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#1 ·
Ireland is getting some unuasal canadian type weather for tbe coming week.At the moment we have wind coming from siberia with bright sunshine by day and cold minus 4 nights but the wind chill factor makes it feel like minus 8.
Temps are forecast to fall to minus 10 by next weekend with snow forecast for most days and temps staying below freezing all day.
Meanwhile our normal feb weather is aparently on holiday in north america,if you guys could send it home early we would be most grateful.
 
#2 ·
Nope, we will keep it thanks! This has been one of the worst winters I can remember, so much wind and cold, not record breaking cold, but close to 10 degrees below normal most days.
 
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#3 ·
Wind from Siberia? Doesn't sound very appealing. We have had more of an old-style winter this year. Seems like it's been colder overall than the last few years, with a couple of cold snaps thrown in. And more snow. The sump in my garage needed to be pumped out already. The last few years I've gone all winter without having to pump it out. Not a very scientific way of recording and comparing snowfall amounts, I know.
 
#5 ·
Sorry, that's not Canadian prairies weather...not even close!

Enjoy the cold weather and know that it won't last. It will make spring feel that much better when it comes.:wink:

I was over in the Netherlands a couple weeks ago and got some of that -4 weather you are describing, it was great!:cool:
 
#7 ·
Most land near water like Ireland are never going to get that cold. Even iceland cant match Canada's temps.

The other day Regina had a +4 afternoon and by nightfall was -30C with wind chill and we have had a few of those. Those days are hard on the head.
 
#8 ·
Hope you enjoy your visit to our little island Bauerr 11 and that the weather has improved.
Sw frozen milking parlour and scrapers in the the cow house soon take their toll on your ability to enjoy the dry cold.
Wet is normally the winter complaint over here,but since we got a full blown hurricane last october its been raining constantly and now the first decent dry spell is sub zero.Has its benefits though slurry is been spread on stubbles for spring crops but if all this snow shows up we wont be ploughing yet
Spread nitrogen on winter wheat last week any advice on frost and how it may affect it?
 
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Sw frozen milking parlour and scrapers in the the cow house soon take their toll on your ability to enjoy the dry cold.
Wet is normally the winter complaint over here,but since we got a full blown hurricane last october its been raining constantly and now the first decent dry spell is sub zero.Has its benefits though slurry is been spread on stubbles for spring crops but if all this snow shows up we wont be ploughing yet
Spread nitrogen on winter wheat last week any advice on frost and how it may affect it?
Yeah, that doesn't sound like fun. Hope things turn around for you guys. Winter wheat would be most at risk this time of year but I would be surprised if a -10 kills it. Maybe your stuff is different somehow but I have had snow and -13 on wheat that was tillering in May and it was fine.

You know my home town was named after Killarney Ireland. I have heard it is nice but have never been there.
 
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Thanks. We came last spring and had great weather. Ended up spending most of our time in the Dublin area but did get a bus tours to The Cliffs of Moher. Then the train strike hit and we missed a lot of the area we wanted to see. This year we have a car rented and are starting in Limerick, Killarney, then heading north to Boyle to stay at a castle where my great grandma worked prior to 1911 before coming to Canada, then Belfast and back to Kilkenny and Dublin before coming home. Beautiful country and lots to see.
 
#12 ·
Sw its the nitrogen im worried about how much of it will be lost ?
Youre from killarney canada,wonder does that make you a Kerryman?.
Bauerr when youre up in belfast try and get over to east donegal lovely part of the country and if you get the chance visit enniscorthy in wexford when youre down south.
Train drivers strike last year was a bit of an irish joke company is loosing millions but workers think the deserve a pay rise.
Killarney is really beautiful but really expensive argue the ptice with the horse buggy guys if you take a tour with them. Have a cup of coffee in miss courtneys tea rooms in town and try and visit dingle peninsula .
Dingle is a lovely town.If you are a star wars fan dont forget the skellig rocks also in south kerry.
Blizzard forecast for saturday.
 
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Sw its the nitrogen im worried about how much of it will be lost ?
Youre from killarney canada,wonder does that make you a Kerryman?.
That depends on if the ground is saturated and for how long. If it is you will lose some for sure.

My family came from England in the 1800's so that probably makes me a loser to an Irish person...ha ha. I'm not really Irish at all, I would never kiss the Blarney stone...:wink:
 
#16 ·
Fell in the yard and cracked ribs hard packed snow the cause
Put anti freeze through the milking parlour seems to be doing the trick keeping it going.
Sw the english are simply the cousins only the irish are allowed fight them or criticise them.
My family came to ireland from kent in the 1920s
 
#22 ·
What do you do with a cow who has drank too much cold water? Water was frozen in cow house for a day got it going last night and several cows a bit off this morning.
Would have eaten 5 kgs of meal twice during the dry day.All advice from those who keep stock app.
 
#23 ·
If they are resting comfortably, eating well, chewing their cud, etc, they'll pull through

If they seem off, drench with warm water (molasses to keep rumen bugs hopping, mineral oil to make sure they don't get plugged up)

Mostly grass based ration? Concentrate in the parlour only?
 
#24 ·
Thank you caroncrest the mollasses and warm water did the trick,cows back eating.
Maize and grass silage meal in parlour should be on zero grazed grass but has been to wet to cut.Thaw has started next we will be flooded.I need a glass of good whiskey to finish this long hard weary day.
 
#25 ·
Some days are like that, sucks to have to just keep going and pull through, but that's life with cows....

We had our turn around New Years this past year. A week or two of -30 for a high, -40 or worse at night. I easily spent an extra 3 or 4 hours every day getting alley scrapers to work properly, thawing out water lines, checking fans, etc.. plus milking morning and night because some staff were on holidays. If I hadn't thought our old barn was worn out before, I sure do now. Our new barn didn't hardly skip a beat...

Quote from one of the guys who used to work with us, went back to ranching now...

"If there's a way to die, a Holstein will figure it out". Hope the girls can stay producing well for you through all the transitions!
 
#34 ·
Schools reopening tomorrow thaw well underway though drifts have blocked some roads.Milk lorry got through today had to pull it down the lane with 2 tractors
Hard to believe how you guys manage 6 months of this **** .6 weeks would kill me!
 
#35 ·
MF32, did you happen to take any photos of the snow conditions at its worst, pulling the milk truck and so forth as it would be interesting to see what an area that normally doesn't receive snow looks like. I am guessing there wouldn't be much for snow plows available to put on roads in an area like that either.
 
#36 ·
1m sorry to say i never even thought of photos,the sheer drudgery of getting daily tasks done coupled with sore ribs left me ragged.
The milk lorry day started with a stand up row with the tanker driver who wanted us to bring the milk to the main road after we were up half the night clearing drifts with the teleporter to get him down the lane.
Probably would have made it without sliding into the ditch if he wasnt so windy.Then hitch up two tractors and drag him out,lots of swearing you get the picture?
Believe it or not the country has plenty of snow ploughs a legacy of 2010 the last time we had bad snow,but this weeks weather is the worst snow since 1982 and the latest since 1947
Me and smartphones have never been friends i keep breaking them so i have used the brick phones for the last few years.Will nail this photo thing soon as i intend to post photos of this springs work and crops.thats if spring ever comes.
 
#37 ·
I totally understand about not having photos as often that is the last thing one thinks about when one is struggling to keep above water ... or snow in this case. I did find some news reports and while I expect I saw the worst of it, it just blew me away with the extreme height of some drifts, totally insane for just one storm event. I also noted some plow trucks and saw a backhoe with a blade on it so I began to realize there are pieces of equipment around. I know around here it would be a total disaster as well to try and dig out from such a massive mess.

Spring will come all right, longer days and the sun higher in the sky and some wind with heat will take snow quickly but imagine you may have some water flowing around as well when that takes place.
 
#38 ·
Its raining now and most of the snow has melted,but the big drifts in the hedges are hanging on.land is saturated and ponds of water lying everywhere.Looks like it will be a late spring.Big debate in the media about animal welfare after several big nz style dairy units suffered heavy losses with cows housed on topless cubicles,with calls for such housing to be banned.
Personally i couldnt agree more .Ireland was more like canada last week than nz and low cost production and high welfare standards dont go well together.
 
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