Can't ans for dg but tirlan were matching cash price if paid out of 3 peak milk cheques
your friend is right and I’ve found this out the hard way paying lads the same week they finish a job and in one case 2 days before he finished, the lads that f**k them around and keep them waiting would get on a lot better.
Don't really use the facility much but its like 15 euro extra a tonne. generally only on Fert purchases again paid out over 3 peak months
I'm learning the same lesson in the same hard way at the moment. I thought giving lads a few quid as the work progressed would help but it's made zero f*cking difference as they still won't come back and finish jobs.
I think I'll take Ronnie Drew's advice from here on. He said, "Don't ever pay all your bills on time coz you might leave yourself short."
Has calving started yet
Thankfully not.
I’ve 4 picked out and on straw but I didn’t AI any so not sure of dates.
Parlour still not operable, never mind say ready. I got a loan of a portable machine thou so I can manage.
Side sheeting needs to be finished on the extension where the milk tank is going. But the roofer is in Poland (of all places!) for a few days holiday. Couldn’t get the milk tank man on the phone today but he texted to say the tank will be in Fri or Sat. Can’t get the parlour man himself on the phone. And I twisted my back somehow yesterday so I’m walking around like a 90-year-old doing everything in slow motion.
You wouldn’t want to be the nervous type that’s for sure 😂
If the pin bones are down either side of the tail head is a sign there only hours away from calving
I reckon they'll be up €75 to 100.
The minister for waffle and kite flying, McConalogue is gone. Good riddance. Hart to imagine some lads wasted a few hours of their lives going to meetings organised in marts around the country listening to his b,,,s,,t.
PPp
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/539753/cows-grazing-in-mud-over-winter-appalling-mpi
That's shocking altogether, good on the staff for moving them out, in all likelihood workers from places like the Phillipines or Fiji working and living on farm. Have wintered outdoor on Fodder Beet in New Zealand and it was tough going but any weather extremes they are back onto grass with 4 sides sheltered and as much straw fed out as possible.
Holstein heifer calved here last night. She was in calf to an AA bull but the calf has Friesian markings.
Is that just one of those random things? Or is a neighbour’s Friesian bull likely to have got at her?
Ypu get that sometimes. Are you in the genotyping scheme
No this is my first year calving. I might get this one genotyped thou. Didn’t look to see if it’s a bull or heifer yet.
Thanks
If you message me the tag number of the bull my lad will look up the bull's breeding.
, wait for a week and see what the calf looks like and if horns are starting growing
Thanks - I’ll root it out and send you the tag.
I was talking to a neighbour who gets bulls from the same man as I got the Angus bull from. He reckons the oul record keeping of this man might not be the best when it comes to calf parentage. He got a HE bull off him a few years ago and half the calves out of him were Friesians 😂
The bull is more than likely a cross bred
We had a stock LM bull for a couple of seasons and 90% of calves out of him were a friesian pattern. We had a job convincing buyers they're LMX
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https://www.independent.ie/farming/dairy/pat-mccormack-i-know-farmers-who-refused-30hd-for-five-week-dairy-bull-calves-in-2023-held-on-and-recently-got-1900/a41126003.html
Enough said, sounds like a speakeasy.
If there's any more like that, out the gate wih him and find a better source.
crossbred bull and not worth that hassle anymore
what do dairy spec angus bulls cost these days, would €2500 buy anything
we hired 2 yearling Angus bulls to go with the heifers last year. Very happy and all incalf bar one after one round of dairy ai
All pedigree angus bulls have to be genotyped to get their cert.
Sold 4 angus bulls before Christmas to a dairy farmer from 7 months to 1 year old got 9k. Selling 1 year old af 2500, that's the last of them for a while
IIt Might be alright for handy sized heifers but anything under 2 years should not be left near cows. I suppose il be under pressure to buy as I currently have no bull. I got 3200 for my 2 year old AA from the Tb Valuer, it will need it all.
I might pick up a fresian and AA later. Probably big money now with beef prices.
I hired the Angus bull but I’ll be changing suppliers after this carry on. Third one just calved now and it’s another Angus-Friesian heifer.
Does genotyping calves tell you what % Friesian is in them?
Are you far off milking in the parlour?
https://www.donedeal.ie/farmersnoticeboard-for-sale/relief-milker-available-evening-milkings-limerick/37775239
May be useful to someone here for some of the spring.
What’s ‘dairy spec’ for an angus bull?
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