Gates, parlour, and feed barriers

[@penningtoncolin]

I've been dropping in and out of your videos for a while now but wow your progress is impressive mate good luck to you breaking into dairy that's my passion, I grew up on my grandparents dairy farm was there every weekend school holidays from an early age 1975 we put In a 6 abreast parlour and a 90 house cubical building slurry store etc I was 6 at time I rember it all I left the farm in 98 my uncle sold up cos of falling milk price and he married a townie who thought all money made was for posh sofas and kitchens cars carpets etc😡still a sore subject in reflection uncle told my my mum he wished he'd passed it to me ,we had 100 acres 70 milkers and followers in northwest of England I'm 55 I still miss farming I'm a digger driver now ,wow you had my full life story 🤦😊

[@johnnaughton4215]

Great progress on your yard. Just on milking parlour if you have the frame and all the milking equipment for the 12 unit. I recommend you put it in. You wil not regret it because the less rows of cows to milk the better. For example if were milking 60 cows its only 5 rows with the 12. But 7.5 rows with 8 unit. I can assure you there wil be alot of moments where you wil be glad that you have 2.5 rows less to be milkling because your milking wil be finished quicker. And i know it from experience .

[@DavidFitzachary]

100% correct.

[@markwalsh5650]

Best of luck with all your work looks a great job

[@Andy-ix2ox]

I know that they are expensive and you are already spending lots of money but I would suggest that you take the plunge and get yourself a calving gate, now here me out, when you are calving heifers in particular on your own the ability to restrain them is half the battle, because invariably they are excited because they don’t know what’s going on and you are exhausted because it’s the fifth night in a row that you are up at 3 am , it just makes life easier on you and the heifer. Also if you have to do a c. Section ( hopefully not in the first few years but you can never tell) the vet will be considerably less grumpy at 3 am if you have the right facility to allow them do their job and you have to remember that your vet might be 5’ 3” and 7 or 8 stone and 3 or 4 months pregnant herself and if someone like that arrives at 3 am to get you out of trouble it’s nice to know that you can at least give them as safe a working environment as possible. It’s something that I have that is rarely used but I sleep better knowing that it is there if needed ( calved 170 last year and probably only used it 3 or 4 times, no sections and maybe used the jack 5 or 6 times mostly for calves coming backwards) you might get away with it if you’re cattle crush was handy to the calving shed but it doesn’t appear to be so think about it and if you can possibly stretch to it, I would suggest it’s kinda important. Otherwise great to see the progress and thanks for sharing. Regards from Wicklow

[@cecilbates5423]

I totally agree with you. Calving gate or crush head gate in the calving shed is the job. When a heifers head is caught , no more monkeying outa them. I milk fresh calved heifers in the calving gate night and morning for 4 or 5 days to the get them settled and used to the machine. Just run an airline ( 1\2 inch garden hose) from dairy and connect to the dump bucket.. only way to handle heifers on my own

[@OUTTHEGAP]

Hi Kieran, Fairplay and best of luck with the ongoing work and investment. Noel

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

It is all coming together. Hope the rest goes smoothly and the weather cooperates.😊

[@cdemo1186]

Super progress Kieran. Great to see.

[@pierceol966]

Great progress Kieran,its starting to come together now,best of luck with the rest of the renovations you wont feel till you have the heifers going through the parlour

[@teresacorcoran6554]

Making great progress can't wait to see it up and running

[@pjdoyle5105]

Great to see the progress, thanks for sharing, looking forward to next one already

[@michaelmccormick546]

Looking great big man, you'll have that parlour up in no time

[@Hillfarmlamb]

Looking good keiran going to be a nice setup no interest in Dairying but always look forward to your updates 👍👍

[@briancannon1620]

Good progress Kieran.

[@joenolan7264]

Great work done Kieran, was wondering to myself this evening how things were progressing for you. Thanks for the update.

[@irishdancer2753]

Kieran, all your work looks great! Well done!!

[@sean6170mf]

Coming on nicely fair play

[@Imtheman1977]

Your making progress but I'd recommend water pipes are frost protected. You will be thankful later

[@liamcollins746]

Nice progress. Keep the videos coming.

[@dronedairys7461]

Great progress Kieran. Delighted to see it all working out so good for you

[@georgemorrison6689]

Looking great Kieran, no keen on those hinge clamps for the gate on the pillar they are okay for a quick fix but long term they fall apart, why not (here we go sorry mate) get your welder to weld on 2 bits of the steel pillars then weld on hinges to that that will move your gate towards the wall enough to bolt a bracket on to take up the space that's left, if you understand, enjoyed the video

[@philiptyndall4968]

Put a full barrel in for the sump Kieran. You need the dept for the float switch to work. I had to dig out our sump last winter to deepen it

[@smalldairyfarmer]

That's handy to stop cattle nocking gates of locking good

[@caffrey9762]

2 nd, through the magic Door, where did I hear that last 🤠 , 35 years ago, Bosco 😂

[@johnheneghan174]

Them walls in the pit have to be put in at an angle wider in the bottom of the pit so your feet is in and you're back is straight when you're milking

[@paddy294]

Things are coming along nice

[@Del-xr9nx]

I have that hoodie too, the keeper hill challenge in Newport Tipp, 32k bike, 19k hill run, 6k bike

[@olan6600]

Before you’ve all the concrete down run pipes for water and elec etc. A lot easier now. Better for water for frost protection.

[@aidancasey75]

Agree with the person that said about the calving gate , if you were to swing open those gates you hung to meet the wall your calving pens would be a lot bigger, I know some of it may not be under cover of a roof but it will give you more space

[@seantormey3531]

Well done. Great progress. If I may suggest not too forget to lag that water pipe to prevent it freezing.

[@seansugrue2213]

Keep up the good videos kieran yard looking good

[@DonalHarte]

Making great progress

[@DeclanMcGrade]

Your getting there but as you know a good bit of work to do yet but I'm sure you'll get there all the best with the new venture

[@paulthompson8467]

Great progress wee calving gate would be a great idea if you can manage it make's calving safer for you the vet and the heifer 🙂

[@tysonhorse]

Telescopic gates are handy for awkard openings.

[@christinejeffrey5994]

Good progress.

[@jacjones4776]

Good to see it coming along nicely. We did our parlour last year. The thing i regret most is the barrel for the sump pump. I would have sunk a ibc if i knew as it has to be deep. Where are you thinking of putting the tank?

[@thomasodonoghue6933]

Great job. But dont put barrell in pit. Put a wavin pipe down and put grid on it after run it outside to a small concrete tank. Made from two 4ft concrete pipe up on each other when you dig hole just pour concrete into pipes for floor. Then have flow to tank naturally or field. Dont go with pumps as they give trouble and cow hair kills them. Dont have barrell in pit as it will smell and imagine dirty jod of lifting out pump. You can suck out the small concrete tank with vacuum tank every now and then. Catchs all solids.

[@gerrybrown]

Best of luck with everything , will you not be very tight with grass for silage and grazing with milking , if I'm right you don't have huge amount of acres ?

[@sullivansfarm]

I’m matching the number of cows to the number of acres. Roughly 1 cow to the acre.

[@jerryryan8769]

If the budget allows see can you get a brisket bored and a neck rail fitted to those cubicles , safer for heffers and cows and they will be more likely to lie on them correctly as a result

[@dave291973]

Just a thought on the parlor blue barrel I would make the pipes so at some point u could pump the water straight out the field it’s amazing how much water the parlor puts in the pit

[@derekmcguinness6916]

Doesnt the parlour washings have to be collected?

[@pumphesh2048]

Kieran when are you getting the ground back that you have leased out and are you milking many in your first yr?

[@johnearle6667]

How will you scrape out the cubicles? With the tractor or with a hand scraper ?

[@sullivansfarm]

Not sure but it’ll be one of those 2 options. Probably the manual one for the 1st few weeks anyway

[@Jasonculhaneagri]

I don’t like trying to pretend ino anything more than any man but with the cow mats, ino from experience that the shit and dirt plus bacteria and all them bad things will build up under them as they aren’t held down at the end near scrap passage. Maybe bolt in either corner would do to hold them down.

[@johnconcannon380]

Will the tank not fill with rain water kieran

[@sullivansfarm]

Some rain will get in but it’d take years to fill it. And I’ll be emptying every few months

[@condonovan7965]

Run a 6 inch pipe from the blue barrel sump the save having to pump

[@michaelrohan6629]

Don’t make the same mistake I did and use a blue barrel it will collapse in time and u can’t get it out when the floor is down use alarge concrete pipe and put a concrete floor in it

[@jerryryan8769]

3 foot plastic corrie pipe 👌

[@kierancooney5663]

Run a number of sheep to graze that reseeding they do some job I sometime move some of ewes to farmers reseeding and both sheep me and the farmer are more that pleased .

[@georgedoorley5628]

why did u not have the safety manhole agitating point. outside the feed area ......?

[@jerryryan8769]

Because it isn’t roofed

[@georgedoorley5628]

@@jerryryan8769 but for agitating and emptying the tank in winter when the cows are on the slats it would be easier to be able to do that in safety and comfort if the manhole was outside the pen ..............

[@jerryryan8769]

@ I know and understand that but it’s just not mandatory requirement if it’s not roofed

[@MdraselHossoin]

What should I tell you? Give me a job in your company. I work at Daily Farm. Please, I really need the job. I am from Bangladesh.

[@gearoidkelly533]

1st

[@davidforan2871]

Get Dunphy on camera that would be entertaining

[@sullivansfarm]

I’ll have to ask him to say a few words in the next video