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  • #252
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,838 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Is it one of them kilkenny washers? We have one, I don't know how it still goes, the circuit is fried on it, I've bypassed that with a normal switch that lets you manually washout the tank at least.
    ye, the other tank has a davey washer, the washer has a sticker on it from the spring show of 1983:D


  • #253
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Reading this thread is starting to get scary with all you guys pu ping out themilk this year, same hear filled our tank for the first time since we bought it 13 years ago


  • #254
    Greengrass1
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    keep going wrote: »
    Reading this thread is starting to get scary with all you guys pu ping out themilk this year, same hear filled our tank for the first time since we bought it 13 years ago

    And next week looking very good too. Grass will be hopping


  • #255
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    keep going wrote: »
    Reading this thread is starting to get scary with all you guys pu ping out themilk this year, same hear filled our tank for the first time since we bought it 13 years ago

    Until till August orcseptember when super levy deductions start .still it's great to have good weather loads of good grass and cows busting with milk.


  • #256
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    Figures for April will be interesting, with all the milk brought in from March and the excellent conditions in April.


  • #257
    whelan2
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    Brown Podzol wrote: »
    Figures for April will be interesting, with all the milk brought in from March and the excellent conditions in April.
    i will supply nearly double what i supplied last April


  • #258
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Brown Podzol wrote: »
    Figures for April will be interesting, with all the milk brought in from March and the excellent conditions in April.

    Arrabawn supplies up to last Wednesday were up over 30% on same stage last year !!


  • #259
    Mulumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 815 ✭✭✭Mulumpy


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Arrabawn supplies up to last Wednesday were up over 30% on same stage last year !!

    Yep first time I saw lorries queued out the gate in ere in April.


  • #260
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    I'd be comparing to '12 really seeing as spring '13 was such a right off for me anyways, April is looking like i'll be down a collection on 12 s, however it does show if any sport of a summer turns up, superlevy could be crazy unless Coveny pulls something out of the bag


  • #261
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    whelan2 wrote: »
    i will supply nearly double what i supplied last April

    Are you accounting for April is a 5wk period for Glanbia this year, last year the 5wks was March instead. But in any case, I've supplied about 1 1/2times the amount for the same 4weeks in April last yr.


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  • #262
    frazzledhome
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    Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?


  • #263
    Greengrass1
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?

    My tanks only get looked at when something goes wrong. Usually once or twice a year.
    TBC 5 last collection. Getting fed up scrubbing everyday and ye end up getting lazy at it and things slip then


  • #264
    C0N0R
    Registered Users Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    whelan2 wrote: »
    the ones that havent had a heat will have a few colours on them

    What we do is three weeks before mating we will paint everything red, as they cycle we will paint blue and then as they get mated we paint them green. Real easy way to spot cows that havent cycled etc.


  • #265
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?

    Yep,it includes them comming out once a year to inspect and supply a cert for the gas used in compressors.covers call outs and parts


  • #266
    trixi2011
    Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    Cups on 4.45 and 2 pm here radio on 24/7 in the parlour keeps the birds away .my cows dont like coming in to the shed when the radio isn't on As for the sticks theres no place for them in a milking parlour in my opinion have had one guy that every time I wasn't milking he would bring in a stick and use it to push the cows nearly bet him with the stick the day I caught him with it.


  • #267
    trixi2011
    Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Paint, sorry but can only load 2 pics at a time?
    Have they still not got the litre bottles in Ireland yet ? I think them small bottles are water base the bigger bottes are oil base and last longer on the cow. Your doing well to get 60 cows out of them bottles I would only get 80-100 out of the bigger bottles


  • #268
    whelan2
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?
    yes think the money comes out in april


  • #269
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    trixi2011 wrote: »
    Have they still not got the litre bottles in Ireland yet ? I think them small bottles are water base the bigger bottes are oil base and last longer on the cow. Your doing well to get 60 cows out of them bottles I would only get 80-100 out of the bigger bottles

    Yes they have and it's what we generally use. That's one in the jeep with ai gear to mark the odd heifer,


  • #270
    RightTurnClyde
    Registered Users Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭RightTurnClyde


    They're forecasting a hape of rain for Wednesday, would ye chance going out with fert today.


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  • #271
    trixi2011
    Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Yes they have and it's what we generally use. That's one in the jeep with ai gear to mark the odd heifer,
    last time I done breeding season at home you couldn't get the bigger bottled by the time you had 400 cows painted there were bottles everyware


  • #272
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    RightTurnClyde wrote: »
    They're forecasting a hape of rain for Wednesday, would ye chance going out with fert today.

    Yes, it'll be well worked in by weds


  • #273
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    trixi2011 wrote: »
    Cups on 4.45 and 2 pm here radio on 24/7 in the parlour keeps the birds away .my cows dont like coming in to the shed when the radio isn't on As for the sticks theres no place for them in a milking parlour in my opinion have had one guy that every time I wasn't milking he would bring in a stick and use it to push the cows nearly bet him with the stick the day I caught him with it.

    Cups on here at 745am and 7pm, wife back to work this morning after maternity leave so I'll have an earlier start now to be finished to mind kids until childminder collects kids at 920. Radio in the parlour but rarely rarely turn it on, it tends to only annoy me as I get older! Stick in the parlour, but only used for giving a dig to a greedy cow trying to get at another cows ration


  • #274
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭stanflt


    RightTurnClyde wrote: »
    They're forecasting a hape of rain for Wednesday, would ye chance going out with fert today.


    I'll be going out with 3.5 bags of master cut elite on wed when the pits covered

    I love the smell of grass


  • #275
    case 956
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭case 956


    stanflt wrote: »
    I'll be going out with 3.5 bags of master cut elite on wed when the pits covered

    I love the smell of grass


    please give us some silage porn :)


  • #276
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    stanflt wrote: »
    I'll be going out with 3.5 bags of master cut elite on wed when the pits covered

    I love the smell of grass

    Kovu..... ban stan for teasing us.


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  • #277
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Thought i was a great lad going out and spot spraying most the weeds on the grazing block last 2days with dockstar, all the docks, nettles and some of the thistles. Was in the local glanbia today, and got looking at sprays, only then did i bloody realise i was using dockstar and not paster, which is meant for the the nettles and thistles. Oh well, may go out to spray them again.


  • #278
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Light April crop


  • #279
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    stanflt wrote: »
    Light April crop
    Stan, do you do master classes or correspondence courses/distance learning. If you ever do sign me up.


  • #280
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭visatorro


    front page of farming indo saying milk price drop across europe due to an increase in production and the lack of facilities to process them, well feck it anyway!!


  • #281
    sheebadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭sheebadog


    visatorro wrote: »
    front page of farming indo saying milk price drop across europe due to an increase in production and the lack of facilities to process them, well feck it anyway!!

    We've taken a drop of 3c/l but it's being returned in August and September milk.


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  • #282
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Would many of ye feed meal for the first year to heifer calves?
    Myself and a friend were talking about it today and he reckons its the only way. Has 40/43 heifers incalf in 10 days already.
    We used to do it but went away from it. Thinking of trying it this year. Even 1/2 kg of meal a day would make a big difference. I could mix up my own 18% ration here for them too


  • #283
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Would many of ye feed meal for the first year to heifer calves?
    Myself and a friend were talking about it today and he reckons its the only way. Has 40/43 heifers incalf in 10 days already.
    We used to do it but went away from it. Thinking of trying it this year. Even 1/2 kg of meal a day would make a big difference. I could mix up my own 18% ration here for them too

    The first year of a heifers life will determine how long she lasts in the herd,feed her lots of beastibgs a good 9 weeks on milk replacer loads of grass,2 kg of an 18% nut/ration up to a month prior to turn out attend of year one treat for worms/fluke and she'll be flying bit once she hits the herd at 24/25 months


  • #284
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    The first year of a heifers life will determine how long she lasts in the herd,feed her lots of beastibgs a good 9 weeks on milk replacer loads of grass,2 kg of an 18% nut/ration up to a month prior to turn out attend of year one treat for worms/fluke and she'll be flying bit once she hits the herd at 24/25 months

    Ye that's what we've been doing and I'm happy enough with the heifers this year. Only one at 300 KGS now and she's bulling today but father won't serve her.
    But seen my friends heifers when they came off kale in Feb and they were super heifers. Much better than mine at the time


  • #285
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Anyone here buying leafy boost?
    Father thinking of getting it. Yrs since we got it. Is it still made?


  • #286
    Deepsouthwest
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Would many of ye feed meal for the first year to heifer calves?
    Myself and a friend were talking about it today and he reckons its the only way. Has 40/43 heifers incalf in 10 days already.
    We used to do it but went away from it. Thinking of trying it this year. Even 1/2 kg of meal a day would make a big difference. I could mix up my own 18% ration here for them too

    Definitely, feed meal to my calves for most of the yr, only tail off when the calves go into aftergrass, but as soon as weather starts to turn in mid sept I'm straight back in again. It's the most efficient time to put a kilo of meal into an animal.


  • #287
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Anyone here buying leafy boost?
    Father thinking of getting it. Yrs since we got it. Is it still made?

    We put out a bag to the acre of ASN 10 days ago and while I know conditions have been excellent since I think it has had a huge beneficial effect. We were down in a couple of heavy late paddocks with fcuked swards on them and while the covers weren't massive they haven't looked in as good heart in years. They'll be direct drilled over the summer probably starting as soon as the aftergrass from first cut comes back into the rotation in about a months time.


  • #288
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    I see on Agri land China have banned british cheese after inspecting facilities, hope ours fair better seeing as that is the market where our extra milk is supposed to be catering


  • #289
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    freedominacup wrote: »
    We put out a bag to the acre of ASN 10 days ago and while I know conditions have been excellent since I think it has had a huge beneficial effect. We were down in a couple of heavy late paddocks with fcuked swards on them and while the covers weren't massive they haven't looked in as good heart in years. They'll be direct drilled over the summer probably starting as soon as the aftergrass from first cut comes back into the rotation in about a months time.

    About 2/3 of farm is very dry but no shale under it. Bit of single alright. Looked for leafy boost online but couldn't find it. Tried can +S last summer didn't seem to do much


  • #290
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    About 2/3 of farm is very dry but no shale under it. Bit of single alright. Looked for leafy boost online but couldn't find it. Tried can +S last summer didn't seem to do much

    ASN is your only man. Would need to order it in plenty of time as not carried as general stock well not around these parts


  • #291
    Greengrass1
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    ASN is your only man. Would need to order it in plenty of time as not carried as general stock well not around these parts

    Said about using it before but like the urea he used it at wrong time and has no faith in it


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  • #292
    sheebadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭sheebadog


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Said about using it before but like the urea he used it at wrong time and has no faith in it

    I'm a big believer in sulphur GG.
    However in cereal crops you need to spread 4 to 6 weeks before it's required by the crop. I treat grass as I would treat any other crop.


  • #293
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Said about using it before but like the urea he used it at wrong time and has no faith in it

    You need 20 units of S so that's 4 bags of SNet takes too long IMO. I'll be going with it next round


  • #294
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Said about using it before but like the urea he used it at wrong time and has no faith in it

    You need 20 units of S so that's 4 bags of SNet takes too long IMO. I'll be going with it next round weather permitting.


  • #295
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    You need 20 units of S so that's 4 bags of SNet takes too long IMO. I'll be going with it next round weather permitting.

    Its more p and k I'm after. Not enough of it spread over the years


  • #296
    Panch18
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Its more p and k I'm after. Not enough of it spread over the years

    Pasture sward after each grazing will sort that out in now time

    Aren't you straw bedding all your cows? Surely the dung is helping big time in bringing up your fertility??


  • #297
    awaywithyou
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    Milked out wrote: »
    I see on Agri land China have banned british cheese after inspecting facilities, hope ours fair better seeing as that is the market where our extra milk is supposed to be catering


    Just back from discussion group walk... Kerry group man was there talking... Had Chinese dept of ag officials in charleville at kerry co-op plant... They were very happy with what they saw.....

    The Russians are coming to listowel next week to see the carry on....


  • #298
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Pasture sward after each grazing will sort that out in now time

    Aren't you straw bedding all your cows? Surely the dung is helping big time in bringing up your fertility??

    Ye that's why I'm looking for leafy boost. Has 10 units if k along with N and P. Already spread 18 units if p on grazing ground.
    Ye we are but its not enough to bring up index's. Whole farm needs subsoiling as a result of traveling with muck spreader all the time


  • #299
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Just served another heifer there. She was very very nervous nearly jumped out of her skin in the crush. What do ye do with nervous heifers?
    She will be a nightmare in the parlour next spring


  • #300
    Injuryprone
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Ye that's why I'm looking for leafy boost. Has 10 units if k along with N and P. Already spread 18 units if p on grazing ground.
    Ye we are but its not enough to bring up index's. Whole farm needs subsoiling as a result of traveling with muck spreader all the time

    Leifi boost is 19-0-15


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  • #301
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Injuryprone wrote: »
    Leifi boost is 19-0-15

    Hmmmm. Cut sward might be better so. Similar price


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