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Dairy Chit Chat- Please read Mod note in post #1

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  • #572
    frazzledhome
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    That's a good plan, frazzled.

    The same lad is the diesel head in his family, the second lad is the cow man.

    Milking with a teenager was a disturbing glimpse into my future, though:o

    Lol my oldest is tractor mad aswell so my cure is to let him drive the digger mans Deere, that'll knock it out of him :)

    Spent Friday drawing clay, said he had enough and came to milk


  • #573
    Bullocks
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Lol my oldest is tractor mad aswell so my cure is to let him drive the digger mans Deere, that'll knock it out of him :)

    Spent Friday drawing clay, said he had enough and came to milk

    Isn't it damndable that the young lads are getting fussy over what they drive though ! My lad is the same , calls my small 523 a have of dung and isn't too pushed for a spin in it but would chop his arm off for a go in the 5140 .
    When I was that age driving a 35x in 2nd low was good enough for me !
    He told me the last day that unless I get a quad for putting up electric fences not to be asking him for a hand , that I'm just wasting time walking around with plastic posts !


  • #574
    Greengrass1
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    https://twitter.com/PhilipTyndall/status/635776130956587008


  • #575
    td5man
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    Are they in Meath with a second name beginning with "F" ?

    Yeah that's them . Bought another farm beside them recently. More robots?


  • #576
    blackdog1
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    As long as we are on Aidan Brennans twitter I found this intresting https://mobile.twitter.com/aibrenn/status/623208195612385280/photo/1


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  • #577
    Bullocks
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    td5man wrote: »
    Yeah that's them . Bought another farm beside them recently. More robots?

    Possibly, they are some boys . I think they were one of the first with robots ?


  • #578
    td5man
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    Possibly, they are some boys . I think they were one of the first with robots ?

    Yeah beside a tractor spares place. ;-)


  • #579
    Bullocks
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    td5man wrote: »
    Yeah beside a tractor spares place. ;-)

    I was up there a couple of weeks ago but couldn't really look around !


  • #580
    Deepsouthwest
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    Read A Brennan's piece in the journal earlier about a "young farmer" he was chatting to who says even if milk price falls to 21c/l, all bills would still be paid and his household income wouldn't suffer. What a great message to send to our processors.
    Two bo11ox's talkin sh1te!


  • #581
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,704 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Read A Brennan's piece in the journal earlier about a "young farmer" he was chatting to who says even if milk price falls to 21c/l, all bills would still be paid and his household income wouldn't suffer. What a great message to send to our processors.
    Two bo11ox's talkin sh1te!

    Doing neither themselves or rest of countries dairy farmers any favours .dont believe it for a second either.publishing elite pm results ;if u could believe them)ditto from Tegasc


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  • #582
    whelan2
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    when i go to check my results on glanbia connect it says that i havent supplied milk for over 6 months, is this happening to anyone else?


  • #583
    stanflt
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    when i go to check my results on glanbia connect it says that i havent supplied milk for over 6 months, is this happening to anyone else?

    I thought I was the only one with really low solids!!!!!


  • #584
    whelan2
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    had to ring vet this evening, cow went mental in the parlour, kicking ,****ting, trying to climb over cow in front of her:rolleyes: she has collic, gave her liquid parafin and buscapan and fingers crossed. First cows milk I have had to keep all summer


  • #585
    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    when i go to check my results on glanbia connect it says that i havent supplied milk for over 6 months, is this happening to anyone else?

    Mine says I owe them no money :D


  • #586
    orm0nd
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    There was a decent article in the IFJ afew weeks ago about a chap who switched over to OAD full time. He was very happy with the setup, but the change was not without its problems, a good few cows were just not suited to OAD, high SCC etc, so as a result he had a very high cull rate 1st few years. If your thinking about expanding to 250 cows or so then 2bh you will need to minimize the cull rate. I'd tend to agree with stretch, find out what sort of relief milkers are available local to you, both in the FRS and outside of it, have 2 or 3 lads who know your parlour well, and you will always be able to get one of them when you need them. I've had an ag college friend do a decent bit of milking over the summer, I'd happily get the likes of that again and probably give them a set 6milkings over the week etc, ya got to remember also in fairness milking isn't that hard a job, once you have everything fairly well laid out (plenty of instructions, clear rules etc), then training someone up to milk should be no harder than training a McDonalds staff member!

    was a vg article in the findo as well, some of the content is here

    http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/it-was-either-once-a-day-milking-or-get-rid-of-the-cows-as-i-couldnt-cope-anymore-31407212.html


  • #587
    Injuryprone
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    had to ring vet this evening, cow went mental in the parlour, kicking ,****ting, trying to climb over cow in front of her:rolleyes: she has collic, gave her liquid parafin and buscapan and fingers crossed. First cows milk I have had to keep all summer

    Don't think there's any withdrawal with buscopan, least that's what my vet told me anyway when I queried it earlier on in the summer. Leaflet doesn't give a time


  • #588
    whelan2
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    Injuryprone wrote: »
    Don't think there's any withdrawal with buscopan, least that's what my vet told me anyway when I queried it earlier on in the summer. Leaflet doesn't give a time
    was told 7 days, will test the milk in a day or 2


  • #589
    whelan2
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    Yad heifer calf


  • #590
    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Yad heifer calf

    Smasher of a cow


  • #591
    whelan2
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Smasher of a cow
    thanks,she's a twin, second calver out of br/fr stock bull, her dam was ruu


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  • #592
    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    thanks,she's a twin, second calver out of br/fr stock bull, her dam was ruu

    Few Ruu here too. Strong cows nearly all black here


  • #593
    Timmaay
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    orm0nd wrote: »
    was a vg article in the findo as well, some of the content is here

    http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/it-was-either-once-a-day-milking-or-get-rid-of-the-cows-as-i-couldnt-cope-anymore-31407212.html

    Probably the same article ha, I couldn't remember the finer detail!


  • #594
    Milked out
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    Things that make you #smile Arable Farmers guide to the #dairycow http://t.co/2KVUUxScDe


  • #595
    the_blue_oval
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/PhilipTyndall/status/635776130956587008

    seems like a nice system they have there, cows looking well there to..

    like to see how they manage in the spring though if theres that much clover across the whole farm...


  • #596
    Greengrass1
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    Reseed in 3 and a half wks
    Might let calves in towards end of next wk to give it a nip
    udhE9V.jpg


  • #597
    mahoney_j
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Reseed in 3 and a half wks
    Might let calves in towards end of next wk to give it a nip

    Looks good for 3 week stage gg but I'd leave it for another 3 .roots would still be weak


  • #598
    Greengrass1
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    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Looks good for 3 week stage gg but I'd leave it for another 3 .roots would still be weak

    Surprisingly not mj. Good hold on them atm.
    Seen a reseed grazed with cakves before at 4 wks old and it did a great job on it


  • #599
    3 the square
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Surprisingly not mj. Good hold on them atm.
    Seen a reseed grazed with cakves before at 4 wks old and it did a great job on it

    LOOKS GOOD WHAT GRASSS SEED MIX IN IT??


  • #600
    C0N0R
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    Once they pass the pull test then in theory calves can graze away


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  • #601
    Deepsouthwest
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    Is it time and dare I say economical to up meal by a kg or so now that it's nearly sept 1st? Have been on 1kg/cow all yr long, and stocked around around 3.3 on mp. Plenty grass at the moment and building, but a lot of rain in the last 48 hrs so DM/gut fill probably lacking a little. This is traditionally the time when yield drop accelerates, would a kg or two hold it?


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