Sure they were only worth 150-200 in early November
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.
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.
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.
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.
What weight and how much did they make
Cull cows are going well lads. Nice to keep a few bob turning during the dry period
Lucky dairy farmers don't have to run a van on the road. Costs would be up around 50 cent a litre. 😂🤣😂🤣
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
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
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.
Your some spoofer ,next thing you be saying you the biggest farmer in Limerick because you are 6 foot 3
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
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!!
''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.
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
Thought you might be a fan LOL
why the fcuk would anyone waste their time listening to what he has to say.....
You are not going to listen to Pat Murphy Kerry boss so, on the same night in the Meadowlands.
At 4 weeks I’d say buyer would prefer tgem on powder as that’s what they’ll be going on ….rear all calves on powder here and wouldn’t go back to whole milk …everything is consistent in powder whereas whole milk changes with cows in/out etc …find calves do just as well on it
david irwin speaking in tralee wednesday night.. hopefully cows take an evening off from calving and i mite make it...
I understand they'll be do fine on the replacer, it's the selling at 4 weeks old and not having the shine whole milk gives em in the mart, that's the question I'm wondering about
Are those Ai nights worth going to?
CHFC have one in cork tonight....
You're not going to get paid for the effort you put into calves I'm afraid.
A friend of mine next door rears dairy beef calves every year on milk replacer when he buys them from two weeks old from an uncle, moved them with him in the autumn last year they were absolute smashers so it definitely did them no harm.
Once you have the mixing rates, water temperature and intakes right calves should do the finest on it.
Always found there to be more of a shine when on whole milk, calves will be sold prob between the 4 to 6 weeks, heifers were fully reared on milk replacer and did fine last year
Have no feeder here, rear everything. Feed whatever waste milk is there to however many beef calves that will cover but the vast majority of calves will be fed milk replacer. Calves do just as well if not better on milk replacer and much more straight forward when everything is being fed milk replacer simplifies the job. With the price of milk replacer down this year you’re as well off to feed it to all calves and not be holding cows for calves bar they have an issue.
I had two cousins that went to Germany in the 1970s with not even a pound or a leaving cert between them, they've done really well with their own businesses...... better off than I am now
Any of ye sell the bulls/ beef calves off milk replacer as opposed to whole milk?. Down on labour this spring so thinking of putting all calves on feeder, may keep a pen for any waste milk
Worked in Germany on two occasions, once with a horticulture company, second with a software development company. Played soccer with a local team for 6 months. The fact I was on my own, I integrated more.
