4kgs of silage I'd say. Cant see them having top quality silage in brosna. Beet maybe…
Nice herd. 80 good cows. Was always a system i would have aspired to.
Well actually thats nice dry land they have. Not big but good.
That's good. still a high rainfall area though.
Palm kernel??
I wouldn't feed it to someone else's cows never 😁😬😬mind me own .......
palm is a very underrated feed ….no where near as bad as some make it out
Well what are it's bad points
Out day and night here the last few days and giving good quality silage (72% dmd) and 6kg of an 18% nut. Is it a good enough diet for freshly calved cows ?
It's alot more than mine are getting anyway.
Plenty good enough if out day and night
Out by day here since yesterday. Still on 50:50 maize ,79 dmd grass silage and 4 kgs 24% nut in parlour
Would 18% be needed when grazing twice a day? I know you probably using what you have
Yes . I'd even go higher depending on the level of silage your feeding. If your not feeding any silage and are on just grass only that's another discussion
Not sure if posted here last year that I bought a Hypershell xoskeleton for my legs.
My legs were getting a bit achy in the last few days between milking and carrying buckets of milk to calves.
So I put it on yesterday morning for the milking.
I have a milk cart that I wasn't using that I brought back into service yesterday evening and for this morning.
11,357 steps, 6814.2m, 509m elevation gain. Basically 6.8kms. Yesterday morning.
4,163 steps, 2497.8m, 87m elevation gain. Basically 2.5kms. This morning.
I was covering 13.6kms every day milking and carrying 30 litres doing so. Climbing 1000m up a hill.
No wonder my legs and hips were starting to feel achy.
Great stuff, I have seen ones for shoulders but hadn't seen any for the bottom half. Mike Birmingham must be paid per appearance with all the Teagasc Podcasts appearing, Same speel, Different Year
Will it cause more wear with extra weight on the hips
This is controlled by an app on your phone. I had it over my overalls and under my wet gear. The trouble with it on two layers of clothes was it was slipping ever so slightly and then it would stop sending power to the motors as it said it needed reconfiguration. So then I was trying to root for my phone in my trousers pocket and it covered up in the exoskeleton. I put the phone then in my breast pocket of the overalls. (not a fan of this, having the phone near to my heart). The battery takes nearly a whole day to charge though and you'd use about 40% of the battery in milking.
No because it weighs a bit over a kilo and the frame bypasses your hips to your lower back and belly. So the pressure comes off your hips and the motors lifting your legs saves your knees too. So it attached on your lower back/belly down to just above your knees.
Some genius on here not so long ago told us lies in no uncertain terms about how much lisduff herd in cork were supplying.
Circa 690kgs ms was their 2024 catolgue figures, if their not buffer feeding during the grazing season its good going, you'd wonder at such a drop in solids delivered for 2025 if their was ever a year to push their cows on it was last year
I think it was the same ideologue that comes on every now and again and tells us that any man worth his salt could manage 200 cows on his own with extra whiteboards. He saw paperwork that said the herd did around 450 kgMs or something
That lad doesn't like herds that produce high volume and solids......
Mike has all the right answers. It was a real love in with the 3 boys.
I thought it sounded like a lot of hardship, I love getting the cows out as much as anybody, but tearing around the place at 9pm with the flashlight to get cows in. I thought the idea of spending an hour putting out a grab of silage was a bit mad too, I didn't see the big labour saving argument
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/gdt-records-another-strong-rise-after-latest-trading-event/
Another rise, the coops would want to start waking up, if they want milk
I don't think It was supposed to make sense. I dont get this take the pressure off the yard talk either. Less work my hole in and out the field all day when you have enough to be doing besides.
This is the same bunch telling us in a few weeks to be finished by 6 in the evening. And go out again then afterwards.
Absolutely if the strongest argument was the benefits of stimulating the grass plant to grow fair enough, but the idea it's best for man and beast I'd definitely disagree. Is it really that big a deal if cows that only calved the last 2 weeks are given another few days to settle and get the stomachs right while the ground drys up a bit and the days maybe get a bit kinder. Get the cows out where possible absolutely but, what that man was talking about seemed to me to totally over complicate the thing at a busy time of year.
that was me and i was not lying i have a copy of their coop report but not from 2025 smart arse…..
Personally, I'd prefer to believe the o sullivans. One of the best herds in the country.
Tom Kelly's next sale is Friday week, 90 heifer calves. My dad was talking to him the other day.
