This week, dairy farmer Alan Burton from Minehill is curating the Irish Farmers twitter page (@IrelandsFarmers from Feb 25th to March 3rd), where a different farmer curates every week. He is adding lots with lots of photos, videos, and stories of daily life on a dairy farm. Check it out!
https://twitter.com/IrelandsFarmers/status/1101222795734863872
Is it really only still February, this has to be the best country in the world when we get blue skies like this pic.twitter.com/ChZbI3Wuon
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 26, 2019
And that’s no 3 born just after 11.30 this morning getting her important first feed with the first 2 hours of life pic.twitter.com/OrpyrZQaNY
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 27, 2019
This is the milk meter which records there milk morning and evening. That cow gave just under 35 liters this morning. And another to think of that is she gave 35 cartons of 1 liter of milk , she will hopefully give around 17 to 18 this evening pic.twitter.com/hpNjXtPi1d
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/IrelandsFarmers/status/1100457515551203328
Fresh lunch time grass for the cows today, trying to get through the reseeded ground by Thursday as rain is due. The reseeded ground will get damaged easily with rain. pic.twitter.com/CAMrYvaTXI
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 26, 2019
Morning folks , Of to milk the cows here, a short little clip of the dawn chorus from this morning around our house, make sure to have the volume up pic.twitter.com/uHch6FMyap
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 26, 2019
Now that day job is finished time to get cracking at the night job, getting married here in July, anyone any tips or ideas to add to a wedding pic.twitter.com/W9JSOii4i4
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 25, 2019
Cows out for the night here, first time this has ever happened on this farm In February pic.twitter.com/uahPtiktar
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 25, 2019
Next job for the day is to make sure I’ve enough grass for the second rotation, 28 units of nutri boost going out on grazed paddocks pic.twitter.com/YW3HlnBL8z
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 25, 2019
Cows have been out here by day for the last 14 days, currently in a paddock of a cover of just over 1500, Milking extremely well for February, at 30.09 liters and just over 2.22kgms on 7kgs of a 16% coarse, 85 of the 106 have calved down and the end of the first 6 weeks is pic.twitter.com/vfvVsM88kG
— IrelandsFarmers (@IrelandsFarmers) February 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/IrelandsFarmers/status/1099756780614307840
