Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

dairyedge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122506201#Comment_122506201

Which one of these faults did you get locked up on? The department are a joke. They can leave you looking at reactors for a month after a failed test but can send you out a half inch of paper work to look at within 2 of their working days. Where only keeping people in employment. This dumping milk is another joke. Do the Co op’s do a milk recall when you get the results of the tb blood result's back? Nothing but phone calls and letters you get afterwards. When you get out the calculator the money you get back for reactors is a slap on the face.

green daries

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122510850#Comment_122510850

Absolutely and we'll said .the **** that's been spouted on here the last few days makes the resident troll look half normal. The department do not care about eradicating tb plain and simple do not pass go on that statement. There's no possible way to make a reasonable argument against them not wanting it gone. If they wanted to rid the country of tb it would have been done 40 +years ago ....and if eradicating didn't work we would all be vaccinating for it . There's no restrictions on people leaving the country as an export and 90%of the country was vaccinated for tb at some point.

K.G.

The way we look at it is we have to feed ration and probaly silage anyway so its really only usually a case of when you going to feed it .I thing I hate is letting them out at night and bringing them back in .pointless work but I do my level best to get them out every day

green daries

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511014#Comment_122511014

Iagreewith the ration and silage point ,but the extra work to get grass into cows in spring is not pointless work.its definitely thankless work but it's nevertheless necessary if your going to knock milk out of cow's (in a half normal year)

GrasstoMilk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511732#Comment_122511732

I agree

I put a good bit of work in to it here and can definitely see the benefits of it after this year. They didn’t get out as much in the spring and it really hampered milk production. Now I probably should have more better quality silage on hand but it still shows the benefit of spring grass if the weather is favourable

kevthegaff

U save alot on silage getting them out early and also their health and feet. Triggers grass growth also