Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

More rain forecast for Thursday.

Never completed the post! Edited there

Timmaay wrote: »

If you told me back in the height of the drought mid June that I'd have the cows on 3.5kg nuts and be considering bales come the end of August because everything's gone to absolute slop I'd of laughed at ya and said not a hope ha.

its a great little island we have. thank god we have all the silage made. A neighbour cut his wheat lately and it was 26% moisture the poor lad, and he had hoped to keep it, its up at the mill now and one of the nuts company is taking it away.

K.G. wrote: »

We have to do every acre we are working silage ground and all but we cant see an opportunity.

Why not this evening, good drying all day. I'm sure ye could be picking off the drier fields at least?

whelan2 wrote: »

Raining here most of the day. We have a saying , dont muck until you have to muck....I think most farmers know their own land and when they can travel it

Oh different weather here, great drying wind all day. We got the worst of Ellen though

Had a small cow bulling today . She came in looking like a chocolate swiss roll

Sent 2 cows to the factory on Monday. One of them showed lesions. Curse of fook on it anyway. I sent her as she had johnes, had her first calf this year. Have to wait for sample to culture. Locked up until then

whelan2 wrote: »

Sent 2 cows to the factory on Monday. One of them showed lesions. Curse of fook on it anyway. I sent her as she had johnes, had her first calf this year. Have to wait for sample to culture. Locked up until then

Fook that anyways. Are u heavily stocked at the minute. Was she a old cow?

cosatron wrote: »

Fook that anyways. Are u heavily stocked at the minute. Was she a old cow?

No only 2.5 years old. Only sent her as she was johnes positive. Home bred. Could be worse and be in the spring. Autumn calvers will be starting in a few weeks and I normally sell the calves. A long time since we had tb here. I sent a 12 year old cow with her and was sure it was her. Fingers crossed it will be ok

C4d78 wrote: »

Pity Teagasc couldn’t give some simple advice like that.
DM of grass must be as low as 10-11% I’m guessing.
How can you expect a cow to give anything close to 1.7 or 1.8 kg MS/day when all they have is water and 2 Kgs of meal.
Foolish to believe the Teagasc line of they don’t need meal.

blackdog1 wrote: »

I think this perception of feeding silage reduces yield and solids is holding alot of people back when in fact if you feed at the right time it does the opposite. I'm feeding good 2nd cut bales atm in this atrocious weather and cows are holding well and fat is 4.24 and pr is 3.76 without it my cows would be miserable.

Exactly that, on a very dry farm here but the last few days of rain have made cows unsettled, the few bales of high quality silage makes them very content and cows holding at 21 litres @ 1.78MS/day it pays to keep them up for these few days. There's surely a nice week or 2 on the way , badly needed for the tillage boys

Timmaay wrote: »

Is there a single worse job on the farm having to unravel these? I'd rather be dehorning or castrating large bullocks that having to spend an hr at this.

Or when someone would leave it on the back of the quad, the exhaust would melt it a wee bit and it would only break when you put a bit of tension on it. Don’t miss that craic

straight wrote: »

Ya, alot of info. Colour coding is handy

Is it online or via post ?

Put a new motor on the milking machine today, old one was getting dodgy starting. Motor went on compressor this evening.

whelan2 wrote: »

Sent 2 cows to the factory on Monday. One of them showed lesions. Curse of fook on it anyway. I sent her as she had johnes, had her first calf this year. Have to wait for sample to culture. Locked up until then

Cant Johnes and tb get mixed up in testing

kevthegaff wrote: »

Cant Johnes and tb get mixed up in testing

I think it's that the johnes result wont be accurate. Will ring my vet in the morning. This one showed up positive on blood in march for johnes and positive on dung sample in April