Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Imo not a bull for our a+b-c payement structure …..too much water .his linear /type scores a negative too .no issue giving cows some tlc but I feel that type of bull will need a lot ….I’d take a Yamasaka ,,,Larry ,altalawson or a praser over it

They’d need an awful lot if feeding just for maintaince let alone produce 700 kgs

I'm in a similar situation @trg . Considering it strongly with the option of oad. Capital input would be only a parlour. Housing, paddocks in place. Would have the option of going partime with work.

With the current environmental regs as proposed, it has the potential to reduce the output in some areas. Does it provide an opportunity with 80 cows.

I dunno would I be taking on the extra work if you have good off farm career but I totally see where your coming from with the sucklers, I had no interest in converting to that even though plenty of the neighbours advised me, sure you'd be aswell off with the few sucklers and your job..

If you could get a reliable milker say for 3 mornings a week it may be viable at say 60 cows if you could milk that many.

It's the spring calving where I feel the pinch here, especially if facilities aren't top notch. You need somebody around full time really I think

I'd probably agree with you to be honest, without my father at home keeping an eye on things I don't think any type of dairying is compatible with a job.

What's a genetically proven more heritable trait health our fertility, riddle me this also is it a Irish bull our international bull that's the highest valued on health traits in Ireland currently on the ebi system....

Re the salesman dig, I've never bought a bull of a rep that he's recommended pick my own sires give him the codes and he imports them, the single biggest dig aimed at holstein cows is their soft, always something wrong, don't last etc if you breed specifically for health traits while keeping other indexes to the fore also you can't go to wrong

Would anyone milk 3in2 here see its a big thing in NZ especially from around now after breeding and into the summer change the milking pattern so youl have a lie in every second morning and no milking that evening. I was away abroad for a few weeks left dad do the milking had an ad up on donedeal for a few weeks looking for a milker for 5-7 milkings a week whatever milkings they wanted to do and still got no replies, thought during summer thered be some young lads mad for milkings 50€ for 2 hours hard go wrong but no lads arent there to do it, 3 in 2 would take pressure off lads and just reading on the NZ research only losing 9kgs ms/cow for the year from now on? Would be interesting to do it but hard trial or get the father to trial when you see theres nobody else in Ireland doing it

Why would someone put out slurry today with a yellow rain warning for tonight?

Is it ignorance, stupidity or just couldn't give a phuq attitude?

Latest arrival on the farm last night. A cracker.

A little bit of all of the above I'd say. Contractors are always busy and you have to take them when you get them alot of the time. I'm getting alot more value from my slurry this year having my own tank.

Can the industry ever get to the point of voluntarily cutting out high risk actions such as this?

While this continues, water quality can never be right..

Dont know yet, but EBI wont put milk in the tank.

What about it ……worse to loose a good cow just cause she dosnt fit in a 9/10’week calving window .if lads are milking year round having an odd cow calving in may/June no big deal ..regardless of ebi

Last cow calved here today. Had a few problems with repeats last summer. Nice to see milk staying up rather than dropping at this time of year.