Id find it hard to believe even 10 percent of what was said in that segment in fairness.
Did someone here claim James Humpreys was sacked from Teagasc and Solohead? He was just on ear to the ground.
That sums it up there alright.
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I saw a few of ye talking about this farm on here. What’s the story behind it? Just asking purely out of curiosity. I saw one article that said the farm is being sold because the owner is moving to a bigger place but it’s odd the way the yard was never even finished
https://m.independent.ie/farming/farm-property/240ac-dairy-and-forestry-farm-in-offaly-back-on-market-for-3m/a1522192019.html
If its positive they will be back in 2 weeks, if negative could take 6 weeks.
Farmer I booked my calf off rang to let me know I might not be able get his calves,that a lesion was found in the lung of a cull cow that he sent to the factory and is now locked up till the results of the lesion come back.He said it was the oldest cow in the herd and his own vet reckoned it was just a growth that was effecting her breathing and was best to put her in the factory sooner than later..he reckons that he will know the result in 2 or 3 weeks and will possible still be able to sell calves then but said he understands if I want to book calves elsewhere…what's peoples experience of stuff showing up in culls?..does it usually take long for results?
When I use to work milking cows, at the end of milking the heifers were let into the parlour to stand while the machine was washing to get use to the parlour noise and the surroundings, you would find the ones that would kick out when walking up and down and was forewarned for them,
Super job and plenty of comfort in fairness.
Wonder are the new silicone liners a better job with fresh calved heifers/cows?
Never said yours were and haven't a clue of your stock in parlour. It's like bullfighting. If you breed those that try to kick you. Their progeny will be the same. You can line breed good and bad temperaments. Horses, cats, dogs they all the same. Temperament is hereditary. We've seen the heifers that never lift a leg and heifers that are just nuts and reared in the same herd. Seemingly other herdbooks are putting 5 stars to the heifers that never lift a leg and 4 stars to the heifers that do so for one day. But that's down to farmer truthfulness and seeing the bigger picture in breeding a better animal for the whole industry.
My father used to say the shorthorn was an OK breed. But the first cross on the Freisians came in were terrors for kicking. A dept vet around used to apologise to farmers that bought her father's stock on the clearance sale as everyone said they were bad temperaments.
On the money here ⬆️
I'm very boring and would have to admit I'm no.2 but I could see why milking a row of heifers would attract the bondage types 😂
I find giddy ,wild heifers is more down to how heifers are reared and handled up to coming into parlour …if your calm heifers will be calm …the odd one would test you alright
I’ve a Gea parlour with fty …feeding set up is 400 grams drops into feeder 1 once forst cow enters parlour at back ….10 second delay then before second cow and so on …remainder of feed dispensed once clusters on again in 400 gram drops
Milking for someone else is a completely different kettle of fish to having to milk a few rows of your own freshly calved heifers……
There’s only three types of people who would attempt to milk a full row of heifers
2. New Entrants
3. Combined New Entrant BDSM Fans
Which category are you in @Siamsa Sessions 🤣
All this advice to the lad why didnt he just work for a dairy farmer for a year or two even only calving season the amount he would have learned would be unreal i see new entrant going the same route all the time.
I wouldn’t say our heifers are kickers tbh. I’ve had very few over the years that intentionally want to actually kick you. It’s more so the sensation of the cluster and there milk being let down that they don’t like and need to get used to
I was watching a video lately where he was putting on ankle straps on a cow in milking by herself, she didn't even slightly move, I'd say they are pure pets of cows. My cows would be dancing putting on straps as it's out of the ordinary for them
Bribery all the way. Happy heifer happy milker!
Dont ever give them nuts when they kick it off, terrible habit
Calmness. Just be calm. Be over generous with nuts. Press the nuts, put the cluster on straight away. If there is a bit of kicking, rub the cow intensely. Then more nuts. Usually works. If it doesn’t, repeat in the evening. Don’t stress. Never heard of a clamp, I may have to use a kick bar as a last resort sometimes.
I had air feeders in the parlour and some of the cows got cute that when the ate all the meal the chief or the fella milking would give them another pull of meal when they kicked off. They had them ruined! I used to put the kick bar loosely on them. They'd still be inclined to knock off the cluster.
I'd see ifarmwefarm putting meal in all the troughs before letting cows into the row. I do wonder how they walk up to the top of the row past the meal. I know mine wouldn't move past meal in a trough
Ya, you can breed it out. Have 3 heifers calved here and their all a pleasure so far. There was a bull in Munster AI for years called AAC. The father used some of him here and I'm still trying to cull them out. It's the only bull I went into ICBF and hit him on temperament. It didn't do much good anyway because the EBI still said temperament was good.
+1
Back more than a decade ago, O-man was the only bull in town. His heifers were fairly lively, but he made great cows.
This is the only year you'll have it like this. Once heifers are in with cows they're much less likely to act up and settle down quicker.
Like G2M said, patience is key
Only job for big numbers imo. One person can milk alot of cows per hr with little stress. Only downside would be high capital investment (especially nowadays) and probably throws off more dirty water
..TB probs
Do ye like the rotary
and we are the same… have a rotary 10 years now and i could count on one hand the number of heifers that have given us bother over those 10 years…
dont know why but i do think the movement of the table has something to do with it…
The pets are the worst, the lunatics freeze when u put it on
Just a thought here. Run a rotary in the place I work and we calve down anywhere from 70 to 80 heifers a yr and never have any trouble with heifers kicking. I reckon it must be the motion of the rotary that distracts them and that they each have their own stall. Baffles me every spring how little hardship they are (thankfully).
