Twas tbc, it was actually 3 million, my hot water for washing the bulk tank was turned off, so hopefully that's all it was
I cleaned the cluster yesterday by hand and it's like a jelly on the inside of the shell
Anyway folks thanks for all the suggestions and help.
That’s bio film
if it’s on the plastic for the cluster it’s all over the rest of the plastic on the parlour
Looking at bonkers and switcher this morning and all the major energy providers are gone of it, pre-pay power seems to be all you can "switch to", anyone coming out of contract in the next month our two will be looking at some savage bills going forward
If you signed up a month ago does that price hold or does increase in line with the price increases
You get the discount off the increased rate
I had a crazy tbc at the beginning of September. I was away at the time and the milk was collected during milking. Collection before and after were fine.
Your still hit with the increase but then if you have a 30% discount it's taken of the new increased figure, browsing at the minute 5/10% is all that's been offered for new contracts with 40 cent plus day rate and 20 cent plus night rate, 1000kw day rate on a new contract @ 40cent a unit minus 5% discount would be costing 380 euro, if you've a 30% discount you'll be paying 280, switched here in August both the house and farm at 30% of the headline figure, will come into thousands of euro of a saving for next year
Did you buy them. Nice heifers
No, I've too many already. Do you know how much they made? I meant to log in but I forgot
2500 a piece
Hello Dairy farmers,
Sheep farmer here who has posted a discussion thread in Sheep forum today. If ye have a chance look at it;)
Basically wondering if any of ye know realistic weekly payment rate for taking in store lambs for a few months in Winter to eat out paddocks etc?
I may have chance to get some store lambs around 30 to 35 kgs away to a dairy man for a few months.I know of a few sheep men locally who get strong ewes away each winter to Dairy men for a euro a week.
Thanks for any thoughts as some of ye may be doing this kind of thing yourselves.
They're not taking on new customers atm for some reason, there was a bloke on the lls last night and he said there were a couple of switcher sites on cru.ie . I didn't check .
other option would be through a broker , farming is classed as a business
Hi folks,just wondering what would be realistic rate per day to pay for getting 30 to 35kg store lambs away to dairy man for a few months grazing. Have post on it above.
Thanks for anyones thoughts.I know rate for strong ewes would typically be a euro a week.
€1 for stores here, €1.20 for ewes
Is there any of ye using ubroseal for the cows. It's a new blue type of sealer
Did you price it?
No. I'd be more interested in quality beforehand
I was charged for them instead of ubro red last week. Nearly 700 euro
Used it last year, work well but it did seem to take a fair few milkings to strip it out, could still see it after a week in some cases.
It's about 4.5 euro for the normal stuff. I get a good bit of leakage on the cubicles that I would like to cut out. I never heard of ubro anything but I heard that there is a new blue sealer that is supposed to be better.
Isn't it just the new name for Leo red? Ubro red
I'd say it's cepralock I'm thinking of. It's a new product. Less air in the tube is one of their improvements they claim to have
Have used ubroseal the last few years ,happy enough with it,however it was without the blue dye. Think I got last of the old batch from my vet last year without dye. My understanding from my vet is that coops are pushing it as residues of sealer were tainting cheese?? Stand to be corrected on that now though
I see teagasc are saying parlour washings add up to 30 litres per cow. That's way off compared to my calculations at 11 litres per cow on my farm. Another guy in my discussion group came up with a similar figure to me when he measured his water use.
Per milking or per day?
Day. I have plenty storage anyway so it doesn't matter to me at the moment. And unless I get more land my cow numbers are going to be only going one way due to regulations. Just making the point that for us the figure should be halved.
Rough estimate here would be 24 l per day..
Where does this complicate things?
If we build a dirty water storage tank, how many weeks must it be able to hold? Previously it was 10 days, what is it now?
Anyone that bought a Grasshopper plate meter.
Did ye get a charger with it too?
I got a charging cable but no charger.
I've emailed them off a message but no response yet.
Tried phone chargers with the same ports but it won't charge.
Warning for any with high levels of clover, some buffering before they go out seems to be the way to go
Happened to a friend of mine years ago and he never gotbover it. Never again comfortable about using clover.
