Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

"youd think the lads who bought them 2 years ago and are killing them now would be going mad for them again fair profit in that scenario youd think with not a huge outlay day one" - Surely this is how an open market works, its sets its own price and obviously there isn't a massive margin for lads doing it because if there was there'd be more lads looking to get in

Pit decided to come a bit closer to the cows

Ball park figure of 25 euro plus a week to keep a calf atm ….I know someone else posted but so right sell them beef calves as lads seem to have an a full horn for them on line and around the ring and hold the Fr bulls till end summer /autumn if you can ….I’d certainly keep the calves if I could but the system is working against me with nitrates .cows are my bread and butter and I’m not destocking them atm

Is it just ambitious farmers you don't like or ambitious people in any line of business? Like for example, do you refuse to do business with any company with more than 1 working there because they decided to expand when the opportunity arose?

I was replying to this comment. So apologies, I take it you and your family have had to work hard to get to where you are now, so why the constant snide comments against fellow farmers trying to do the same? Is 150 cows too many, or is it above 200, 300? What is your magic number where you don't make smart comments about them? Are you taking into account how many wages are being taken from a farm, how many successors there might be etc?

I had a suckler come for one this afternoon to replace a calf that died on him, left with six, I was delighted

Have guy coming Monday that buys ours for shipping

awful backlog now, all the shippers are only taking a few from every farm to take the pressure off and not have a massive load of calves going at once

What are they giving do you know? Lad who took calves here this evening gave 50 each. He said he looked at other calves and their navels weren't healed, 10 euro each the farmer wanted

Was looking at a calving on the camera at 4 am this morning. Head out but didn't seem to be much more happening. Got up at 4:15 to see there was only one leg. Handy enough to push the calf back in, straighten the leg and the calf slid straight out. A lovely Albert fr heifer off a Perseus mother. A star of the future for me hopefully. You'd never be sorry for getting up really I find.

Got a visit from L214 last night. A note pinned to the chicken house door condemning factory farming…even though it’s empty with over a year!

Another note on the bulk tank condemning intensive dairy that produces antibiotic laced milk. Tested the milk in the tank for antibiotics in case they had fired in antibiotics but it was clear. Cops couldn’t have given two fcuks.

Getting quiet a few cows with very sore eyes any idea what might be causing this or is it a contagious infection or something. There not sick but very uncomfortable and unsteady because there sight is affected. Had a couple before and the vet told us put tubes in the eye which cleared it up.

I put antibiotic tubes in the eye of 3 yesterday but 2 more with sore eyes this morning.

Family story of a grand uncle who during the civil or independence war had a note pinned to a monkey puzzle tree outside the household warning he would be shot signed the IRA.

Himself and his brother shifted very quickly from wexford to Belfast.

Your post just reminded me of that again.

May the baxtards have no luck. Phuckers. Tramps.

Are you feeding round bales. You need to cut the plastic a day or two before you feed them to leave the gas out.

Ye feeding round bales, they would be opened and fed out straight away, never heard of that before but everyday is a school day. Would you cut of the whole end of a bale or just put a slit in the plastic?

Chances are it could be that or mould on the bales so.

OK thanks for that, I'll give that a go and I'll be a bit more fussy about any spots of mould aswell. Hope that might solve it.