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Dairy Chitchat 3

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    #8312
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Was out the first week of Feb and in since till yday. Did a bit too much damage yday. Don't want to jinx it but looking like I'll have a pit of silage left so once dry enough I'll try to get heifers out and graze as fast as I can so I'll hopefully have a larger area to graze even if covers are low in April and save having to feed silage.


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    #8313
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Castlekeeper wrote: »
    Are you confident of staying out? I didn't think it was worth bothering with all the rain forecast. Ground would want to be improving around here to be letting them at it whereas it's only going backwards for the next week apparently.

    Yeah, I'd be happy enough. No damage done today and will just have them out by day. Picking paddocks that are dry and have good access. Parts of the paddocks are softer than I'd like but the cows were happy outside and happy going in tonight as well.

    Let them off in the morning and might bring them in at 12 or 1.


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    #8314
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,244 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    29.4L.
    3.4pr.
    4.5bf
    160scc
    4K tbc

    Covers of 2000+ but having a little trouble finding the gap.
    Slurry/nitrate season opened on the 1st...


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    #8315
    Keepgrowing
    Registered Users Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Keepgrowing


    trixi2011 wrote: »
    What sort of covers you heading into ? Any silage at all in the diet and how much meal

    Going into 1000’s for next few days then back to 14-1500.

    No silage

    4 kg 12% nuts

    Going to graze hard and reintroduce silage/wholecrop as required. I find buffer feeding this early upsets them and they’d be standing at the gap with the first sound from the yard


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    #8316
    whelan2
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    Was going to let my coss out yesterday. Ground still very wet. Even the drier fields are wet


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    #8317
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,244 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Local contractor has five of these tanks ready to roll, but reckons that it’ll be April before he gets started.


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    #8318
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,364 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    29.4L.
    3.4pr.
    4.5bf
    160scc
    4K tbc

    Covers of 2000+ but having a little trouble finding the gap.
    Slurry/nitrate season opened on the 1st...

    Jaysus


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    #8319
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,052 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Glanbia members would have gotten the message but just in case ye never clicked in.
    Here's the protocols of the coronovirus situation.

    https://www.glanbiaconnect.com/news/protocol-around-deliveries-and-milk-collection

    Basically stay away from the milk and meal and fert drivers and let them do their work.


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    #8320
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Local contractor has five of these tanks ready to roll, but reckons that it’ll be April before he gets started.

    Pipe used much over there or are the sheds away from where it's needed in most cases?


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    #8321
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Say my name wrote: »
    Glanbia members would have gotten the message but just in case ye never clicked in.
    Here's the protocols of the coronovirus situation.

    https://www.glanbiaconnect.com/news/protocol-around-deliveries-and-milk-collection

    Basically stay away from the milk and meal and fert drivers and let them do their work.

    Most wouldn't have much contact anyway but straight forward enough advise. If a milk plant ended up closing collection wise it would be serious. Obv health comes first but still


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    #8322
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭tanko


    Say my name wrote: »
    Glanbia members would have gotten the message but just in case ye never clicked in.
    Here's the protocols of the coronovirus situation.

    https://www.glanbiaconnect.com/news/protocol-around-deliveries-and-milk-collection

    Basically stay away from the milk and meal and fert drivers and let them do their work.

    That’ll be no problem for one of my neighbors, he has been told that if he goes within 50 yards of any milk collection driver that his milk will never be collected again.

    He hasn’t been happy with the timings of his collections in the past to put it mildly.


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    #8323
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,052 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Most wouldn't have much contact anyway but straight forward enough advise. If a milk plant ended up closing collection wise it would be serious. Obv health comes first but still

    I know the haulage company collecting our milk has been training in new drivers these last few weeks. It could be just due to the seasonal increase in milk volume but I'd say the covid situation could have forced a call down from on high.

    The ai situation will be next with technicians visiting farms. There'll be no face to face contact recommended either.


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    #8324
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Say my name wrote: »
    I know the haulage company collecting our milk has been training in new drivers these last few weeks. It could be just due to the seasonal increase in milk volume but I'd say the covid situation could have forced a call down from on high.

    The ai situation will be next with technicians visiting farms. There'll be no face to face contact recommended either.

    Majority of the company collecting our milk has eastern European drivers. Some are only back the last 2 week's as they go home for winter.


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    #8325
    Gillespy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    Meal delivered Friday, I spoke to him through the window and left him at it as I was at something. Milk is collected during the night so never see him.

    Our AI man is great to manage on his own but I like to be there when there's a good few on. Have a whitehead and an AA bull if needs be.

    Vet is kind of unavoidable but can be minimized a lot too. Milk recording could be parked for a year I suppose.


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    #8326
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,081 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Milk collected at 3am here. Only talk to driver about twice a year. Meal delivered. I give the driver a thumbs up. On ai now I assume most farmers do not shake hands with the ai man on each visit so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Say my name do you use ai?


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    #8327
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    tanko wrote: »
    That’ll be no problem for one of my neighbors, he has been told that if he goes within 50 yards of any milk collection driver that his milk will never be collected again.

    He hasn’t been happy with the timings of his collections in the past to put it mildly.

    Times all over the shop at the minute but I get the regular drivers number and a txt if either of us are held up or if he needs to change times sorts it most of the time. I've had to delay the odd day but give and take at this time of year.

    Today turned to a pure disaster time wise. Had 3 calving during the night, one backwards with legs down but managed to get her out alive and heifer was ok so took that as a nice win for 3 in the morn. Went to bed for a few hours then, fecking knocked over the alarm clock so the time never changed on it and slept in then. Up to a cow down in the cubicle shed, vet out to her, delayed start and lorry came early so ran the quick wash in that before starting and heifer turned herself upside down during milking then. The cow in shed stood thankfully but took her a while to get out to the straw shed. Delivered a nice heifer calf then from another. When I took that cow out to the calving pen never put the chain on the dry cow pen gate and milkers mixed in with them then. Fit to put my head thru a wall tbh. Was thinking I should have just gone thru the night with the night calving but I've done the odd night straight thru and gone to bed after milking in the morning for a bit but with epilepsy even tho well under control I don't like doing that too often. All for the sake of knocking over the fcuking alarm clock


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    #8328
    older by the day
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭older by the day


    I was going to go to the local pub tomorrow evening as the oil light is on. But should I go. Are things that bad? Or should I go for a gallon and that would do for two weeks


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    #8329
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,052 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Milk collected at 3am here. Only talk to driver about twice a year. Meal delivered. I give the driver a thumbs up. On ai now I assume most farmers do not shake hands with the ai man on each visit so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Say my name do you use ai?
    No i don't use ai. Not for years.
    But I'm still on PG's text/mail list.


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    #8330
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,081 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    We all have crap days. I often wonder wtf am I at. I have crap on farm and off farm. Trying to please people etc. We all need to take a step back and realise we can't do everything right and please everyone.


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    #8331
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,081 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Say my name wrote: »
    No i don't use ai. Not for years.
    But I'm still on PG's text/mail list.

    So why preach on ai?


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    #8332
    Wildsurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭Wildsurfer


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Times all over the shop at the minute but I get the regular drivers number and a txt if either of us are held up or if he needs to change times sorts it most of the time. I've had to delay the odd day but give and take at this time of year.

    Today turned to a pure disaster time wise. Had 3 calving during the night, one backwards with legs down but managed to get her out alive and heifer was ok so took that as a nice win for 3 in the morn. Went to bed for a few hours then, fecking knocked over the alarm clock so the time never changed on it and slept in then. Up to a cow down in the cubicle shed, vet out to her, delayed start and lorry came early so ran the quick wash in that before starting and heifer turned herself upside down during milking then. The cow in shed stood thankfully but took her a while to get out to the straw shed. Delivered a nice heifer calf then from another. When I took that cow out to the calving pen never put the chain on the dry cow pen gate and milkers mixed in with them then. Fit to put my head thru a wall tbh. Was thinking I should have just gone thru the night with the night calving but I've done the odd night straight thru and gone to bed after milking in the morning for a bit but with epilepsy even tho well under control I don't like doing that too often. All for the sake of knocking over the fcuking alarm clock
    Who still uses an alarm clock! Is it one with those two bells on top...


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    #8333
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Wildsurfer wrote: »
    Who still uses an alarm clock! Is it one with those two bells on top...

    I have 2 phones, an alarm clock and a wife and I still slept out this morning:D


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    #8334
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,052 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    whelan2 wrote: »
    So why preach on ai?

    Not preaching but it'll be the next high intensity job on farm that is just dependent on a very few people if not done by the farmer themselves.
    It's the most critical job/operation of the whole year. Especially for spring only calvers.
    The difference with the milk lorry driver is that contact moving stock with the operative and owner/worker is sometimes required.


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    #8335
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Wildsurfer wrote: »
    Who still uses an alarm clock! Is it one with those two bells on top...

    It is actually lol. The phone has nothing loud enough on it and if the phone is turned off charging or the battery goes dead it doesn't go off at all not like the old Nokia's when the alarm would go off even if it was dead with twelve months. This time of year I need something loud


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    #8336
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,081 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Say my name wrote: »
    Not preaching but it'll be the next high intensity job on farm that is just dependent on a very few people if not done by the farmer themselves.
    It's the most critical job/operation of the whole year. Especially for spring only calvers.

    Why are you worried about something that doesn't affect you?


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    #8337
    Gillespy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    When the cow stands and walks out of the shed herself it can turn a bad day into a pretty good day.


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    #8338
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,081 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    I have 2 phones, an alarm clock and a wife and I still slept out this morning:D

    I was reading tb test so was awake all night after getting the review of the tb situation in louth in the post yesterday. No alarm clock needed


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    #8339
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,052 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Why are you worried about something that doesn't affect you?

    A bit of warning I suppose. Being good natured.
    Be the same as posting a weather warning about the west and north of Ireland.
    You're in a lovely humour this evening.


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    #8340
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,081 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Say my name wrote: »
    A bit of warning I suppose. Being good natured.
    Be the same as posting a weather warning about the west and north of Ireland.
    You're in a lovely humour this evening.

    Why worry people unnecessarily?


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    #8341
    Mortelaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    older by the day wrote: »
    I was going to go to the local pub tomorrow evening as the oil light is on. But should I go. Are things that bad? Or should I go for a gallon and that would do for two weeks

    Theres not much problem with pubs as long as everybody sneezes or coughs into their arm, you don't scratch your nose, ear or wipe your eye or put your fingers in your mouth and you wash your hands properly when you get home
    Just do not ingest virus and stay four feet away from someone coughing
    The issue is you will slip up on this when drunk


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