Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Good point. I think there's bad blood between her and her husbands family. Don't remember the story really cos it could be 30+ years since he died. I'll ask the mother sometime about the background

There's not a lot of point getting in a discussion there

I had a discectomy before Christmas 2016. I was crippled with pain for 3-4 weeks before and unable to do anything for 8 weeks after. Ine young lad in final year in college, the other lad in final leaving cert year. Farmyard is ten miles from the house. Simplified system made it manageable, cattle were on silage only. The eldest lad used to do a couple days feeding, the lad doing the leaving used to feed a day orvtwo o er the weekend and a friend and a contractor used to cover a couple of days as well during January and February.

I know iscnot a comparison with milking and calving cows, but if you add in a lot of other work along with the cows it's completely u sustainable.

Who's going to buy all this stock, what price are they selling for?

A friend of mine got hurt recently and sold out the whole herd. It's the only way unless you are going to rely on family to step in.

GGreat But, the arm thing I'd total bollix if your arm is broken your unable to work end of.(only a dairy farmer would think it partial disability😁😁) I know the point your trying to make as in your partially disables and you still get half pay partial disability is a sore leg or arm shoulder back etc. But you can still do part of your daily chores doctor here told me yo go for partial disability when he was filling forms for me. Fbd's consultant told me that I wasunfit for work and that only farmers look to go partial Disability.