Did you see the aax hrs that only made a 5€
70kgs after getting 11/2 bags of milk powder
Some difference In prices in regions .....we are robbed round these parts by the look of them prices
I was looking a Carnaross earlier and good FR bull calves were making from €75 to €160. There were some that only got €5. Here is one that made €255.
Just saw the end of the Kilmallock sale and a few lots of 3-4 we old Fr bulls made well over the hundred, not British Friesians either by the looks if them.
Semms to be no bother selling good calves around here, to, but obviously remote markets are tougher.
What about Angus. Could you take them.... A "square" one like....
And rightly so.after seeing the documentary last year I would say say no fr bull calf should be bought to the mart.
I got ten for the neighbour along with 5 of my own there Friday the ten I got for him off a lad were 4 weeks old big square calves and I bought them for 15 reach the dealer had the left over from a bunch of 35 at 2 euro each.....there great calves better than my own .
Sure thats his job. I have never met a dealer to talk up the price of calves, when he is buying
Interesting graph from the journal re young dairy females in herd versus 2021
Picked up a lovely batch of autumn 23 born holstein heifer calves, last week that I'm going to rear and sell as incalf/calved down heifers, very reasonable priced too, reckon they'll leave a nice twist
Looking at Bandon there they're selling well. Odd one up to and over the hundred.
Spoke with a calf dealer this morning he said you can't give fr bull calves away atm. No one wants them
running at 33% success rate on sexed, severely impacting calving spread but is lovely to have all heifers from Jan and Feb calving
any sign of the double sexed straws appearing like they have in new zealand?
You're probably looking at the wrong marts for Fresian calves, take a look at Corrin tomorrow!
The joys of plumbing
Just watching the calf sales in Gortatlea and Castleisland and fresian bull calves are very scarce. If the sexed semen didn't hold dairy stock will be very scarce in 2 years time.
"There's loads of little half-hour jobs if I had half the day to do them", as a man said to me before.
I find Friday evening to be a good time to start water jobs, especially ones where there's only a few drops leaking out of a fitting 😂
Oh god no when under time constraints Murphy law,sods law, and why the fook does this only happen to me law,(i may have made up the third one ) exclusively applies....maybe even all three at once if its a sat evening
Leave the bales out a bit from the feed trough
I'm fairly tormented, I just moved onto a different batch of bales and the knives must have been turned off in the baler, all lumps and tangled and cows pulling it in and blocking scrapers.
It's not just the kids you'd be weary of but the elderly too.
I had to Google that.so does it contract into a smaller time frame as well
Fully agree …only my opinion but I see some people with there kids on a farm and I cringe and hope to god I never have to face into a funeral …I very nearly lost my young lad at birth and an infant a couple of days old in my wife’s extended sadly passed away and that funeral is one that will always stick with me and one I never want to have to go through again
Agree with ye all about kids on the farm but the safety point above has to be reiterated, the stupid **** we did as kids we were lucky to get away with, in my brothers case lucky was being in the hospital after it not the morgue.
Parkinsons law applies
lad here favourite time is when a cow is calving... he loves seeing cows calving... i'll put on ropes even if no need and i'll let him pull one rope and i'll have the other and we'll pull the calf out between us.... he is then put out of pen before cow gets up in case she becomes a total lunatic... i have had a few lucky escapes with cows calving over the years so i am well aware of the dangers associated with it... he wants to be involved as much as possible... so i try to involve him if cow needs a bit of assistance when calving...
I had a good one today, when I was showing my new Hereford calf to my seven year old. He asked where his dad was, I told him it was insemination. That led to how do the ai man get the baby into the cow?. Ask mammy
For sure. Mine have seen a fair few births at this stage and know fairly well what’s involved.
I thought a had a dead calf well hidden one day and they spotted it, would rather they hadn’t but now at least they know a bit about the good and the bad
I like having the children with me, at the safe jobs, I set a potato and veg garden and feeding calves ect.
Most days I would rather do homework or go for a walk with the children, until my wife comes home from work.
I did the health and safety course over zoom for a tams grant and it was a real eye opener.
A child hiding in the long grass getting killed by a mower. A trailer overturned into a dyke with a child on it. Track machine driver not seeing a child behind him.
Things go wrong in seconds.
If they are with you, don't forget they are children
A language reflects a people/culture so we shouldn’t expect words to translate exactly unless the peoples/cultures are the same.
I can’t put it into words but there’s something in that to remember when we’re being told that the research and demo farms with all their infrastructure and staff are able to get cows out to grass in this weather, so apparently the rest of us should be able to do it too.
