Forecast here is dry for 10 days so let's hope so I've still got hedge trimming to do and have to be finished by end of February cattle looking good a bit tight in the shed there
Neusa C thanks Neusa, feed them like this with tractor twice a week. These guys don’t get anything other then grass silage and water. Hope to let them out on grass by about mid- late March. 🤞 if weather permits
How do ye find the dairy cross cattle Gerry? Do ye rare from sucks or buy in as stores? Is there ways ye could look at tightening up yer work load? You mentioned having gone down to shed and then you going down with silage. That's twice looking at one bunch of cattle in the same day.
Bambinohead1 them ones we have bought in as calves, reared and we run them on and finish at 24 months. The less friesian that’s in them the better. I like stock out of the dairy cow crossed with a continental bull. Always do well. I’d fill a shed with them crossed breeds. The Friesian Costs too much to finish and will only come in to 300 KGs on average and factories are usually cutting 15-20c a kg off Continental bull price Because they are Frisians. Tough to make money out of. If we had to to another’s 15 acres into that pit down there we would have had enough silage to do. Never thought them Wee fu*kers would have ate as much. 😂
gerry6420 So are they off the bucket when ye buy them or are ye raring them on milk replacer? Not much dairying round here. Any good cont suck is over €400 and ld prefer a light runner for €150 or so more and not have labour of bucket raring.
Bambinohead1 we were buying around 2 weeks old from down cork direction. The southern dairy farmer tends to feed them bit longer on milk and gives them a fair good start. So they were still on milk when we got them. We Had a fella feed them on a Electronic calf machine. They tend to cost around 200€ because they that bit stronger and we were buying British friesian type.
Bambinohead1 well to be honest at housing Time they were costing 450€ calf cost, milk, meal and we could have bought same kinda stock for around 450€ in sales. So all the labour was for nothing. And with more and more dairy stock gona be around don’t think they gona get any dearer. Not gona rear any this year. Gona buy in back end. It’s hard to know.
Shane Gallagher just leave them on. Use to put them on and off the 6420 for a whole lifetime of a set of tyres. Was like 7 years. And at the end. The fronts were fraction better the the rears. And when changing the tyres. Still just bought a full set. So seemed it was waste of time.
Great video Gerry :) it was myself who mentioned the use of an electric fence to stop the cattle poking their heads out while feeding
TheCavanLawd ahh yes... I couldn’t remember who it was. Bloody get so many messages coming through it’s hard to keep up... 😂
Grt video as always small little bobcat b the job fir that shed to feed the silage
I like all your videos Gerry
The weanlings are doing great
tek bros ooo
Forecast here is dry for 10 days so let's hope so I've still got hedge trimming to do and have to be finished by end of February cattle looking good a bit tight in the shed there
Antony farming hope fully forecast is right 👌🙏🙏😘
Unreal video today lad love the content you bring out keep it coming lad fair play to ya
R.j. farming thanks fella. 👌
There’s snow lce and frost coming so hopefully I can get some silage bales out and slurry out
Patrick Mcmanus this weather is to last 10 days so I’m gona give it a few days to dry up then go at it. Make the most of it. It’s long over due
gerry6420 we need it to get some slurry out
Good video Gerry. Did Ben get the gob he went for the interview some time ago.
Paddy Boy he’s through to round 2 of interviews. So we see in next few weeks 🤷🏻♂️
Nice video. That tractor better not get any wider Gerry. How often do you feed them silage. Do you add other things to it.
Neusa C thanks Neusa, feed them like this with tractor twice a week. These guys don’t get anything other then grass silage and water. Hope to let them out on grass by about mid- late March. 🤞 if weather permits
Great video
Joe Marley thanks joe
How do ye find the dairy cross cattle Gerry? Do ye rare from sucks or buy in as stores?
Is there ways ye could look at tightening up yer work load? You mentioned having gone down to shed and then you going down with silage. That's twice looking at one bunch of cattle in the same day.
Bambinohead1 them ones we have bought in as calves, reared and we run them on and finish at 24 months. The less friesian that’s in them the better. I like stock out of the dairy cow crossed with a continental bull. Always do well. I’d fill a shed with them crossed breeds. The Friesian Costs too much to finish and will only come in to 300 KGs on average and factories are usually cutting 15-20c a kg off Continental bull price Because they are Frisians. Tough to make money out of.
If we had to to another’s 15 acres into that pit down there we would have had enough silage to do. Never thought them Wee fu*kers would have ate as much. 😂
gerry6420 So are they off the bucket when ye buy them or are ye raring them on milk replacer? Not much dairying round here. Any good cont suck is over €400 and ld prefer a light runner for €150 or so more and not have labour of bucket raring.
Bambinohead1 we were buying around 2 weeks old from down cork direction. The southern dairy farmer tends to feed them bit longer on milk and gives them a fair good start. So they were still on milk when we got them. We Had a fella feed them on a Electronic calf machine. They tend to cost around 200€ because they that bit stronger and we were buying British friesian type.
gerry6420 ah the only job at yer scale 👍
Bambinohead1 well to be honest at housing Time they were costing 450€ calf cost, milk, meal and we could have bought same kinda stock for around 450€ in sales. So all the labour was for nothing. And with more and more dairy stock gona be around don’t think they gona get any dearer. Not gona rear any this year. Gona buy in back end. It’s hard to know.
u would want to see our road
Keep up the good work . Would you do a face reveal by any chance . Keep her LIT
John Cahalane no one wants to see my ugly mug 😂
gerry6420 hahahahahaha go on will ya . Ye will be fine . Funny joke
Wat is ur favorite tractor to use
Kevin O' Toole depends on the job. 6930 over all. Plenty of power. Fast on the road and most comfortable.
Why do ye put a full set of weights on
Shane Gallagher just leave them on. Use to put them on and off the 6420 for a whole lifetime of a set of tyres. Was like 7 years. And at the end. The fronts were fraction better the the rears. And when changing the tyres. Still just bought a full set. So seemed it was waste of time.
Are u a dairy farmer
mr black 7810jd sucklers and beef. Little bit of tillage and make some hay too.
Wats the 69 like
East agri l.c contracts good yoke. Very happy with it. Plenty power, comfortable reliable and fast on the road. What more could ya want
+gerry6420 we have a 6420s chipped to the bone. she would pull digger and lowloader.