Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

imo, majority of farmers are gone lazy in terms of fitness and well being. no harm at all to go get the cows by foot.

This would be his third season. So think he was 18 months when he arrived.

When they are by the montbeliarde the cards are mox. It's just if there's back breeding of monty and then back to friesian it's frx. The only way to negate that with both fr and mo is to use a monty bull on a friesian cow and then use that bull calf/stock bull for breeding.

Calf sales went ok. The very start was the worst but picked up as it went on. Mox bulls probably averaged 120 overall. The last of them were hitting 150 euro no problem and out of heifers. I got pole axed at the very start with a pen of three in a mart making 55 each. Learned after that. Lims I didn't break the 300 but got to 290. Averaged I'd say 240 overall. Main thing I'm still selling and I'm not overly disheartned selling calves. But there are more going breeding this way dairy in the southeast so I'm getting competition from them now too. A local montbeliarde heifer sale had big interest and sale of stock. The same breeder had friesians in the mart and barely sold. Monty were making 2k Fr were lucky making 1k.

Not sure if you've seen this. Claims Irish made with high ground clearance and already lithium battery with a 6 year warranty with ability to road register with road kit. 10k seems dear. But the gator versions are looking for 30k.

You'd imagine safer than a quad for any workers and benefit there for any elderly of ease of access to drive. Looks like it'd be simple to change for wider agricultural rims and tyres too.

http://donedeal.ie/quads-for-sale/hdk-electric-utility-vehicle-golf-buggy-cart/33649509

If you had a cow bulling on the day of the test he will follow her into the crush.

collars here. Only a bull with the heifers, and I hired 2 young ones this year to go with them for 7 weeks after one round of ai. Be gone after that and I won’t have to worry about them

Why would you have a cross bull running with the cows. At the first sign of getting cranky get rid of him. There are lots of bulls for sale in Listowel mart every week.

there’s a lad from cork that makes daily videos on tik tok with a dairy master. He gets awful bother with the removers, not an old machine either. Think he said it’s one of his biggest regrets buying a dairy master