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

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  • #1922
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Just out of curiosity, what kind of ms/kgs/ha milking platform and whole farm with ye be at with those figures?

    2050kg/mp, 1161kg whole farm. Sold and fed to calves. Buy in a lot of silage and maize contract grown. I will feed c.1 ton concentrate.


  • #1923
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    Brown Podzol wrote: »
    2050kg/mp, 1161kg whole farm. Sold and fed to calves. Buy in a lot of silage and maize contract grown. I will feed c.1 ton concentrate.

    Wow, and fair play for being straight up with all the bought in feed, a lot of guys forget to mention this!


  • #1924
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Wow, and fair play for being straight up with all the bought in feed, a lot of guys forget to mention this!

    And also forget any dry or "cull" cows


  • #1925
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Brown Podzol wrote: »
    2050kg/mp, 1161kg whole farm. Sold and fed to calves. Buy in a lot of silage and maize contract grown. I will feed c.1 ton concentrate.

    You must be on the edge with nitrates ;)


  • #1926
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    You must be on the edge with nitrates ;)

    There or thereabouts. A few bulls for breeding and all heifers reared as well. If I'm over the maize man takes some. There's synergy for you.:cool:


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  • #1927
    Greengrass1
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    Can anyone translate this for me ;)


  • #1928
    alps
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Can anyone translate this for me ;)

    Definitely the fashion for the next IHFA ball........who'd go JEx after that......


  • #1929
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Can anyone translate this for me ;)

    Fine woman but one hell of a cranky head on her !


  • #1930
    whelan2
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    wouldnt say she'd yield much:rolleyes:


  • #1931
    Bullocks
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    wouldnt say she'd yield much:rolleyes:
    Wouldn't say she would boil an egg for a lad either


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  • #1932
    Deepsouthwest
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    Wouldn't say she would boil an egg for a lad either

    Yes, but I'd say she'd throw it back to u soft, if u know what I mean!!


  • #1933
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    On my own this morning and anything that could go wrong went wrong.
    Only putting cows out now.


  • #1934
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    Feeding calves this morning and heard a groaning noise from cubicle shed, get over and there was a feb calver choking in the barrier, had slipped or been knocked sideways and head still in barrier. She went just as I managed to release her. Fcuk it anyway


  • #1935
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Milked out wrote: »
    Feeding calves this morning and heard a groaning noise from cubicle shed, get over and there was a feb calver choking in the barrier, had slipped or been knocked sideways and head still in barrier. She went just as I managed to release her. Fcuk it anyway

    And I thought I was having a bad day....


  • #1936
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Who dreamed up the phrase milking platform for grazing land around the parlour? A platform is a raised level surface on which people or objects stand, whatever genius started it should have checked the meaning of the word.


  • #1937
    Sam Kade
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Can anyone translate this for me ;)

    Two fine churns :)


  • #1938
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Who dreamed up the phrase milking platform for grazing land around the parlour? A platform is a raised level surface on which people or objects stand, whatever genius started it should have checked the meaning of the word.

    Here are some other words we should have checked the meaning of:

    "Cost of Production" - what it would cost to produce in a country where slavery is still legal.

    "Efficient" - "well supplied with slaves and willing to sell below the cost of production" (see above)

    "Milk from Grass" (in the context of COP) - "milk from inherited grass"

    "Grass Fed" - grass fed a lot of the time

    "Competitive" - always willing to compete to buy the neighbours land

    "Sustainable" - capable of milking cows, financing building, supplying & maintaining a processing industry while not eating

    "Value added" - "Complex processing designed to explain the difference between what the consumer pays and the farmer gets"

    "Family Farm" - "Farm held within a family structure where other incomes and/or free labour will be available to subsidise production costs"


  • #1939
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Milked out wrote: »
    Feeding calves this morning and heard a groaning noise from cubicle shed, get over and there was a feb calver choking in the barrier, had slipped or been knocked sideways and head still in barrier. She went just as I managed to release her. Fcuk it anyway

    Similar last yr with one of my better cows, had dried her off and put her in the dry cow pen afew hrs earlier, I can see the pen from the holding yard, and between rows to fetch cows she'd obviously got in a fight with another cow, and got knocked over with her head twisted under her. She was still kicking but too late.


  • #1940
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,282 ✭✭✭alps


    Dawggone wrote: »
    On my own this morning and anything that could go wrong went wrong.
    Only putting cows out now.

    Lovely looking scene for the month of November....fair play

    Is that maize or a surghum grass behind the cows? Any good to graze?


  • #1941
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    kowtow wrote: »
    Here are some other words we should have checked the meaning of:

    "Cost of Production" - what it would cost to produce in a country where slavery is still legal.

    "Efficient" - "well supplied with slaves and willing to sell below the cost of production" (see above)

    "Milk from Grass" (in the context of COP) - "milk from inherited grass"

    "Grass Fed" - grass fed a lot of the time

    "Competitive" - always willing to compete to buy the neighbours land

    "Sustainable" - capable of milking cows, financing building, supplying & maintaining a processing industry while not eating

    "Value added" - "Complex processing designed to explain the difference between what the consumer pays and the farmer gets"

    "Family Farm" - "Farm held within a family structure where other incomes and/or free labour will be available to subsidise production costs"

    Left the calves on mine almost 10 years ago, no regrets, dealing with a different processing 'animal' altogether, at least we get to 'discuss' prices now and again.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #1942
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,282 ✭✭✭alps


    kowtow wrote: »
    Here are some other words we should have checked the meaning of:

    "Cost of Production" - what it would cost to produce in a country where slavery is still legal.

    "Efficient" - "well supplied with slaves and willing to sell below the cost of production" (see above)

    "Milk from Grass" (in the context of COP) - "milk from inherited grass"

    "Grass Fed" - grass fed a lot of the time

    "Competitive" - always willing to compete to buy the neighbours land

    "Sustainable" - capable of milking cows, financing building, supplying & maintaining a processing industry while not eating

    "Value added" - "Complex processing designed to explain the difference between what the consumer pays and the farmer gets"

    "Family Farm" - "Farm held within a family structure where other incomes and/or free labour will be available to subsidise production costs"


    Lots more gonna follow on here kowtow..

    Fed no meal........350kg

    Currently on no meal.......1kg


    Stocked at 4lu/ha, but short so going back into silage ground....😨


  • #1943
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    alps wrote: »
    Lots more gonna follow on here kowtow..

    Fed no meal........350kg

    Currently on no meal.......1kg


    Stocked at 4lu/ha, but short so going back into silage ground....😨

    "Milking Platform" - an area of raised land prices surrounding a milking parlour


    We should publish a dictionary...


  • #1944
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    alps wrote: »
    Lovely looking scene for the month of November....fair play

    Is that maize or a surghum grass behind the cows? Any good to graze?

    Sorghum. Isn't it poisonous to graze?

    It's a reseeded paddock that failed due to drought. It was so late the only crop that would grow was sorgo. Ensiling next week and then reseed.


  • #1945
    yosemitesam1
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    Dawggone wrote: »
    Sorghum. Isn't it poisonous to graze?

    It's a reseeded paddock that failed due to drought. It was so late the only crop that would grow was sorgo. Ensiling next week and then reseed.

    You can graze it AFAIK, just need to watch for nitrates+prussic acid.
    Does anyone grow it for grain over there?


  • #1946
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    kowtow wrote: »
    "Milking Platform" - an area of raised land prices surrounding a milking parlour


    We should publish a dictionary...
    In fairness, kowtow, the term 'milking platform' is borrowed from NZ where the non milking stock would be reared elsewhere, similar to a lot of farms with 2 or more different blocks of land.

    It grow into vogue here when we were learning how to grow grass and utilise grass again and the only place where the experts in this 'new' technology was to be found was in NZ.

    And we duly used their terminology so that we could learn from them and just continued to use it. As long as we understand the meaning of the term, I wouldn't get too upset about it, tbh:)


  • #1947
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    In fairness, kowtow, the term 'milking platform' is borrowed from NZ where the non milking stock would be reared elsewhere, similar to a lot of farms with 2 or more different blocks of land.

    It grow into vogue here when we were learning how to grow grass and utilise grass again and the only place where the experts in this 'new' technology was to be found was in NZ.

    And we duly used their terminology so that we could learn from them and just continued to use it. As long as we understand the meaning of the term, I wouldn't get too upset about it, tbh:)

    Reminds me of the days when people would come to try and raise money for tech companies. If they knew what they were doing they would ask for money for an "application", if they knew how to build software but hadn't decided what software to build they'd tell you they were building "a platform".. and if they didn't know what they were going to do or how they were going to do it, but wanted money anyway, they'd tell you they were developing a "portal".

    When they start calling it a milking portal, head for the hills.


  • #1948
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    You can graze it AFAIK, just need to watch for nitrates+prussic acid.
    Does anyone grow it for grain over there?

    Not that I know of tbh.

    I only planted it for cover really, but it grows like a weed in drought conditions.

    I've seen it grown mostly on shyte land in the SE.


    I was told that it was poisonous to graze...


  • #1949
    Timmaay
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    I could get wholecrop off a neighbour, would be about 500e per acre (assuming a 3ton yield), brought into my yard, can anyone tell what that works out per kgDM?


  • #1950
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    Anyone with cows in calf to GXC? Have two calves off him so far heifer and bull. Heifer tall holstein type, cow took a while to clean after her but I tough she wasn much broader than normal so put it down to cow having pins down for a day and a bit before calving. Bull calf while ago off him and he is massive, as broad as the blue I had the other day but a bigger frame to go with it. Cow calved him alright but ill be keeping her out of cubicles for a day to be safe seems a tad weak after it. Cows sire isn't easiet of calving but going on these two id watch him if he is in any cows with narrow hips


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  • #1951
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,707 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Milked out wrote: »
    Anyone with cows in calf to GXC? Have two calves off him so far heifer and bull. Heifer tall holstein type, cow took a while to clean after her but I tough she wasn much broader than normal so put it down to cow having pins down for a day and a bit before calving. Bull calf while ago off him and he is massive, as broad as the blue I had the other day but a bigger frame to go with it. Cow calved him alright but ill be keeping her out of cubicles for a day to be safe seems a tad weak after it. Cows sire isn't easiet of calving but going on these two id watch him if he is in any cows with narrow hips

    I have 4 in calf to him for spring ,all 3 lactation plus with low milk kg and index .must keep an eye on them but big framey br Friesan hol x cows so should be ok


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