I have evacuated solar tubes 200 litre above my south facing roof on the parlour. Find it great. It feeds a 150 litre Atlantic tank. Yesterday it was 40 degrees on very hot days it's boils. Fabulous in the summer and in the winter it does ok. In the winter I put it on for a few hours on night rate. Also have 9kw of solar installed since may. The water heater was grant aided
I was close to putting in gas to heat the water in the dairy a couple of years ago. Glad I didn't now. Thinking of putting in a solar system now. Anyone here with a good solar system?
Probably better calving next september great time to sell dairy stock always look well and winter milkers like to have them peaking in december
So using the most used cross by 2 of the greatest bulls in our lifetime is madness and you recommend a bull that is highly inbred with mogul appearing in his ancestry 3 times.
Savage herd wouldn't dispute it, re the bf lots of American bulls with daughters doing 4.1 plus on bf and 3.2 pr daughter proven like westcoast ardor https://www.stgen.com/sire-directory/dairy-bull-usa.aspx?code=HO840003008328791&language=english&title=s-s-i-shamrock-mystic-et
https://www.stgen.com/sire-directory/dairy-bull-usa.aspx?code=HOCAN000012532099&language=english&title=westcoast-ardor
Using oman/shottle cross sons present day is madness, given the outcrops sires out their, they simply haven't the solids to compete but do give a savage kick re fertility still
The two bulls above have very similar daughter yields but ardor daughters are doing 40 plus kgs of combined f and p in solids per lactation
That's what I said. 😉
Don’t have pictures but these 2 had serious power and strength …good big deep wide chest width …..the odeta family is exceptional
My own experience
https://www.stgen.com/sire-directory/dairy-bull-usa.aspx?code=HO840003008328791&language=english&title=s-s-i-shamrock-mystic-et
in fairness a bit of ebi chasing was going on using shamrock, alot better options out their on a Perseus then going Shamrock
Was nothing fragile about practically all the radney stock today ….power and strength in abundance
Nope …..butterfat always lower in milk rec v coop results
In all fairness they need to be hitting that weight they'll be 650kgs plus as mature cows, mwl is a bull used here that bred very fragile cows but lots of milk, peresus great cows but with mwl in the breeding again they'd lack strength
Alot of lads complaining that their butterfat is higher in milk test results than in milk recording results.
Giving the pick seemed fair silly to me. Did they take home the one left behind. Alot of those heifers today were massive. Weighing the bones of 500kg. Fine stock alright and very well done. The big money was being paid in the other ring at the simmental reduction sale.
Butterfat was my downfall too but starting to come up now ….have a few radney stock in my herd and bar 1 there very impressive …..good commercial heifers but good on type and solids to boot …..something from Odetta family still escapes me and I really want one …followed that lot a long way …close but no cigar unfourtnately
Ah yeah, longevity is good to see back along as well
Dams and g damn were pretty respectable all round tho
Protein good pity the bf is low. Struggling to breed it in here as well
Sale lived up to expectation ….some very well bred stock on offer turned out exceptionally well ..heaps of records ,loads of milk and solids to boot ….top price of day was 4400 for the pick of the 2 radney heifers below and they were crackers
Radney lots are the pick …few nice ones in it
The protein sale is on in Kanturk tomorrow. Gave a quick look at the catalogue earlier and it didn't blow me away. Alot of stock bull stuff I thought. 90ish lots I think which is alot. Should be a good barometer of the market.
20 unit Pearson here with removers, auto wash and cluster flush. Very happy with it
Dairymaster tank here, doing the job fine. Had to change the detergent pumps this year after 7 years other than that nothing else so far touch wood.
Can't beat Mueller imo. My co op recommends 30 litres per cow and 3.5 day collection when sizing a new tank.
Have a dairycool here, last 2 years has been good. Was giving the odd trouble here and there. Cools fast, must have it 10 yrs now
Packo wash is spotless and it does cool v quick in the mornings and hardly ever comes on during the day, never any issues with those aspects. Good luck with it.
Pearson priced me a liscarroll. It was fairly expensive tbh. I have the service contract and the guy is 💯. Packo is alot cheaper and it's 15,500 litres. Tank I have is 10,500. I'm going very basic on new tank. Wash on packo is great in fairness
No full wood messed me around for about 4 months, then the announcement came out they were ceasing milking parlours.
Nice one they seem to be a great parlour Thought you were going to say fullwood when you were getting a Pako tank .
I’d also go with those views. My service man recommended liscarroll even though he had some arrangement with Packo. I’d go with any bulk tank that could send a text if something was wrong. Are you going bigger and are grants still available?
Pearson
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