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
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 …..
But they still continue with the line of minimum spend on sheds and facilities
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 itsca bit like getting students only certain farms get them
Do you have any relief labour throughout the year or are you just looking for some cheap labour in the spring?
He doesn't have any need of labour
If he did he'd know what everyone else was talking about
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…
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
Maybe one of the heifers is hard to listen too, so the rest sleep outside.
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
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??
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.
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
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
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.
No young lad looked up the sale, they were the prices
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.)🙄
hello lads any one have a mat in the palour pit floor any feedback suggestions
thanks lads
If u wait around enough marts there are certain times there is simply no customers.The dealers step in and this is how they make a living.Id advise u to go to mart and look at all prices and whos around ring and yes there does be some poor prices.Dealers use these prices to try and get urs the same money.
Blue mat 1m2 great job interlocks together not expensive either
any fear the interlocks would wear over time ??
When I was doing calves 10+ years ago I always found it hard to buy out of a yard than out of a mart. There is a lot of talk about disease control and stress but buying off farm is too expensive IMO.Having said that I saw deals last year for lads taking calves off farms such as drums of beastings and milk not out of withdrawal periods.
its the same as a lot of farming activities lads will not put the time into it. I used to find the same buying stores or weanings direct off farms. Lads expected top mart prices. Nearly everything direct out of marts at the moment. If it was calves I be doing the same.
The interlock doesn’t tend to break but stuff can collect under them over time. Might see bumps. Easy enough to lift and clean under.
Anybody have experience of round collecting yards .we have to a bit of work to extend the collecting yard tank fir the new dairy washing regs and it has put me thinking about the collecting yard design and crush and handling facilities .I ve always liked the idea of circular yards and backing gates but not many that I know of around here so I m just throwing it out there
I imagine they take up a lot more space and you probably need more length on the race for it yo work effectively. All of this would increase the cost of the handling faculities
Rte doing its best to hype up the hse story.they really are one hell of a shower.
Heard it on the Radio-1 news yesterday evening. You'd think "beef farmers" (they never mention "beef processors" or "beef exporters") were going to have to shut up shop the way they told it.
Just looked online and couldn't find the figures, but does anyone know just how little Irish beef was going to China? Be handy to have that % to hand when the usual self-titled environment activists start jumping up and down about this as a good result on Twitter.
Here ya go -
Some shite on morning Ireland this morning. I missed the start of it but think it was about some documentary based in the future in 20 or 25 years time. Of course they start on about climate change and farmers are getting the blame for what has happened. Not a mention of the Transport industry or the use of fossil fuels. You’d be forgiven for thinking that RTE was under the remit of a green minister.
