Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

bang it in the milk vein but always use a new needle if doing so. Any bit of dirt is detrimental in the long run

We must have gotten close to 3 inches of rain today. Maybe even more. Cows in here with a few weeks already. Winter set in early this year.

nice day here tuesday.. yesterday up until 5/6pm wasnt too bad.. but it has been brutal altogether since…. some amount of rain falling… cows in by night since sept 1st… might have went out 1/2 nights.. but id say now unless theres a major turn around in weather.. they wont see grass by night again til next year… they are milking well though… sept 2024 was superb weatherwise.. but cows are milking better than this time last year at the moment….

I turned off the electric fence this evening. Don’t think an animal will be out here again until 2026… we’ve a place for heifers in southwest limerick, it’s no golden vale land by a long long shot but it’s night and day versus how wet the place is here at home.

I have no way of measuring it accurately but we definitely got over 2 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. If we didn’t get 3 inches it would have been very close it. Even if we did have dry land which we certainly don’t - the cows wouldn’t want to be out given the weather we are getting

Just goes to show how different land require such different management.Most lads cows around here (south Kildare) arnt in full-time time till drying off around December and out straight away after calving in February at least during the day with most out full time by mid/late march baring a belt of snow or something

Cow's feet would pick a drought over wet ten times out of ten. You think your roadways are in good order until you get a month like this.

Hes local to us, tied in with a large independent merchant, was blowing everyone out of the water for land rental a few years ago...

They got a bad doing a few years ago, brand new combine was destroyed its first day out, after a surprise was left in a field he was after putting a lad out of

Nobody pulls them up.

Dairy cows were back 50,000 from 23 to year 24. Dairy heifer registrations are back 45,000 from 24 to 25.

Tillage area is up 6% in the last 4 years.

It's like one big cult run by that tillage group that featured threatening organic commentators worldwide.

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There's a speaker in Ireland revealed he was part of that group. He'd be speaking at teagasc events and getting his name in the paper how crops need 200 units of nitrogen and only the year before teagasc measured their members being the most efficient n users (in the world) in a figure three times higher than science ever measured before. So 200 units would probably give a yield of 20 tons per acre based on their calculator.

It's a sorry state of affairs when a millionaire is on radio with 700 acres running down his neighbours with 60 cows. And saying he can't make a living because of them.

It's a vegans dream.

And the hoof parer. Used to be slobbering at that myself. Line up about ten every month for him. €100, written off against tax, costs me €50. Half a day saved and no hardship as his gear is far superior to my crush