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  • #9302
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    "Wrap up warm" you say

    I'm sweating like Mike Tyson on Countdown
    Back in mid April
    One of the lads here knackered himself for a nearly a week jumping out of warm cab into cold wind whilst all sweats(prob should have stayed home anyway) etc... Que muggins doing some spraying for 1st time in 12 months when got a phone call we better go to the hospital. Can we wait an hour maybe 2? We can can but i'm not sure a certain little girl will :pac:.


  • #9303
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Blackgrass wrote: »
    Back in mid April
    One of the lads here knackered himself for a nearly a week jumping out of warm cab into cold wind whilst all sweats(prob should have stayed home anyway) etc... Que muggins doing some spraying for 1st time in 12 months when got a phone call we better go to the hospital. Can we wait an hour maybe 2? We can can but i'm not sure a certain little girl will :pac:.
    Belated congrats in order?


  • #9304
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Belated congrats in order?

    Yep!


  • #9305
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Blackgrass wrote: »
    Yep!

    Well done!
    Best days of your life ahead. Enjoy every minute!!!


  • #9306
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,752 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    "Wrap up warm" you say

    I'm sweating like Mike Tyson on Countdown
    the mornings are so cold, still wear my wooly hat going for the cows in the morning, never saw it like this in june before


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  • #9307
    Feckthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Feckthis


    How many of you folks pay yourself a wage? If you do. Just curious as to how much yearly?


  • #9308
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Feckthis wrote: »
    How many of you folks pay yourself a wage? If you do. Just curious as to how much yearly?

    1 Yes
    2 enough


  • #9309
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Feckthis wrote: »
    How many of you folks pay yourself a wage? If you do. Just curious as to how much yearly?
    1.No
    2 Not Enough


  • #9310
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Blackgrass wrote: »
    Back in mid April
    One of the lads here knackered himself for a nearly a week jumping out of warm cab into cold wind whilst all sweats(prob should have stayed home anyway) etc... Que muggins doing some spraying for 1st time in 12 months when got a phone call we better go to the hospital. Can we wait an hour maybe 2? We can can but i'm not sure a certain little girl will :pac:.

    Congrats
    Just to point out that the definition of Knackered is "to be exhausted from sexual activity" ...... everyday is a school day


  • #9311
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Congrats
    Just to point out that the definition of Knackered is "to be exhausted from sexual activity" ...... everyday is a school day

    Well I'm phucked this evening ;)


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  • #9312
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Well I'm phucked this evening ;)

    Jeez good thing I didn't call in so


  • #9313
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    feckin flies this evening in the parlour, anyone one else have them.have yee treated the cows


  • #9314
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    leg wax wrote: »
    feckin flies this evening in the parlour, anyone one else have them.have yee treated the cows

    First day I noticed them as well.


  • #9315
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Congrats
    Just to point out that the definition of Knackered is "to be exhausted from sexual activity" ...... everyday is a school day

    Thanks, might still be a related cause in his case for being rundown in the first place!:D


  • #9316
    trixi2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    leg wax wrote: »
    feckin flies this evening in the parlour, anyone one else have them.have yee treated the cows

    Treated all cows and heifers 2 weeks ago with spot on farm was tourured with flys last year with half the cows kicking cups off


  • #9317
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    trixi2011 wrote: »
    Treated all cows and heifers 2 weeks ago with spot on farm was tourured with flys last year with half the cows kicking cups off

    What's the product Trixi?


  • #9318
    trixi2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    Dawggone wrote: »
    What's the product Trixi?

    Cant think of the name but its a copy or cheaper version of spot on


  • #9319
    Mulumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mulumpy


    leg wax wrote:
    feckin flies this evening in the parlour, anyone one else have them.have yee treated the cows


    Did mine with ectospec while milking this evening. Not overly bad with flies yet but nothing as annoying as fidgety cows.


  • #9320
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    trixi2011 wrote: »
    Cant think of the name but its a copy or cheaper version of spot on

    Ongoing experiment here Trix....

    The odds are greatly ramped up in that house flies spread a filthy bacteria that causes blindness in bovines.
    Feckin dreadful thing.

    Bought some Lambdacyhalothrin infused ear tags from USA.
    Banned in EU.
    Will update the results.


    Kicking off a cluster is but an inconvenience here....:)


  • #9321
    Mad4simmental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Mad4simmental


    freedominacup wrote: »
    1. Flat on average around here don't understand the question.
    2. Blanket spread once a month here so everything from freshly grazed to 1400+ covers when applied. Doing this for past couple of years.
    3. Generally bag per acre. Sometimes down to 30 units.
    4. No better or worse than any other fert.

    Urea to CAN usage ratio here would be around nine to one for at least the past twenty years.


    What do you use to get P&K back into your ground? And when? Is it a matter of feed the plant as much as possible of N during the year and put P&K back later in the year?


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  • #9322
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    http://theglobaldairy.com/noticias/farmers-earning-premiums-for-milk-from-grass-fed-night-milked-cows-43238/


  • #9323
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    What do you use to get P&K back into your ground? And when? Is it a matter of feed the plant as much as possible of N during the year and put P&K back later in the year?

    Mainly slurry. Went with 15-10-10 on ggs recommendation on first round in February. Put out p&k after first cut. ASN at bag and a half in early April also. Big response to this past two years. Indexes good here, took full advantage of pig slurry allowances a few years ago and got any problem areas sorted before Sr went up. Just trying to maintain them now. I'd be going with p&k early again after this year's trial. I genuinely don't understand people's hang ups about using urea.


  • #9324
    stretch film
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭stretch film


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Mainly slurry. Went with 15-10-10 on ggs recommendation on first round in February. Put out p&k after first cut. ASN at bag and a half in early April also. Big response to this past two years. Indexes good here, took full advantage of pig slurry allowances a few years ago and got any problem areas sorted before Sr went up. Just trying to maintain them now. I'd be going with p&k early again after this year's trial. I genuinely don't understand people's hang ups about using urea.

    are you happy with response to urea in last 3 wks or so........ im not but then is it a moisture issue.

    might be a classic case of seeing what one wants too but thought can was getting something moving . put urea on silage ground , cut last wk may, and struggling to see anything over 1000 kg/ha


  • #9325
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,430 ✭✭✭tanko


    stretch film wrote: »
    are you happy with response to urea in last 3 wks or so........ im not but then is it a moisture issue.

    might be a classic case of seeing what one wants too but thought can was getting something moving . put urea on silage ground , cut last wk may, and struggling to see anything over 1000 kg/ha

    When ye lads are talking about "urea", do ye mean urea based compound fertilisers or some kind of urea only fertiliser?


  • #9326
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    tanko wrote: »
    When ye lads are talking about "urea", do ye mean urea based compound fertilisers or some kind of urea only fertiliser?

    Urea 46%N. No p or k.


  • #9327
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    stretch film wrote: »
    are you happy with response to urea in last 3 wks or so........ im not but then is it a moisture issue.

    might be a classic case of seeing what one wants too but thought can was getting something moving . put urea on silage ground , cut last wk may, and struggling to see anything over 1000 kg/ha

    Blanket spread urea here on the Tuesday after June bank holiday. Would not have spread the previous week due to lack of moisture. Excellent response. Kept us in grass until now. If we get enough of the forecasted rain over the next few days I might go again but we have a good bit of N spread at this stage.


  • #9328
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Ongoing experiment here Trix....

    The odds are greatly ramped up in that house flies spread a filthy bacteria that causes blindness in bovines.
    Feckin dreadful thing.

    Bought some Lambdacyhalothrin infused ear tags from USA.
    Banned in EU.
    Will update the results.


    Kicking off a cluster is but an inconvenience here....:)

    Is that an organophosphate?? Is there any risk of it showing up in milk?


  • #9329
    Cow Porter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭Cow Porter


    anyone use the koch urea? meant to lower the volitisation

    http://www.advancedfertilizers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/9615_Advanced-Fertilizer_KAN_brochure_LR.pdf


  • #9330
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    Cow Porter wrote: »
    anyone use the koch urea? meant to lower the volitisation

    http://www.advancedfertilizers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/9615_Advanced-Fertilizer_KAN_brochure_LR.pdf

    Snake oil.
    A few tried it around here last year, think it was 15-20£ more expensive per ton?
    None used this year just normal urea


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  • #9331
    Injuryprone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Injuryprone


    Brown Podzol wrote: »
    Yes. Scan just in front of hind leg at the top of the udder. Can't pd under three months I think. Uses a serious amount of vegetable oil. Definitely less stress on the cow.

    Have you contact details of anyone who scans that way?


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