One round of Dairy ai on heifers and select cows and beef straws on anything not selected for dairy from day one
bull won’t solve an issue with phosphorus. I have a bull for the heifers
Fair play ladddddddd that’s savage going …..
Why dont u use a bull i dont see them as a major cost on the farm i lose about 800 when i cull them but its nice to be finished calving replacements and selling beef calves also ai is shorter
Left schol at sixteen
Whatever happened to punctuation.
i don’t know how I manage to get them incalf at all being honest
Whatever happened to good stockmen 3 percent empty here this year no collars or apps on phone do ai myself bulls clean up seems theresca generation now who need a text when a cow is sick Biggest problem i see with ai is guys thawing out a heap of straws at once and on once only per day ai.
No bulls. 10 weeks breeding
had 14% empty on the cows
poor conception rate this year here. Had a phosphorus issue. Nothing to do with the collars
No bulls? Conception improve along with submissions?
2.5 years with scr collars here and happy with them
Had the scr tags, only lasted 4 years, with the batteries dying and tag losses, was going to go with their collars again but went with this other crowd, due to promised back-up and replacement policy, its a lot dearer system then the scr when you add up the costs over its lifetime
You're exactly right. Plasic covered lead weights rubbing on the concrete head feed, began to drop scraping of lead onto the silage.
Milk couldn't be processed foe a number of months. I know the farmer was really appreciative of his coop who collected and disposed of the milk for the period, so whoever ended up covering him, either the coop or the collar manufacturers, though traumatic...I think he may have come out OK financially.
Wasn't there a farmer that had collars and lost a few cows from lead poisoning when they started eating or chewing a collar or collars Co op stopped taking the milk and he couldn't sell to the factory for a time either. A big hit to take
Did you not install a tag system a few years back ?
Those salespeople would sicken your sh1t. They will promise you the sun, moon and stars just to get your money. I guess you have to see where it is written down
I was talking to a few of the heat detection lads at the dairy show the other day. They're pushing them hard now with the TAMs. They all said their products work flawlessly anyway.
Did u get contract and are those details in it …..company haven’t much to fight with you on if so
Lost the plot when I got the less than 1% failure rate line and noting like this has happened before in 10 years, system was bought on the understanding they fully stood over their product with lifetime warranty on the system and any faulty tags etc that fail, and are replaced foc, shouldn't have to be fighting the toss with them over a defective product
Killer with the investment involved
Bad taste been left in the mouth here with a heat detection system installed in the spring, got a batch of faulty tags resulting in ongoing losses up at 25% failure rate and still fighting to get replacements tags
Your probably a good man to feed it makes all the difference any cow in mart with a bit of flesh is making good money Have my own on gd second cut since 1st october by night and there in super condition i see lads not even feeding silage abd there cows are thin
You just have to calculate it from the last N report on agfood
Let us know how you get on👍
Thanks. I am and I’ll try that.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/nitrates-derogation-calculator.php
Are you a herdplus member? If so login to icbf, on the top toolbar in the tabs hover over "view profiles" select stock numbers from the drop down menu, select nitrates report from the next drop down menu and hit submit. That should be reasonably accurate according to my teagasc advisor. I rang him just this evening about it.
Jasus that's small money if true I'd have a go on a few of them myself........
Is there any website/app that can tell you if you will go over the 170? All the software that’s out there surely theirs one? Jesus, I thought last autumn was wet. I have never in my life seen land this wet this time of year. Fodder situation could be dodgy next spring.
€100 for freshly calved heifer? Find that hard to believe myself. What mart was it?
Any cow that got mastitis or has a high cell count would be better off dried off before going oad imo. If milk is collected every 3 days scc results will be slower coming back and harder to react to. Plenty space and clean cubicle as well. Farm closed here now and in full-time as of today. Heifers might get another week or two. Dairygold offering rebates on feed now likely to try and keep lads going but would be more in their line to lift milk price. The rebate would want to be 100/ tonne not 15 as mooted
These were freshly calved apparently
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