Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

group calling pen is the only way.
Close up cows on the cubicles and twice a day pull anything on the point of calving out onto the straw. That’s the system here and it works fine. Calf only left with the cow an hour at most bar they calve during the night when we’re not about

Yes but they had grip outside under all conditions, they've no choice now in a 15 square foot slab of concrete.

Another great set of results by Kerry Group. Profits down, another €300m share buyback as the last 4 have worked out so well for them, volume growth in Europe declining. Here in Listowel there’s a few dozen of us in a WhatsApp group, I seem to have lost a €100 bet since I can’t see anywhere that they used the word “headwinds” in their statement. I told my mates I’ll go double or nothing with them that Scanlon will get paid €7m+ for another year of “great success” as Borat would say

What are they worth now??

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So what youll have someone just waiting for a cow to calve then put in a shef with mats then take away calf put under red lamp never herd such rubbish like youll need 24 hr non stop supervision i mean non stop r lads looseing the run of themselves warehouses been built to rear a few calves is another fad auto feeders and mechanical ventilation tube still get pnuemonia

Surely the cow deserves the right to lick her calf after all her hard work. I hate to see lads pulling the calf away the minute they’re born.

Old timers used put salt on the calf to encourage the cow to keep licking it. Calves that aren't licked by the cow take a long time to look as clean.

Do you dilute the em spray and where do you purchase it. Sounds interesting. I might give it a try.

They’re after hitting €71.20 today. The lowest they’ve been since February 2017. When they go below €70, that’ll trigger a big sell off by the major investment funds that own almost half of Kerry. If they hit €70 then they’ll hit €65.

The “sum of the parts” value of Kerry (if it was broken up) is €100/share. For a takeover a 30% premium would be paid to secure the deal so at €60 or €65 the shareholders would only have to be paid around €80 to secure the deal and the company is really worth €100.

The major thing stopping a takeover is getting approval from the EU and America etc, all to do with laws about monopolies basically.

One of the top dogs in Kerry Group who’s since died said to one of my family back when Stan was still in charge that we were lucky with the management team we had but a day may come and it may not always be the case. It’s safe to say that day has come now.

Glanbia shares pay a much better dividend than Kerry also.

If a person owned €1m worth of Glanbia shares they’d get €24,100 of an annual dividend. If a person owned €1m worth of Kerry shares they’d only get €19,000 of an annual dividend.

I sold all my own Kerry shares by 2021. In hindsight I’d of sold them in 2019 for cheaper because I’d of had better buying power with the proceeds.