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Birdnuts

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Email laura.lowry@agriculture.gov.ie & give all your details- herd num, address, pps num etc. Explain the situation and leave your num and she'll get back to you.

On a completely other note, my neighbour (landlord) rang in a panic saying he had a calf stuck in a ditch of water and needed help quick.....I was in pyjamas so just stuck on wellies and ran over. He nearly wet himself laughing upon seeing me. I don't blame him:o


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You would have got into plenty of nighclubs back in the 70's with worse:D;)

Kovu

Birdnuts wrote: »

You would have got into plenty of nighclubs back in the 70's with worse:D;)

I wouldn't mind but they were a joke present bought for me at Christmas:o
Only welles in the house so had to peg them on and go. Got the calf out at least so I don't mind looking like a fool!

just do it

Finno59 wrote: »

just do it wrote: »

I've just put in the wrong breed for a calf when I registered it on agfood.ie. What do I do now to correct it?

i think they let you change it for a while. Just go to animal registrations, awaiting registration and edit.

Thanks Finno. I went into"awaiting registration". Only option was to delete so I did that and re-entered the details. Sorted

dar31

need to book a sun holiday for the family, need some suggestions on good resorts.

main priority is the kid, clean safe and plenty of entertainment, kids club and a good pool area.
all they want to do is swim for the week, and we need to put our feet up and get some rest, its been a very busy spring

sorry mods if its not posted in the right place

whelan1

sunset beach club.... fbd own it we go there every year, kids love it... 20 minutes from malaga airport

moy83

Malaga is a nice spot we were there this time last year, it was nice weather and not too packed with tourists . Plenty for the kids to do

leg wax

st john de mont in france going back for our second time,longest beech i have ever seen,and i hate sand.

bogman_bass

Jersey is lovely.

JohnBoy

lakill Farm wrote: »

ladies and lads, have a lamborgini 1050 premium and last week i had the pan mixer on it for the first time. ANd it was lifting the front axle. The tractor is same as a SAME 100.4. Looking for weights on donedeal and only set in donegal (the very top at mizen head) . i need 250kg plus so blocks wount work. any other ideas apart from only mixing a smaller batch? i ended up reversing with with every batch.

Saw a good idea over on the british farming forum. A guy made a steel box and put various random weights in it that he had lying around, figured it was cheaper than buying the specific weights for his machine.

How are you with the welder?

vanderbadger

moving cows and calves yesterday when i noticed one od the calves panting and the tongue out, got them into yard, got my new digital thermometer, 39.9, rang vet, he said deffo pneumonia so got the injections off him, she looks perfect in shed today so think she will be fine, weather i suppose, very hot and cold

jerdee

weather very dangerous at moment was going to bed last night looked out and it was milling decided to bring in week old calves with mothers
they were happy out to stay in shed when i left gate open this am

ps anybody having trouble spotting cows bulling my teaser seems on strike.

reilig

Had to take back a heifer this week. Sold her last september and she is 18 months old now. Apparenty she's in calf.

Now I'm a genuine and honest person. If there is a fault, I'll take the animal back. I have a fairly good reputation for cattle, and I want to keep that. The thing is that I kept all my heifers separate from my bulls last year. If she was bulled, she was caught in the mart. The buyer's vet handled the heifer and he said that she is at least 8 months gone? She is in a pen now with 2 x 24 month heifers taht are due to calve in July. If she was bulled on my farm or in the mart then she should calve before the middle of June. She is off a good milking cow and should have a good bag of milk. However, you would hardly notice her springing - even though she got good feeding. Whereas the 2 heifers due to calve a month later than her are already making nice bags of milk, and they weren't fed at all.

Now, I had to pay a lot of money in compensation for this animal to include mart fees, transport from the mart, feeding costs and testing costs - €650 to be exact. And I had to collect the animal myself last weekend.

At the current moment, I have serious doubts that she was bulled on my farm - I have seen a lot of in-calf heifers in my time and am a pretty good judge, and this heifer is far more than a month away from calving. In the name of honesty and good will, I took the heifer back, his vet handled the heifer twice before she was returned to me and is confident that she is that far gone? I wonder how accurate he would be?

I have a suspicion that he will be coming to collect his in calf heifer from me this time and paying me compensation for collecting & retesting her.

Its an unusual situation.

whelan1

wait and see what she calves down to... i have a heifer springing up and god only knows what she is in calf to as she was with a group of heifers all last year:o reckon neighbours bull might have been in...not being smart but we would never sell a heifer without either estrumating her or getting her handled, saves alot of crap down the line

reilig

whelan1 wrote: »

wait and see what she calves down to... i have a heifer springing up and god only knows what she is in calf to as she was with a group of heifers all last year:o reckon neighbours bull might have been in...not being smart but we would never sell a heifer without either estrumating her or getting her handled, saves alot of crap down the line

She was only a weinling when she was sold and we were sure that wasn't bulled on our farm. We can't do a lot more than that really. I normally estrumate anything that I have a doubt about. I got caught before!

The thing is I don't think she will calve on our farm at all. If she goes for the next 4 to 5 weeks without calving then I'll know for sure that she was bulled on his farm and she will be going straight back to him!!

lakill Farm

JohnBoy wrote: »

Saw a good idea over on the british farming forum. A guy made a steel box and put various random weights in it that he had lying around, figured it was cheaper than buying the specific weights for his machine.

How are you with the welder?

I am poor. :rolleyes:. A spot here and there to get me off the road as they say.

i get a local lad to do my welding.

bbam

leg wax wrote: »

st john de mont in france going back for our second time,longest beech i have ever seen,and i hate sand.

Gets my vote too. Been there twice in the last few years. Actually the French campsite holiday has my vote every year. We've been for nine years and are booked to go again this year, can't wait.

lakill Farm

dar31 wrote: »

need to book a sun holiday for the family, need some suggestions on good resorts.

main priority is the kid, clean safe and plenty of entertainment, kids club and a good pool area.
all they want to do is swim for the week, and we need to put our feet up and get some rest, its been a very busy spring

sorry mods if its not posted in the right place

fancy a 4 berth caravan with awning for sale. Good price to a boardie

Typical luck i have to sell the outlaws caravan while my OH is in Majorica this week. She broke her ankle 4 weeks ago and is struggling with been inactive.

royaler83

Just a quick question, what do ye do with yer empty glass medicine bottles, can they just be recycled normally?

Muckit

reilig wrote: »

She was only a weinling when she was sold and we were sure that wasn't bulled on our farm. We can't do a lot more than that really. I normally estrumate anything that I have a doubt about. I got caught before!

The thing is I don't think she will calve on our farm at all. If she goes for the next 4 to 5 weeks without calving then I'll know for sure that she was bulled on his farm and she will be going straight back to him!!

God Reilig, just after reading this tread....that all seems very messy... and expensive It sounds no matter what happens there are no winners. Best of luck with it all.

My first time trying to fatten a few heifers could be a steep learning curve :rolleyes:

Bizzum

reilig wrote: »

She was only a weinling when she was sold and we were sure that wasn't bulled on our farm. We can't do a lot more than that really. I normally estrumate anything that I have a doubt about. I got caught before!

The thing is I don't think she will calve on our farm at all. If she goes for the next 4 to 5 weeks without calving then I'll know for sure that she was bulled on his farm and she will be going straight back to him!!

This should be an example of why a good system of tracability is important in Agri. I hope it works out for you. Be concious of the time some of these heifers can carry a calf, you'd nearly want to get to 300 days the way some of them go on!
We have been caught a couple of time too, none more so than this year, although we kill all our own heifers so no 3rd party involved, but it's hard to believe how some of these heifers get incalf. Betimes it's doesn't take much of a weanling to do the job!

leg wax

reilig wrote: »

She was only a weinling when she was sold and we were sure that wasn't bulled on our farm. We can't do a lot more than that really. I normally estrumate anything that I have a doubt about. I got caught before!

The thing is I don't think she will calve on our farm at all. If she goes for the next 4 to 5 weeks without calving then I'll know for sure that she was bulled on his farm and she will be going straight back to him!!

i hope you made that clear to him when you were taking her back,that she may be going back to him

limo_100

lads had a cow calf 12days early today. now all is well calf is up and sucking but very small. What does cows to calf early??

wesleysniper38

reilig wrote: »

She was only a weinling when she was sold and we were sure that wasn't bulled on our farm. We can't do a lot more than that really. I normally estrumate anything that I have a doubt about. I got caught before!

The thing is I don't think she will calve on our farm at all. If she goes for the next 4 to 5 weeks without calving then I'll know for sure that she was bulled on his farm and she will be going straight back to him!!

Oh man that def sounds like a right handling surely there Reilig..
I often bought heifers that proved in calf but 650 euro compensation? Lord above I must be the softest sh*te around. I bought a 380kg ch heifer for breeding in nov'11 and she started springing easter w'end. i got back thru the mart to the seller and he took her back. In fairness he was an honourable gent so I just asked him for 150e on top of the purchase price.....
That fella really went to town on you, those little types aren't hard fed.

The best of luck I hope your right about her

Pat the lad

had a cow calve a few weeks back. was expecting a limo after the stock bull. instead she shoved out a bb heifer calf. she must of got done by a strong bb weanling. he could only have been 9 1/2 months old. horny little bugger

bob charles

reilig wrote: »

Had to take back a heifer this week. Sold her last september and she is 18 months old now. Apparenty she's in calf.

Now I'm a genuine and honest person. If there is a fault, I'll take the animal back. I have a fairly good reputation for cattle, and I want to keep that. The thing is that I kept all my heifers separate from my bulls last year. If she was bulled, she was caught in the mart. The buyer's vet handled the heifer and he said that she is at least 8 months gone? She is in a pen now with 2 x 24 month heifers taht are due to calve in July. If she was bulled on my farm or in the mart then she should calve before the middle of June. She is off a good milking cow and should have a good bag of milk. However, you would hardly notice her springing - even though she got good feeding. Whereas the 2 heifers due to calve a month later than her are already making nice bags of milk, and they weren't fed at all.

Now, I had to pay a lot of money in compensation for this animal to include mart fees, transport from the mart, feeding costs and testing costs - €650 to be exact. And I had to collect the animal myself last weekend.

At the current moment, I have serious doubts that she was bulled on my farm - I have seen a lot of in-calf heifers in my time and am a pretty good judge, and this heifer is far more than a month away from calving. In the name of honesty and good will, I took the heifer back, his vet handled the heifer twice before she was returned to me and is confident that she is that far gone? I wonder how accurate he would be?

I have a suspicion that he will be coming to collect his in calf heifer from me this time and paying me compensation for collecting & retesting her.

Its an unusual situation.

he is taking the piss big time, but i suppose if he had being feeding her since the day she was bought that nearly 250 days divided into 650 is 2.60e a day and this includes all expenses so maybe not completely over the top 'if' she was bulled before she was sold. finishing animals aint cheap you know. What sort of weight gain would you think the heifer has done since you sold her?

I bought a heifer last week, very forward animals, well fed, went out the following evening and she had a white heifer calf standing beside her. little or no sign what so ever, and she was on a finishing diet before I bought her

reilig

bob charles wrote: »

he is taking the piss big time, but i suppose if he had being feeding her since the day she was bought that nearly 250 days divided into 650 is 2.60e a day and this includes all expenses so maybe not completely over the top 'if' she was bulled before she was sold. finishing animals aint cheap you know. What sort of weight gain would you think the heifer has done since you sold her?

I bought a heifer last week, very forward animals, well fed, went out the following evening and she had a white heifer calf standing beside her. little or no sign what so ever, and she was on a finishing diet before I bought her

I agree that finishing an animal isn't cheap. I also realise that he faces making no profit on this animal if she is in calf. he also had transport fees, agent fees etc.

The heifer wasn't on a finishing diet - she only got grass for september and october, silage for november, december and january and has been on grass only since.

Its a tricky situation. I am being fair to him. He seems straight enough too. A joker could have induced the heifer and made her calve down before now and we would never know where she was bulled.

I'm going to have to sit it out for a few weeks and hope for the best I suppose!

whelan1

bob charles wrote: »

he is taking the piss big time, but i suppose if he had being feeding her since the day she was bought that nearly 250 days divided into 650 is 2.60e a day and this includes all expenses so maybe not completely over the top 'if' she was bulled before she was sold. finishing animals aint cheap you know. What sort of weight gain would you think the heifer has done since you sold her?

I bought a heifer last week, very forward animals, well fed, went out the following evening and she had a white heifer calf standing beside her. little or no sign what so ever, and she was on a finishing diet before I bought her

what did you do with the heifer you bought, did you go back to the previous owner, have seen sucklers spring up over night

JohnBoy

We're trying to sell a crop of silage at the moment.

it's actually funny the number of chancers looking to get the maps with it.

It's a single cut of silage for gods sake.

dar31

at long last, the last one calved this morning, another spring calving over and done with.
another week of Ai then i can put the feet up,
well maybe after i get the maize in, the 1st cut in and the kale in, then ill put the feet up.
going to book me summer holidays when the missus comes home from work tonight:D:D

whelan1

was my youngest childs birthday today, he was 4.. we went to grannys house for cake this afternoon.. she lives a couple of hundred yards up the road... eldest 2 aged 11 and 8 decided to walk homewhile i drove, busy enough road... i passed them on the waydown,and waited at the entrance to our lane, no sign reversed back up the road, she (8) sitting on the white line in middle of the road while the elder lad took pics of her on his phone:eek::eek::eek::eek:nearly had a heart attack, now both have a week ban off the computer..cars go really fast up the raod