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@davepoulton7530 7 күн бұрын

Nice farm mate,Here in Australia i use the same Prinzen egg packer, if it was in that condition ( as in filthy) you would not pass an Audit

@Shinyhappyperso 13 күн бұрын

What happens to your male chicks please?

@aprildontan6232 Ай бұрын

Hello good day . What is the breed of this chicken? Rhode island red or dekalb brown? Thanks for the answer.

@andytwonames 9 күн бұрын

They look like Warren hybrids to me. Age 62 guadian of 6 UK hens

@seanbreen5122 Ай бұрын

What size is the hen house

@daviddouglas4377 Ай бұрын

Great setup very good video

@ActionAgri Ай бұрын

@daviddouglas4377 thank you 👍

@vey9821 2 ай бұрын

Great set up. Looks like a VDL System, best about. Have you thought about potentially investing in a palletiser? Suppose with the one house it is not too taxing to lift off trays yourself, but could be an option if you chose to expand.

@ActionAgri Ай бұрын

@vey9821 thank you! for one house I don't think it's needed but if I was to put up a second definitely something I'd consider !

@YOviral6 2 ай бұрын

How much it costed u to set up the whole thing ?

@Aaron_N111 3 ай бұрын

Savage set up lad we run broiler houses down south.

@mikeysky8917 5 ай бұрын

Good choice on seed. Italian needs to be cut a minimum of 4 times. If the ground gets wet, the crop suffers big time and we find if the ground gets damaged during cutting etc, it doesn’t seem to recover. You need to be prepared to reseed it every 5yrs. We are moving away from Italian as the weather is getting to a stage now that Italian is not suitable. Good video by the way. What heavy roller did you buy btw?

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I have heard that , the thing I was worried about was if we got a year like last year and it got waterlogged it wouldn’t recover, that’s interesting you are going back to tried and tested mixtures then. We bought a second hand 36 inch Watson roller really well made although I regret not at least half filling it with water to roll the reseed..

@garrettodowd 5 ай бұрын

Great video.

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Garrett 👌🏻

@danielcunningham5052 5 ай бұрын

What a load of crap Milk is soon going to pure poison, dairy men are that greedy and ahead of themselves they can't wait the time for nitrogen to leave the grass and mowing grass with mower lifting slurry from lines left with dribble bar after the last time it was cut.. sooner milk goes back to 16 pence the better, it might educate a lot of farmers

@mikeysky8917 5 ай бұрын

We went this weekend as the contractor was fully booked last week but the crop was shocking heavy. In the space of a week I never seen grass grow like it. Leaving it that extra week has been a bonus but we are lucky that the weather played ball as another week or more, it would have been a disaster for grass quality. Massive stress relief when you get that pit covered.

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

It is shocking how much grass jumps as you get into may can really catch you out sometimes, I agree no better feeling seeling a pit of good quality dry silage 😎

@ciaranconeely8579 5 ай бұрын

Support for your channel 👍👍👍.

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Ciaran appreciate it 👍🏻👍🏻

@martinhession4954 5 ай бұрын

Great set up, what make of equipment do you have? Are you getting many system eggs

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

Thanks , our system is Jansen and to be fair we don’t get many system eggs but the system belts make having system eggs not a big deal

@AgriLifeIreland 5 ай бұрын

Im looking to start into poultry but start quite small because i have to fix up some sheds which will take good while have ye any tips?

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

My tip is don’t be afraid to invest, spend money in good areas like the equipment because the time it will save you is unreal, eggs are a really good market always seems to be stable!

@AgriLifeIreland 5 ай бұрын

@@ActionAgri thanks lad I have to get a few small houses made first and I think I'll be getting hens in around june

@johncasey1777 5 ай бұрын

Very interesting video, thanks for posting. Is the free range area outside not dived up like inside the house?

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

Thanks John, no outside is completely open , hens tend to return back to her colony/pen that she came from !

@decalshedsignsco6849 5 ай бұрын

Thats a deadly set up, interesting when you havnt saw it before. Thanks for sharing

@ActionAgri 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it thanks 👍🏻👍🏻

@PatrickCarolan-o5v 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant video great content 👌

@davycrawford1795 6 ай бұрын

Fair play to you keep up the good work

@tonymckeage1028 6 ай бұрын

Great Video, new Dub here, thanks for sharing

@ActionAgri 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Tony glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻👍🏻

@joel1haffey777 6 ай бұрын

Great video 👍

@Andy-ix2ox 6 ай бұрын

I am impressed with your attitude and drive, I agree with almost everything that you said, I started young too again due to circumstances but I am probably older than your father now. I agree about robots, we also spent a lot of time looking seriously at them as an option but decided to go with a new 16 unit instead basically for the exact same reasons as you ( cost, flexibility and just having the job done and over with twice a day) . I know nothing about poultry but I do agree that it’s important to not have all your eggs ( pun intended) in the one basket. Over a lifetime of farming I have made many mistakes and have plenty of regrets but I have never regretted buying any of the land that I have bought, if you get an opportunity to buy land take it would be my advice to any young farmer out there because if you own land you will get twice as much production out of it than any rented ground and I have rented and still do a lot of land.

@ActionAgri 6 ай бұрын

I agree 100% your own land will always be more productive than rented land ( you are better looking at it than looking for it ) I think there is a place for both systems eg if you have business outside of farming maybe a robot is a better way to go because of the flexibility but I am convinced that if your home full time milking parlour is the best way to go!

@ActionAgri 6 ай бұрын

Diversifying into hens is the best investment I have made to date, completely changed my business, has took out alot of risk out of investing for continued growth

@philiptyndall4968 6 ай бұрын

Enjoying the channel Just in keeping the cows in part, are you not doubling you’re production costs by being inside all the time ? Silage costs twice what grazed grass does and then you have all the slurry to deal with.

@ActionAgri 6 ай бұрын

Thanks glad your enjoying it so far ! I actually find cows easier managed inside and also have less work than grazing ,eg slurry all the time sowing, topping shifting fences , the extra costs are being offset by the extra milk and we are seeing better fertility because of the consistency of the diet and overall better condition of the cows.

@DeclanMcGrade 6 ай бұрын

Talking alot of sense but id agree with you in the not to distant future the small family farm will be gone every year there's more and more hoops to jump threw and less and less left when your bills are paid

@ActionAgri 6 ай бұрын

100% 👌🏻👌🏻

@llally6121 6 ай бұрын

Well said

@Ourweefarm 6 ай бұрын

It’s great to get the proper facts out there. Time people stopped and thought about what’s been done in Ireland and why.

@brendanmccourt6 6 ай бұрын

Is it any wonder farming has such a high suicide rate with all the red-tape and BS you have to go through I just watched a friend of mine lose 24 cows to bovine TB 23 of them cows came back clear maybe that's the excuse there going to use for the 200000 cow cull good video mate fingers crossed the weather gets better haven't got the fertiliser sowed yet

@ActionAgri 6 ай бұрын

Tb is a huge issue, that’s a sin to waste healthy animals for no reason! There needs to be an organised push back against these draconian legislations , we have had enough..

@JustB-cuz 6 ай бұрын

Loved seeing the cows’ joy as they run thru the field.

@Sam-ih2th 6 ай бұрын

Any chance of a video around the hens house with some details and facts about it? Also any advice for any young person considering getting into to chickens now

@ActionAgri 6 ай бұрын

Yes I will do a video dedicated to the hens! Egg price atm is at record levels, the big sticking point is planning permission, company’s are still keen for more houses and banks are still keen to lend, and if you were sitting there with planning approval I would be advising you to go ahead with it.

@TO-sp6do 6 ай бұрын

Great video enjoy watching thank you

@mikeysky8917 7 ай бұрын

Very good setup and layout. Big commitment and investment but well worth it especially the land purchase. Did you price other brands of parlours and if so, was there much difference?

@ActionAgri 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍🏻 yeah we priced deleval aswell they were slightly more expensive but a very good parlour aswell I thought Dairymaster was a better fit for me.

@eamonnoneill1340 7 ай бұрын

I put in a robot last year after thirty years milking in a parlour and I couldn’t recommend it highly enough milking in a parlour fourteen times a week is pure hardship and misery especially if the weather is bad like at the moment ya have no live at all milking in a parlour

@mikeysky8917 7 ай бұрын

Tell me this, what brand of robot, purchase price, electric cost for the year, maintenance cost for the year and other costs that robot has? I have asked a number of robot men and none of them can tell me so hopefully you are the first.

@eamonnoneill1340 7 ай бұрын

Let’s just say if ya gave me a million euro or pound I wouldn’t go back some thinks are more important than money life is too short to spend it down in a pit under cows when you don’t have to.i have a de Laval robot and getting the second put in in January first one costs 150 thousand second one cost 100 thousand they run off solar panels on the shed and service kit package is 5 thousand a year which is similar to the cost of a 20 unit parlour there’s nothing to hide it’s all good mate I can tell by your message your stressed out milking in a parlour and you have my sincere sympathy as I done it for thirty years especially in this weather

@mikeysky8917 7 ай бұрын

@@eamonnoneill1340 Not stressed at all. We need 4 robots and I can never get the figures to compare. We have a 20pt and it’s a lot less than £5k a year in maintenance. Only figure I got was from a man with 2 Lely’s and his electric bill was £11k a quarter and that was from his wife. Biggest issue with robots I have is the changing every 10yrs at most with some changing after 6yrs.

@eamonnoneill1340 7 ай бұрын

The big think i took from that message is WE which means you must have more that just yourself working on the farm but if you were on your own doing everything you wouldn’t be long about getting robots then it’s all just about labour and labour cost at least a robot is reliable as in will work seven days a week 24 hours a day were as people don’t want to work seven days a week anymore so then your fucked when they want a day off every week

@tomflynn5745 6 ай бұрын

@@mikeysky8917good straight questions there. I've a 24 unit parlour in 10 years and I'd say including liners every year and a service every few years it hasn't cost much more than 5k in total. The service charge for robots I've been reliably told also goes up as the robot ages. Hard to get straight answers alright. Yes probably a better way of life but a big cost is there that doesn't get told.

@aaronobrien7649 7 ай бұрын

Go robots if you get them right the quality of life is second to none

@ActionAgri 7 ай бұрын

They are definitely going to be the future 👍🏻

@johnmcgaffin3288 7 ай бұрын

Great video

@johnmcgaffin3288 7 ай бұрын

Who do u supply your milk to

@ActionAgri 7 ай бұрын

We supply our milk to dale farm 🥛

@timmurphy9529 7 ай бұрын

Great video, can you do a full farm tour video please

@ActionAgri 7 ай бұрын

Planning on something like that in the next few weeks 👍🏻👍🏻

@ActionAgri 7 ай бұрын

It’s called copper derm paste and you can get it on hoofshop.co.uk seems to work great

@fatbaby8193 7 ай бұрын

What’s the paste you use for killing dermatitis?

@hubertjochum5992 8 ай бұрын

🥰👍👍👍

@mikeysky8917 8 ай бұрын

One issue with the lagoon, we were informed at a meeting last year to stay clear of a lagoon because in the next few years you will have to roof it or cover it of some sort or face a brutal penalty. We were advised to stick to an above ground store with a roof which ticks all boxes for ammonia control. That was from a guy who will be putting forward the evidence and recommendations for ammonia control in NI. Brutal times to come.

@ActionAgri 8 ай бұрын

What you can get for the lagoon is a “floating cover “ which should cover you

@mikeysky8917 8 ай бұрын

@@ActionAgri Yes it was mentioned but the guy said there was issues with them. I don’t think they will be happy with any slurry storage unless you can separate the urine from the dung and store independently. Whatever happens, it costs farmers thousands. I have learnt to watch what building developments happens at Greenmount as they always do things first.

@ActionAgri 8 ай бұрын

My advise to the people in charge of regulating farmers is be careful, we can see what has happened in Europe with French and German farmers, farmers can only take so much we need to realise that we have power if we work as a collective at the end of the day it’s us that feed people,not the processors or supermarkets I think people forget that sometimes.

@mikeysky8917 8 ай бұрын

@@ActionAgri Exactly 👍

@murraysmith6315 8 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable! My ignorance is asking how you fill your outdoor feeder with TMR?

@ActionAgri 8 ай бұрын

Can be a challenge at times ☔️ 😂

@charliedoherty5965 8 ай бұрын

Nice job..just wondering why the hot wash before milking

@ActionAgri 8 ай бұрын

Thank you , to be honest my main reason for the hot rince in the morning is to warm the clusters up for the cows, and also I have found in the past that when I just left my parlour ready for next milking my bacto count tended to rise could be coincidence I donno?