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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #9812
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Is Countryfile on tonight?

    nearly over now


  • #9813
    biddy2013
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    spent the last 40 minutes doing alegbra give me a nappy change any time instead;)


  • #9814
    Timmaay
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    Ugh another 3cows with mastitis this evening. Definitely got another epidemic on my hands.


  • #9815
    biddy2013
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    Ugh another 3cows with mastitis this evening. Definitely got another epidemic on my hands.
    hate that crap...is it the excitement of being out?


  • #9816
    Timmaay
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    All started good few days ago before they were out, they were in today in any case as I was gone between milkings.


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  • #9817
    Greengrass1
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    Ugh another 3cows with mastitis this evening. Definitely got another epidemic on my hands.

    What teat spray u using Tim?


  • #9818
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    hate that crap...is it the excitement of being out?

    does a rise in mastitis cases correlate with going out to grass?:confused:


  • #9819
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭mf240


    bob charles wrote: »
    does a rise mastitis cases correlate with going out to grass?:confused:

    No the opposite, ecoli got into our cubicle shed one spring and we had to let them out,hail rain or snow!


  • #9820
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    mf240 wrote: »
    No the opposite, ecoli got into our cubicle shed one spring and we had to let them out,hail rain or snow!

    thats what I would have assumed


  • #9821
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    Had to make a trip to shannondoc today, have an absess in my tooth since Friday and I was gone dizzy with the pain this morning, couldn't bare it any longer. Fair annoying because I had the flu last week aswell. :(


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  • #9822
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,313 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    Anyone see the Charolais Bull that sold for a 105k on countryfile tonight? He made it back for um pretty quick.


  • #9823
    Timmaay
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    What teat spray u using Tim?

    Osmonds biolac or something like that, only use it for after, not predipping. Although my dad insists on coming into the parlour at times to remove clusters and dip up the cows, and his teat coverage wouldn't be fantastic.


  • #9824
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Osmonds biolac or something like that, only use it for after, not predipping. Although my dad insists on coming into the parlour at times to remove clusters and dip up the cows, and his teat coverage wouldn't be fantastic.

    Do ye prespray and wipe off?
    Were using virolac here for the last few years seems to be working good at the moment


  • #9825
    Muckit
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    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    Had to make a trip to shannondoc today, have an absess in my tooth since Friday and I was gone dizzy with the pain this morning, couldn't bare it any longer. Fair annoying because I had the flu last week aswell. :(

    What a dose! Hope you get sorted out soon. The antibiotics will have to do their job l suppose before the dentist can do his anything?


  • #9826
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Do ye prespray and wipe off?
    Were using virolac here for the last few years seems to be working good at the moment

    Not a huge fan of getting the teat wet beforehand at all (too me long enough to get rid of the rag and bucket for cleaning teats, utter disaster for scc spreading). I've had decent results with just cleaning the teats with dry paper towel, and post dip till now, never draw the spins either, the less interference the better in my view.


  • #9827
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Not a huge fan of getting the teat wet beforehand at all (too me long enough to get rid of the rag and bucket for cleaning teats, utter disaster for scc spreading). I've had decent results with just cleaning the teats with dry paper towel, and post dip till now, never draw the spins either, the less interference the better in my view.
    We used the oul rag here for a while too but that was years ago.
    We spray cows teats. Wipe off with blue paper and bin it. Cup on then and spray after again. Might be worth a try


  • #9828
    trixi2011
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    Not a huge fan of getting the teat wet beforehand at all (too me long enough to get rid of the rag and bucket for cleaning teats, utter disaster for scc spreading). I've had decent results with just cleaning the teats with dry paper towel, and post dip till now, never draw the spins either, the less interference the better in my view.

    If you were stripping would you not find mastisis cases quicker ? Don't strip here to often only if scc is climbing over a few days but in early lactation I think stripping is essential to picking up cases early .just my opinion


  • #9829
    GrandSoftDay
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    Muckit wrote: »
    What a dose! Hope you get sorted out soon. The antibiotics will have to do their job l suppose before the dentist can do his anything?

    Hopefully muckit, hate going to the doctor and the dentist but i was in agony. Sound doctor though, he spent 20 minutes talking to me about cattle.


  • #9830
    Kovu
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    Spent the last hour browsing the new Dovea beef catalogue*. Some interesting new bulls but they only have one blonde:eek:

    *Totally normal behaviour for a female of my age of course :p


  • #9831
    Timmaay
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    trixi2011 wrote: »
    If you were stripping would you not find mastisis cases quicker ? Don't strip here to often only if scc is climbing over a few days but in early lactation I think stripping is essential to picking up cases early .just my opinion

    Probably would but slows down the milking and puts me under pressure. Tonight i stripped all of them, and thats how I found the 3cows. During the year when things are going smoothly there is no need in my view, its as soon as I see cruds on the filter that I jump in and strip all the cows, I probably should have sooner this time I'll admit, like ya said when the scc started rising. Its up in the 500s at the sec, that was with mastitis getting into the tank though.


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  • #9832
    Greengrass1
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    Probably would but slows down the milking and puts me under pressure. During the year when things are going smoothly there is no need in my view, its as soon as I see cruds on the filter that I jump in and strip all the cows, I probably should have sooner this time I'll admit, like ya said when the scc started rising. Its up in the 500s at the sec, that was with mastitis getting into the Utank though.

    What was it before that tim?


  • #9833
    Timmaay
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    What was it before that tim?

    200ish most the winter.


  • #9834
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Girlfriend rang me there. She has digs in a house with a family and a few other girls have digs there to.
    She had 3 weeks off after Christmas for exams and holidays.
    Your one is wanting her to fork up 150 quid for the 3 weeks.
    That's not on at all.


  • #9835
    darragh_haven
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Girlfriend rang me there. She has digs in a house with a family and a few other girls have digs there to.
    She had 3 weeks off after Christmas for exams and holidays.
    Your one is wanting her to fork up 150 quid for the 3 weeks.
    That's not on at all.

    Sorry to burst the bubble, but that's normal. Even for the weeks off you'd be paying a percentage of the weeks your there.

    I don't agree with it. But its standard practice


  • #9836
    Greengrass1
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    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Sorry to burst the bubble, but that's normal. Even for the weeks off you'd be paying a percentage of the weeks your there.

    I don't agree with it. But its standard practice

    To be fair She has been paying the very odd weeks that they are off . But its pure ****e tbh


  • #9837
    naughto
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Girlfriend rang me there. She has digs in a house with a family and a few other girls have digs there to.
    She had 3 weeks off after Christmas for exams and holidays.
    Your one is wanting her to fork up 150 quid for the 3 weeks.
    That's not on at all.
    i dont think she will have a choice put to pay up,they will not give a sh1te that she wasent there for the three weeks.


  • #9838
    Greengrass1
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    naughto wrote: »
    i dont think she will have a choice put to pay up,they will not give a sh1te that she wasent there for the three weeks.

    Ye I know but 500 quid isn't easy got along with pay other college fees


  • #9839
    naughto
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Ye I know but 500 quid isn't easy got along with pay other college fees
    was thinking 150 was very cheap for three weeks.its a right pain in the balls having to pay it.


  • #9840
    Injuryprone
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Girlfriend rang me there. She has digs in a house with a family and a few other girls have digs there to.
    She had 3 weeks off after Christmas for exams and holidays.
    Your one is wanting her to fork up 150 quid for the 3 weeks.
    That's not on at all.

    That'd be fairly normal is say. It's supposed to be time for study and preparation for exams as opposed to holidays? A lot of students would still be on campus. We used get all of April off to study and there was no question of getting off the rent if we stayed at home instead.


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  • #9841
    Greengrass1
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    Sister look up the maynooth page there and it says students in registered digs do not have to pay for holidays.


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