And if you keep a good few culls on an outfarm you might even get that figure lower😀
😅😅😅 Who'd be stupid enough to step that far out of the teagasc box
I know two guys very well doing it, both have a lot of leased ground very good at what they do but aren’t giving any big money for land, if certain factors are present there is money to be made at that craic but the vast majority wouldn’t make enough from that craic to make it worth their while.
where did you get the figure of 75k. Would he. not qualify for Consanguinity Relief?
There’s some new stipulation every week now it seems easy to see why people would give up on it.
One old rule of thumb is to run one cow for every month of age the bull is up to 30. Half the thing is a cute mature bull moves on from an animal once he's her served.
I'd be wary of the synching as the repeats can come back in a cluster making the situation worse.
A hardy reared easy calving 3yo AA AU or SA would be your best bet and you could often pick them up handier this time of year.
Hi everyone, just wondering does anyone know when imports of incalf heifers is suppose to resume in Algeria? It was temporarily closed in December. 1000 plus heifers were suppose to be heading for export there.
Some riveting insights from Teagasc in latest dairy edge. "We spoke to 4 farmers who average an 8 hour day, which is comparable to PAYE employees." Took them a while to mention that 8 hour day equated to a 56 hour work week. Then slipped in the fact that of the 4 farmers questioned, 1 had his missus doing the calf rearing and admin work, 1 had his auld boy doing all the Maintenence work and odd bit of tractor work, drawing bales in the summer and another had his kids feeding calves before school. What a monumental waste of resources
Anyone I know coming close to it has either plenty staff, family or otherwise, and/ or good facilities. Facilities can make things faster and easier to do so is the big one really imo
In some places theres a brother that does all the work and another that does all the talking.
Probably doesn't help all those clowns posting videos on TikTok recently of themselves firing out slurry during torrential rain over recent weeks🙄
It's all about trying to build up excitement and anticipation for another year. Heard another of their podcasts there on the environment edge. All they wanted to hear was about the positives "going forward". They had the right kind of lick arse fools on but they couldn't resist mentioning their uncertainty over future investment. Ah sure spend away mad and at least you will have it in the off chance that you might need it was the teagasc response.
As my father says, most of the teagasc lads couldn't put their hands in their pockets for 10k themselves but they're great to advise others to spend.
Have milk peaked for ireland, looks to be plenty of clearance sales.
Its nine years since quotas went so i supposed that big burst on has happened at this stage
must be the increase in minimum wage its gone to €12.70 an hour
There was a death recently of a mart foreman in the locality. One worker refused to go to the funeral or wake. My own father went to the wake. This worker wasn't a worker at all. But would work with his mouth. He'd be out in the yard ordering everyone else what to do and him doing as little as possible and he not a foreman or manager at all. The deceased put him behind the weighing scales on his own one day and he had no excuse or couldn't get away from the work. 40 or 50 years ago this was. And that man still carries that the man did the dirty by putting him there and wouldn't go to the funeral. I never laughed so hard inside when I heard the man saying and then felt so sorry how he was spoilt rotten by not being left permanently behind the scales.
Well if they were teagasc poster boys students are sent to them farm to keep the party going
I'm sure there are ..my post was an attempt at humour given the discussion over Christmas involving that poster around the topic of cull cows.
Really Jesus there not still at that messing 😳. It's beyond a joke
The dairywashings window is now closed
Lads will post video's of anything and then want them removed when there's backlash and they realise the whole world wide web can see them.
Since 1 January 2024
Did it not reopen on January 1st?
It did.
Apologies, i thought i read it was now closed
Probably the number one reason why you see more robots than parlours going in nowadays, when the parlour monkey gets simply wore out due to old age our in the above example where to exit the farm, the robots are put in cause sure as night is day its not doable by one man unless their prepared for 16 hour days year round, where theirs a machinery addiction too
Putting in calf water drinkers. There's ones that they push with their nose and the normal type. Any advice which is best please? Will either go on a diving gate or the wall. Also thinking of replacing damaged 3 legged cubicles with bolt on ones. Replacing as they break so three legged ones will be beside the loop ones. Would that cause any issues? Thanks
Have the nose drinkers in every pen in the calf shed here they’re a great job calves always have fresh water with them and water isn’t going stagnant, would be very rare a calf doesn’t take to them as the nozzle looks like a teat so naturally calves will be curious to get at it.
Also have 36 bolt on cubicles running into three legged cubicles in the main cubicle shed here put in about 10 years ago when the old three legged ones in that section had basically fell apart and we never had any issue in the shed since.
I hear @Siamsa Sessions is moving to France and buying a Montbeliarde herd.😃
Well?
He's on the boat.
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