FIne looking places,must be a story to it
Too small for a 15 year lease as a milking set up. Ideally suited for 5 to 7 year stints to enable start up enterprises that move on to 200/250 cow units for their next step.
Hi lads,
Just wondering what do people think is the best type of fill for a cow roadway. We have a good foundation. It just needs resurfacing. Part of the roadway is high so anything small could get washed away easily. What do ye think?
A lot of hungry lads in that area, will make at least 500 a acre I'd say at auction
I mjust wondering how much are the facilities actually worth in the lease especially the parlour.it will be interesting to see will there actually be a cow milked again
It wouldn’t carry in the incalf heifer mob for lads up that way
At current milk prices it would make money even at that price/acre.
Obviously milk price can fall quickly. But I think it would be less risky than burying few hundred thousand in your own yard based on rented ground on milking block.
Sunday morning fun!
I got 2nd hand mangers 10 mins away from me. Torture getting them out but delighted to get them.
Great stuff 👏 👍
Thanks.
Anyone have any tips for getting rusted and disintegrated bolts out of a wall?
I got some with an angle-grinder but can’t get in far enough for others. Would a sharp chisel and a lump hammer do the job?
hammer on a socket one size smaller and wring it off with an impact
Exactly as Woozie said, muller them off with an impact is the easiest.
Agreed unless it's a cavity wall and they will spin .
A sharp chisel and hammer or a big selection of levers up to and including a 20 pipe 😄
Also a zaw zaw will help
Gas if someone had it handy would nip them off
Could you cut the bolt in two through the centre with even a mini grinder and then tip off the two half's ⁹
Am on a 3 day milk collection at the minute. Anyone know if this affects fat and protein results?
Collection was all over the place here over Christmas, had two 3 day collections and didn't notice any difference
Anyone else ever hear high butterfat affecting scc result's?
25 calving season is off ,i was hoping for 10 more days off .
Hopefully twin heifers to ease the blow
That's a morning i don't miss the parlour anyway!
only bit i miss about old parlour is the jars for warming my hands
Then it's magic gloves under the milkers for you. just pull off the milkers when you need to use your mobile.
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Once you got the first couple of rows thru it wasn't too bad I suppose. I only ever wore the plastic milking gloves and the apron with half sleeves on it. I tried the rubber milking gloves but couldn't work with them. See cuff and things like that about now that probably are a good job in fairness. Remember 2010 I think it was -15. Milking once a day. You'd only milking on the first couple of units. That was some torture.
Have the digger man in the last few days clearing of scrub ground , found the main hostel this evening in the corner of the wood,
Department really have been thinking outside the box in implementing their new scheme for a national herd reduction, if they bring in what's proposed it will do alot more damage than the loss of derogation to dairy farms
What are they planning Jay
3 year lock up on herds with over 5% reactors in a test on all cows in herd going of journal headlines, you'll have to factory all your culls our sell to fwwdlot
someone obviously in dept saw that in Australia they bought in an 8 year ban on selling in marts to reduce tb so thought why not propose 3 for stupid old paddy to work with.
Reduce the national herd is not official government policy but it sure is unofficial policy by the back door
It's official policy in the department they just don't wont be telling paddy
Anyone with wildlife issues is going to have to be very proactive in controlling them in-house, if they bring in what their talking about, you'll have farmers either throwing in the towel and getting out, our becoming extremely militant and not engaging with them, they are basically devaluing herds 100's of thousands of euros depending on size if they get their way with a 3 year rule
now is the time once and for all to see if the IFA,ICMSA etc have the balls to tell the department to go fcuk themselves
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