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
"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 😂
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.
The joys of plumbing
You're probably looking at the wrong marts for Fresian calves, take a look at Corrin tomorrow!
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?
Spoke with a calf dealer this morning he said you can't give fr bull calves away atm. No one wants them
Looking at Bandon there they're selling well. Odd one up to and over the hundred.
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
Sure thats his job. I have never met a dealer to talk up the price of calves, when he is buying
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 .
And rightly so.after seeing the documentary last year I would say say no fr bull calf should be bought to the mart.
What about Angus. Could you take them.... A "square" one like....
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.
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.
Some difference In prices in regions .....we are robbed round these parts by the look of them prices
70kgs after getting 11/2 bags of milk powder
Did you see the aax hrs that only made a 5€
Took a rush of blood to the head foday
Judging by the puddle on the tractor you should have stayed home.
You wouldn't want to be going by the Farming Indo headlines! Them lads would have you believe the whole thing is fuxxked
I saw a few but they must be out of JEx or FRx cows. Carnaross stopped showing the dams breed code on the mart board. There was some good Angus calves making €250 to €375.
I took the lazy route tru 2 divisions
Any idea why
Yes it does. Over time anyway. Better ways are found by putting the time constraint on.
Its not just a farmer thing either (bear with me here). A feature of working from home in white collar jobs during the pandemic was that tasks stretched out over the day, and staff were seen to log in much more from 7 to 9pm to finish up tasks. No issue at first, but surprisingly soon employers were noticing burnout symptoms in their staff.
The lack of a structured day was much worse for productivity and swallowed any gains made in avoiding commuting. When you think about it farmers that 'let the day run on' are often stuck in a similar situation.
A simple question (not to you KG in particular but in general), if you had to commute an hour after evening milking would you start a bit earlier? If so, then your current routine is a choice.
I don't and it's annoying especially when you buying online. In fairness they do show the calves weight which is a good indication.
The weight is the main thing infairness- no real demand for calves under 50kg
And the IFJ is the opposite - nothing only big prices for all calves according to them.
There is a bitter edge creeping into the FIndo coverage though. Almost happy to see the next crisis emerge for farmers.
That Niall Hurson writing in it is 150% against dairy farmers has shown that on twitter in exchanges on a few occasions also how is he meant to report impartially then?
