why the fcuk would anyone waste their time listening to what he has to say.....
Thought you might be a fan LOL
Like a neighbor of ours that goes to every farm walk in the county. We have to laugh, it would be a lot better if he did a walk around his own farm and pick up a bit of wire and put it up on the bounds ditch.
Seeing is one thing but ain't much good if you don't have the "go" to put it into practice. Australia have often sent home a drunken bollox
''Keep you friends close but you enemies closes'' ( an old political adage).
It much more important to listen to people you dislike listening to than listening tobsomeone with the same view as your. You learn more.
It is well known you never milked a cow ,great job the new munster producer group will soften his cough before long more .All kerry group nowadays are interested in is asset stripping!!
I probably milked more cows than you. I actually milked them I was not watching a machine doing it and thinking I was milking cows
Your some spoofer ,next thing you be saying you the biggest farmer in Limerick because you are 6 foot 3
On the recent comments about N.Z. I would agree with a comment made that their standard ways of farming aren't as applicable to Ireland anymore. This is due to the average farm size. The farm I was on had 800 cows over 360 ha. Not all of this was the milking platform as we wintered on Kale then switched to Fodder Beat. All silage was baled on the farm and some straw bought in.
We had an exceptionally low stocking rate due to no access to irrigation but even still we were tempted into feeding Palm Kernel in troughs in the paddocks to save on pasture especially through the drier summers.
I am not spoofing, and I am not a Limerick man. I actually will be at the Derry/Kerry match next Saturday evening.
I definitely remember milking on my Grandfather's farm at about 10-11 years of age, Grandfather or Grandmother used to finish her off, they were handmilking 12ish. However I remember being left squirt milk from a teat at 5-6 years of age from an old Dromin cow
Ah I see now, it's from back then, milking that old dromin cow with her fat pops, that you calculated that milk could be produced for 18 cents a litre.
We love you really bass
Lucky dairy farmers don't have to run a van on the road. Costs would be up around 50 cent a litre. 😂🤣😂🤣
Cull cows are going well lads. Nice to keep a few bob turning during the dry period
What weight and how much did they make
Just talking about heading to NZ. A friend of mine who came over from Waikato to Ireland doesn't understand why teagasc pushes students to head to NZ. He ran a 800 cow herd in waikato and came here and worked on an average size farm here. In his view the farm set ups, work life balance and genetics is further ahead here. Most farmers in NZ retire at age 60 but their broke up from milking at that age. That's just his view.
i can’t understand why lads want to go milking when they go abroad, won’t they get enough of that at home. Why not experience something different while you have the chance to do so.
Cos they're muck savages that know nothing else only sh1t. They are just useful idiots breaking their ass for another man in a foreign country.
620kg - 1040, 700kg - 1350, 590kg - 990. Happy enough considering what they would have made out of the parlour. All they got in the meantime was a good rest and adlib silage and water.
Sure they were only worth 150-200 in early November
The difference in scale would make you wonder why Teagasc would send students over there. Grass-based or not, how would you compare running a 1-man 60-cow set up here with an operation in NZ where there’s 800 cows and several employees?
But but but they grow grass over there............ a complete load of bollix to try copy New Zealand systems there just no comparison to the Irish climate and set up and that's long before you start on land bases regulations labour costs there ability to just outwinter cows ...... often Conditions that would get you a vist (and quite rightlyin my view) on animal welfare grounds here.
Talk about dairy farming in New Zealand, watch a bit of the once a day farmer on YouTube, gloss over the issue of the male calves and the way he winters the cows wouldn’t get away here and also growing maize and feeding pk to cows as well, all jerseys in the herd and only starting to breed better cows, grassland management doesn’t seem to be anything special.
Smart thing to do I and know lots of others went and did something totally different in my 20s ….meet people I’d never of met ,traveled places I’d never of went etc if I just wanted to milk cows and work on dairy farms …far more to life than what’s at home …..home milking and farming since 2010 and really enjoying it …..up to now anyway but all the red tape is starting to get me worried for my future as I won’t have the scale if/when dero goes
Employees 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😀😀
Jaysus that’s my life there! Best thing I did was work away from the farm till my late 20s - made me treat the farm like a business
Yep and gives u an appreciation of what it’s like to be an employee ….I worked for some great bosses and some absolute **** who treated u like a number on payroll who they could treat how they’d like to get where they wanted
Probably a tad more than that the 620kg and 590kg ones were probably 450-550 euro the 700kg cow probably was 6-800 euro depending on the mart day. Too many dairy farmers treated culls as a byproduct of the system. The bigger you are the less you will probably get for them
Good silage is always the cheapest feed. Unfortunately too many are chasing 80+DMD and not concentrating on DM and a bit of bulk (75DMD+)as well.
A friend of my young lad is milking 70 cows they can finish all the culls and get the calves to 12 months. He just slightly modernised the parlour. It's takes 70 minutes to milk in the existing parlour.
His aim is to improve the output of 70 cows. He see that as the biggest benefit. The father tips in now and again. Buts uts a fairly easy system to manage
couldn't say it any better myself
Similar myself, 1280 687kg 8 lactations done, 990 515kg 1st lactation high ebi!!!!, 1140 490kg a heifer that didn't go in calf, I know ye lads milking all year won't be happy with that one and the old pet of a cow with 11 lactations done made 850 at 615kg.
They did get about 200 kilos of ration over the winter
Cow here milked through 670kgs 1150 straight out of parlour Monday. If they have good condition, their making rite money. Ones that need feeding will only make 100/150 along with weight
I had a few big crossbreed cows made over 1000, only prob have a few small ones still milking...
