Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Could you wash out the pipeline? A bucket of hot water with some descaler in it put through the pipeline during the wash often sorted my tbc.

Doesn't the water have to be tested for bord bia?

And when ya have all that done there will be more to do. It never ends 😀 just tip away bit by bit and ya’ll get there. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

I would massively appreciate it if any of you could point me in the direction please of where I could Jersey bulls. Just want 2 of them for the heifers. Going to keep our Angus bulls for the last of the cows, if I was to be selling the Angus bulls we have though one place that should be first in line is a vet training college, they’d get plenty expensive with difficult calvings 😂😂 there’s 170 calved here now, we haven’t had the vet out for any calving but the heifers have been tough going with the huge Angus calves

With fresian bull calves freely making 200 euros why would anyone be bothered with Angus and Hereford and leave themselves short of replacements.

JJust Look up the tag number before you buy

Have a look at YouTube vid of pat hickey at positive farmers conference, he mentions a few easy calving aa's.

Some of the red aa can bring big calves,.

Where are the calves getting stuck? Just give them more time. Maybe your heifers are too posh to push 😉

Haha maybe 😂😂 I think Visatorro is probably right, heifers are definitely on the fatter side of things. The ration was only cut off the first few days of February, the heifers started calving then the 15th of February

I was very interested reading about the big farm in south kerry for sale that I saw you all discussing, I had seen it advertised. Our own farm here is 230 acres, there’s about 10 acres of good land, 110 acres of bad/mediocre land and about 110 acres of pretty much diabolically bad land. I’m no expert but my 2 cents is that a fella would be better off buying half the acreage of good land instead of buying hundreds of acres that’s only fit for trees

Heifers here don’t get any ration after Christmas Eve. Fat heifers are a disaster to calve.

I’m only the help so it’s not up to me unfortunately 😂😂 the whole farm here is drained, I can’t imagine how much worse it could be if it was never drained though, I’d have to question how effective the drains that are there already actually are

I’d often for curiosity be looking at farms for sale, this is a 216 acre farm in Middleton, 15 acres of forestry so 201 acres of actual land and it’s non residential… the buildings are new but you can see they cut corners with no locking barriers etc… saw a newspaper article that said it’s €4.5 million, by the time a fella would have fees paid, a house built, herd of cows bought it would probably be coming closer to €5.5m… surely it won’t make the asking price https://www.daft.ie/commercial-property-for-sale/ballyspillane-midleton-co-cork/5964333

It's not a start up. It's a top class farming couple nearing retirement age who's family have taken a direction that's not on this farm. Nothing to see here but top class operators, top class people.

putting land like that under panels should be considered a crime