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

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  • #3932
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Waiting on dishwasher to finish, all liner shells and clawpeices and bowls in it

    Jezz, clawpeices getting dirtier and dirtier here every day, no time to clean them correctly ugh. Started doing 2 properly every morning, as good as it will get until heifers and calves settle down.


  • #3933
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    I fed the yearling freisian heifers this afternoon and put in a bale of silage into the ring feeder. I do it over a gate into the house where the heifers are.
    The bales usually split off the fork when I'm taking the barrel wrap plastic off it and I can keep the heifers back when it falls off. This bale didn't split and I got back in the tractor and tipped it into the feeder. I went off on the tractor and bedded the other sheds with straw. Then I came back to let out the heifers to a trough with meal outside the shed and there was one heifer with her head caught under the silage. I was able to dig her head out of the silage by hand but it was too late she was dead. She must of smothered. I never saw her stuck in the feeder from the tractor as the rest of the heifers were around her.
    I was always careful to make sure they are away from the feeder when tipping in the bale but its hard to do it from the tractor and the bale usually splits off the loader when i'm on the ground and can keep them away. I'm mad with myself that I didn't check on them again when I tipped in the bale or got back sooner. I was getting on so well this year and really coasting ahead.

    A well as long as it wasn't inside the door of the house.
    But phcuk it anyway.:(


  • #3934
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    I fed the yearling freisian heifers this afternoon and put in a bale of silage into the ring feeder. I do it over a gate into the house where the heifers are.
    The bales usually split off the fork when I'm taking the barrel wrap plastic off it and I can keep the heifers back when it falls off. This bale didn't split and I got back in the tractor and tipped it into the feeder. I went off on the tractor and bedded the other sheds with straw. Then I came back to let out the heifers to a trough with meal outside the shed and there was one heifer with her head caught under the silage. I was able to dig her head out of the silage by hand but it was too late she was dead. She must of smothered. I never saw her stuck in the feeder from the tractor as the rest of the heifers were around her.
    I was always careful to make sure they are away from the feeder when tipping in the bale but its hard to do it from the tractor and the bale usually splits off the loader when i'm on the ground and can keep them away. I'm mad with myself that I didn't check on them again when I tipped in the bale or got back sooner. I was getting on so well this year and really coasting ahead.

    A well as long as it wasn't inside the door of the house.
    But phcuk it anyway.:(
    Sane happened me last yr but I always check because dad has me warned. Got her out luckily but just about.


  • #3935
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭White Clover


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    I fed the yearling freisian heifers this afternoon and put in a bale of silage into the ring feeder. I do it over a gate into the house where the heifers are.
    The bales usually split off the fork when I'm taking the barrel wrap plastic off it and I can keep the heifers back when it falls off. This bale didn't split and I got back in the tractor and tipped it into the feeder. I went off on the tractor and bedded the other sheds with straw. Then I came back to let out the heifers to a trough with meal outside the shed and there was one heifer with her head caught under the silage. I was able to dig her head out of the silage by hand but it was too late she was dead. She must of smothered. I never saw her stuck in the feeder from the tractor as the rest of the heifers were around her.
    I was always careful to make sure they are away from the feeder when tipping in the bale but its hard to do it from the tractor and the bale usually splits off the loader when i'm on the ground and can keep them away. I'm mad with myself that I didn't check on them again when I tipped in the bale or got back sooner. I was getting on so well this year and really coasting ahead.

    A well as long as it wasn't inside the door of the house.
    But phcuk it anyway.:(

    Feck it


  • #3936
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Sane happened me last yr but I always check because dad has me warned. Got her out luckily but just about.

    I'd say most of us have. Had a lucky one like that myself years ago. Always careful to check since.


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  • #3937
    RightTurnClyde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭RightTurnClyde


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    I fed the yearling freisian heifers this afternoon and put in a bale of silage into the ring feeder. I do it over a gate into the house where the heifers are.
    The bales usually split off the fork when I'm taking the barrel wrap plastic off it and I can keep the heifers back when it falls off. This bale didn't split and I got back in the tractor and tipped it into the feeder. I went off on the tractor and bedded the other sheds with straw. Then I came back to let out the heifers to a trough with meal outside the shed and there was one heifer with her head caught under the silage. I was able to dig her head out of the silage by hand but it was too late she was dead. She must of smothered. I never saw her stuck in the feeder from the tractor as the rest of the heifers were around her.
    I was always careful to make sure they are away from the feeder when tipping in the bale but its hard to do it from the tractor and the bale usually splits off the loader when i'm on the ground and can keep them away. I'm mad with myself that I didn't check on them again when I tipped in the bale or got back sooner. I was getting on so well this year and really coasting ahead.

    A well as long as it wasn't inside the door of the house.
    But phcuk it anyway.:(

    That's a ba****rd, Pedigree, but as you said it's outside the door. Harm of the year go with it.


  • #3938
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Got scanning results, 17% empty. 2% improvement on last year, getting drunk tonight!


  • #3939
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    To follow up on phones now viewed as SOS machines let's play a game, Guess the Emergency. This is a text I got this afternoon from my colleague in the parlour.

    "Can yu or Alby please come help!!!?? Like seriously please"

    10 cool points to whoever guesses close to the problem.


  • #3940
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    To follow up on phones now viewed as SOS machines let's play a game, Guess the Emergency. This is a text I got this afternoon from my colleague in the parlour.

    "Can yu or Alby please come help!!!?? Like seriously please"

    10 cool points to whoever guesses close to the problem.

    Itchy arse??

    Am I right?
    Am I right?
    Am I right?
    (If I had your number I'd be after ringing you three times!).


  • #3941
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Itchy arse??

    Am I right?
    Am I right?
    Am I right?
    (If I had your number I'd be after ringing you three times!).

    Itchy arse is an understandable problem and far more serious.


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  • #3942
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    Itchy arse is an understandable problem and far more serious.

    I'm stumped...


  • #3943
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    To follow up on phones now viewed as SOS machines let's play a game, Guess the Emergency. This is a text I got this afternoon from my colleague in the parlour.

    "Can yu or Alby please come help!!!?? Like seriously please"

    10 cool points to whoever guesses close to the problem.
    Arm caught under a falling cow, still able to use exclamation marks??


  • #3944
    blackdog1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭blackdog1


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    Arm caught under a falling cow, still able to use exclamation marks??

    Normally if I text like that it's either a Cow down or a bloody heifer not behaving..


  • #3945
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    blackdog1 wrote: »
    Normally if I text like that it's either a Cow down or a bloody heifer not behaving..

    What bothered me most is that it was a text not a call especially when I know two guys are in the shed with working phones. Both full time staff with 6 months milking experience each.


  • #3946
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    Arm caught under a falling cow, still able to use exclamation marks??

    And poor grammar if we're getting picky.

    I honestly thought I was racing to the shed to find a cow with a broken leg or worse an injured worker, haven't had a panic like that in a long time.


  • #3947
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,782 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    And poor grammar if we're getting picky.

    I honestly thought I was racing to the shed to find a cow with a broken leg or worse an injured worker, haven't had a panic like that in a long time.
    If someone has time to text you a problem it cant be that urgent


  • #3948
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    And poor grammar if we're getting picky.

    I honestly thought I was racing to the shed to find a cow with a broken leg or worse an injured worker, haven't had a panic like that in a long time.

    What was it if no cow down


  • #3949
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Cow **** down on his head?

    Stepped on his toe?


  • #3950
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭mf240


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    To follow up on phones now viewed as SOS machines let's play a game, Guess the Emergency. This is a text I got this afternoon from my colleague in the parlour.

    "Can yu or Alby please come help!!!?? Like seriously please"

    10 cool points to whoever guesses close to the problem.

    Hed left the immersion on at home??


  • #3951
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Milked out wrote: »
    What was it if no cow down

    Last few weeks of official summer here and the heavens open so we have some much appreciated rain. Cows crowd together and are a bit stubborn walking into the parlour. There was my massive emergency with two full-time staff not being able to manage even 35 cows walking into a 40 a side parlour.


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  • #3952
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    mf240 wrote: »
    Hed left the immersion on at home??

    Don't start, had to let one of the guys leave the parlour early before bringing in second herd because he had left the stove top ring on at lunchtime before bringing in 1st herd.


  • #3953
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Cows out tonight
    And heifers going tomorrow

    Thank god. Getting sick of feeding silage now and cows are getting sick of it too

    Also milking this morning what we milked at peak last yr.


  • #3954
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    Last few weeks of official summer here and the heavens open so we have some much appreciated rain. Cows crowd together and are a bit stubborn walking into the parlour. There was my massive emergency with two full-time staff not being able to manage even 35 cows walking into a 40 a side parlour.
    Maybe be on the lookout for new staff, if I was on my own I wouldn't ring.


  • #3955
    3 the square
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭3 the square


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Cows out tonight
    And heifers going tomorrow

    Thank god. Getting sick of feeding silage now and cows are getting sick of it too

    Also milking this morning what we milked at peak last yr.

    when are u finished the 1st round ?
    very little grased here yet.


  • #3956
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    3 the square wrote: »
    when are u finished the 1st round ?
    very little grased here yet.

    1st round?
    1st of April for that. I've only 15% grazed. Need to get going ASAP


  • #3957
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    1st round?
    1st of April for that. I've only 15% grazed. Need to get going ASAP

    0% grazed here, not looking likely to change in next 5 days anyway. Lucky to have plenty silage and maize but cubicle space extremely tight


  • #3958
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Is this Feb worse than Feb 2014 yet?


  • #3959
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Cows out tonight
    And heifers going tomorrow

    Thank god. Getting sick of feeding silage now and cows are getting sick of it too

    Also milking this morning what we milked at peak last yr.

    Any worries about heifers. Forecast not great for weekend.


  • #3960
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Is this Feb worse than Feb 2014 yet?

    Ground is wetter anyway. Had the cows out for a few hours today and the ground here is soft. Especially where they grazed before. The only thing is there is more grass than normal (whatever the feeding value is?). It would be better if it was fresher grass with fertiliser in it.

    Haven't spread fert yet and going to order today.
    I don't remember as much hardship with land last year or the year before so i'd say yes.

    The forecast looks to be giving a cool enough spring.


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  • #3961
    RightTurnClyde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭RightTurnClyde


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Is this Feb worse than Feb 2014 yet?

    Do you mean Spring '13?


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