Green&Red wrote: » I wouldn't agree with this at all, BEEP is partially aimed at gathering information for emissions targets. BDGP was solely aimed at increasing the female genetic characteristics of the Irish herd
Green&Red wrote: » Disagree with that too. A big huge cow isn’t what they are looking for, if you’ve a cow putting on a pile of weight then it’ll cause trouble calving and effect milk levels
Bellview wrote: » Disagree with you on costs .. Cost not bad as rent scales 50 .. and if you feed a bag of feed to a calf it covers the meal feeding.. so you get 40 for spending 8 .. nothing wrong with the scheme Return
Bellview wrote: » In my view they should tie the weight gains to the Star rating as you can have ie2 star cow putting on1.5kg a day while another could be putting on 0.6 kg a day.. if there is a trend of poor performance then icbf should hammer the low weight gain while lifting the higher weight gains
Hard Knocks wrote: » I think Beeps is a far better program Sadly there’s allot of cost
Grueller wrote: » I would say the beep-s is the successor and is already in place.
Welding Rod wrote: » Will this scheme roll over I wonder? Despite all the negativity at times, I would say it has forced lads to think harder about breeding, and try to improve the herd average. Was the incentive for me to switch to all AI, and try upping my game. No doubt in my mind that the 4 and 5 star cows are significantly better breeders than the lower cohort!!!
893bet wrote: » When will this be paid for this year? December?
Green&Red wrote: » I’d the results come back as 5* that should do, he was in your herd on that date They are slow as anything getting results back, still waiting on two heifers from April Will there be much demand for 5*s come end of October?
josephsoap wrote: » Lols apologies the deadline was 30 June to have a 5 star genotyped bull in your herd on that date if using stock bull.
emaherx wrote: » It's not 31st of July yet?
josephsoap wrote: » I bought a new bull in March this year, the bull was not genotyped when I got him, I subsequently genotyped him, I’m in the BDGP 1 scheme and the deadline was the bull had to be 5 star genotyped on 31 July 2020, I missed this deadline as his results wasn’t back at this stage - the bull is a 5 star bull. I’m compliant in every other part of this scheme - any know what type of penalty I might be looking at ?
Hurling Hereford wrote: » https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/farmingschemesandpayments/beefdataprogrammebdp/2015/BDGPITandCs220518.pdf How are ye all. Above is the link to the Terms/Conditions of the infamous BDGP. I also attended the training course and information meeting in my locality for the scheme also. If youre still unsure of anything after reading the T/Cs give one of the women in the Dept in Portlaois a buzz, their very helpful
Green&Red wrote: » If only there was document that outlined the rules that the department gave out before they forced people on this scheme. Something like a terms and conditions
Micey.ie wrote: » Was looking to sell cow/calf(about month old),but found out if I do I will be penalised under BDGP scheme.All calves have to be 5 months before being sold to record surveys. Even though my reference is 8 cows for the scheme, I have 10 cows at present-I still can’t sell-every calf has to be kept 5 months. Must be the worst scheme ever to hit Irish farmers.
Micey.ie wrote: » Must be the worst scheme ever to hit Irish farmers.
High bike wrote: » Your prob right I had one returned to me they said it was empty so sent a hair sample and that was done in a couple of days must be easier to verify the hair samples
tanko wrote: » That happens every year i find. Just checked my own there now, half the samples i posted are verified, the other half are sample in lab even though they were posted the same day. Maybe the DNA in some animals is easier to work out than others, it's the only reason i can think of.
High bike wrote: » Just checked mine now,sent a batch away about a month ago some are verified and it just says more are sent to lab.Wouldnt you think they’d all be done together when they were posted together
tanko wrote: » Try this. Go into Services. Then BDGP. Under genotype information, click on view genotype details. Put your herd number into the box, hit enter. This will give you all the genotype tracking for your herd.
amens wrote: » I tagged the calves and sent the tags away in March. On icbf it says they are currently printing my tags. I suppose if they say they don't have them I can send them photos of the calves' ears.
