Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

I lost respect for him after that podcast, he was talking to ordinary hard working lads and he just avoided every question giving bull **** answers and pretending to be a fool. Pod cast went on for nearly 2 hours and not 1 sentence that I’d consider noteworthy from him. Same as the rest of them, talk for Ireland while saying nothing.

Also you weren't getting paid to sell surplus replacements.

bs……I sold my 6 worst (which were still ok and of if I had to milk them I would of )fr heifer calves for 650 a piece 2 weeks ago…I had over 20 calls and if I had 50 I’d of sold them at that price …..incalf heifers and cows will command high prices this backend ….dairy stock just ain’t there ….i give out a bit about Tegasc but I must compliment them for this ….they advised just enough fr replacements and load on the beef straws ….happy days

It's A different market now. They haven't been the easiest animal to offload over the years. I have 28 heifer calves left here. Don't know when will I sell the surplus ones.

I sold a load of my March born angus calves. They made between 7 and 8 hundred euro. April angus made about 550 average. Market seems to be slipping now so I'm glad most are gone. Sold most of the Feb born friesian bulls for 400 ish the other day.

My yearling fr bulls that were only worth a fiver last year made almost 1200 euro out of the shed. An angus yearling weighing only 260kg made 1000 euro. It seems to be hard to beat the angus.

You take the accomodation cost out of that 39k minimum salary. It's not on top

not a bit …..Aidan brenan would have a **** attack reading this after his article in journal nearly having a seizure when how a fella who thought he was feed his cows 1.6 kg meal daily was actually feeding 2.2 kg 🙄🙄🙄🙄….some horseshoe….on calves I’ve still mine in …on rubber slats ….ad lib hay …red clover silage and bit maize plus about 3.5 kg 18% nut …..calves thrive better and far easier manage ….no summer scour ….worms or breaking thru fences

Some Waste of money. Mine are still in on 1kg nuts and ad lib silage. No point in fattening calves. You just want to grow them. My feed rep feeds an awful lot of nuts too 🤣. Great job he thinks.

There's a YouTuber with a calf to beef setup. She's drawing 4kg of nuts to her Angus calves. I can just see the profit draining from her system every day. Mine only got 1Kg and the made up to almost 800 euro in the mart. 700 average for bulls and heifers I think.

Theoretical question.

If one made red clover silage into a nut with added minerals. Could one eliminate cereal meal altogether for feeding to both calves and cows?

You sound like you're afraid to let them out! You just have to manage them for SSS with access to good hay and a good shock and they won't go near it. Mine are on 1.5kgs and thriving. They are herbivores, they need to get eating grass. Watching calves grazing vigorously is a joy to behold. Also, you are building up immunity to worms in their first year outside.

not a bit ..just far easier manage indoors and personally think they do better ….theyll be fine inside till August then they’ll go out with no setbacks

Agree there ….calves rumen not able to fully handle grass till 6 months old …personally cringe at lads leaving calves out in march and thinking it’s great job

Yeast and rumen buffers for summer scour. Liffey Mills do a calf grazer ration with them in it to beat the scour.