The worst road in Ireland

01 Mar 2013

My first call entailed a farm visit to Stonefield, Ballinlough, Co. Meath. The road of 1.5 miles from Ballinlough to Stonefield is a crater whereby travelling more than 15 miles per hour would entail damage to tyres and wheel rims. I have never encountered such a dangerous road and we could definitely consider this one large swimming pool. God help anyone travelling this road on a daily basis. There was a local residents meeting last Tuesday night and it had to be cancelled. The standing joke is “the residents failed to get there”.

Testimonials

I took over this farm a long time ago. I have only ever used Reprodoc because of the following:

reprodoc.ie provides reproductive management services for all of our dairy and beef stock. Pre-breed scanning is an essential part of our business whereby all cows are assessed prior to breeding and prior to embryo transfer programmes involving superovulation of donors and synchronisation of recipients for embryo transfer.

reprodoc.ie provides us with accurate ageing of pregnancy between 25 and 110 days of gestation and sexing of the same pregnancies between 55 and 110 days of gestation.

reprodoc.ie enables the information collected from the scanning of cows to identify potential herd health problems. This is an invaluable tool for the overall management of our herds. Reprodoc provide us with an excellent reporting system following each visit which enables us to focus more on the discussion of cows presented for scanning.

Kieran Harty
Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry