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- Co antrim
Would an orby feeder work with rolled barley and maize and rape and stuf like that or would they just block and jam?
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They will work fine, we fed a blend for years until slavery was abolished as we mixed our own blend from home grown barley
- Location
- Co antrim
Next problem is how am i gonna get it into the feeders. Did u reckon u were savin much per ton?
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If you want my advice just buy nuts,simple for the cows,simple for you, one less headache
- Location
- Co antrim
What amount of meal does most use when out at grass. I normally cut them by 1 kg per day and go onto 16% ration but should i be givin them less again
- Location
- Northern Ireland
depends on yield!
- Location
- Co antrim
But say i cut it by 2 kg would i be loosin more milk than id be savin in meal
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- Northern Ireland
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
no, you should be able to cut 2 kgs ok. Grass will be worth a good bit more than silage. But as mentioned above condition of cow should come into it.
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- East meath/dublin
I hear ye !!! That would be back in the days of the old Mc Master crusher with the pto out through the wall and the poor unfortunate soul bucketing barley from the heap to keep it full while trying to keep the rolled barley heaped with the grain shovel
Even worse some neighbours would show up most Saturdays with hundredweight sacks of barley and expect you to empty them direct into the crusher.
That was a hard earned fiver i can tell you !! Somtimes their barley would be high enough moisture and the crusher would slow to a snails pace .
My youth from Oct to March seemed to consist of crushing barley every Saturday and grading Spuds with a Tong no3 grader loaded with a toatie graip .
You are dead right it was Slavery but werent we happy slaves .
Sadly the McMaster is now sem retired or gone on most farms along with the Tong but thats progress for ye !!!
Contractor does my rolling now 8 ton in a few hours .
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We had one of these beauties,the mill could put 120hp on her knees, all ingredients put in with a 3 gallon bucket,the augar could reach into the parlour loft but had to be all shovelled back, 2 ton at a time nothing but slave labour, that was when I was 18,kept me fit but that's all. If the only way to make money from dairying was to mix your own meal I sell the cows and become a womble
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What's all this shovelling with a bucket business? Dad set up a series of straight augers from the adjacent meal shed to supply the parlour auger system.
The barley was augered out of a Boythorpe tower and up to a bin sitting above the bruiser mill, which was driven by a 135. It fed the rolled barley directly into an Allen bagger mixer, into which you could top fill ingredients with a loader bucket. Then you slightly opened one of the bagging chutes over an open trapdoor on the bagging platform, below which was a small pit housing the bottom of an auger. This auger lifted the mixed feed up to the parlour auger to fill the feeder hoppers. 1960's ingenuity. Shovel free.
The barley was augered out of a Boythorpe tower and up to a bin sitting above the bruiser mill, which was driven by a 135. It fed the rolled barley directly into an Allen bagger mixer, into which you could top fill ingredients with a loader bucket. Then you slightly opened one of the bagging chutes over an open trapdoor on the bagging platform, below which was a small pit housing the bottom of an auger. This auger lifted the mixed feed up to the parlour auger to fill the feeder hoppers. 1960's ingenuity. Shovel free.
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Early 80s,very few mixed their own meal, no such thing as buying blends to mix,only straights,5 different straight in ration. Interest rates 20% combined with a 9% reduction in milk production via quotas,too much investment in a proper set up,perfect storm. Man on dole £12/day. farmers son/ white slave £0.
I was on the dole '89,Dad wouldn't pay me. Giro was £90/fortnight. Signed on my 18th birthday, called in on my 23rd birthday. They wanted to tell me I was the youngest long term unemployed in NI..5 years signing on and never worked one day. Thought they might have gave me a watch or something to mark the occasion.
- Location
- East meath/dublin
I left school in 82, and the auld fella sent me to england to work with his mothers people who were big in the building business . Laying cable in Milton Keynes , big town big money, paid by the metre . Getting ready a " feel " of the world my father called it .
Saturday afternoon after quitting a 1 o clock i in all my innonence asked the foreman where would i get church in the morning ?? He replied " boyo women and drink are the only religion in this country and tonight you will get your fill of both and be fit for nothing only the bed in the morning " How right he was !!
At the end of the summer word reached home that i was overindulging and i was recalled .
Best summer of my life !!!
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Have the years since been full of repent ?
I have one regret in life.. didn't do enough bulling when I was young.
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Amen to that
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