You should have put back on him that he could afford to pay 200 for your superior quality calves so after that. 😁
(A bit early in year for demand to drop like that.)🙄
No young lad looked up the sale, they were the prices
Make you wonder is he trying to bull you to sell calves cheaper to him.
Could be nearly like the last dealer on the road a mile from the fair.
A dealer arrived here this evening looking to buy calves , I have all mine sold to a farmer. He had calves on he'd bought in local mart, fr bulls 10 euros and 25 euro. Good angus heifer 40 euro. Nothing wrong with them. After commission and your day out talking shite, not much profit left for the farmer. Selling calves out of yard atm from 130 to 180 euro. Makes you wonder
I have alfco 25mm and kraiberg 25mm mats on my outdoor cubicles. No bother with them.
Kraiberg are a tad easier to clean.
Cows seem to have no preference.
Mine are down 5 years, zero issues
I've 3 types here. The light weight ones are always the first used by the cows I'm not sure how long they will last, only put in a few last year to try them.
Yeah have cubicles for first winter.
Plenty of cubicles per heifer yet some like outside more. Shed is a little dark internally
So any opinions on types of cubicle mats??
Have they cubicles for their first winter. It's the easiest way to train them. If they are used to laying on slats they will lay anywhere
Maybe one of the heifers is hard to listen too, so the rest sleep outside.
They are probably being bullied. What number of cubicles have you to number of stock. I not sure will they get bullied out if there as well. Having said that a lot of cattle tend to prefer to lie outside. By the cubicles you can move and just drop them into position there
Has anyone any recommendations for cubicle mats for outdoor cubicles? I’ve heard that some types don’t like sunlight… opinions welcome
Have indoor cubicles for in calf heifers where they go outside to eat and every year 4-5 of them lie outside on one patch of concrete adjacent to a wall so I’m going to fit a short line of cubicles there…
He doesn't have any need of labour
If he did he'd know what everyone else was talking about
Do you have any relief labour throughout the year or are you just looking for some cheap labour in the spring?
But itsca bit like getting students only certain farms get them
It's the way to convert any farm. Tax free rent for 15 years, (and in this case..contracting income) get back a fully functioning dairy farm, debt free to do whatever you want with.
You'd be flat out to be debt free, had you tried to do it yourself.
But they still continue with the line of minimum spend on sheds and facilities
Place couldn’t continue aa it was …totally sub standard as regards facilities etc for man and beast money they spent around yard to bring it to decent standard would dwarf would dwarf what was spent on roads and paddocks …..
I have one of those bale openers. Great purchase
10 bales a day opened at peak and don’t have to leave the tractor seat once and no silage smell on my clothes stinking out the house
also have a ride on cubicle bedder. 190 cubicles done and dusted in 15 minutes in the morning. A job me or my 74 year old father doesn’t have to any more.
my back back and time Is worth it
It’s a fair spot now because they got a converted farm. For a song. And they have a pile of motorway money to throw at it
they’re not your typical farmer.
the lad before David when the whole thing was dissolved was a great operator. Really turned the place around
He was the first man to get the herd to sell 550kgs ms
Surely it was a no brainer back then let someone convert my farm they pay then i take it back when lease is up or even after a few years only in ireland
I was never on farm just what i read in ifj but wasnt teagasc not the advisers.Then after storm emma 2018 there was outside investegation what went wrong.One thing i remember reading was feeders were set wrong easy enough to do.My own view of greenfield was too many in charge no onev responsible.
Some size of a cubicle shed on it now, don't know what the parlour is like, but the owners wouldn't be short money and would be tidy operators I believe
It’s a fair spot now ….good farm manager in and lot of money spent to make it a proper functioning farm for ainmals and staff
I believe when the owners took back the farm they went on a spending spree with new facilities. Haven't heard anything since on how they got on.
I was there at the opening. There were no walls to hang feeders on.
They had a south african advisor on the set up of the farm. And a Canadian advisor before the dissolution of the farm.
Correct me if im wrong but had they not got pig feeders.I remember it was in ifj that they were
Jack You have to remember that from a lot of people's point of view dairy farmers are ejeets and don't really no what they are doing (some actually don't but that's in every walk of life)if you start from that point of view you can do two things ...laugh and ignore ....or try education. Personally I think educating someone who knows everything is a pointless exercise
Remember we were talking about small herds. Then ye started talking about feeding 100 bales a week. Chalk and cheese.
Overseeding is very underrated in my book once the nutrients and lime is right.
And when it comes to young people taking over the farm. The biggest gift I will be giving is the freedom to farm whatever way they want. And loan and rent free.
Remember greenfield kk…..simple pig feeders were too much of a luxury for 400 cows ……bet the lads that thought that weren’t bucketing meal out of a green barrow spreading around collection yard 🙄🙄….anything that makes life easier …cuts hardship and budget allows is money well spent
If you have them, you have to feed them. We wouldn't hit that here but up to 80 a week would be normal enough when everything is in.
