Karen you are so right it is insulting to Farmers it is farming on paper instead of a visual inspection that would confirm what great cows you have It also makes good farming sense to have big framed cows to avoid calving difficulties but what do Farmers know they only keep the country and the planet fed Happy Christmas to you and yours
That Star system is obviously badly flawed, not that we know anything but you do a great job with beautiful animals so whoever gives the rating should have gone to spec savers! And we laughed at the " Sheehan get your backside down there" moment hehe. Merry Christmas to You and your family Karen! Thanks for entertaining us again this year. X
Karen, when cattle go into the shed, they are inclined to go back a little initially before they start to thrive again as they adjust to the new diet and the shed environment. They are lovely cattle for their age. Next weighing will be much better. Well done. Happy Christmas 🎄 to everyone.
Happy Christmas to Karen , your Dad , Rob & everyone, great to see the cattle in such great condition and so happy, thanks for the great videos in ‘24 and looking forward to ‘25, Enjoy Christmas 🍺.
You are doing a great job with your cattle. They are in great condition. They are a credit to you. Wishing you your Dad and your family a Very Happy Christmas and a very Prosperous 2025.
Thanks Karen for sharing another great video. Lots of interesting information that you explained so we all can understand. Thanks again hope you all have a fantastic Christmas take care.
It would be interesting to see who is master minding the star system. Could it be people with a vested interest in the scheme? Maybe it suits their cattle. For what it is worth, I have been involved with cattle for about 30 years, so I am still a newby with a lot to learn. What I have learnt, a moderate sized cow, who calves every year, and rears a good weaners, is your most valuable asset. Keep up the good work.
Karen you've done nothing wrong only cared and loved ur animals. A very Merry Christmas to u and all ur family, hope u have a happy and peaceful time. I know caring for animals is 365 days a year but relax while you can. Best Wishes, Poth 🎅
Karen, it sure does seem a shame to have to downgrade such lovely cattle, when it doesn’t make much sense. Hoping for you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It is amazing how you manage your time with a full time job and then strenuous part time farming. You are truley amazing. Some videos will be cattle heavy after all thats what your farming is all about. Have a Merry Christmas 😀
100% agree with you on the big cow plus as a cull they come into good money. To heck with stars your cattle speak for themselves, €s > ⭐️s! .Happy Christmas 🎄
Doing a Beautiful job with your Gorgeous shean and cattle. Hard working always with a smile . Merry Christmas to you and your Beautiful family sending love enjoy from Australia ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Karen, everday ''is a school day'' where you educate us on the intricacy of farming issues. Can understand the importance of that grading system which will eventually improve the overall quality of the national herd.. Thanks for all the entertainment you have provided duuring the year. Have a great Christmas & Keep 'er Lit.
I'm a suckler farmer and I share your skepticism on the suckler star rating. In my view, it completely over rates a heifer from a dairy cow and under rates a cow from a suckler dam purely to drive a market for heifers coming from dairy stock as replacements
Put the stars system aside for a bit Karen and may the Star of Bethlehem guide you and your family through a joyful Christmas to a healthy and happy New Year.
Karen it must be hard letting the cattle go but I just love the way you care and the love you have for the cattle you are a star love the videos have a merry xmas
Hello Karen. I'm afraid I do not understand this *stars* system. But I do like seeing you working with your animals. I never tire of that. Sounds as if I won't see you again until after Christmas, so I'll wish you and your family every happiness over the festive season. Look after yourself. xx
Your cattle are a credit to you , the system you use works for you . Having cattle on slats always leads to " dirty" cattle and having slat mats can make things slightly worse, it's not the end of the world though and your cows will clean up again. Thank you for your videos over this year and I look forward to watching as you progress through 2025, have yourself a peaceful and happy Christmas with all your family.
Давно не был на вашем канале! Зашёл посмотреть чем занимается самая красивая ирландка! В общем большая молодец, работает как пчёлка с утра до вечера! Хорошая хозяйка!)))
@ I only found you a few months ago and enjoy watching everything you’ve doing to keep the farm going. I like your Dad am stuck in a chair and I think we are alike. He doesn’t let things beat him and he seems as stubborn as me 😂
Hi Karen the tractor and loader turned out well so full marks to the man that did the job for you … the loader will make life easier for you and it’s no bother for you to operate it …. So I say a very happy Christmas to you Karen & rob your dad and mom and the rest of your family hope Santa 🎅 will bring you something nice 💍🍷🍺🎄🎉🎊☃️
Hi Karen Another great video Thanks for all the videos over the past year. Looking forward to more of the same in the coming year. Merry Christmas to you and all the family.
I very much can appreciate you getting attached to your animals Karen! Tough to do when you are interacting with them on a regular basis. Like family pets, we notice their mannerisms and personalities and in delightful cases, a few even warm up to us humans! 🤣 You all take such good care of ALL your animals so never sweat any undesirable comments. If you all are pleased then that is all that matters! Thank You for your videos, stories, back histories and all the cool scenery shots of 2024! LQQKING forward to 2025! Stay blessed and keep smiling and strutting! Cheers From Across The Pond In COW-lumbus, Ohio! MOO 👋
Happy Christmas to you and your family. I hear the hurt in your voice about the star rating. It's tough to hear that about animals you love just try to remember it's not you just social changes that sometimes are unfair. You are doing a excellent job 👏 keep it up have a blessed new years
Great content Karen!! Thank you so much !!! Please take some time off during Christmas!!! Enjoy your family and friends!!! God bless you and Merry CHRISTmas to you and yours!!!! Eddy
Happy Christmas to you and your family. Thanks for all the great videos. Your cattle are a credit to you. The star ratings doesn't reflect the good cattle you have.
Evening Karen, another fabulous video You always seem to educate but in an enjoyable entertaining way You certainly take great care and should be proud of your results with your stock The results of the changes in ration will be interesting to see You remind me of Joe Seels and the sheep game Cammy the way you talk to the cattle I hope you, your dad and your whole family have a very happy Christmas, best wishes for the New Year Please try and take a bit of time out yourself, to enjoy the festivities Take care all Geoff
You are right - the bullocks need to put on at least another 100kgs to get close to maximum in factory - at 1.5 kg av. gain a day thats 70days giving 8kgs of meal. My prediction on silage you were feeding is below average quality and 2kg of meal was just above maintaining them .Heifers will always do that little bit better in that situation .
Merry Christmas Karen and you family ❤. I agree with you on the star system it's a joke and the suckler scem is two paperwork heavy it's why a lot of farmer's don't go for it
Hi Katen I enjoy the videos well done to yee. For next year you should consider storing the bales separately as in to piles side by side instead of filling the yard all the way across then putting the second cut in front.
I was looking at the Farmers Journal on 7th of December a bull in Elphin mart went for a record price of 15k he was a one star bull no irish farmer wanted him a man from wales bought him home. This has become a joke I walked away from SCEP last week I'll tell ya Karen Moynihan I've never known such peace and with that Happy Christmas to you and your family 🎄✨
The star system is particularly hard on the simmentals cows. They just do not want a big cow regardless of how they perform. We were advocates of the stars, a small herd but they have it fully based on environmental factors now so we have lost interest in it, it is a weighted system, ex cow live weight makes up a higher % of the score than carcass conformation or carcass weight etc. We still use the individual traits to make our breeding decisions, milk figure, docility, carcass weight and conformation but play no heed to the overall star figure. The simmental society have pulled out of icbf and hopefully others will follow.
Hi Karen, A very happy Christmas to you and all of the family. Have you ever considered joining a discussion group? I know that with work, it might not be easy to get to all of the meetings, but they are a great way of bouncing problems and ideas off other farmers. And it's another social outlet. Your dad might enjoy them as well.
@karenmoynihanfarm If you get in touch with your local Teagasc office, they are normally organised through them, and you have other discussion groups as well. But the Teagasc office would be able to point you in the right direction. They are held in rotation on the different farms of the members of each discussion group, and they cover everything and anything that you can think of that is farming related. They can be great to throw out a problem you might be experiencing or an idea you might have and have it discussed.
Karen you are so right it is insulting to Farmers it is farming on paper instead of a visual inspection that would confirm what great cows you have It also makes good farming sense to have big framed cows to avoid calving difficulties but what do Farmers know they only keep the country and the planet fed Happy Christmas to you and yours
Love how you name everyone and everyone knows their names, all the very best for Xmas and have a good one
That Star system is obviously badly flawed, not that we know anything but you do a great job with beautiful animals so whoever gives the rating should have gone to spec savers! And we laughed at the " Sheehan get your backside down there" moment hehe. Merry Christmas to You and your family Karen! Thanks for entertaining us again this year. X
@@theroving1 Thank you so much, have a good one 🎄
Karen, when cattle go into the shed, they are inclined to go back a little initially before they start to thrive again as they adjust to the new diet and the shed environment. They are lovely cattle for their age. Next weighing will be much better. Well done. Happy Christmas 🎄 to everyone.
Ok thanks for that, I didn't realise
Happy Christmas to Karen , your Dad , Rob & everyone, great to see the cattle in such great condition and so happy, thanks for the great videos in ‘24 and looking forward to ‘25, Enjoy Christmas 🍺.
You are doing a great job with your cattle. They are in great condition. They are a credit to you. Wishing you your Dad and your family a Very Happy Christmas and a very Prosperous 2025.
Thanks Karen for sharing another great video. Lots of interesting information that you explained so we all can understand. Thanks again hope you all have a fantastic Christmas take care.
Thank you, you too!
It would be interesting to see who is master minding the star system. Could it be people with a vested interest in the scheme? Maybe it suits their cattle. For what it is worth, I have been involved with cattle for about 30 years, so I am still a newby with a lot to learn. What I have learnt, a moderate sized cow, who calves every year, and rears a good weaners, is your most valuable asset. Keep up the good work.
Just popping in to wish you & yours a Merry Christmas and A Happy New year. Keep up the fantastic work 🎄
happy christmas karen your keeping your stock in good order
Thanks for sharing the video love hearing about the cows.
I feel your pain with your bullock it's hard to send them to factory .
Cattle looks great, all 5-star to me 👍. Merry Christmas to all of you.
Happy Xmas Karen 😀
May the Sun always be on your face and the wind on your back😜😜
😅😅 thank you!
Merry Christmas Karen beautiful animals as usual 👍
Karen you've done nothing wrong only cared and loved ur animals. A very Merry Christmas to u and all ur family, hope u have a happy and peaceful time. I know caring for animals is 365 days a year but relax while you can.
Best Wishes, Poth 🎅
happy christmass to you and yours .a 135 and a 390 best tractors massey ever made your doing all right cattle look great well fed
Karen, it sure does seem a shame to have to downgrade such lovely cattle, when it doesn’t make much sense.
Hoping for you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It is amazing how you manage your time with a full time job and then strenuous part time farming. You are truley amazing. Some videos will be cattle heavy after all thats what your farming is all about. Have a Merry Christmas 😀
Thank you, you too! 🎄
Thanks for the videos, Karen. Merry Christmas & Best wishes for 2025.
When you have cattle fattening you can’t change the feed and expect them to still gain as before. The gut has to get used to a new diet.
Fair point
100% agree with you on the big cow plus as a cull they come into good money. To heck with stars your cattle speak for themselves, €s > ⭐️s! .Happy Christmas 🎄
I have enjoyed your videos and I adore your lovely Irish accent. Have a Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas lovely lady and all your family
Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy Christmas, it's been a joy to share time with you throughout the year ❤
Thank you so much! 😊🎅🎄
Merry Christmas! I always enjoy watching your videos.
@@markgroff1222 Thank you, happy Christmas 🎄
Doing a Beautiful job with your Gorgeous shean and cattle.
Hard working always with a smile .
Merry Christmas to you and your Beautiful family sending love enjoy from Australia ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Happy Christmas Karen thanks for a great year of videos. E joy the break .
@@user-lz8jx7vw3u Thank you, you too!
Someone who gives names to their animals are kind to their animals.
Happy Christmas and thank you for your content over this last year.🎉
@@danjdclark Thank you, have a good one 🎄
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊
Merry Christmas Karen and to the family, your videos and are very good you are a great worker
Karen, everday ''is a school day'' where you educate us on the intricacy of farming issues. Can understand the importance of that grading system which will eventually improve the overall quality of the national herd.. Thanks for all the entertainment you have provided duuring the year. Have a great Christmas & Keep 'er Lit.
I'm a suckler farmer and I share your skepticism on the suckler star rating. In my view, it completely over rates a heifer from a dairy cow and under rates a cow from a suckler dam purely to drive a market for heifers coming from dairy stock as replacements
you are absolutely right. its dreadful how these systems are impacting farming
Yes you are right. They don't want sucklers, they want the likes of us to take the dairy calves
Well done Karen, have a happy and safe Christmas.
you deserve every ounce of praise you get for how you keep the animals. well done. mind yourself and happy christmas to you and everyone in your care.
Great video Karen. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Hope 🎅 is good to you. Enjoyed watching.
And Merry Christmas to you and all your family.!!❤
Thanks for all the great videos Karen. Happy Christmas to you and your dad and all the family
Thank you! 🎅🎅
Happy Christmas to you Karen, and your family . ❤
Put the stars system aside for a bit Karen and may the Star of Bethlehem guide you and your family through a joyful Christmas to a healthy and happy New Year.
Thank you for sharing this year. You have worked hard
Hope and your family have a nice Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year
Thank you, you too 🎄
Cattle look good, your doing a great job, enjoy the Christmas 🎄
Forget about the Star do what you doing
Karen it must be hard letting the cattle go but I just love the way you care and the love you have for the cattle you are a star love the videos have a merry xmas
Happy Holidays from Co Clare no holidays for us farmers but enjoy
Hello Karen. I'm afraid I do not understand this *stars* system. But I do like seeing you working with your animals. I never tire of that. Sounds as if I won't see you again until after Christmas, so I'll wish you and your family every happiness over the festive season. Look after yourself. xx
Thank you and you too 🎄
Your cattle are a credit to you , the system you use works for you .
Having cattle on slats always leads to " dirty" cattle and having slat mats can make things slightly worse, it's not the end of the world though and your cows will clean up again.
Thank you for your videos over this year and I look forward to watching as you progress through 2025, have yourself a peaceful and happy Christmas with all your family.
Thank you so much. Have a great Christmas 🎄
Your cattle are looking well they are a credit to you and your hard work xxx
Thanks ☺️
Nice year! Merry Christmas to you and your family
Have a very happy Christmas and to all your family. Have a rest yourself too. Stars my AR. .SE.😅
I agree 😂😂
Happy christmas Karen and all the family love all your videos
Thank you 🎅🎅
Don’t worry about a video, just have a lovely Christmas with your family Karen. Happy Christmas. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🎄
Good luck with everything ahead on the farm. Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you, you too! 🎄
Suit case thingy, I call it a spring balance. My Dad would weigh lambs with one in the 1960s. Karen gets a gold star! cheers Jim in NZ.
Haha thanks for that
All cattle looking very good great work going on Happy Christmas 🎄 Karen
Happy Christmas to you and yours 🎄🎁🥂💕
Давно не был на вашем канале! Зашёл посмотреть чем занимается самая красивая ирландка! В общем большая молодец, работает как пчёлка с утра до вечера! Хорошая хозяйка!)))
Have a great Christmas with your family Karen and merry Christmas to you all
Thank you, you too!
@ I only found you a few months ago and enjoy watching everything you’ve doing to keep the farm going. I like your Dad am stuck in a chair and I think we are alike. He doesn’t let things beat him and he seems as stubborn as me 😂
@richardcanning7351 oh he's definitely stubborn anyway 😅
Hi Karen the tractor and loader turned out well so full marks to the man that did the job for you … the loader will make life easier for you and it’s no bother for you to operate it …. So I say a very happy Christmas to you Karen & rob your dad and mom and the rest of your family hope Santa 🎅 will bring you something nice 💍🍷🍺🎄🎉🎊☃️
Thanks you, you too! 🎄🎅
Hi Karen Another great video
Thanks for all the videos over the past year. Looking forward to more of the same in the coming year. Merry Christmas to you and all the family.
Thank you so much and you too! 🎄
Your a good farmer karen, a happy christmas to you and your family and a happy and healty new year.
I very much can appreciate you getting attached to your animals Karen! Tough to do when you are interacting with them on a regular basis. Like family pets, we notice their mannerisms and personalities and in delightful cases, a few even warm up to us humans! 🤣 You all take such good care of ALL your animals so never sweat any undesirable comments. If you all are pleased then that is all that matters! Thank You for your videos, stories, back histories and all the cool scenery shots of 2024! LQQKING forward to 2025! Stay blessed and keep smiling and strutting! Cheers From Across The Pond In COW-lumbus, Ohio! MOO 👋
Thank you so much!! 😊
Well said 👍
@@IanPothecary-dx1jd Salute Ian....Thank you Mate! 👋
Your welcome, Karen educates and entertains us all. Merry Christmas to u sir.🎅
@@IanPothecary-dx1jd Christmas Tidings to You and Your Crew too My Man! Cheers👍
I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas!!!
@@Murphycats You too!
@@Murphycats You too!!
I’ll say happy Christmas to you and all the family ❤❤❤❤
Happy Christmas to you and your family. I hear the hurt in your voice about the star rating. It's tough to hear that about animals you love just try to remember it's not you just social changes that sometimes are unfair. You are doing a excellent job 👏 keep it up have a blessed new years
Super vid Karen very informative about what's going on the farm
Thank you 😊
Great content Karen!! Thank you so much !!! Please take some time off during Christmas!!! Enjoy your family and friends!!! God bless you and Merry CHRISTmas to you and yours!!!! Eddy
Happy Christmas Karen hope you and youre families have a great time and you have some free time for yourself to unwind. 🎁✨️🎄🧸.cheers 🥂
Thank you. I have 3 days off work so looking forward to that
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!!!!
Happy Christmas to you and your family. Thanks for all the great videos. Your cattle are a credit to you. The star ratings doesn't reflect the good cattle you have.
@@JamesPrendergast-is6ob Thank you, you too 🎄
Happy Christmas to u nd ur family karen hope u all have a good one
Evening Karen, another fabulous video
You always seem to educate but in an enjoyable entertaining way
You certainly take great care and should be proud of your results with your stock
The results of the changes in ration will be interesting to see
You remind me of Joe Seels and the sheep game Cammy the way you talk to the cattle
I hope you, your dad and your whole family have a very happy Christmas, best wishes for the New Year
Please try and take a bit of time out yourself, to enjoy the festivities
Take care all
Geoff
Thanks Geoff, you too! 🎄🎄
Great video Merry Christmas Karen and all the family
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🇨🇦👍🏻
Cattle look very well Karen good work with the new feed ration 👍🏻
We all here wish you and your family a very happy Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you and the family i hope you have a great day and plenty of food and drink 😊 x
Thank you, I'm sure I will and you too
And a very happy Christmas to you and all your family
🎅🎅
Happy Christmas to you and your family Karen
You are right - the bullocks need to put on at least another 100kgs to get close to maximum in factory - at 1.5 kg av. gain a day thats 70days giving 8kgs of meal. My prediction on silage you were feeding is below average quality and 2kg of meal was just above maintaining them .Heifers will always do that little bit better in that situation .
Merry Christmas Karen and you family ❤. I agree with you on the star system it's a joke and the suckler scem is two paperwork heavy it's why a lot of farmer's don't go for it
happy Christmas to you and all of the family
You too 🎄
Hi Katen I enjoy the videos well done to yee. For next year you should consider storing the bales separately as in to piles side by side instead of filling the yard all the way across then putting the second cut in front.
True actually
You and your family have a good Christmas .
Nice video Karen and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you, many happy returns 🎅
I was looking at the Farmers Journal on 7th of December a bull in Elphin mart went for a record price of 15k he was a one star bull no irish farmer wanted him a man from wales bought him home. This has become a joke I walked away from SCEP last week I'll tell ya Karen Moynihan I've never known such peace and with that Happy Christmas to you and your family 🎄✨
isn't that just ridiculous! Thank you and happy Christmas to you too 🎅
The star system is particularly hard on the simmentals cows. They just do not want a big cow regardless of how they perform. We were advocates of the stars, a small herd but they have it fully based on environmental factors now so we have lost interest in it, it is a weighted system, ex cow live weight makes up a higher % of the score than carcass conformation or carcass weight etc. We still use the individual traits to make our breeding decisions, milk figure, docility, carcass weight and conformation but play no heed to the overall star figure. The simmental society have pulled out of icbf and hopefully others will follow.
Yes I just saw that this week and it's really not surprising
Some fine cattle there, happy Christmas 🤶
Hope you and your family have a great Christmas
You too!
The MF 390 looks good nice to see it in your video
your cattle are looking well keep up the good work and merry xmas to you and your family
Thank you, you too! 🎄
Happy Christmas to everybody 😊
Have a lovely Christmas with your family
I don't understand the star system for sure but I think your cattle look very good and merry Christmas to you and your family
Hi Karen,
A very happy Christmas to you and all of the family.
Have you ever considered joining a discussion group? I know that with work, it might not be easy to get to all of the meetings, but they are a great way of bouncing problems and ideas off other farmers. And it's another social outlet. Your dad might enjoy them as well.
Yes I should try but I don't ever hear about them. I'm not sure where people find out about these things
@karenmoynihanfarm
If you get in touch with your local Teagasc office, they are normally organised through them, and you have other discussion groups as well. But the Teagasc office would be able to point you in the right direction. They are held in rotation on the different farms of the members of each discussion group, and they cover everything and anything that you can think of that is farming related. They can be great to throw out a problem you might be experiencing or an idea you might have and have it discussed.
@michaelcoriordan Thank you for that
Great video your cattle are a credit to you
Happy Christmas and a happy New Year to you and your family and the 🐄beasts🐄
Thank you, you too 🎄
Good job some cattle happy.christmas to ya and family
❤ Merry Christmas ❤
Hello
thanks for excellent sharing
You are doing very well
keep it up