Not to be rude but that is a very poor conception rate.
You’d be expecting 60-65% conception to first service with conventional Semen. 50% of those cows returning a heifer calf leaves you in the same place heifer number wise with a lot more milk going into the tank
You are dead right there. they are some shower.... the calves were my own bit of messing......
Out today too. Out at grass fulltime with maize at the barrier at evening milking
Boys ground 🤦♂️😎🙄🙄😁😁
The chief watchs alot of marts on LSL. Good few don't have weights up.
we bought this farm and no one would touch it because it was so wet. I got stuck in plenty of places over the years till we got it all sorted. Just taken on a place over the road that is very like here was. You’d definitely get stuck in it trying to spread fert on it atm
but yes you’re right it’s not a wet farm at all by any means. Cows weren’t out here much at all for Feb either though
I had 12 maiden heifers on an outside place running with an Angus bull he cost 2200 last April. I kept the balls on a late Friesian calf, (his mother was a great cow). He was only about 9mths old last may. All Friesian calf's so far.
I know the bull calf is a loss maker, but nothing puts cows incalf or tightens up a calving spread like a Friesian bull.
Pure hype and bullshyte headlines from that pup. Don't click it only encourages more.
I used to come from work and start milking and feeding so maybe that influences my routine.you know this work life balance is a recent fad.i wasn't alone in this and lots of lads used to work until 10 or 11 in non farming jobs too especially lads that had indoor trades that could work with lights.
Very poor 8/9 months of weather
You’re bang on there. When we were young we’d always be doing something. Television was crap with one channel. No mobile phones so it was work or sport.
Definitely a better way of life.
Had a young lad doing Saturdays two years ago. As soon as he was finished a task, out came the phone and he’d stand on the spot scrolling.
In the evening as soon as the clock struck 5 he’d actually down tools and disappear.
Then the finish time began to creep forward a few minutes.
Jeez I was well sick of him, thankfully he got a handy summer job elsewhere and I found a good lad instead.
My father spent all his life working two jobs and never spent any time doing family things.
When his health went he always said one job is enough for anyone.
We think a job and half is about right for a couple.one income for a family tends to be a bit tight but 2 working full time tends to be a bit frantic.nothing wrong with working hard when you re young and able. As family comes along its different story.one generation ago people used to be working at 14,now they have hardly started at 24 and then alot piss around until their 30 s and can't figure why they can't buy a house then
I’d agree with your 1.5 idea. Two full time jobs tends to end up with big tax bills and big childcare bills. And fierce pressure too when a child is sick, or school events etc are on.
How many cows were you milking when you had the second job. I know farmers who work long hours 7 days a week , to busy to even take a few days for a holiday during the summer. Then complaining about how much tax they’ve to pay at the end of the year.
will finish up around the 40% mark for sexed few in maternity pen... conventional higher as higher volume in straws the sexed are only half the volume of conventional....sexed is expensive
We had it up to about 50 when we went full-time which was 09.our third child was born in 08 so it suited family wise too.
60% calved here in 3 weeks, bit of a breather now before the stock bull calves come I'd say. Zero fatalities so far......Touch wood.
Will look at grass in March. Slurry tanks filling up. Calf exports didn't really get going yet around here.
Will reduced cow numbers affect export and calf prices.
I'm lost for words
A lot of rain on the wet over the next week. Just when the ground was drying up nicely
It's getting completely ridiculous now.
Not once was climate change mentioned in that article. In fact, the headline is in no way reflective of the article. Absolute tosh. The "leading vet" who is quoted would want to be onto them for misrepresenting what she said
That website is our version of the National Inquirer. You should see their coverage of weather, a forecast of some wintery showers by Met Eireann is reported by them with headings like "Snowmaggeddon to hit the Midlands" etc. Bunch of clowns!!
Ya I agree they are and 3/4of the rest of the papers are no better. there was an opinion piece in the Times advocating a yes vote in the referendum because........it would help combat climate change like ffs.
I’m curious have any of you given it any more thought about Kerry Co-Op buying the dairy business from Kerry Group?
Latest I have heard is one guy saying the Co-op shares would be cut to 5.1 Kerry Group PLC shares, some other people have mentioned 5.5 or 5.4 being the ratio. At €80/share it’s a poor return of about €430/Co-Op share. They were making €300 about 10 years ago and residential property prices have doubled since then
Also if any of ye want to see the consequences of speaking out against Kerry Co-Op’s potential new deal to buy the milk business I’m 100% happy to send anyone on all the legal letters they sent me for speaking out against them in the past.
Don’t forget who was willing to speak up for you all last time around when a mega money bid for the dairy business was lodged by the co-op and if it had been accepted there would of been no vote given to co-op shareholders
people forget the true ratio of co-op shares is 6.15 and there’s about €30m in cash so at 5.1 of a spin out you’d actually only be getting 80% of your own asset
imagine having €100,000 in your bank account and going to withdraw the money and the bank tells you they’re going to take €20,000 of your money off you. Funny thing is the co-op expect people to go into a ballot box and actually vote to give away 20% of their own money and if you speak out against the new co-op’s milk prices or anything else you say or do that they don’t like you can probably expect a solicitors letter telling you they’re going to take your shares off you and give you €1.25 in return
Farmers are stupid, the business leaders know that.
The funniest thing I have seen, was I spent thousands every year building a milk quota, from 16000 gallons to 50000.
They made it valueless overnight, and farmers around here, threw a party in a local pub.
RTE news covered midnight-quota-removal parties where farmers celebrated quotas ending at the stroke of midnight. Can't remember where in the country that was.
You can offset the loss on quota purchase when selling shares so you dont have to pay tax on them.
