Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Closed in sheds are a disaster for viral infection and pneumonia in young cattle especially but an issue with all stock as well. Mine is very open and it can still be an issue. My feed only gets wet on average less than five days a year and even then it's seldom an issue.

I get wet all right getting in and out of the tractor to take the plastic and net off the bale, while I am taking them off I am ok it's getting in and out of the tractor which is outside the overhang which is the issue.

In 15+ years and I buy cattle all year round , sucklers and dairy bred, weanlings to finishing cattle under the one roof and I ca count losses to viral and pneumonia on one hand. I live over ten miles away from the shed

one feed passage covered here with an over hang but not sheeted down over the cows

Other feed passage is completely roofless. Would notice the cows definitely have a preference for the roofed feed passage on **** days.
A few days a year we do get bad rain and the rain would blow into the shed.

shed going up soon over a new tank and will just be an over hang. Have thought about sheeting down over the feed barrier but I don’t know if it’s a good idea yet. New tank is joining onto existing sheds - have 450 ft of slatted tank in a U shape now with cubicles inside. Theres going to be a lot of stock in it so fresh air is v important but I don’t want it to be a wind tunnel either

There Is a young lad that has opened a few coffee shops in Limerick in slightly out of the way places. He had a place in Mungret and the owner took it back and was opening up one himself. Young lad rented a place 50 yards down the road and all his customers followed him.

Land owner would want to be careful or he might be back milking full-time himself

a friend of mine is share milking. All feed costs are 50:50 and cull cow sales are all his because he owns the cows. He’s still doesn’t fatten his cows because it’s usually not worth it and he’s not going to change his system to do so

I'm being slightly sarcastic about the whole thing. If it works grand. As mehaffey says the more rules about money the better. I nearly went halves on a farm this year with a lad this year. He was saying what way will we do this, i said we'd worry about getting the ground first. We were blown out of the water when it came to the rent so didn't have to worry about fine details!

just noticed an add for a bull that progressive genetics are pushing hard- the dam of the bull never milked

Aidan Brennan is telling lads not to cull on milk recording data

Irish dairy industry is facing a reality check

368 ebi tho lads so has to be a superstar😉😉😉….

What's The big deal that the dam never milked? I have a bull in Ai and his Dam only milked 1 lactation due to unforeseen circumstances. Blocked gut.

longevity is the true measure of fertility and health

a cow that calves every year is healthier and more fertile

Ebi figures are fictional scores designed to sell

take your cow for example if she was healthy she wouldn’t have been prone to a twisted gut- her bulls offspring will more than likely be far more likely to suffer with twisted guts

Icbf gave farmers what theyasked for milk and fertility

that cow in the picture is not the mother of the bull

no field fertility means straws havebt been in cows over 42 days so no figures for repeats from the straws

@straight You would really want 7

On a side note this quote thing is terrible on here lately 😕 😑

Got an inch of rain here again today. 3.5 to 4 inches forecast in the next 10 days. In the situation where we are short on grass because of the drought, the cows could be in by night in the next fortnight due to the place being waterlogged. You couldn’t make it up.