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

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  • #872
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Milked out wrote: »
    Cephaguard was tge name of the stuff. It's cefquinome sulphate. With drawl is 1 day when dry period is 5 weeks or more

    When you say dear at eight something a cow what would you expect to pay for cepravin? And how do you find it as a dry cow tube in general?


  • #873
    farmersfriend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭farmersfriend


    C0N0R wrote: »
    When you say dear at eight something a cow what would you expect to pay for cepravin? And how do you find it as a dry cow tube in general?

    Used cepravin last yr with great results.


  • #874
    Milked out
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    C0N0R wrote: »
    When you say dear at eight something a cow what would you expect to pay for cepravin? And how do you find it as a dry cow tube in general?

    First year using that one vet said it was best one with shorter withdrawal. Cepravin is 7.20 I think, these are off the vet so may be got cheaper elsewhere. Osmonds do one called ceemast, which is cefalexin and dihydrostreptomycin, has a withdrawal of 40 days +60 hours. Can't find docket for price but worked well enough last year but gave high scc ones a longer dry period which helps too. Have to buy sealer as well wihh all those think I got tube and sealer cheaper off Osmonds.


  • #875
    degetme
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    C0N0R wrote: »
    When you say dear at eight something a cow what would you expect to pay for cepravin? And how do you find it as a dry cow tube in general?

    Ceprvain and cepagaurd have the same drug i think. Have used both here in past on advice of milk culture test with good results. Cepagaurd is handy in that milk can go in to tank after two milking


  • #876
    visatorro
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    degetme wrote:
    Ceprvain and cepagaurd have the same drug i think. Have used both here in past on advice of milk culture test with good results. Cepagaurd is handy in that milk can go in to tank after two milking


    tests on individual cows or outta bulk tank? you don't remember how much the test was?


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  • #877
    Greengrass1
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    http://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/25-pieces-of-advice-for-25-year-old-farmers.htm#.VfIvhoR-45K.twitter

    Something different for a change


  • #878
    degetme
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    visatorro wrote: »
    tests on individual cows or outta bulk tank? you don't remember how much the test was?

    Two bulk tank samples. Did it through the vet. I think it was 35 a sample last year. It's dear but no point using a drug that the cows maybe resistant too


  • #879
    Timmaay
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    Osmonds and CAHL both use to do it here for 25euros a sample.


  • #880
    darragh_haven
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    http://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/25-pieces-of-advice-for-25-year-old-farmers.htm#.VfIvhoR-45K.twitter

    Something different for a change

    No.9 always pay your bill quickly. .....


  • #881
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,705 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Can't beat a wet day ,haven't moved out of house since 10 am ,had the breakfast ,dinner and got my animal remedys and bord bia book up to date as well as filling a manure bag with junk from my office to burn after dark!!out of coffee and biscuits so off to milk now !!


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  • #882
    Greengrass1
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    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Can't beat a wet day ,haven't moved out of house since 10 am ,had the breakfast ,dinner and got my animal remedys and bord bia book up to date as well as filling a manure bag with junk from my office to burn after dark!!out of coffee and biscuits so off to milk now !!

    I've the kitchen table taken over with paper doing another 5 yr plan


  • #883
    visatorro
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    Greengrass1 wrote:
    I've the kitchen table taken over with paper doing another 5 yr plan


    it's hardly five years since you done the last one!


  • #884
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    visatorro wrote: »
    it's hardly five years since you done the last one!

    Nah 2 but it's on a usb and I lost it. Was an old version. One I have now is alot better I'd say.

    Atm any way I know we can't afford to slap in 140 kennel type cubicles on a fresh site like I was thinking. We'll be making use of the sheds here and putting them all in ourselves. I'll get a few advisors I know to look over it too and tell me if im on the right/wrong track


  • #885
    whelan2
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    What milk price you using ?


  • #886
    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    What milk price you using ?

    30c for this yr av 33.6 atm for yr so far
    29 c for next 4 yrs


  • #887
    mf240
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    What kind of money are milking cows making.

    There seems to be a good few on done deal lately.


  • #888
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,124 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    The ladies here had a meeting this evening and decided they wanted a bale of silage when I went to shut them in after milking despite only after been let into a fresh 12 hour block a hour previously, grass dry matters must be on the floor when they started at that craic, they got a bale Thurs evening before milking just to buffer them on the really wet day.....
    The minute they heard the tractor coming up the roadway into the paddock they came running bawling their heads off


  • #889
    mf240
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    Cows here were in a bit of a mood aswell. Suppose its from now of the the few bales and the few nuts will make the difference.

    No doubt the grass heads will say 12 hour blocks / force them to clean it and dont feed silage as it will depress protien.


  • #890
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,429 ✭✭✭tanko


    mf240 wrote: »
    Cows here were in a bit of a mood aswell. Suppose its from now of the the few bales and the few nuts will make the difference.

    No doubt the grass heads will say 12 hour blocks / force them to clean it and dont feed silage as it will depress protien.

    Would tetany be a big risk for dairy cows that are on grass only in this weather?


  • #891
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,124 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    mf240 wrote: »
    Cows here were in a bit of a mood aswell. Suppose its from now of the the few bales and the few nuts will make the difference.

    No doubt the grass heads will say 12 hour blocks / force them to clean it and dont feed silage as it will depress protien.

    Got the results for the day the silage went in protein went up and bf with yield up half a litre, cows still doing 1.8 kgs of ms here on 3 kg of meal with half the herd heifers, want to keep them motoring so silage will go in on the wet days to keep dm intakes up


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  • #892
    whelan2
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    tanko wrote: »
    Would tetany be a big risk for dairy cows that are on grass only in this weather?
    yes


  • #893
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Cows dropped back to 18l reckon back more today. Should i upto 3kgs or 4kg if im gona mikk them on? Sorry not much detail, in agony after soccer match today bloody ribs!


  • #894
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    put the heifers on glanbia's extend nut during the week, yield jumped another 2 litres ,now at 19 .6 no protein results yet.


  • #895
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    No milk price worries on here so.
    Cows on after grass and definitely up a litre on it. 2000 cover in 36 hr breaks. There happy enough


  • #896
    blackdog1
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    Put in whole crop I had extra in a pit Friday. Dropped nuts by a kg and put in 10 kg of whole crop per cow. Cows are holding well at 23l.


  • #897
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,705 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    No doubt about it grass dm and quality is dropping last few days ,cows everywhere seem to be slipping unless action is been taken to keep dm intakes up .not getting real bad here yet ,still on 36/48!hour blocks and just over 3 kg meal ,back about half a litre this week but not too worried .1.9 kg solids been pumped out.hate to see the day silage goes in as cows loose edge to clean out paddocks .if and when it goes in it will no question but not for a while yet hooefully


  • #898
    blackdog1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭blackdog1


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    No doubt about it grass dm and quality is dropping last few days ,cows everywhere seem to be slipping unless action is been taken to keep dm intakes up .not getting real bad here yet ,still on 36/48!hour blocks and just over 3 kg meal ,back about half a litre this week but not too worried .1.9 kg solids been pumped out.hate to see the day silage goes in as cows loose edge to clean out paddocks .if and when it goes in it will no question but not for a while yet hooefully

    Yea it feeding silage definitely effects clean out but I'm in winter milk so hopefully won't have cows in until December. I'll buffer them until then and gradually increase silage. Any bit of grass in the diet will negate the need for soya in their diet. Hope to only have them on a 21% protein meal for 2-3 months


  • #899
    awaywithyou
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    cows housed here last nite and again today... absolutely bucketing rain.. since 8pm yest... havent seen a continuous deluge of rain like this before


  • #900
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    awaywithyou wrote: »
    cows housed here last nite and again today... absolutely bucketing rain.. since 8pm yest... havent seen a continuous deluge of rain like this before

    Serious rain alrite. Today hopefully last of it. Our "river" burst it's banks for first time this year also. Typical loader here out of action when bales need to be fed out


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  • #901
    whelan2
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    Milked out wrote: »
    Serious rain alrite. Today hopefully last of it. Our "river" burst it's banks for first time this year also. Typical loader here out of action when bales need to be fed out
    ye really seem to have gotten it bad down there this year, no rain here yet today


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