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Dairy Farming General

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  • #7532
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Meal lorry was reversing back to mealbin when I came in to yard yesterday. I hadn't ordered meal. Lorry man was at wrong farm !
    I take it you said nothing? A few ton of free meal :p


  • #7533
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Magic day here last Wed.
    All stock bar a few dolls to calve are at grass. No breakfence or silage, time to let fly now. Silage fert 2nd split next week

    Everything bar cows left to calve and few bullocks (that will stay in as long as pssible ) and calves on are at grass.
    Will measure tomorrow. Talking of locking up 50% of grazing platform for silage end of next week and reseed 15% when silage is taken off it
    will only be stocked at 3.26 even at that


  • #7534
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Everything bar cows left to calve and few bullocks (that will stay in as long as pssible ) and calves on are at grass.
    Will measure tomorrow. Talking of locking up 50% of grazing platform for silage end of next week and reseed 15% when silage is taken off it
    will only be stocked at 3.26 even at that

    Be prepared to hit at SR of 5 during the high season ha!


  • #7535
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Had cows at far end if farm last few days here one lady calved 2 days ago we left cow with calf for day - never got around to talking calf away.
    any way cow built up a bond and there is 3 houses in the vacinity of this field

    Well she bawled all night last night and still at it.
    Could hear her ourselves and house is at least 800m away
    neighbours weren't happy I'd say


  • #7536
    orm0nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,364 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Meal lorry was reversing back to mealbin when I came in to yard yesterday. I hadn't ordered meal. Lorry man was at wrong farm !

    send him on here, ... realized this morning we won't have enough 'till Tuesday :mad: got a ton in bags to tide us over


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  • #7537
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Magic day here last Wed.
    All stock bar a few dolls to calve are at grass. No breakfence or silage, time to let fly now. Silage fert 2nd split next week

    Hoping to let the milkers out by day on Monday if the weather keeps like this! Is that magic day!?


  • #7538
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Dawggone wrote: »
    What's Magic Day?

    3 people putting silage sides on trailers etc.
    2 people power washing a chicken house.
    2 people spraying/spreading fert.

    Magic day is when demand equals growth rate.

    Next week here I reckon depending on what gets left off in the mean time


  • #7539
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Magic day is when demand equals growth rate.

    Next week here I reckon depending on what gets left off in the mean time

    I presume that's on the grazing block and doesn't include silage ground?


  • #7540
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Second round kicked off this am,cows on 24 hour breaks and hopefully 36 within a week.will leave wc in for 3/5 more days to give grass a chance.


  • #7541
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Dawggone wrote: »
    I presume that's on the grazing block and doesn't include silage ground?

    Still fairly new to this but I assume it includes all accassable land.


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  • #7542
    poor farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭poor farmer


    Jesus lads I am Jealous !
    Cows were out fulltime until fri 27 mar ,back in a week now .Had to bring in rep.heifers on wed .
    Hoping to get cows back out tmro.Land saturated, I have about 75% of the farm grazed including most of the "wetter" paddocks.


  • #7543
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    poor farmer wrote: »
    Jesus lads I am Jealous !
    Cows were out fulltime until fri 27 mar ,back in a week now .Had to bring in rep.heifers on wed .
    Hoping to get cows back out tmro.Land saturated, I have about 75% of the farm grazed including most of the "wetter" paddocks.
    I understand to a degree. Agitated lagoon, couldn't find a grazed paddock dry enough to spread on and we have a really dry farm. Absolute deluge night before last


  • #7544
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I understand to a degree. Agitated lagoon, couldn't find a grazed paddock dry enough to spread on and we have a really dry farm. Absolute deluge night before last

    I'm open to discuss any parallels...

    You set the paralleles...:)


  • #7545
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I understand to a degree. Agitated lagoon, couldn't find a grazed paddock dry enough to spread on and we have a really dry farm. Absolute deluge night before last

    I was doing a bit of fence repairs along one of the main reason drains on Friday. A few furze bushes growing through the wire so we decided to pull them out. I had to get down into the drain to loop the sling around them. If I spread urea in it I'd have been relying on the dew to dissolve it. Drain was bone dry and its pulling out of s good 20 acres of our place and 30+ from neighbours. I dunno how dry your place is at all frazz. Either that or we haven't been getting the same rainfall. I have a couple of pics but the sides of the drain are fairly overgrown and it's not to clear what's what.


  • #7546
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I was doing a bit of fence repairs along one of the main reason drains on Friday. A few furze bushes growing through the wire so we decided to pull them out. I had to get down into the drain to loop the sling around them. If I spread urea in it I'd have been relying on the dew to dissolve it. Drain was bone dry and its pulling out of s good 20 acres of our place and 30+ from neighbours. I dunno how dry your place is at all frazz. Either that or we haven't been getting the same rainfall. I have a couple of pics but the sides of the drain are fairly overgrown and it's not to clear what's what.

    Boys ground that, get a few kiwi style pivots/rain guns going grand job :pac:


  • #7547
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    I have a 2nd calver and a heifer on OAD here. Thought they were loosing a bit too much bcs.
    heifer bulling atm. Will keep them on though fir another 3 wks


  • #7548
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    The only 2 je heifers we have thus yr.
    one an autumn calver - left
    other spring calver -right
    lady on far right is also a first calver


  • #7549
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    heifers starting to settle in well ,averaging 22 litres ,bulling, now to wait for some protein and butterfat results, that will be the big tell on what i have bought in .


  • #7550
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Blackgrass wrote: »
    Boys ground that, get a few kiwi style pivots/rain guns going grand job :pac:

    Maybe boys ground but if you want to wear metal it'll get that done for you no bother. Soil is light but extremely stony. A contractor that used to do maize work here used to almost be in tears but there was a good bit of work in the area so he kept coming. He was S.Kilkenny based and used to work up as far as Stoneyford and on close to the town as well. "You'd never see a stone all day up there and then we have to come down here for this hardship" was the lament.


  • #7551
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Maybe boys ground but if you want to wear metal it'll get that done for you no bother. Soil is light but extremely stony. A contractor that used to do maize work here used to almost be in tears but there was a good bit of work in the area so he kept coming. He was S.Kilkenny based and used to work up as far as Stoneyford and on close to the town as well. "You'd never see a stone all day up there and then we have to come down here for this hardship" was the lament.

    Limestone or Sandstone?


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  • #7552
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Maybe boys ground but if you want to wear metal it'll get that done for you no bother. Soil is light but extremely stony. A contractor that used to do maize work here used to almost be in tears but there was a good bit of work in the area so he kept coming. He was S.Kilkenny based and used to work up as far as Stoneyford and on close to the town as well. "You'd never see a stone all day up there and then we have to come down here for this hardship" was the lament.

    Even better, go all kiwi and buy a cross-slot to work it...
    250k+ for a 4m, but but but it's the best you can get! and a nice ego boost :rolleyes:. Might be something to look at if you do be in drought so regularly rather than potentialy leaving grass behind.


  • #7553
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Blackgrass wrote: »
    Even better, go all kiwi and buy a cross-slot to work it...
    250k+ for a 4m, but but but it's the best you can get! and a nice ego boost :rolleyes:. Might be something to look at if you do be in drought so regularly rather than potentialy leaving grass behind.

    I know a man with one if them:rolleyes:


  • #7554
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Limestone or Sandstone?

    Sandstone. All roads here dug out of our own ground. You'd meet the odd grey vein that can't be dug but just change tack and away again or shift to the next rocky area.


  • #7555
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    I know a man with one if them:rolleyes:

    No it's in England now, 6m?
    Conflict of interest bla bla bla


  • #7556
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Sandstone. All roads here dug out of our own ground. You'd meet the odd grey vein that can't be dug but just change tack and away again or shift to the next rocky area.

    Can be very good land for barley.
    You grow barley for whole crop iirc?


  • #7557
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Can be very good land for barley.
    You grow barley for whole crop iirc?

    Only in the last couple of years. A lot of wheat and winter and spring oats for Flahavans grown around here. Flahavans contract usually green wheat price plus a tenner from memory. Very few store grain. Only one grower I can think of plus the only family owned piggery in the area have drying and storage facilities.


  • #7558
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Hmmmmmmm defo not jumping to conclusions just yet, but SCC 187 last collection, which is the lowest here in probably 2yrs (been anything between 250 and 350 normally) , anyways the 187 is despite the cows having the stress of a new milking parlour etc, I was expecting it to rocket for a week or so! Hopefully this is a sign of things to come!


  • #7559
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,925 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Hmmmmmmm defo not jumping to conclusions just yet, but SCC 187 last collection, which is the lowest here in probably 2yrs (been anything between 250 and 350 normally) , anyways the 187 is despite the cows having the stress of a new milking parlour etc, I was expecting it to rocket for a week or so! Hopefully this is a sign of things to come!



    You do realise your hosting a walk in mid May for all to see the new set up


  • #7560
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Only in the last couple of years. A lot of wheat and winter and spring oats for Flahavans grown around here. Flahavans contract usually green wheat price plus a tenner from memory. Very few store grain. Only one grower I can think of plus the only family owned piggery in the area have drying and storage facilities.

    Sent a lot of oats to Flahavans until oat mosaic virus hit.


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  • #7561
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    stanflt wrote: »
    You do realise your hosting a walk in mid May for all to see the new set up

    I got about 15 calvings, breeding season and silage in may ha. But for you stan the door is always open!


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