your 12 million elsewhere..
White Clover wrote: » Could i back the 165 into that to get the cows milked if the power went?
Mooooo wrote: » Fairplay to him. Prob employing 10 or 12 by the time he is up and running along with everything else twill bring to the area. Lads like that who've worked hard to get where they are prob don't stop up anyway, just keep on going. Dunno the lad but best of luck to him
kowtow wrote: » I Suppose the question is, what does it take for a cow to pay you back 10K - and not 10K in land, but in concrete, parlours, cubicles etc... She must pay you - 250? - to rent the acre she eats. She must pay you - 450? - for the three days work she takes a year And when she has done that the profit you have left from her milk is the return on your 10K. I suppose she might be giving you 2 or 3% back in OK years... It's a lot more work than a trip to the post office.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Splash out and get a 168:D
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » It’s always going to be dusty because the leaves just break down to dust. As Jay said it should be a deep dark green. When I sell it there’s always a sample analysis, why don’t the retailers furnish one?
wrangler wrote: » does the infrastucture cost €10000/cow, surely you'd get out a lot less than that
freedominacup wrote: » Definitely not dark green. More like the colour of poor hay.
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.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Five lads close by are grouping together to create a 220ha farm. Investing €1.5mln for housing for 150cows and three duck sheds. None of them ever milked a cow... Met them last year and they were telling me their plans...I offered them the dairy farm with 280ha for the price of their investment...no go. I thought I was making them a good offer but the look of a new shed tickles the fancy of some folk.
GrasstoMilk wrote: » Anyone here have a bit more in depth knowledge of milking machines than my basic level? Want to make a single unit milking machine in the calving shed. I have a dump bucket with a pulsator on it already and I have a motor and a vacuum pump from our old 6 unit. Is it just a matter of getting the motor wired up and getting the pump plumbed up and sticking a gauge on it?
wrangler wrote: » He runs on adrenaline, as you say they don't stop....one of my tenants is the same, he has 27 tractors contracting all around the country, I never see him
Snowfire wrote: » Would you not buy one of them mobile bucket type on wheels. They come ready to plug in and go. Vac gauge, pulsation etc. I bought one couple of years ago from Connacht agri, and I think it’s the bees knees. I’ve often put it on heifers while they are calving and I’ve beastings to stomach tube the calf with straight away. I give it a good wash after each cow.
freedominacup wrote: » Saying 18%.
