Farming Chit Chat III

freedominacup wrote: »

My oul boy had himself conviced we were heading for a winter of discontent last Fri. Not a sign of anything in the end:rolleyes:.

the joys of having a big vet bill:rolleyes:

Milked out wrote: »

Are the cows still out?? not sure but I think the thermo bacteria are more common in soil so possibly your pre milking routine for that day missed a bit of earth an the udders of a few cows if your grazing tight?? strange one alright when it was low all year

Hmm yeh cows still out. But teats usually fairly clean, I tend to avoid doing anything pre milking, unless the cow is particularly dirty. Time to at least wipe them down with a paper towel I guess.

jersey101 wrote: »

Long night. 3 cows calved and two had calves all jumbled up in them....ugh

Calves all survive? Vet job I take it? About the only unjumbling I can do with calves is push them back in and straighten up a front leg, I can sometimes straighten a head if its turned backwards, but very tricky.

You must have a huge number of wintercalvers also, ya always seem to be calving now ha! What % is it? 2bh I was the same last winter, loads in nov/dec/jan, I pushed the most of them around until Feb. Made sh%te of my CI, but had to be done.

flat out !! wrote: »

I know this is a bit of a long shot, but did any if ye see my claw hammer?!, ye know the one with the green handle, after searching everywhere and no sign of it...!:mad:

If you like I could offer you the answer I get. Every. Single. Time.

" ah ...I saw that ah..where did I see that now....it is around somewhere"

flat out !! wrote: »

I know this is a bit of a long shot, but did any if ye see my claw hammer?!, ye know the one with the green handle, after searching everywhere and no sign of it...!:mad:

Mine is missing as well !

jersey101 wrote: »

Need to tightin it up alot in the next to years. I have 4 calving in dec and im going to push them into spring, Going to estrumate 8 heifers so they calf in sept. Next year plan to push nov cows to spring or put them for AI three weeks early and estrumate heifers again. Should thighten it up nicely, all going well

I'd love to avoid any autumn heifers, but afew repeats from the spring, and I aint letting them go till 3yr old. I only need 24cows to cover the liquid contract, the way things are now I'd get all of them from april/may calvers, I could nearly ditch the autumn calvers, and all the hassle of calving now! I'll keep dreaming for now ha.

jersey101 wrote: »

ah well ill be at it for the next ten yrs any way so may aswell have it right so its not hard to manage em. Its hard to get rid of them cows that roll over. I hope to be in a position in a few years that if a cow doesnt go on incalf after 3 inseminations shes gone

This certainly wouldn't solve all my problems, but I sometimes wonder should I flog off 15/20 of my poorer performers now (ladies would regularly get lame/mastitis/poor BSC etc), and replace them with 20 good spring calving cows. Would be a nice overnight boost, and let me breed more good cows quicker, but aside from the disease risk, its bloody hard to fine nice stock, lads only flog off their worst cows/heifers.

But anyways, utterly everything hinges on the replacement heifers in my view, get them all calving in late jan/feb as 2yr olds, shouldnt be more than 5yrs turning around the herd into a tight spring calving then. I'll use sexed semen on most AI for the winter until next march, hopefully will have enough held then to stop breeding for dairy at all.

And I had 2 bloody heifers that needed 4 inseminations before they held, definitely not what I want moving forward at all.

jersey101 wrote: »

Need to tightin it up alot in the next to years. I have 4 calving in dec and im going to push them into spring, Going to estrumate 8 heifers so they calf in sept. Next year plan to push nov cows to spring or put them for AI three weeks early and estrumate heifers again. Should thighten it up nicely, all going well

I'd love to avoid any autumn heifers, but afew repeats from the spring, and I aint letting them go till 3yr old. I only need 24cows to cover the liquid contract, the way things are now I'd get all of them from april/may calvers, I could nearly ditch the autumn calvers, and all the hassle of calving now! I'll keep dreaming for now ha.

delaval wrote: »

Why are you serving till March. IMV serve for Dec/Jan and start again in May.

Sorry serve so as they calf down until March I meant. But yeh I managed to avoid any animal calving from Xmas to end of Jan, I'll widen that window out more this year.

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Muckit, did you see the front page of the tribune. The article details where some of the money went for the hse mental health unit that they now want to close. They spent 224k on furniture and crockery despite only having a budget of 10k. Some of the details:
Sofa 1,700, Waterford wing chair? 725, four chandeliers 1,937 and a mirror for 2,500. It goes on to say that disciplinary action has been taken against those responsible for ordering. Only one polite word come to mind "Disgraceful'

Hi mac Taylor. I haven't seen that yet. I'd say they talking about that toghermore house in tuam? Ah sure whole thing fecked up. All about outward appearances. Forget about the people. Don't get me started!

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Where did you have it last!!!!!!

If I knew that it wouldnot be missing :cool: