The key is progress or change, could be a day could be a week. I'd get a scissors and cut the tails, to reduce the risk of mastitis. Cleanliness is key. Best of luck.
Definitely. Get them tails cleaned up.
I fear he may be telling tall tales re dairygold board men ringing him and threatening him with putting antibiotics in his milk and setting dogs on him. There’s no way anyone would threaten such things
Are you liming the cubicles? It doesn't look like it from those pics, it's essential.
Best of luck with the new venture
Could be a prank caller he should report to guards get number traced if they can
It probably wouldn't be a big job to pour beds and install cubicles. Maybe that would reduce capacity.
A comprehensive report on TB erradication strategy for Ireland
https://irishvetjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13620-024-00282-z?fbclid=IwY2xjawH5vuNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZhXXGntB26YCvpQLOrY5R8-q3YoYibycKbtNRzEu26rsOgPZniRFDaVyQ_aem_BpDIFIK3raMvOnI_A-z4rg
Did you read it? Basically wants a australian type lock down of herds and farmers who apparently are getting away with murder and need to cough up financially, a walking bollock would be to polite a term, the wording and be-littleing of farmers as a group was way out of line
Little to know acknowledgement of badgers and their role, and rambling about more vaccination and better surveillance will solve the issue, after putting in two weeks here tracing the aboves hidey holes and spending 7k plus on diggerwork, the place here is literally infested with them and we hadn't a notion thinking we had a couple of badgers when I reckon it 50 plus
As I said before, farmers have taken their eye off the ball. Fellas afraid to burn scrub, set snares, even having a few dogs around the yard to keep wild animals away
They have given up their rights to protect their own property.
I managed to bite my tongue for a few days, but who was the plonker on here, asking would he ring the department because he he had to throw out a few loads of slurry with a splash plate
Farmers are there own worst enemies,like the fellow last week here attacking the poster who had photos spreading slurry in ideal conditions to be told it was completely illegal as it was 12 hours before opening of season and this 'could be a matter for the EPA in future'
Lads cow had a premature calf last night. Wasn't due until 10th March. Just wondering should I cull her or leave her and hope it won't happen again? I had tested high for neospora in the last bulk milk test unless it was that
out the door plenty out there to replace her , thats what happens here anyway .
Waffling on about vaccinating badgers. BCG Vaccinate all newborn calves and start using the DIVA test to differentiate at the annual herd test. Wouldn't be long eradicating it then, if the willingness to do so was there. The DIVA test has been delayed in the UK for some unknown reason.
The thing is this is what's in store for us re TB regs. Some scurge.
All this does is lead to an increase in testing cost as well as the cost of vaccination without any guarantees of ever putting a serious dent in tb incidence. It's endemic, it's not going to be gotten rid of by using a vaccine that can't actually stop animals getting infected and carrying the disease
And yet human babies are given the BCG vaccine after birth.
The point of the bovine tb, the whole thing, cattle testing, cattle culling, badger culling or non culling and vaccinating whenever, was to protect the human population from TB.
I’ve had to pay for 2 tb test’s this year 2024. Always taught farmers only pay for 1. Previous comment farmers have taken their eye off the ball with regards to tb, obviously never had to deal with it or totally ignorant. Never bought in animals 10 years plus, always stock proof. Did what was recommended and still got tb. I know I got tb from neighbour clearing the countryside beside me renting land. Quotas going was the worst thing to happen farming in this country imo. Probably second was bringing in quotas.
100 percent agree
Bcg targeted symptoms and severe disease. It didn't make tb disappear. Environmental factors, pasteurization and better nutrition were probably much bigger factors.
It's also 100% curable now, which may not have been the case when the current animal health protocols were initiated.
It may be the case that we have last century protocols for a current century risk.
That's the main point, the prevelance of tb in cow to human transmission is a major problem in the likes of Africa and India where unpasteurised milk is been consumed, any vaccine been created would be to help solve this issue, it's a mute point in a European context, if it was such a precieved health risk all milk from reactor herds should be dumped given the inaccuracy of testing missing animals
55kg 12 holstein calves 215 euro. 3 weeks old!
His latest rant re threatening releasing a set of accounts a insider from dairygold gave to him unless they match Driniagh co-ops milk price for this year and drop the trading bonus scheme is a head scratcher...
He's basically saying the co-,op is on shakey ground financially, all well and good,but where will they pull the circa 30 plus million to meet his demands if this is actually the case, it can't be done if his initial accusations are in fact correct
there is no way you could negotiate with such a person imo. He only met them yesterday evening and won’t give them time to come back with counter proposals. You can’t force a deal
agree ….whole thing will fall apart if they don’t reel it in a bit
you cannot negotiate with dairygold is the truth of it. the board was told constantly that suppliers were against this plan. it took Niall Twomeys actions to get rid of 6 c loyalty bonus scheme and get bonus for 24. know the facts.
a Tirlan supplier said to me "i wish we had a Niall twomey "
farmers are there own worst enemy criticising people who get results. last video was taken down and regrettable but he blew dg apart .
no point in appealing to the good nature of management who were being bonused for this.
bboard got hoodwinked and I would ask why they don't get rid of the problem in agri trading
He had them by the balls so to speak in fairness, he even could of used the video to look for the sacking of management for gross negligence if the accounts are as damming as he says, but now he's come across as a raving lunatic, he had built up a serious head of steam but lacked the cuteness to really hurt them...
Tirlain is a lot harder nut to crack, theirs a Web weaved their that stops any milk supplier that doesn't follow the boards thinking been kept away from gaining any influence, that group in wexford managed to get a small win recently but can't really see it going any further
You're not correct here. The 6cper litre min spend to avail of top up still stands at this moment, that is what we are calling on to be scrapped. It was never due to be applied to '24 milk, it was due on milk from 2025 onwards. So in reality we haven't achieved anything yet.
my opinion as wrong so. But other than what Niall twomey has said on tik tok I have seen nothing else here or online elsewhere to say suppliers were so unhappy
That is where my view on it was coming from
Their bone of contention is the loyalty scheme and the building of extra steel. If they don't buy feed or fert off dairygold and buy it cheaper elsewhere why should they get any loyalty bonus? they should get the end of year milk bonus but i don't believe they should get loyalty bonus . On the building steel, they shouldn't be building anymore because they simply wont have the milk to supply it. That being said they are only building extra capacity off figures provided to them by suppliers. I would hazard a guess alot of the people who are complaining, are responsible through massive expansion and their forecasting projection for this extra capacity being built.
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