Our collections are all over the place here too. 1 day, 2 day and 3 day collections.
I'd say you're about right.
It depends on which way you looki at it and how much help you have.
The less animals you have the less money you will lose, so maybe its a good year to go OAD given you still have the part time job and are learning the ropes.
But as was mentioned, the heifers won't produce much milk on OAD, they'll milk away 10 to 17 litres on low meal, but on the plus side they should nearly all go in calf and be in good condition for the coming winter.
Some people think OAD/TAD is set in stone but its not, although if you're going milking TAD, you wouldn't want to milk for more than 6 weeks OAD, and 3 weeks ideally.
You could change to TAD when you get the parlour going right? You could change back to OAD later on in the year?
we were sold a very glossy picture last October/november ….things have gone very quite since start of year ….last I heard was end December deadline was not going to be met with Christmas and holidays (understandable)and that mid February was the date…that’s now here and gone and been no updates ….we don’t even get a text with news of milk price anymore ….and Agriland/journal have nothing …hopefully things go through but board will have serious questions to answer unless there’s movement soon ….our support payment has been also cut for janurary
There's always teething problems with the likes of a merger like that. But yes it's not just as rosy as portrayed when the deal was proposed.... I suppose it couldn't be when you had a coop in that much financial bother...... I still think it will be good for arrabawn
Letters going out in the next week or two in tipp to tell lads their jobs aren't safe. Might be behind schedule but it's still moving forward
I know it’s still going forward …but since December we’ve had no communication as to what’s happening ….we were near harassed in November with messages and phone calls to go to meetings etc ….dosnt show much regard for suppliers and rep members …..I still hope this all goes thru but lots of concerns as to what’s happening we were told last autumn just to get us in to meetings to vote etc ….if our price stagnates like is happening atm in comparasion to other coops lads will start asking questions
What do lads expect like? Ye are no longer useful at the moment.
Schmallenberg I guess...
Did you retest the bvd positive calf?
nailed it …
Absolutely not allowed. I could send in a sample under a different number and it would come back positive (more than likely) but they wouldn't accept it so that would just make things worse for me. Waiting on the knackery to slaughter the calf. Don't like shooting them myself.
Have you any petrol engine on the farm?
Yes
It might be the kindest way out of it is all.
I hope it works out. And I'm assuming it will in time (12-18 months?)
But the uncertainty you're talking about now is one of the things that put me off becoming a supplier. I'm sure my few litres wouldn't be the making or breaking of the co-op but I'm guessing the merger and the inevitable bumps along the road didn't encourage any lads who were thinking of leaving existing co-ops to supply Arrabawn.
I'm not even going to ask. I thought u meant burning down AHI.
I really hope it works out too ….but whole thing happens very fast ….board and management put a serious hard sell on it and made whole thing look near faultless and risk less …..just annoying that since Christmas we’ve had no communication bar I think pushed out to early mid February …past that and still nothing ….pulled our support payment at Mondays board meeting and got no text or explanation why …not good enough …got little to nothing from my local board rep either
Could you not order a tissue tag for it?
They said it will not under any circumstances be tested. I'd say the tag number would flag up on their system. I could tag her with a different number but it wouldn't help my case. My vet said he would blood her and put her in under a different tag number but that is just involving my vet for no gain. As I said no test is 100% accurate. The lab said they never ever make a mistake. They are 99.9% accurate. Well 99.9 is not the same as 100 to me.
I wonder have there been many positives recently in other herds
I had the vet out today. He has a customer with 8 positive bvd out first 20, no bought in stick and never had it
More than likely contractor with dribble bar/trailing shoe brought it in from another farm
Maybe... No contractor here though. Closed herd for years apart from a stock bull every second year.
Have you sent any samples since from others born after the positive one?
Got a letter that a neighbour had BVD positive calf(ves ?). Didn't know they were doing that
Sent away about 20 today
Neither did I until now. Got a registered letter from the Dept. today. Jail doesn't sound that bad.
a 770kg Holstein cow made 2160 in the cull ring in Carnaross today
You were the man that disagreed with me when before the general election when I said
'The last government had introduced an enormous amount of unnecessary regulations and red tape '
So do you still disagree with me?
