Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

if the grenlawn sale was anything to go by then I expect some very saucy prices at that sale which is one of finest in the country

When you mess around on the ihfa website, they have alot of very average poor cows and also smashers too, like alot of holstein breeders they have a awful habit of recycling poor cows because of a family line and wanting a heifer calf from said cow that might be 6/7/8 vg ex etc....

Is there an app that you can put in solids and it tells you milk price

Couple of calves you're going to do well to get them home for 3000.

costs are the real killer atm ….suppliers etc just seem to have feee reign to up prices and use conflict as n Middle East etc as an excuse …coops would really want to be passing back milk price rises to us pretty quick …govt also have bible to play …bit younger in cheek of them to be on about price gouging when such a high proportion of every litre of fuel is tax

Doesn't milk price usually follow oil price, could we see a bounce on the back of this, every cloud and all that?

The same here in the month of February. We milk all year round so what’s left will calve over a couple months. Had 150 calves to be fed up until the other day, passed the TB test and able to sell again now. I have the steps app on my iPhone. Was doing 25,000-29,000 steps a day. Up somewhere between 4am and 4.30am every day and not getting home until the kids were gone to bed. Could go for days without seeing them. The one conclusion I did draw for myself the other day was that people who say they’d carry on their life the exact same if they won the lottery are a bunch of liars 😂😂

I full on going to sell calves this morning. Going through the blue cards. Two cards missing. Looked on the icbf app and the samples were never received and these were in a batch sample with others that are on their system.

Bvd tests back. But ....

I use two jugs for sampling. One for the bvd and one for the geno. I put kitchen towel paper in the bottom to deaden the impact of the samples hitting the bottom. I then tip out the samples from the jugs on the kitchen table and put them in the envelopes. I write the herd number on the bvd envelope, I haven't done it for the geno. May do so now and write the number of samples too on the envelope.

The missing samples were concurrent numbers together. I've sent in the message anyway for call back and asked them to root around.

In all the bvd scheme this has never happened to me.