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  • #8972
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    Milked out wrote: »
    http://www.farmersjournal.ie/lab-produced-milk-developed-by-scientists-182519/

    Will we be looking at a pressure from the likes of this in 10, 15 years?

    Doubt it, who,s going to head to the shop to get some fresh lab milk.


  • #8973
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,782 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Vet on the way here atm.
    second calver came in yesterday morning with no milk. Ate her meal though. Still no milk last night or this morning
    what was wrong with her


  • #8974
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    what was wrong with her

    Nothing can be done he says.
    she's eating meal and grass no temp in great condition.
    she might come back to her milk couldn't be certain of it
    dosed all cows for worms last week. Hardly effected her?


  • #8975
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Did any of ye see the piece in the journal about the two German dairy farmers using Fleckvieh cows all indoor ?Any opinions on it ?


  • #8976
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Dawg, I see on another thread that you're irrigating pasture. Is this a first for you? I would've thought you'd be doing from get go!


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  • #8977
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Did any of ye see the piece in the journal about the two German dairy farmers using Fleckvieh cows all indoor ?Any opinions on it ?

    Imo bullocks we never saw the colour of the real fleckvieh here. More than a few guys were experimenting with them around here 20years ago. Never gained any traction. If the real deal had been available it might have been a different story.


  • #8978
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Dawg, I see on another thread that you're irrigating pasture. Is this a first for you? I would've thought you'd be doing from get go!

    Doing a three way experiment.
    Aber what's it's face.
    Dactyl --> cocksfoot.
    Italian ryegrass.



    Will keep you posted....


  • #8979
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    25.5l
    p 3 .74
    bf 4.19
    scc 61

    Did milk recording yesterday 2 cows doing 44l. Holding there own very well. A good portion of the herd at 35l plus 2.
    lowest yeilders are autumn caled heifers doing about 15/16 l


  • #8980
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    25.5l
    p 3 .74
    bf 4.19
    scc 61

    Did milk recording yesterday 2 cows doing 44l. Holding there own very well. A good portion of the herd at 35l plus 2.
    lowest yeilders are autumn caled heifers doing about 15/16 l

    With that spread of yield you ought to be fty ;):)


  • #8981
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,782 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    bought a 6 pack of paper towels from osmonds earlier in the year, never again, the paper keeps breaking inside in the holder, threw one of them in the bin this morning:mad::mad: dont buy paper towels from osmonds ever


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  • #8982
    Greengrass1
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    Anyone else think the yr is moving very fast?
    Bloody june already


  • #8983
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Anyone else think the yr is moving very fast?
    Bloody june already

    You don't know the half of it, when you get to late 40's time rips along :)


  • #8984
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Doing a three way experiment.
    Aber what's it's face.
    Dactyl --> cocksfoot.
    Italian ryegrass.



    Will keep you posted....
    Does anyone grow festulolium/fescues over there?


  • #8985
    trixi2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Did any of ye see the piece in the journal about the two German dairy farmers using Fleckvieh cows all indoor ?Any opinions on it ?

    Know of a farm who have put fleckvieh over hole herd of 700 high input hol must have a lot of faith in them.


  • #8986
    trixi2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Doing a three way experiment.
    Aber what's it's face.
    Dactyl --> cocksfoot.
    Italian ryegrass.



    Will keep you posted....

    Cropping enterprise on one of the farms I worked on grew 70 hectares of cocksfoot as a seed crop it's great drought resentance but if you pushed stock to graze it tight you could see the condition falling off them. Are you planting it in dryland ?


  • #8987
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    You don't know the half of it, when you get to late 40's time rips along :)

    Early 40s are as bad. :-(


  • #8988
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    td5man wrote: »
    Early 40s are as bad. :-(

    I would have said ye 2 were in your 50s :D


  • #8989
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    I would have said ye 2 were in your 50s :D

    You can laugh now.

    Will you be laughing in 20 years though?

    Youth is wasted on the young;-)


  • #8990
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    You don't know the half of it, when you get to late 40's time rips along :)

    Seems like breakfast every five minutes.


  • #8991
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    td5man wrote: »
    Early 40s are as bad. :-(

    Late 30's here and time flying as well! It definitely speeds up as u get older


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  • #8992
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    You don't know the half of it, when you get to late 40's time rips along :)

    Late 40's, didn't u say u were at a stag last wkend!


  • #8993
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    Does anyone grow festulolium/fescues over there?

    Yep. I use fescue on dry land with no irrigation. Stays green for longer. I hate the stuff.


  • #8994
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Late 30's here and time flying as well! It definitely speeds up as u get older

    Found myself thinking about autumn calving this morning which is what did it.
    Lad in coop told dad the other day the grass growing is finished fir the yr now. Dad told him to fcuk off lol


  • #8995
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    I would have said ye 2 were in your 50s :D

    Feels like it some days.


  • #8996
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    trixi2011 wrote: »
    Cropping enterprise on one of the farms I worked on grew 70 hectares of cocksfoot as a seed crop it's great drought resentance but if you pushed stock to graze it tight you could see the condition falling off them. Are you planting it in dryland ?

    Yes on dry land.
    Cocksfoot gives a very good return on irrigated land. I don't like it though. Very open, a bit like Italian ryegrass.

    I'm thinking on mixing cocksfoot/fescue/clover on irrigated ground...


  • #8997
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Early 30s here ill miss the lot of ye in another 30 years:-D


  • #8998
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    Early 30s here ill miss the lot of ye in another 30 years:-D

    Why? Are you going somewhere?


  • #8999
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Yes on dry land.
    Cocksfoot gives a very good return on irrigated land. I don't like it though. Very open, a bit like Italian ryegrass.

    I'm thinking on mixing cocksfoot/fescue/clover on irrigated ground...

    Laterals/pivot/rain gun?
    Ball park cost per mm applied?


  • #9000
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Late 40's, didn't u say u were at a stag last wkend!

    I was and my dung wasn't right till Thurs :)


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  • #9001
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Mire surplus bales


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