David's going Dairying.

Farm365

Did you find it hard to get a processor or are they happy to take new entrants?

davidk1394

Farm365 wrote: »

Did you find it hard to get a processor or are they happy to take new entrants?

I went with Glanbia. I had no issues getting a processor. The numbers I aim to milk, access to the place and the fact that a truck passed up and down my road every day helped. I did contact a few others but I decided to stick with who's in the area

davidk1394

These are some of this years calves. Their mainly February and March born and ar 50/50 HO/BR

Water John

Nice ladies, best of luck with them.

Green&Red

I’ll stick this in here

I’m looking at cubicle mats, Mayo mats will be €45-50 excl vat for a 22mm mat but there’s a crowd in Monaghan, I don’t have their name, doing a 22mm mat for €43 incl VAT. Anyone have any experience with lower quality mats? Is the big risk that they’ll tear?

Any reason you’d go with blue parlour mat over black? €3 a sheet in the difference


Thanks

simx

Green&Red wrote: »

I’ll stick this in here

I’m looking at cubicle mats, Mayo mats will be €45-50 excl vat for a 22mm mat but there’s a crowd in Monaghan, I don’t have their name, doing a 22mm mat for €43 incl VAT. Anyone have any experience with lower quality mats? Is the big risk that they’ll tear?

Any reason you’d go with blue parlour mat over black? €3 a sheet in the difference



Thanks

Not sure on difference with quality if any between parlour mats but I’d probably go with blue over black, that but brighter in pit, light will probably reflect off it a little better maybe too?

Mooooo

Paint the pit walls white, and under the troughs as well if applicable will keep things brighter. On the mats go and look if you can. The rolls are the best job but dear. Got mats off easy fix a good few years ago and they were too soft in that the cows tore them. Other single mats I've gotten have all been similar in bar what O Donovans had but they were 80 quid a mat

Castlekeeper

simx wrote: »

Not sure on difference with quality if any between parlour mats but I’d probably go with blue over black, that but brighter in pit, light will probably reflect off it a little better maybe too?

I've mayo mats in for 20 years and they're perfect.
I ve other heavy duty interlocking ones, they're a tonne weight and not as soft.

Castlekeeper

I always think parlour mats only gather dirt whearas you'll benefit from a good pair of wellies all day long, but I could be wrong.

valtra2

Paint your walls blue. Flys dont like blue. Every day is a learning day for me.

Green&Red

valtra2 wrote: »

Paint your walls blue. Flys dont like blue. Every day is a learning day for me.

Googled this cause I thought you were taking the piss

https://paintingco.com/the-best-paint-colors-to-repel-bugs/

Flies

Flies are one of the only bugs that are actively affected by colors. While designing more effective fly traps, researchers from the University of Florida found that flies are attracted to blue tones and repelled by warm tones like yellow. More studies confirmed the correlation between blue lights and fly attraction.

Water John

Isn't blue light used in fly traps, the ones that fry them.

Jb1989

Green&Red wrote: »

Googled this cause I thought you were taking the piss

https://paintingco.com/the-best-paint-colors-to-repel-bugs/

Flies

Flies are one of the only bugs that are actively affected by colors. While designing more effective fly traps, researchers from the University of Florida found that flies are attracted to blue tones and repelled by warm tones like yellow. More studies confirmed the correlation between blue lights and fly attraction.

So blue walls will infact draw them in then.

Panch18

Water John wrote: »

Isn't blue light used in fly traps, the ones that fry them.

Yeah the ones that you see in places like a butchers shop are blue - to attract the flies!

Mooooo

Don't have issues with flies in the pit really? Would be more in late summer if they were annoying cows the tails would be swinging. I'd still go with white to make everything brighter. Set up a decent volume washer as well

Panch18

Are most people putting some paint in the parlour?

We have no paint on the floor or walls or anywhere theree

The Rabbi

Paint it,makes it very easy to clean.Go for white,it will brighten up the place.

Sacrolyte

DONT GO WHITE!!!

valtra2

Well they are all been pained blue around here but sure maybe they are wrong

Sacrolyte

Before you paint it white, put on a white shirt for a milking And see how that looks.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Before you paint it white, put on a white shirt for a milking And see how that looks.

What could possibly go wrong?:D

Parlour painted blue here and don't notice any flies over and above any other shed on the farm.

Gillespy

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Before you paint it white, put on a white shirt for a milking And see how that looks.

Beautiful summer's day, 22 degrees you would be passable afterwards, any other time of the year defiantly not.

Plain concrete here, usually good to keep it power washed and it looks fine I think. Especially when it dries out. On flies, they're only a problem if they're at the cows. Sort that and they're gone.

tractorporn

Anyone here get the farming indo this week or have access to the online version?

If like to have a read of this article but its behind a pay wall and no one close to us bought it this week.
https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/dairy/is-a-50-cow-dairy-start-up-a-better-bet-than-a-loss-making-drystock-farm-35287736.html

I would be in a very similar scenario here but with more land(110 acres) away from the home place for silage so would be interested to see if the figures stack up.

Siamsa Sessions

tractorporn wrote: »

Anyone here get the farming indo this week or have access to the online version?

If like to have a read of this article but its behind a pay wall and no one close to us bought it this week.
https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/dairy/is-a-50-cow-dairy-start-up-a-better-bet-than-a-loss-making-drystock-farm-35287736.html

I would be in a very similar scenario here but with more land(110 acres) away from the home place for silage so would be interested to see if the figures stack up.

I think my mother still buys the Indo so I might be able to get it

GrasstoMilk

tractorporn wrote: »

Anyone here get the farming indo this week or have access to the online version?

If like to have a read of this article but its behind a pay wall and no one close to us bought it this week.
https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/dairy/is-a-50-cow-dairy-start-up-a-better-bet-than-a-loss-making-drystock-farm-35287736.html

I would be in a very similar scenario here but with more land(110 acres) away from the home place for silage so would be interested to see if the figures stack up.

The indo are peddling that same article for a year or more now

Tonynewholland

tractorporn wrote: »

Anyone here get the farming indo this week or have access to the online version?

If like to have a read of this article but its behind a pay wall and no one close to us bought it this week.
https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/dairy/is-a-50-cow-dairy-start-up-a-better-bet-than-a-loss-making-drystock-farm-35287736.html

I would be in a very similar scenario here but with more land(110 acres) away from the home place for silage so would be interested to see if the figures stack up.

I didn’t notice that in this weeks indo. Maybe it’s for next week.

tractorporn

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

The indo are peddling that same article for a year or more now

Tonynewholland wrote: »

I didn’t notice that in this weeks indo. Maybe it’s for next week.

Apparently its been around for a while. When I saw it on their social media I assumed it was from this weeks paper

tractorporn

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

The indo are peddling that same article for a year or more now

Tonynewholland wrote: »

I didn’t notice that in this weeks indo. Maybe it’s for next week.

Apparently its been around for a while. When I saw it on their social media I assumed it was from this weeks paper

tractorporn

Is there anyone left with the 40/50 cow herd anymore or is it anyway viable. Are we at the stage where its scale or nothing?

Tileman

tractorporn wrote: »

Is there anyone left with the 40/50 cow herd anymore or is it anyway viable. Are we at the stage where its scale or nothing?

Neighbour here converted from dry stock to dairying in past 2 years. Has about 40 cows. Wouldn’t have much more potential to expand beyond that