Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Kids were off school and brought them down to see the one that made 10k. They didnt see what all the fuss was about. Stick to the cross breds they said!!

iv been buying Radney heifers last few years from odetas mostly ,they have records coming out there ears ,generations of very good milk combined with excellent % ..it rakes a long time to get heifers and milking stock on ground breeding from your own ,.just think it’s nice to bring in good genetics to compliment them ,feeding and management is imporfant but of breeding isn’t there the important link is missing

My and the chief were in a man's yard buying cows years ago. Arguing over price, farmer said you know this is one of the best herds in the country, the chief just said sure Ringo wasn't the best drummer in the beatles!

That cow was for showing embryos bull sales u need not worry whoever bought that cow new what they were doing.I seen a cow at 6600 a red cow would win any show didnt seem dear to me if your into that.

I have been looking at catalogs from AI companies for 40 years. By now the milk lorry man should be piking the milk out of the tank with the height of solids.

finding opposite up to now …growth has been back and never really forgot far ahead or out of control …all my cow paddocks have seen a mower either topped or baled since end April ..to me that key for grass quality in June ….,don’t get the lads pulling the piss out of the neighbour baling paddocks at 2/3/4 bales per acre ….whilst they are grazing paddocks gone far too strong and then having to top off load of grass ….whilst there litres fall off and protein goes thru the floor

Managing grass isn’t as easy as some think but you have to take action once you see grazing covers getting too strong and rotation length getting too long

no offence …but u can do lots of you put your mind to it …used to be a poster here kev the gaff…farms other side of nenagh to me ,was up his way looking at a bull yesterday …his farm is on side of a mountain and he looked to be doing some job of it …another farmer milking well north of 200 cows on the hill as its known locally ,manages grass as well as anyone on flat land ,makes bales ,spreads slurry ,fertiliser etc grazes early/late …I’d say you’d plant it 😂😂…as I said managing grass isn’t easy ,no matter what sort land you farm ,if your not prepared to put in the effort /don’t want to it’s even harder

Heartbroken?

Maybe Backbroken and after coming to his senses might be more realistic.

I might be completely wrong but I dont think them pedigree breeders with all there extra hardship are any better off then any other farmer

Dont know nothing about the man. I hope he getting out of cows with his own free will. Not because of health or family.

It's a smart man/woman who knows when to retire. I might write a book sometime on fellas who could not stop and it ultimately ends in disaster.

Old lads getting killed off tractors, quads cattle. The fences get poorer and poorer till the cattle spend longer in the neighbours than their own fields. Sheds falling in.

I knew a lad once and the COOP were telling him to retire, he didn't pass tests on years. But instead of fixing the problem he would keep the lorry driver talking and get the wife to switch samples in the lorry.

Another rang me one day wondering would it be OK to let take the board bia lad to walk around my yard instead of his own.

And at the end of the day, Cows are cows, one bad TB test and they are gone, if you died this morning, they would be milked again this evening