Dairy Chitchat 3

stanflt

A friend of mine had Energia come knocking at his door this evening offering huge money for a solar farm- had his maps and all- sounds to good to be true thou- my friend would like to know if anyone else has been contacted

Castlekeeper

stanflt wrote: »

A friend of mine had Energia come knocking at his door this evening offering huge money for a solar farm- had his maps and all- sounds to good to be true thou- my friend would like to know if anyone else has been contacted

Tell him to ask them for double to start off and see if they come back.

whelan2

stanflt wrote: »

A friend of mine had Energia come knocking at his door this evening offering huge money for a solar farm- had his maps and all- sounds to good to be true thou- my friend would like to know if anyone else has been contacted

Had them a few years ago, never heard from them after. Knew exactly what fields they wanted before they came

Mooooo

Anyone getting delays with bvd results. Sent a batch of Mon and have no results yet

whelan2

Mooooo wrote: »

Anyone getting delays with bvd results. Sent a batch of Mon and have no results yet

Where are the sending them. Enfer here and good enough so far

gozunda

stanflt wrote: »

A friend of mine had Energia come knocking at his door this evening offering huge money for a solar farm- had his maps and all- sounds to good to be true thou- my friend would like to know if anyone else has been contacted

Similar around here. Large amounts of money offered for signing over lease of farms for solar arrays. Tbh distance to market makes no sense with regard to transmission losses. Investment funds are making this into fools gold imo..

simx

simx wrote: »

Anyone have a ballpark figure on how much we’ll bred enough Fr heifer calves are worth? 2-3wks old

Anyone?

Snowfire

simx wrote: »

Anyone?

Surely around what they were making last year or thereabouts. I sold some for €300-€350 last year

Mooooo

whelan2 wrote: »

Where are the sending them. Enfer here and good enough so far

Yeah enfer, got a txt this morning saying number of neg samples as opposed to a list of tag numbers last year?. All negative anyway

whelan2

Mooooo wrote: »

Yeah enfer, got a txt this morning saying number of neg samples as opposed to a list of tag numbers last year?. All negative anyway

I think the texts are slow to come through, you'll get the results quicker on enfers customer portal or icbf

Buford T. Justice XIX

I sold 6 cows from the yard today for 500 euro each, happy out with it. All problem cows and taking up space and time.

One had a broken leg that didn't heal properly, crooked enough that she would be under pressure if bulled. Two were poor on concrete, nearly always had one or other one with their legs flat out the back every week, lifted up and left on straw bed but needed going. One cranky milker, one not in calf and one had sores on her hind legs from lying on the cubicles, even with mats.

A few weanling bulls to go next week and then make a burst into getting calves out of the place.

stanflt

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I sold 6 cows from the yard today for 500 euro each, happy out with it. All problem cows and taking up space and time.

One had a broken leg that didn't heal properly, crooked enough that she would be under pressure if bulled. Two were poor on concrete, nearly always had one or other one with their legs flat out the back every week, lifted up and left on straw bed but needed going. One cranky milker, one not in calf and one had sores on her hind legs from lying on the cubicles, even with mats.

A few weanling bulls to go next week and then make a burst into getting calves out of the place.

It’s a great feeling when you do a clear out- got rid of around 65 animals there in January-5 loads to the factory in 2 days- has significantly reduced workload with less feeding to be done every day- even allow me to take 4 days off at the start of the week for the kids mid term- herself said I’d be divorced if she had to spend another mid term on her own-

Castlekeeper

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I sold 6 cows from the yard today for 500 euro each, happy out with it. All problem cows and taking up space and time.

One had a broken leg that didn't heal properly, crooked enough that she would be under pressure if bulled. Two were poor on concrete, nearly always had one or other one with their legs flat out the back every week, lifted up and left on straw bed but needed going. One cranky milker, one not in calf and one had sores on her hind legs from lying on the cubicles, even with mats.

A few weanling bulls to go next week and then make a burst into getting calves out of the place.

That was good money, fats are making about 900 at the minute.
What breed if cows were the ones with the bad legs? Just I hear of a lot of that sort of thing and you'd see a cow or more out in a paddock outside a lot of farms along the road.
We'd never have it (touch wood) and I'm wondering is it the NRx in our cows that's the reason. Husbandry is good but normal here, lets say plenty could be better and it's not a factor in comparison to our peers.

Castlekeeper

Mooooo wrote: »

Anyone getting delays with bvd results. Sent a batch of Mon and have no results yet

All good with Farmlab.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Castlekeeper wrote: »

That was good money, fats are making about 900 at the minute.
What breed if cows were the ones with the bad legs? Just I hear of a lot of that sort of thing and you'd see a cow or more out in a paddock outside a lot of farms along the road.
We'd never have it (touch wood) and I'm wondering is it the NRx in our cows that's the reason. Husbandry is good but normal here, lets say plenty could be better and it's not a factor in comparison to our peers.

All friesians. The Jex are nearly bulletproof:pac:

I'm down to 2 Nrx now and one of them is Shergar reincarnated so she'll probably be offloaded soon after calving.

If she doesn't jump the barriers again before that.

stanflt

Castlekeeper wrote: »

That was good money, fats are making about 900 at the minute.
What breed if cows were the ones with the bad legs? Just I hear of a lot of that sort of thing and you'd see a cow or more out in a paddock outside a lot of farms along the road.
We'd never have it (touch wood) and I'm wondering is it the NRx in our cows that's the reason. Husbandry is good but normal here, lets say plenty could be better and it's not a factor in comparison to our peers.

What do you mean by fats 900

tanko

stanflt wrote: »

What do you mean by fats 900

Dairy cows fit to kill maybe?

visatorro

stanflt wrote:

It’s a great feeling when you do a clear out- got rid of around 65 animals there in January-5 loads to the factory in 2 days- has significantly reduced workload with less feeding to be done every day- even allow me to take 4 days off at the start of the week for the kids mid term- herself said I’d be divorced if she had to spend another mid term on her own-

Same here brought the kids up to Dublin today ,she went off to meet friends and get hair done. I'm waiting for her to land back then iv to go feed cow's. Sure what else would you be at on a Saturday night.!!

Castlekeeper

stanflt wrote: »

What do you mean by fats 900

the reply was in relation to selling dairy cull cows.
Fat dairy cull cows are making about €900 at present, based on 300 kgs carcase weight at 3€/kg .

Castlekeeper

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

All friesians. The Jex are nearly bulletproof:pac:

I'm down to 2 Nrx now and one of them is Shergar reincarnated so she'll probably be offloaded soon after calving.

If she doesn't jump the barriers again before that.

What bull us Shergar off? Or is it from the mother?
We've never had anything like a Shergar in an NRx and we've been breeding them for almost 20 years at this stage. I only got caught with one poor bull on temperament, LEV, but you'd get that in any breed, and they were more nervous that wicked. He was recommended by Teagasc for crossbreeding and I'd say did the breed's reputation a lot of harm. The thing is that the NR actually have very reliable temperament figures unlike the makey uppy figures used by ICBF. Only animals I ever had real temperament problems with were of BrFr breeding bizarrely, which I wouldn't have expected.

stanflt

Castlekeeper wrote: »

the reply was in relation to selling dairy cull cows.
Fat dairy cull cows are making about €900 at present, based on 300 kgs carcase weight at 3€/kg .

I sent some cows to the factory straight out of the parlour and they made 12-1500- calved a year But not in calf

Buford T. Justice XIX

Castlekeeper wrote: »

What bull us Shergar off? Or is it from the mother?
We've never had anything like a Shergar in an NRx and we've been breeding them for almost 20 years at this stage. I only got caught with one poor bull on temperament, LEV, but you'd get that in any breed, and they were more nervous that wicked. He was recommended by Teagasc for crossbreeding and I'd say did the breed's reputation a lot of harm. The thing is that the NR actually have very reliable temperament figures unlike the makey uppy figures used by ICBF. Only animals I ever had real temperament problems with were of BrFr breeding bizarrely, which I wouldn't have expected.

No idea where she got it from, tbh. I have a single feed bar along the whole shed and she has it jumped twice. I ended up welding a length of blueband over that and she took it with her last year. Her calves are sober out, though, so it may be time for her to find someplace else to check out their collecting yard security.

Castlekeeper

stanflt wrote: »

I sent some cows to the factory straight out of the parlour and they made 12-1500- calved a year But not in calf

Maybe I sent in weanlings by mistake ...

stanflt

Castlekeeper wrote: »

Maybe I sent in weanlings by mistake ...

Ha - it’s shows how bad a state the beef industry is in - o-2+ cull cows getting 3.35 when prime beef heifers were only 3.60 the same week

visatorro

23 litres
4.17 fat
3.35 pr
7kg 18% nut.
Silage tested ok but is wet.
Nothing grazed.
75% of herd calved in Nov early dec.
Few culls, sick, hobbled yokes and disappointing girls included in above figures just to keep it real.
Hoping grass will leave things abit happier, healthier and leaves more money!

kevthegaff

What's that website that sells high ebi dairy cows/heifers, forgot the name?. Will this Coronavirus have any effect on milk price going forward

stanflt

kevthegaff wrote: »

What's that website that sells high ebi dairy cows/heifers, forgot the name?. Will this Coronavirus have any effect on milk price going forward

Are you looking for cows kev

kevthegaff

stanflt wrote: »

Are you looking for cows kev

I am

Buford T. Justice XIX

kevthegaff wrote: »

What's that website that sells high ebi dairy cows/heifers, forgot the name?. Will this Coronavirus have any effect on milk price going forward

Grasstec group?

There's a bit of downward pressure on prices due to the fear that the Chinese will stop buying or stop paying for what they already had delivered.

stanflt

kevthegaff wrote: »

I am

Many??

Buford T. Justice XIX

When you get used to feeding 4l of colostrum to a calf, feeding 3l feels like you're shortchanging the calf.

Got 6l off two heifers just now and thawed out some more to top it up. Fed 4l to a calf at 12 today and he was drinking the cow at 4 and drank a litre again at 7.

alps

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Grasstec group?

There's a bit of downward pressure on prices due to the fear that the Chinese will stop buying or stop paying for what they already had delivered.

Hate to have any of our towns on lockdown like in Italy and not able to have your milk collected.....

Buford T. Justice XIX

alps wrote: »

Hate to have any of our towns on lockdown like in Italy and not able to have your milk collected.....

Has it gotten that bad in Italy? Haven't seen the news in a few days now.

kevthegaff

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Has it gotten that bad in Italy? Haven't seen the news in a few days now.

Over a 100 cases, it be a disaster if it comes here with our health service and goons over the hse

straight

kevthegaff wrote: »

Over a 100 cases, it be a disaster if it comes here with our health service and goons over the hse

It'll be grand lad. Mary Lou is sorting the whole thing out.

jaymla627

kevthegaff wrote: »

Over a 100 cases, it be a disaster if it comes here with our health service and goons over the hse

Spent the night in a and e, a few weeks ago, it was like been in a old folks home, 90 odd % of patients where 70 years plus old, with alot their for minor injuries and falls
If the s**t hit the fan here, it would be simply a case of prioritising patients with the best chances of survival, and not admitting the above

Tonynewholland

straight wrote: »

It'll be grand lad. Mary Lou is sorting the whole thing out.

Unlikely. You can’t intimidate a virus

kevthegaff

stanflt wrote: »

Many??

20

kevthegaff

If it got very bad would they still collect the milk

Tonynewholland

kevthegaff wrote: »

If it got very bad would they still collect the milk

I think if it got to that stage we wouldn’t be to concerned about the milk being collected.

straight

kevthegaff wrote: »

If it got very bad would they still collect the milk

A vaccine can't be that far away surely?

yosemitesam1

kevthegaff wrote: »

If it got very bad would they still collect the milk

There will have to be some efforts made to keep food supplies moving. No point in starvation killing more than the virus

Water John

Covid 19 seems to have a mortality of 3/4%. Some mention of vaccine developed by April. I presume ramping it up may then be the issue.
Whole families were wiped out with the Spanish flu of 1919. It killed more worldwide than died in WW1.

mf240

kevthegaff wrote: »

If it got very bad would they still collect the milk

Twill be a sad day for our little village, if the world ends.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Had the umbilical out today spreading the wateriest slurry. Out on the driest field and marking in places but no choice as the slurry was coming up the slats.

I'd like to meet the absolute Gobdaw that decided that spreading before Christmas on land that was dry and growth in the 10's was illegal while spreading now on saturated ground and growth at 0 was legal.

You, Sir, are an absolute fcuking clown:mad:

Snowfire

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Had the umbilical out today spreading the wateriest slurry. Out on the driest field and marking in places but no choice as the slurry was coming up the slats.

I'd like to meet the absolute Gobdaw that decided that spreading before Christmas on land that was dry and growth in the 10's was illegal while spreading now on saturated ground and growth at 0 was legal.

You, Sir, are an absolute fcuking clown:mad:

Why did you spread 2 weeks ago when land was reasonably dry....?
Only slagging I’m in the exact same position myself. The reason I didn’t is cos I didn’t want to be dumping slurry on grass I thought I’d be grazing these days. Thought I’d get them grazed first and then go with watery slurry after.
Oh hindsight how wonderful you are. ..!

whelan2

I have nothing grazed this year at all. Plenty of grass there though. I got slurry out about 3 weeks ago. No fertiliser out yet.

yosemitesam1

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Had the umbilical out today spreading the wateriest slurry. Out on the driest field and marking in places but no choice as the slurry was coming up the slats.

I'd like to meet the absolute Gobdaw that decided that spreading before Christmas on land that was dry and growth in the 10's was illegal while spreading now on saturated ground and growth at 0 was legal.

You, Sir, are an absolute fcuking clown:mad:

It's never allowed to be spreading slurry on saturated ground with a high chance of runoff, the powers that be just turn a blind eye to it.

visatorro

whelan2 wrote:

I have nothing grazed this year at all. Plenty of grass there though. I got slurry out about 3 weeks ago. No fertiliser out yet.

Same here

degetme

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Had the umbilical out today spreading the wateriest slurry. Out on the driest field and marking in places but no choice as the slurry was coming up the slats.

I'd like to meet the absolute Gobdaw that decided that spreading before Christmas on land that was dry and growth in the 10's was illegal while spreading now on saturated ground and growth at 0 was legal.

You, Sir, are an absolute fcuking clown:mad:

Not trying to be smart but why didn't you go with the umbilical in mid Jan when land was good