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  • #8252
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    How's everyones silage coming along?
    Not overly happy with how mine is doing.
    Hybrid v happy with coming in at 5t
    normal grass not at 2 t yet

    Walked all ours on Sunday and very disappointed. Will take great heat to be cutting in 2 wks. June wend by the looks, have a stag that weekend so might be the Monday


  • #8253
    Sacrolyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Sacrolyte


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Walked all ours on Sunday and very disappointed. Will take great heat to be cutting in 2 wks. June wend by the looks, have a stag that weekend so might be the Monday

    Calendar farming???Tut Tut.


  • #8254
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    No, they were on heat the evening before.

    I'm not a fan of interventions myself but my calving spread has gone to hell in the last few years and I was thinking, with strong and plentiful heats this season, it might be worthwhile to do to maybe get 2 of them in calf in the first 3 weeks and the other maybe 10 days later than waiting for the second heat(assuming a 60% pregnancy rate)?
    Whereabouts are you cows in Cork are very slow to show heat with the cold weather.


  • #8255
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Whereabouts are you cows in Cork are very slow to show heat with the cold weather.
    Kerry. AI men flat out round here atm with normal herds and a good share of herds starting AI for the first time


  • #8256
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Kerry. AI men flat out round here atm with normal herds and a good share of herds starting AI for the first time
    Jaysus everyone around here are saying the cows are coming on heat but not showing any signs even with tailpaint it's hard to pick them up. I had maiden heifers the were bulling all winter that are at a standstill now :mad:


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  • #8257
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Jaysus everyone around here are saying the cows are coming on heat but not showing any signs even with tailpaint it's hard to pick them up. I had maiden heifers the were bulling all winter that are at a standstill now :mad:

    I have 5 maiden heifers running with the cows for AI for the first time. 4 bulled in 6 days but the rest with the bull are just working on their tan.

    Good soil temp and a bit of moisture here is just heavenly for growth. Horses for courses I suppose.


  • #8258
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Glanbia revolving share fund is the Intrested of 15% over the 3 yrs 15% every yr ?


  • #8259
    frazzledhome
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Glanbia revolving share fund is the Intrested of 15% over the 3 yrs 15% every yr ?

    What do you think?


  • #8260
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    What do you think?

    I'm thinking if it's 15% every yr I'm finding a few grand somewhere to put into it.


  • #8261
    darragh_haven
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Walked all ours on Sunday and very disappointed. Will take great heat to be cutting in 2 wks. June wend by the looks, have a stag that weekend so might be the Monday

    I walked our silage ground this evening after i got home from work. Half is ready now and the rest would be ready next week. It looks like it'll all cone in together when the weather plays ball


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  • #8262
    Greengrass1
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    darragh_haven wrote: »
    I walked our silage ground this evening after i got home from work. Half is ready now and the rest would be ready next week. It looks like it'll all cone in together when the weather plays ball

    This is the hybrid herr. Normal grass no where near as good


  • #8263
    td5man
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    This is the hybrid herr. Normal grass no where near as good

    My hybrid a week ago.


  • #8264
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    td5man wrote: »
    My hybrid a week ago.

    Great looking crop. When do ye plan to cut?


  • #8265
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Great looking crop. When do ye plan to cut?

    On the 20th or there abouts.


  • #8266
    Brown Podzol
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    darragh_haven wrote: »
    I walked our silage ground this evening after i got home from work. Half is ready now and the rest would be ready next week. It looks like it'll all cone in together when the weather plays ball

    The Haven playing ball Sat evening, silage will have to wait.:P


  • #8267
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Brown Podzol wrote: »
    The Haven playing ball Sat evening, silage will have to wait.:P

    Silage will be postponed until sunday at least. Ye are always a tough nut to beat, will ya be at it yourself


  • #8268
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    http://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=95385183#post95385183

    Link to a few details for a vacant position on the farm I work on.

    Is there a F&F jobs thread buried somewhere?


  • #8269
    Brown Podzol
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    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Silage will be postponed until sunday at least. Ye are always a tough nut to beat, will ya be at it yourself

    All going well, will be a dash from the milking parlour though.


  • #8270
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Letting cows off to lighter covers 1000 for today and tonight. I recon too much waste on heavy covers with what rain has been forecast. What the rest if ye doing?

    Bit of heat promised after today will move things along.


  • #8271
    Greengrass1
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Letting cows off to lighter covers 1000 for today and tonight. I recon too much waste on heavy covers with what rain has been forecast. What the rest if ye doing?

    Bit of heat promised after today will move things along.
    We grazed a 1800 cover here 2 days ago down by river cows ate bottom half well but just lied all over top half. Into 15/1600 now milk yeild up again I think


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  • #8272
    Greengrass1
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    How many straws would ye take out of the flask at one time 4/5? Uses up fairly quickly but would'nt like him to be standing around to long.
    7 cows done this morning and heifers will be finished today only we missed 2 I reckon with **** weather.
    fair going with no intervention and only 2 weeks in


  • #8273
    Brown Podzol
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Letting cows off to lighter covers 1000 for today and tonight. I recon too much waste on heavy covers with what rain has been forecast. What the rest if ye doing?

    Bit of heat promised after today will move things along.

    We're not getting the amount of rain that you seem to be getting. Grazing out without any damage. Growth flying. A few dry days together to take bales would be great.

    Growth 92
    Farm cover 1013
    Cover/lu 260
    Lu/ha 3.9
    Kg/Ms/cow 2.37


  • #8274
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Letting cows off to lighter covers 1000 for today and tonight. I recon too much waste on heavy covers with what rain has been forecast. What the rest if ye doing?

    Bit of heat promised after today will move things along.

    Cold wet miserable **** of a day here,doing something similar here .just putting on rain gear here too and off to strip some of my pit of wholecrop,8/9 days quality grass ahead of cows but we've had over 100mm of rain in last week here today included ,clean out not satisfactory and don't want to waste any more grass.need dry warm weather pronto to speed up grass growth,get fertiliser out and cut first split of silage


  • #8275
    Brown Podzol
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    How many straws would ye take out of the flask at one time 4/5? Uses up fairly quickly but would'nt like him to be standing around to long.
    7 cows done this morning and heifers will be finished today only we missed 2 I reckon with **** weather.
    fair going with no intervention and only 2 weeks in

    I only thaw out two together, but I'm down to only one 1/4 cc functioning gun. I don't usually thaw out more than that anyway as you could have the odd cow that would be difficult to get through the cervix and take a bit of time.


  • #8276
    mf240
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    Wheels coming off here fast..

    Let cows out into my driest paddock. Giving silo at milking time. Hopefully weather will improve soon.

    Ironically have ten acres of silage very near fit to cut. The joys of a fragmented farm.


  • #8277
    whelan2
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    after today weather looks ok until thursday


  • #8278
    WheatenBriar
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    after today weather looks ok until thursday
    not sure about that,next deluge after today is expected Sunday night into Monday
    Our climate has in recent years displayed 6 or 8 week patterns of similar weather,were about 3 weeks into this one,which doesn't bode well for silage season :(


  • #8279
    whelan2
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    WheatenBriar wrote: »
    not sure about that,next deluge after today is expected Sunday night into Monday
    Our climate has in recent years displayed 6 or 8 week patterns of similar weather,were about 3 weeks into this one,which doesn't bode well for silage season :(
    ah we should be asleep for that one on sunday night so i ignored it


  • #8280
    Greengrass1
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    Brown Podzol wrote: »
    I only thaw out two together, but I'm down to only one 1/4 cc functioning gun. I don't usually thaw out more than that anyway as you could have the odd cow that would be difficult to get through the cervix and take a bit of time.

    Hmm I would think the same. Relief guy who covers 3 technics in my area in a rotation was on today. Used one gun thawed out 5 straws put one in gun and other 4 in the sleeve and in his back


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  • #8281
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,439 ✭✭✭tanko


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    How many straws would ye take out of the flask at one time 4/5? Uses up fairly quickly but would'nt like him to be standing around to long.
    7 cows done this morning and heifers will be finished today only we missed 2 I reckon with **** weather.
    fair going with no intervention and only 2 weeks in

    I've often thawed out a straw, put it in the gun and driven four miles to an out farm to Ai a cow and it has worked out the best. I just put the gun on the dash with a bit of heat on to keep it warm. I'd have the cow ready to run up the crush when I get there.


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