Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Keifer is even better. Make sure there is no antibiotic residue.

You've too much going on this spring. Keep it simple. Milk powder and mart!

We have full employment any lad not working at present dose not want to work. Any person working is probably using all there standard tax band. If you take on a second job you are paying over half in tax. For someone to earn 15/ hour, they need over 30 before tax.

Better half is thinking of retiring from the fulltime gig. She was looking at maybe 1-2 days a week to keep the interaction going. At the standard rate of tax if she was paid 13.5/ hour she take home less than 10/ hour. A place she was looking at was offering 6 hour days. Allow a tenner a day for work expenses she have 45 euro.

Those are the figures lads look at. No ody wants a part time gig on top of a fulltime one. Young lads can get 10-13.5/ hour in decent part time jobs

Right that's all great and I'm sure it's important..... but it's not even a close relation to what I was talking about....…

FFair Enough no I've no problems whatsoever with farm labour thank God 😊 I'm referring mostly to people in gainful employment being paid well for the privilege of turning up to work. A large cohort of these people do not and will not work or try to improve the position of their department , business,whatever they are working at. I have also found that it's the middle aged to older people who are the worst offenders. I don't know but **** me the country is gone soft as a whole as far as i can see. Back when I was working alongside farming there wasn't a notion of getting away with the stuff they are at now it's like it's a permanent work to rule setup...

And don't get me started on taking responsibility on or admitting they made a mistake etc etc

Whays the minimum milk collection the lorry will collect

First collection here was 160 litres. Limit is 400 I think

I thought I had a tough night last night with calves popping everywhere including a breach. Things got alot worse this morning when AHI restricted my herd because of a calf that tested positive for BVD. Never had a positive here. I doubt this one is positive either. My whole herd has to be blooded/vaccinated. FFS.

Not Allowed retest anymore. I'm sure the calf is negative. I'm going to get my vet to blood him if I can just for myself. But I have to destroy that calf ASAP.

This madness is a result of the Department going to soft handed at the start with fellas holding on to PI calves and nothing done about it. Now they gone the total opposite. Sorry to hear your in the situation Straight hope you get out soon

Don't make any rash decisions just yet. You'll soon have the heifers trained and the parlour finished plus stock grazing. Then milking will be an hour including bringing them in and out.

Is the twenty hours split over 5 days and is it flexible? If so you'll be fine tad. This is the worst time of it by far. I'm a couple of months this will only be a memory.

Sorry to hear that, it's some dose especially as it's due to the department not going after lads keeping pi at the start of the program.

If you aren't vaccinating the blood is could show up a few more.

I have worked in different companies and different sectors of those companies. If by the time you are middled aged if you do not know the system forget a put it. Small employers expect more but government less discretion to employees.

A goid manager makes a big difference. However they are only 50/50 in most organisations. I found good and bad workers everywhere. I always did my work but neither was I stupid running around like a blue ass fly if there was no need. I found lads that were good workers were the best managers and lads that were dogers when working the worst managers as they taught everyone was at the same sh!t as them.

I woukd not say the country has gone soft rather you have people employed now that ate the scraping of the barrell

Youngest came put of college about 4 years ago started in sh!t money in an investment bank in Dublin. He automated the area he was in, they were employing lads in there 30's who were doing nothing for them but watching the clock. He looked for a raise and was told he was greedy. He had another job lined up bit manager said they look after him and then f@@ked him over after the jib was gone. He handed in his notice a d went travelling for a year.

He Is now over in Londan earning 2.5 times what he left the orginal employer and says it an easier more defined job

Ya, I know. I was one of the guys that always did the right thing though. Not one of those messers. This is a false positive. I'd put money on it. The lab messed up.

I don't know how long it will take to get out of this or what I will end up doing with the calves. They are saying 6 weeks but that's a best case scenario I think. I could end up leaving alot of my beef calves in a slatted unit for most of the year maybe.