Dairy Chitchat 3

whelan2

farisfat wrote: »

Its the first year hear with no stock bulls....I bought 4 yearling hex bulls in Feb and used them when I finished ai.
And I don't miss the stock bulls....rounding up cows,fighting cows back from drinkers,trying to stop cows on the road,going mental in the collecting yard,going lame,broken penis,feeding them all winter the list goes on.

What did you pay for them?

visatorro

Used to have a friesan that wouldn't let the cows near the drinker.

Bull gone from heifers a month, 25/28 in calf. Two with cysts. Scanned today

Bulls gone from cows last week.

farisfat

JeffKenna wrote: »

I never had a bull with a broken penis.. Poor guy!

The last 2 angus bulls here ended with broken penis.

farisfat

whelan2 wrote: »

What did you pay for them?

2400 Euro their going in two weeks

GrasstoMilk

Say my name wrote: »

Seems very low.
Cull cows were making 2.95 a few weeks ago.

Over age bulls wont make any more. G. Hemm in ballinlug sent an AA bull last week and got the same.
Culls will depend on grade, we sent one with the teaser and it got p-

Say my name

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Over age bulls wont make any more. G sent an AA bull last week and got the same.
Culls will depend on grade, we sent one with the teaser and it got p-

Ah sure I'll live in hope.

Depressing none the less.

orm0nd

have a cow that has some sort of skin cancer around her back passage , it's fairly progressive so will have to move her soon,

Keepgrowing

A good read

https://nzfarmlife.co.nz/burnout-on-road-to-success/

liosnagceann75

Hi. My milking cows eyes are weeping a bit. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks

Reggie.

liosnagceann75 wrote: »

Hi. My milking cows eyes are weeping a bit. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks

Grass too stemy and thier eyes are getting poked?

straight

Keepgrowing wrote: »

A good read

https://nzfarmlife.co.nz/burnout-on-road-to-success/

I think he just needed less cows. Funny the ideas of success some people have.

orm0nd

liosnagceann75 wrote: »

Hi. My milking cows eyes are weeping a bit. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks

Flies ?

Keepgrowing

straight wrote: »

I think he just needed less cows. Funny the ideas of success some people have.

Not quiet what I took from the article.

straight

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Not quiet what I took from the article.

That's understandable

awaywithyou

back from brinnginng in cows... (was in killarney at match) one cow left in field.. she one of this yrs heifers.. she is deranged... out of her mind.. charged at the quad twice has wrecked one side of it.... she is stone mad... any ideas... father says a deficiency? shes not usually like this btw

visatorro

She normally like that or just this evening?

liosnagceann75

awaywithyou wrote: »

back from brinnginng in cows... (was in killarney at match) one cow left in field.. she one of this yrs heifers.. she is deranged... out of her mind.. charged at the quad twice has wrecked one side of it.... she is stone mad... any ideas... father says a deficiency? shes not usually like this btw

Are you sure it wasn't the bull. Did you have a few pints in the Shire, Jimmy ó Brien or the Tatler?

whelan2

awaywithyou wrote: »

back from brinnginng in cows... (was in killarney at match) one cow left in field.. she one of this yrs heifers.. she is deranged... out of her mind.. charged at the quad twice has wrecked one side of it.... she is stone mad... any ideas... father says a deficiency? shes not usually like this btw

Meningitis or similar?

Attie Ross

whelan2 wrote: »

Meningitis or similar?

Red water. Iv had it happen to me.

whelan2

Attie Ross wrote: »

Red water. Iv had it happen to me.

Yourself or the cow:)

GrasstoMilk

awaywithyou wrote: »

back from brinnginng in cows... (was in killarney at match) one cow left in field.. she one of this yrs heifers.. she is deranged... out of her mind.. charged at the quad twice has wrecked one side of it.... she is stone mad... any ideas... father says a deficiency? shes not usually like this btw

Meningitis? Listerosis?

Say my name

I had a cow a few days ago that took strange to me. But went the opposite way and took off in a flight away from me not following the cows back out into the field.

I was after getting my hair cut and was wearing a tee shirt which I normally don't do (shirt man) and wasn't wearing my overalls.

whelan2

awaywithyou wrote: »

back from brinnginng in cows... (was in killarney at match) one cow left in field.. she one of this yrs heifers.. she is deranged... out of her mind.. charged at the quad twice has wrecked one side of it.... she is stone mad... any ideas... father says a deficiency? shes not usually like this btw

Did you get the vet

Say my name

For anyone going for a new build..

40 cows to heat the house with a cost for the year of €280.

https://selfbuild.ie/project/it-takes-40-cows-to-heat-the-house-in-winter/

jaymla627

Two council lads walking around field this a.m, never asked permission, from water section wasn’t in yard at time but guessed where leak was and told brother to tell them where to look, got home and they had gone no joy finding leak, walked down and had it copped in 2 mins, they where to lazy to hop over the barbwire fence in the forestry section where it’s burst....
Their drawing up water with artics now, you’d have no hope for this country going forward when you examine the public sector and sheer-waste and money been wasted

straight

jaymla627 wrote: »

Two council lads walking around field this a.m, never asked permission, from water section wasn’t in yard at time but guessed where leak was and told brother to tell them where to look, got home and they had gone no joy finding leak, walked down and had it copped in 2 mins, they where to lazy to hop over the barbwire fence in the forestry section where it’s burst....
Their drawing up water with artics now, you’d have no hope for this country going forward when you examine the public sector and sheer-waste and money been wasted

People talk of them running a nuclear power plant. Could you imagine. What could possibly go wrong

jaymla627

straight wrote: »

People talk of them running a nuclear power plant. Could you imagine. What could possibly go wrong

It gets better, the pipes are absestos lined, the leak has been going on for months but the pipe is are after totally blowing out now, so they’ll be drawing water for the foreseeable unless Irish water divert the pipeline around the forestry and link it in further up, of course they’re going to have to compensate ourselves if they want to access our land to do these works, expecting a phone call I’m the morning of some highly paid suit

Castlekeeper

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Meningitis? Listerosis?

Last case I heard just like that was sunstroke. Put her in a house and call the vet.

whelan2

Say my name wrote: »

Just had a 3 year old hol/fr bull loaded up on a lorry with charolais bullocks for the factory.
Only for the colour he matched them up perfectly.
No meal fed to this fella either only as a calf. I'll post up the results of this lad when I get them.
*charolais weren't mine.

How did he do?

Say my name

whelan2 wrote: »

How did he do?

No cheque yet. It's usually near 10 days now before it comes.

GrasstoMilk

Say my name wrote: »

No cheque yet. It's usually near 10 days now before it comes.

We collect it the next day.

Water John

Great to see a man from Urhan become the Chairman of Carbery. Now that is truly a West Cork man, Urhan is out beyond Castletownbere. Great footballing country.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/carbery-group-reveals-held-milk-price-for-june/

Wildsurfer

Water John wrote: »

Great to see a man from Urhan become the Chairman of Carbery. Now that is truly a West Cork man, Urhan is out beyond Castletownbere. Great footballing country.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/carbery-group-reveals-held-milk-price-for-june/

I thought at first glance he was from some Arabian country!

Gawddawggonnit

Long story short...
English couple moved to the south of France 5yrs ago, bought a dairy farm, but wants out now to move back to the UK. Says he can’t handle the shyte and regulation...
They produce 900k litres. Cows are a mix of pure Hol and also hol x Swedish red. Anyone any experience of the hol/Swedish Red cross?

He wants to sell the herd complete with followers. What’re they worth?

85 cows in milk most in-calf to BB.
34 in-calf heifers. Sexed semen.
40 maidens.
33 calves.

jaymla627

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Long story short...
English couple moved to the south of France 5yrs ago, bought a dairy farm, but wants out now to move back to the UK. Says he can’t handle the shyte and regulation...
They produce 900k litres. Cows are a mix of pure Hol and also hol x Swedish red. Anyone any experience of the hol/Swedish Red cross?

He wants to sell the herd complete with followers. What’re they worth?

85 cows in milk most in-calf to BB.
34 in-calf heifers. Sexed semen.
40 maidens.
33 calves.

Have a couple of brilliant ones here but all are of a particular bull A Linne, used a few other sr bulls and they where a pure disaster bad feet/temperament/yield and poor bags they where all culled down through the years

Gawddawggonnit

jaymla627 wrote: »

Have a couple of brilliant ones here but all are of a particular bull A Linne, used a few other sr bulls and they where a pure disaster bad feet/temperament/yield and poor bags they where all culled down through the years

That doesn’t warm the cockles...
Are the SR crosses worse than pure Hol with regards their feet and mobility?

jaymla627

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

That doesn’t warm the cockles...
Are the SR crosses worse than pure Hol with regards their feet and mobility?

The bad ones are a lot worse but the good ones have great feet
These 3 are all 3rd lactation plus doing 32-36 liters at the minute

Mooooo

What age are the current ones in the herd? How they they look/ perform?

Gawddawggonnit

jaymla627 wrote: »

The bad ones are a lot worse but the good ones have great feet
These 3 are all 3rd lactation plus doing 32-36 liters at the minute

You’ve 3 left out of how many originally?

Gawddawggonnit

Mooooo wrote: »

What age are the current ones in the herd? How they they look/ perform?

I haven’t seen the herd, it’s 5hrs drive away but he tells me that the herd is about 50:50 hols and Sr crosses.

64 cows are less than 3 lactations. He’d sell me the other 20 for less than factory price.
Herd average is 10800L with 3.47pr and 4.5bf.
Indoor ayr.

jaymla627

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

You’ve 3 left out of how many originally?

Have 8 left out of 10 with the A-linne bull all 3rd lactation plus, their was 12 other swedish red crosses of 3 different bulls that where all culled by end of 2nd lactation due to numerous issues

stretch film

jaymla627 wrote: »

Have 8 left out of 10 with the A-linne bull all 3rd lactation plus, their was 12 other swedish red crosses of 3 different bulls that where all culled by end of 2nd lactation due to numerous issues

genomic or daughter proven sires at time of ai ,out of interest??

jaymla627

stretch film wrote: »

genomic or daughter proven sires at time of ai ,out of interest??

A-linne was 99% reliability the others where genomic, this years favorite heifer is a lavaman another 99% reliability bull of one of the sr crosses...
Don’t think you’d be going to far wrong with a herd of these

Buford T. Justice XIX

Latest Lyons notes.
https://twitter.com/ucdagfood/status/1151505624045412352?s=19

whelan2

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Latest Lyons notes.
https://twitter.com/ucdagfood/status/1151505624045412352?s=19

Cant seem to read this as I'm not on twitter

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

Cant seem to read this as I'm not on twitter

There's a problem with the link. I'll get the proper link tomorrow and fire it up.

straight

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

There's a problem with the link. I'll get the proper link tomorrow and fire it up.

Correct link bit.ly/LYONS0807192

Buford T. Justice XIX

straight wrote: »

Correct link bit.ly/LYONS0807192

Cheers, I was just going looking for it:)

We would always be looking for someone to milk cows the odd evening and it's hard enough to get the FRS unless you book well in advance. We had a man come looking for work last night and another this morning, both seem to know their way around a parlour so I must give them a few milkings soon.

There are lads out there but we don't always come across them.

Mooooo

Gotta love land drainage, over a km of pipe and near 200 tonne of stone and the digger still here, all for the sake of 8 or 9 acres....

Timmaay

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Cheers, I was just going looking for it:)

We would always be looking for someone to milk cows the odd evening and it's hard enough to get the FRS unless you book well in advance. We had a man come looking for work last night and another this morning, both seem to know their way around a parlour so I must give them a few milkings soon.

There are lads out there but we don't always come across them.

If anyone needs relief milkers in the east Wicklow North wexford area I know half a dozen lads looking for work.


Anyways making silage mid July, the same day as this part of the farm is burnt up this bad, that's a winwin in my book!