Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

25 litres

4.1 fat

3.62pr

Urea 25

35% autumn calvers in that. Will be starting to dry off in a few weeks

What your doing sounds really interesting think you might be ahead of the curve . Farm here is really struggling on lower n routine here and probably have left a bit of milk behind me this year because of it . Ureas running very low all year and grass quality rubbish . Feeding heavy now for last few weeks . It has been a bumper year for silage alright we had over 11t DM ha in some fields

Joking I know but Just had a scan myself to see what all the excitement was about, he seems to be running the irelands farmer acc. Can't really see anything in the responses other than the usual nonsense expected.

I saw a prominent guy on twitter talking about spraying milk to help microbes in the soil. Any thoughts on that?

He was talking about 10L in 100L water to the acre

Thoughts.

Wash out your sprayer well before use with baking soda and water. Use only tank milk, no high scc milk or treated milk.

I'd be inclined to go on a cloudy dry day. And even after all that if you get a good/great hit result don't assume it'll be that way the next and always. That good great first result could be just an element balancing and a result from a big shock excitement to the microbes in something different being applied.

There's nothing to lose in trying it out. But if you try it out give it a fair trial and don't pick your worst piece of ground.

I've an inkling if there's a hint of humic acid, peat in the ground it'll work better.

Edit : And the water choice is important. Rain water or non treated well water. And even then with the well water it's better if left standing for a few hours.

Good solids. Crossbreed herd?

Thanks, Ya, young herd, 80% second calvers. Buying in a herd gives you a mighty leg up

If it's rain or well there's no need to even think of looking at pH.

There'd be feck all risk. it's only a misting of diluted milk. The higher the biological oxygen demand of anything just means it's a highly effective food source for microbes. And your spraying it on the soil and leaf not dumping it in a waterway. That'll be consumed by microbes in the soil and leaf in under half an hour. Those extra microbes then will be another carbon source in the soil.

If anyone says anything, bamboozle them with carbon drawdown and climate change and soil resiliance to drought.

It’s just ridiculous, purely trying to score a few points. I’m no fan of pippa but this is just silly shite

The Hynes let there v young teenage daughter out to calve a cow on her own, that’s v irresponsible imv. Calving cows are highly dangerous no matter how well you think you know them

Depends on the numbers, we have a small amount and get them across fairly fast but if I had big numbers I would stop them and let the cars go by. I also wait until there is no car in sight.

Absolutely let the cars pass here too . It’s important to keep your neighbours on your side.

The law states that those in charge of animals can force you to stop and wait while on a public road. Isn't that right? Therefore the cow takes priority when on the road and being managed by someone. Rightly so too.

Then it's just being friendly to stop the cows to allow traffic through. And really most of the time the traffic isn't going to be stopped for long at all.

It's the uptight, pain in the hole impatient drivers that I'd let sit and wait until every last hair from the tail of the very last animal was safely across.

Quiet road here and would be crossing them on my own. Have a gate at the road so turn em up to the gate and then get ahead to to let them across. Would wait if there is a car coming or whatever. Once they've started I keep them moving and any thing that comes in that time would only be waiting a small bit tbh, twud take as long to stop them and clear the road as it would just to get em all out and across. A few cross busy roads around here and its a case of have em ready to go and all out then or you'd never get accross

Nice calves at lisduff sale today. Nice power to them. Anyone splash the cash

Yes and no. A leslie lot 10 went over 5000 and a raven lot 4 went over 3000. Yamaska and praser calves the most impressive