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Dairy Farming General

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  • #7622
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Anyone know the cost of insuring milk in case of antibiotics?


  • #7623
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Anyone know the cost of insuring milk in case of antibiotics?

    Usually part of farm multi peril policy. I think most will only cover one incident ever. After that you're on your own.


  • #7624
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    There is some huge variation across the country.

    Very wet last few weeks round here. Barley ground across the river from me was only ploughed yesterday and it's normally ploughed start of march and set on 18th march. And only in the last few days have i se
    en dry stock out.

    Putting in a new roadway here atm and I could nearly do with a tank of water to keep the dust down. And clay is very dry when digging only time we met any eet clay was where a pipe was leaking under the ground:-)


  • #7625
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    WheatenBriar wrote: »
    I won't have to
    Rain should be back by the weekend with a vengance :(

    Don't shoot the messenger,it won't change the message!
    seems to have softened a bit now, doesnt look as bad


  • #7626
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Have a calf after gorging herself on water. Reckon 10l half the bucket is gone.
    anything I can do for her. She's like a balloon


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  • #7627
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Pacoa


    Any word from the co-ops? Are they flooded with milk yet? Heard Carbury had milk flooding in but the fella who told me was after a fair few beers so not sure if he was pulling me leg :)


  • #7628
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Have a calf after gorging herself on water. Reckon 10l half the bucket is gone.
    anything I can do for her. She's like a balloon
    had a calf here in the autumn would drink milk and then drink from the water drinker, ended up having to cover the drinker up after feeding her. They can also get water posioning from drinking too much water in one go, keep an eye on her, it can cause brain damage


  • #7629
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Pacoa wrote: »
    Any word from the co-ops? Are they flooded with milk yet? Heard Carbury had milk flooding in but the fella who told me was after a fair few beers so not sure if he was pulling me leg :)
    A high stool farmer I'd call him I bet he could solve any farming problem once he's on the high stool with a pint in his hand.


  • #7630
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    had a calf here in the autumn would drink milk and then drink from the water drinker, ended up having to cover the drinker up after feeding her. They can also get water posioning from drinking too much water in one go, keep an eye on her, it can cause brain damage

    this one can barely move she's that blown up


  • #7631
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    this one can barely move she's that blown up
    Put a stomach tube down her if it's gas it will relieve her.


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  • #7632
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Pacoa


    A high stool farmer I'd call him I bet he could solve any farming problem once he's on the high stool with a pint in his hand.

    Haha he wouldn't be the worst. Still i'd say there's milk flying this weather. My tank is going up at every collection sure the weather is perfect for milk production. Long may it last.


  • #7633
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    leg wax wrote: »
    mower going on today taking out 2 paddocks.

    Let us know how you get on. Did some last year and think it worked well. Grazing alone wouldn't have cleaned out the paddocks as good.

    Edit: Not sure I took you up right. Pre-mowing or conserving?


  • #7634
    sandydan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭sandydan


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Have cows here refusing to eat meal this morning and then trying to rob neighbours meal.
    had 2 get sick.
    is magnesium inconsistent in mix or what?
    could be, or contamination maybe, ,this could also happen in bin also,ie a quantity of nuts on normal magnesium level content, topped up by new batch of nuts on double, this in theory could result in variation in magnesium level in nuts in same load and therefore, in head-feed, but ...
    saw a fella one morning who lost 2 cows due to suppler doubling of magnesium content of ration mix , they fell walking from milking parlour and had 2 more staggering when vet arrived.
    he switched supplier as he discovered some cows were leaving dairy nuts and next cow in was getting double helping.


  • #7635
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    just do it wrote: »
    Let us know how you get on. Did some last year and think it worked well. Grazing alone wouldn't have cleaned out the paddocks as good.

    Edit: Not sure I took you up right. Pre-mowing or conserving?

    teag man was here yesterday so we took out 3 paddocks at covers of 1700 for baling , and going to buy 8 more cows.


  • #7636
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    leg wax wrote: »
    teag man was here yesterday so we took out 3 paddocks at covers of 1700 for baling , and going to buy 8 more cows.

    Tom?


  • #7637
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    ah ah ah ah ah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ,yes:(:mad::o:rolleyes:


  • #7638
    jack o shea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 607 ✭✭✭jack o shea


    what do lads have at the back of row of cows to keep them in when milking? have chain here but its a pain in the arse, do many have a gate in or just some kind of solid bar with a lever in pit type?


  • #7639
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    cows going out tonight:)


  • #7640
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    whelan2 wrote: »
    cows going out tonight:)

    Make sure they bring condoms


  • #7641
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Make sure they bring condoms

    Whatever is the matter with you is no small thing.


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  • #7642
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,042 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Make sure they bring condoms
    might get them some of those spermies from over on farming chit chat


  • #7643
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    jack o shea wrote: »
    what do lads have at the back of row of cows to keep them in when milking? have chain here but its a pain in the arse, do many have a gate in or just some kind of solid bar with a lever in pit type?

    Chain on the old parlour. Disaster of a yoke, always covered in sh1te, up and down to pick it up. The bar above is on a counter weight system, lifts up itself to open, you pull the rope from the pit to close it and latch it into 4 different slots depending on the size of the back cow.


  • #7644
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    whelan2 wrote: »
    cows going out tonight:)

    Ours out by night with 5 days, had a cow with pneumonia the other day big temp range between night and day so something to keep an eye out for


  • #7645
    stretch film
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭stretch film


    Milked out wrote: »
    Ours out by night with 5 days, had a cow with pneumonia the other day big temp range between night and day so something to keep an eye out for

    Frost here this morning for first time in a while. At disc grp meeting today growth rate of 60 + on host farm


  • #7646
    stretch film
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭stretch film


    leg wax wrote: »
    ah ah ah ah ah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ,yes:(:mad::o:rolleyes:

    Tis spoiled you are :)


  • #7647
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    jack o shea wrote: »
    what do lads have at the back of row of cows to keep them in when milking? have chain here but its a pain in the arse, do many have a gate in or just some kind of solid bar with a lever in pit type?

    Have a bar that hinges and can move it forward and back depending on the size of the last cow


  • #7648
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Plumbed in the plate cooler today. Tank never over 5 degrees and off before I started washing! I just got to decide what to do with the waste water from it now, what do all of you's do with it?


  • #7649
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Plumbed in the plate cooler today. Tank never over 5 degrees and off before I started washing! I just got to decide what to do with the waste water from it now, what do all of you's do with it?
    Collect it in an IBC over the dairy for the washdown of the parlour and also for rinsing out the milk before washing and the detergent after washing, even though you're not supposed to.

    TBC 12
    Thermoduric 180.

    It's supposed to rise the thermoduric(?) i think?


  • #7650
    degetme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭degetme


    Many dairy guys on here do a pre-breeding scan? Debating weathr to do it or not on those not i havent seen on heat


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  • #7651
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    degetme wrote: »
    Many dairy guys on here do a pre-breeding scan? Debating weathr to do it or not on those not i havent seen on heat

    Scanning the autumn ladies in the morning and going to check any spring cow who had an issue, like retained clearings, needed a jack etc. Going to tail paint all the spring cows tomorrow also and will act on ones who haven't shown heat after 3wks.


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