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reilig wrote: »

On the bright side, July 23rd 2009, we only had 70 bales of silage made. Didn't get the bulk of our bales till after August 10th.

Worth keeping in mind reilig, I recall hearing a few times on the radio that the annual rainfall is pretty much the same every year, just when it falls varies. This implies there should be a dry patch as some point in time.

...and at least the jet stream is trying to push North, we're on the edge of it hence the difficulty with forecasts at the mo.

just do it

Muckit wrote: »

Dead right lad. Health is your wealth. Sorry it's a Monday and all this bloody rain is rotting my brain as well as the grass at this stage!!

oh sure I'd only love to have some sun with my partner, if only it would shine!!!!!

Good to see it brought a smile to your face;), now off out to bring the cattle in:eek:

Manoffeeling

Every day is a day closer to a take up. Positive or what!!!

reilig

just do it wrote: »

Worth keeping in mind reilig, I recall hearing a few times on the radio that the annual rainfall is pretty much the same every year, just when it falls varies. This implies there should be a dry patch as some point in time.

...and at least the jet stream is trying to push North, we're on the edge of it hence the difficulty with forecasts at the mo.

I think thats the main reason for the inaccurate forecast. I was reading a blog last night from a forecaster who said that because of the jetstream being so close, weather forcast can only really be accurate for up to 12 hours - this is why the forecast has changed so much over the weekend.

bbam

Our silage ground is 10 weeks since closed/fertilised and its saturated. I've a mower booked for Wed but thinking of putting it off another week in the hope for a drier spell.
It pains me to think of damage to fields but it may be the only solution. I remember in past bad years the father pushing on to 12 weeks before cutting and the quality was "fine". It's a hard call.
Cut or wait

nashmach

bbam wrote: »

Our silage ground is 10 weeks since closed/fertilised and its saturated. I've a mower booked for Wed but thinking of putting it off another week in the hope for a drier spell.
It pains me to think of damage to fields but it may be the only solution. I remember in past bad years the father pushing on to 12 weeks before cutting and the quality was "fine". It's a hard call.
Cut or wait

Impossible to know - everyone's situation is different.

I distinctly remember rolling our ground on that scorcher of a Sunday in late March. Luckily due to the amount of clover our ground has had no nitrogen and was still relatively green and got 30 hours on the ground.

The only real damage you'll do is mowing if you get a good day and can leave for a few hours as the baler can go up the rows.

Limit all traffic taking off bales even if it means drawing only one at a time or loading at a gateway etc.

It really is a b***** of a year

pakalasa

Well at least everyone is more or less in the same boat. What really bugs me is having to listen to smart comments from people, outside of farming, who just don't get it. Won't elaborate but.....:(....they just just don't get how stressful it can be for farmers when the weather stays bad....Rant over.

johngalway

pakalasa wrote: »

Well at least everyone is more or less in the same boat. What really bugs me is having to listen to smart comments from people, outside of farming, who just don't get it. Won't elaborate but.....:(....they just just don't get how stressful it can be for farmers when the weather stays bad....Rant over.

Yep, still got sheep to shear here. Was raining this morning so they're all wet. Gonna head out soon and knock a few rushes with the strimmer, take out my frustration on them feckers!

DaNiEl1994

we had half of our silage gone saturday, and the contractor asked me should we finish it all up or wait till this week.
i feel like a right tit after i told him its promised unreal tuesday onwards.

should have done it all laste week:o

whelan1

went to tayto park this morning. left at 1pm.... decided to to grass cover when i came home... just in and i am drowned.... sheet of paper in bits from rain:mad: on the plus side plenty of high covers, hopeful of getting cows out at night before end of week- if it stops raining- so much for a bloody heatwave:(

sea12

Lovely day in Dublin. Sun is shining very warm breeze. Perfect hay weather except my hay is at home in the midlands where I am told it currently look like it is going to piss rain.

This is the second year I got caught by MT Cranium across in the weather section. I know it's hard to forecast at the moment as evident today. If we had the weather in Dublin today acrossthecountry we would all be fine. Not going to be as confident taking MTs advise going forward though.

nashmach

sea12 wrote: »

Lovely day in Dublin. Sun is shining very warm breeze. Perfect hay weather except my hay is at home in the midlands where I am told it currently look like it is going to piss rain.

This is the second year I got caught by MT Cranium across in the weather section. I know it's hard to forecast at the moment as evident today. If we had the weather in Dublin today acrossthecountry we would all be fine. Not going to be as confident taking MTs advise going forward though.

Indeed sun splitting the rocks and heavy fog at home this morning!

Interesting to see the disclaimer on MT's forecast in the past day or two.

The_Conductor

East coast- 25 degrees, but a 45 mile an hour gale....... Humidity is also at unreal levels- 110 according to the barometer- so very little drying despite everything. Apparently there are thunder storms forecast for later- perhaps.......

johngalway

West coast, sheep farmer out dressed in t shirt covered by hoodie being drizzled on :rolleyes: It's not cold, and there's no wind in it like yesterday though.

pakalasa

Connemara and Its Ponies - 1970
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10036458

johngalway

Prefer Rásaí na Gaillimhe myself

Mac Taylor

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Did you drive the road from lennane to louisburg? never seen the likes of it before, pure wilderness!!

Not this time. We went as far as Killary and then headed back to Galway. The cloud was so low and with the mist so heavy you could see nothing.

1chippy

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Not this time. We went as far as Killary and then headed back to Galway. The cloud was so low and with the mist so heavy you could see nothing.

The mist is all part of the beauty down there. i loved it as much on a misty day as a dry one. head over the inagh valley and you catch the streams that may just be starting to flow and hints of rainbow, absolutely beaut. One word of warning dont walk it drunk at night time.

Odelay

pakalasa wrote: »

Connemara and Its Ponies - 1970
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10036458

Thank you, enjoyed that!

Odelay

1chippy wrote: »

The mist is all part of the beauty down there. i loved it as much on a misty day as a dry one. head over the inagh valley and you catch the streams that may just be starting to flow and hints of rainbow, absolutely beaut. One word of warning dont walk it drunk at night time.

Did you come out of the "frack"? An ex woodie?
btw if walking drunk at night on that road keep your eyes on the telegraph/phone wires, lets you know where the ditch is! Easy to fall over a 3ft wall and find yourself 7ft below wondering "how the fup do i get out?"

Many happy days, love going back there, even just for the drive thru the Inagh valley.

bbam

Fed up today!
Had second heifer in two weeks drop and die within a few hours :eek: first one i was off on holidays.
Saw cattle before work yesterday, back in the evening and a beaut of a Lim/ch heifer down and stretched out, ground not broken so she wasn't down long.. Hauled her up to a shed and got vet out... No hope and she was gone in no time..
Since it was the second we opened her for samples... Everything looked perfect, stomach was full so she was grazing during the day, vet will check the brain in the knackery later today presuming it is meningitis.. Hasn't recomended anything yet for the rest of the stock.

Sick of it today... we're small scale and this will leave us struggling to break even for the year, and the silage is like a carpet, flattened to the ground, due to be mowed in the morning, can barely walk today with back pain after helping the vet...

Vet said they are on top of their heads as the weather is so hard on stock and they are expecting a dreadful winter with so much poor silage and meal being too expensive they expect lots of poorly fed stock over the winter..

Laike the father used to say.. at least its outside the door

reilig

bbam wrote: »

Fed up today!
Had second heifer in two weeks drop and die within a few hours :eek: first one i was off on holidays.
Saw cattle before work yesterday, back in the evening and a beaut of a Lim/ch heifer down and stretched out, ground not broken so she wasn't down long.. Hauled her up to a shed and got vet out... No hope and she was gone in no time..
Since it was the second we opened her for samples... Everything looked perfect, stomach was full so she was grazing during the day, vet will check the brain in the knackery later today presuming it is meningitis.. Hasn't recomended anything yet for the rest of the stock.

Sick of it today... we're small scale and this will leave us struggling to break even for the year, and the silage is like a carpet, flattened to the ground, due to be mowed in the morning, can barely walk today with back pain after helping the vet...

Vet said they are on top of their heads as the weather is so hard on stock and they are expecting a dreadful winter with so much poor silage and meal being too expensive they expect lots of poorly fed stock over the winter..

Laike the father used to say.. at least its outside the door

Sorry to hear that.

Meningitis seems to be quite prominent around here this year. I have a neighbour who has had 2 cases, both are still alive. His vet said that it must have to do with the damp weather.

bob charles

bbam wrote: »

Fed up today!
Had second heifer in two weeks drop and die within a few hours :eek: first one i was off on holidays.
Saw cattle before work yesterday, back in the evening and a beaut of a Lim/ch heifer down and stretched out, ground not broken so she wasn't down long.. Hauled her up to a shed and got vet out... No hope and she was gone in no time..
Since it was the second we opened her for samples... Everything looked perfect, stomach was full so she was grazing during the day, vet will check the brain in the knackery later today presuming it is meningitis.. Hasn't recomended anything yet for the rest of the stock.

Sick of it today... we're small scale and this will leave us struggling to break even for the year, and the silage is like a carpet, flattened to the ground, due to be mowed in the morning, can barely walk today with back pain after helping the vet...

Vet said they are on top of their heads as the weather is so hard on stock and they are expecting a dreadful winter with so much poor silage and meal being too expensive they expect lots of poorly fed stock over the winter..

Laike the father used to say.. at least its outside the door

life is a bitch sometimes, Its no wonder when animals drop off that I often think about throwing in the towel as you think about how hard it is to make back the price of a dead animal. Probably worse if you only have a small few animals but it really get to me when losing animals due to different reasons even with a moderate size herd.

Richk2012

bbam wrote: »

Fed up today!
Had second heifer in two weeks drop and die within a few hours :eek: first one i was off on holidays.
Saw cattle before work yesterday, back in the evening and a beaut of a Lim/ch heifer down and stretched out, ground not broken so she wasn't down long.. Hauled her up to a shed and got vet out... No hope and she was gone in no time..
Since it was the second we opened her for samples... Everything looked perfect, stomach was full so she was grazing during the day, vet will check the brain in the knackery later today presuming it is meningitis.. Hasn't recomended anything yet for the rest of the stock.

Sick of it today... we're small scale and this will leave us struggling to break even for the year, and the silage is like a carpet, flattened to the ground, due to be mowed in the morning, can barely walk today with back pain after helping the vet...

Vet said they are on top of their heads as the weather is so hard on stock and they are expecting a dreadful winter with so much poor silage and meal being too expensive they expect lots of poorly fed stock over the winter..

Laike the father used to say.. at least its outside the door

Much easier said than done , but dont let it get in on you ..
I have to say with the weather so god awful this year , and like you said the quality of the silage harvested being so poor , not to mention the state of the land when machinery is finished on it , its proving very hard for us to find the enjoyment in it this year , but just put it down to one of those years ..
As for the loses , the saying : "where you have livestock , you will have deadstock" always comes to mind when i find myself in a situation such as yours . Part and parcel of it all .. Chin up

Manoffeeling

bbam wrote: »

Fed up today!
Had second heifer in two weeks drop and die within a few hours :eek: first one i was off on holidays.
Saw cattle before work yesterday, back in the evening and a beaut of a Lim/ch heifer down and stretched out, ground not broken so she wasn't down long.. Hauled her up to a shed and got vet out... No hope and she was gone in no time..
Since it was the second we opened her for samples... Everything looked perfect, stomach was full so she was grazing during the day, vet will check the brain in the knackery later today presuming it is meningitis.. Hasn't recomended anything yet for the rest of the stock.

Sick of it today... we're small scale and this will leave us struggling to break even for the year, and the silage is like a carpet, flattened to the ground, due to be mowed in the morning, can barely walk today with back pain after helping the vet...

Vet said they are on top of their heads as the weather is so hard on stock and they are expecting a dreadful winter with so much poor silage and meal being too expensive they expect lots of poorly fed stock over the winter..

Laike the father used to say.. at least its outside the door

Thats hardship. Sounds like meningitis

whelan1

Manoffeeling wrote: »

Thats hardship. Sounds like meningitis

seriously, could be anything... have they been blacklegged? hopefully vet tests will reveal something, sorry for your loss, nothing worse

Manoffeeling

whelan1 wrote: »

seriously, could be anything... have they been blacklegged? hopefully vet tests will reveal something, sorry for your loss, nothing worse

Conditions are perfect for meningitis. But it could something else.

whelan1

Manoffeeling wrote: »

Conditions are perfect for meningitis. But it could something else.

call me old fashioned or stupid but i would prefer to get a diagnosis from a qualified vet rather than some one i have never even met:rolleyes:

johngalway

It's dry out :eek: I'll put the lifejacket back under the stairs.

Manoffeeling

whelan1 wrote: »

call me old fashioned or stupid but i would prefer to get a diagnosis from a qualified vet rather than some one i have never even met:rolleyes:

You are 100% right. Never take advice or opinion from an Internet forum.