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    #32
    SuperTortoise
    Registered Users Posts: 2,955 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise


    When is the cut of for signing up?


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    #33
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭tanko


    April 26th i think.


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    #34
    lab man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭lab man


    salmonorcod wrote: »
    What's the advantage in registering calves before they are born?

    They can sell calves earlier as in the 14 day rule from what i believe can be 20 days on the card but 10 days in reality


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    #35
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Weighed a few but can’t find on ICBF where to put the weights
    BEEPs is showing the 2020 scheme


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    #36
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭tanko


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Weighed a few but can’t find on ICBF where to put the weights
    BEEPs is showing the 2020 scheme

    The system isn't ready for you yet.
    Most of the ones i'll be weighing aren't even born yet:pac:


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    #37
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    tanko wrote: »
    The system isn't ready for you yet.
    Most of the ones i'll be weighing aren't even born yet:pac:

    Some October calves are 300+kg and will soon be ready for the sales


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    #38
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭tanko


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Some October calves are 300+kg and will soon be ready for the sales

    Ah yeah, i know. I think you just weigh them, record the weights and input them when the system lets you. Best check with ICBF i suppose.


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    #39
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭tanko


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Weighed a few but can’t find on ICBF where to put the weights
    BEEPs is showing the 2020 scheme

    I think you might be able to register your scales and input the weights now.


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    #40
    nqtfarmer
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭nqtfarmer


    We’re autumn calving here and will be hoping to wean calves and sell what’s due to the mart. Can the mart’s weighing scale not do as the weighing scale? Save a day of fighting as they kick around the scale


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    #41
    Hard Knocks
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    nqtfarmer wrote: »
    We’re autumn calving here and will be hoping to wean calves and sell what’s due to the mart. Can the mart’s weighing scale not do as the weighing scale? Save a day of fighting as they kick around the scale

    You have to weigh both cows & unweaned calves at the same time
    Also don’t weigh close to sale day as if mart weight is less than recorded weight they will be disqualified


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    #42
    TooOldBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭TooOldBoots


    Signed up again for the Scheme, I choose to vaccinate instead of meal feeding this time. The meal feeding is not really an option for me as the cow pairs are all over the place and half my day is gone every day going around topping up creep feeders.
    What exactly is involved in the Vaccination option, and how much per head does it work out at?


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    #43
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users Posts: 945 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    Where do we enter the weights? Used to have icbf but didn't renew this winter


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    #44
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Just applied there on line. Vaccination, weighing and dung samples


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    #45
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    tellmeabit wrote: »
    Where do we enter the weights? Used to have icbf but didn't renew this winter

    You can ring dept & they’ll send you out a form
    They’ll want to know the weighting date first


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    #46
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    TooOldBoots wrote: »
    Signed up again for the Scheme, I choose to vaccinate instead of meal feeding this time. The meal feeding is not really an option for me as the cow pairs are all over the place and half my day is gone every day going around topping up creep feeders.
    What exactly is involved in the Vaccination option, and how much per head does it work out at?

    Did it last year
    You give 1 live IBR jab with either 2 Bovipast jabs 4 weeks apart or 1 intranasal
    Cost me €180 for 10 calves going the 2 jab route
    Doing the meal feeding this year
    Can you give the vaccination program when leaving the shed? Would it still be in the system 4 months later?


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    #47
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users Posts: 945 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    Thanks. Was handy to be able to enter them myself with icbf


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    #48
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    You can enter the weights on the ICBF website. You don't have to be paid up to it, once you have a username & password you can use some of the basic stuff on it.


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    #49
    lab man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭lab man


    Lads I sold 3 weanlings there tuesday I was ment to weigh them last Saturday I'm now going weighing on this Saturday can I put these 3 in using the weight they were at the mart?


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    #50
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Is there an application form you can print off and fill in?
    My neighbour wants to join again this year and he asked my to print him a form.

    I've already joined myself online.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #51
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Is there an application form you can print off and fill in?
    My neighbour wants to join again this year and he asked my to print him a form.

    I've already joined myself online.

    Think you have to sing up on AGfood
    Ring iCBF, they’d tell you if there is a form


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    #52
    Micey.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Micey.ie


    Anyone do their dung sampling yet for 2021 Or know of prices? I used oldcastle last year(€25).Got email from them today advising to get kit early this year as bigger demand -€35 now and said be dearer later in year.


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    #53
    pure breed
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭pure breed


    Micey.ie wrote:
    Anyone do their dung sampling yet for 2021 Or know of prices? I used oldcastle last year(€25).Got email from them today advising to get kit early this year as bigger demand -€35 now and said be dearer later in year.


    Farm Labs the same via email. Have to have them ordered by 2 July the latest no orders after this date.
    The samples taken and returned by 1st August are €36
    Samples after 1st till 28th August €48 and then 30th Aug till 17th Sept €56.


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    #54
    hopeso
    Registered Users Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭hopeso


    I know it says to pen the cows, and take the samples off the floor afterwards, but has anyone tried getting the samples outside? Surely if you went out while the cows are lying down, you'd get enough fresh samples after they get up?


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    #55
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users Posts: 945 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    hopeso wrote: »
    I know it says to pen the cows, and take the samples off the floor afterwards, but has anyone tried getting the samples outside? Surely if you went out while the cows are lying down, you'd get enough fresh samples after they get up?

    Ya that's what I did Sunday morning, collected as they stood up.
    Dropped them off and results yesterday. Positive for rumen fluke.
    Had forgotten that they don't give individual result for each sample. May not have been as careful collecting if I remembered that.
    Don't know why we don't have to just submit one larger combined sample.
    Suppose I'll have them on the zanil at the weekend.

    Did them in the field I should have said


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    #56
    ABitofsense
    Registered Users Posts: 660 ✭✭✭ABitofsense


    hopeso wrote: »
    I know it says to pen the cows, and take the samples off the floor afterwards, but has anyone tried getting the samples outside? Surely if you went out while the cows are lying down, you'd get enough fresh samples after they get up?

    That's how i did it last year and how ill do it this year. Once they stand, they nearly always go so just scoop it up


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    #57
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭High bike


    Whats the story with twins in this scheme,do we get paid for one or 2 or how does it work?


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    #58
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    High bike wrote: »
    Whats the story with twins in this scheme,do we get paid for one or 2 or how does it work?
    Yes you get paid for each calf.


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    #59
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭High bike


    Anto_Meath wrote: »
    Yes you get paid for each calf.
    Grand thanks


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    #60
    SuperTortoise
    Registered Users Posts: 2,955 ✭✭✭SuperTortoise


    Has anyone priced around for test kits for dung sampling?


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    #61
    hopeso
    Registered Users Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭hopeso


    Do you have to fill in the application form on the mybeeb website to rent a scales, or can you just go into the co-op and arrange it there?



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