Farming Chit Chat

Muckit

whelan1 wrote: »

ye, my dad can make them... very handy to have around the place- both dads and halters:D

True true! I see the lads I bought my ped heifers off, Patsy McCabe, made his up too. Sure he's up your neck of the woods.

lakill Farm

blue5000 wrote: »

And coke and maybe a few other exotics as well:D What's the rice market like?

Land was in fair slop this mornin, took 3 attempts to back up to the creep feeder to move it. I still have a lot of cattle out, all that's in is the in-calf heifers. Cutting maize is going to be messy.

See the button with 4x4. use it:D. or else tell herself to get down off the tractor and you drive it properly

whelan1

Muckit wrote: »

True true! I see the lads I bought my ped heifers off, Patsy McCabe, made his up too. Sure he's up your neck of the woods.

yup 4 miles away near ardee

johngalway

Got 24 lambs ready for the mart tomorrow, hopefully they'll sell well

bbam

Fella down the road getting ready to dig his plot of spuds...
Sprayed all foliage off with roundup...

Being a systemic weedkiller I'd hate the thought of it being throughout the plant and then eating it... :eek:

pakalasa

bbam wrote: »

Fella down the road getting ready to dig his plot of spuds...
Sprayed all foliage off with roundup...

Being a systemic weedkiller I'd hate the thought of it being throughout the plant and then eating it... :eek:

But shur Round Up was developed by Monsanto...it has to be safe....:mad:

whelan1

BBNightmares wrote: »

saw this over in another thread about heat detection
www.moominder.ie

seemingly it can do a lot more .... does anyone know where these field trials are being done .... would love to see it in action?

Heard rumours about killarney , but they are a clare company so not sure

interesting that you joined today and most of your comments are on this company;)

dar31

looks good and all, but it is gettin a bit annoying and all with every thread you open being bombarded with moo moniters.

there is a thread up and going on rats im sure they could link in the moo monitor to that and all.:D

it would be much better if they contacted the mods, with this new product they had and asked for a bit of q & a on the topic.

see another lad that just joined has an relative that has them......

any how looks good hope it works out, if it proves its self i would buy it

pm me if ye want some wrere to put in a free demo of it;);)

J DEERE

johngalway wrote: »

Got 24 lambs ready for the mart tomorrow, hopefully they'll sell well

Best of luck with em John, hope they go well for ya

bob charles

bbam wrote: »

Fella down the road getting ready to dig his plot of spuds...
Sprayed all foliage off with roundup...

Being a systemic weedkiller I'd hate the thought of it being throughout the plant and then eating it... :eek:

I doubt it some how, unless they were going for stockfeed, probably using Reglone or something similar

BeeDI

Tag the rats, and when the temp goes down low enough, we know its toes up time.

dar31 wrote: »

looks good and all, but it is gettin a bit annoying and all with every thread you open being bombarded with moo moniters.

there is a thread up and going on rats im sure they could link in the moo monitor to that and all.:D

it would be much better if they contacted the mods, with this new product they had and asked for a bit of q & a on the topic.

see another lad that just joined has an relative that has them......

any how looks good hope it works out, if it proves its self i would buy it

pm me if ye want some wrere to put in a free demo of it;);)

johngalway

J DEERE wrote: »

Best of luck with em John, hope they go well for ya

We'll see tomorrow Got fairly good pen numbers, never like being in the first line as the days prices are still being established. Can sometimes see worse lambs go better money in later lines.

reilig

BeeDI wrote: »

Tag the rats, and when the temp goes down low enough, we know its toes up time.

:D:D:D:D:D:D

Bodacious

Muckit wrote: »

Ordered 5 blue poly rope halters off Pedigreecattle yesterday morning and got them in the post this morning.

Now that's what I call service! And very competitive. €5 a pop + €4.99 total carriage.

I'm sure if a lad had the patience and the knack you could make a few by the fire over the winter. Anyone ever made them? Now I don't mean a 'country job' with big dirty knots, these have plaited loops!

Does anyone know where you can get these type ropes in biege/off white softer rope material that wouldnt cut the head of them, a neighbour of mine ties in his weanlings and wouldnt mind getting him a few of these... i think i saw them in NCF coop but were fairly dear

johngalway

Bodacious wrote: »

Does anyone know where you can get these type ropes in biege/off white softer rope material that wouldnt cut the head of them, a neighbour of mine ties in his weanlings and wouldnt mind getting him a few of these... i think i saw them in NCF coop but were fairly dear

Probably something like rope used on sailing boats would be softer.

BeeDI

johngalway wrote: »

Bodacious wrote: »

Does anyone know where you can get these type ropes in biege/off white softer rope material that wouldnt cut the head of them, a neighbour of mine ties in his weanlings and wouldnt mind getting him a few of these... i think i saw them in NCF coop but were fairly dear

Probably something like rope used on sailing boats would be softer.

Think its called yacht rope!

Bodacious

johngalway wrote: »

Probably something like rope used on sailing boats would be softer.

the stuff i saw was even softer than yacht rope its more like the material that is used in horse lead ropes with a clip at the end, double strand but with all the loops/headcollar like nylon one in photo

reilig

Christies direct had them for less than 10 euro delivered last year and they had a metal ring for better security. They don't do cattle stuff anymore but transferred their business to another company. Google them and drop them a note on their site and they'll point u in the right direction.

Bodacious wrote: »

Muckit wrote: »

Ordered 5 blue poly rope halters off Pedigreecattle yesterday morning and got them in the post this morning.

Now that's what I call service! And very competitive. €5 a pop + €4.99 total carriage.

I'm sure if a lad had the patience and the knack you could make a few by the fire over the winter. Anyone ever made them? Now I don't mean a 'country job' with big dirty knots, these have plaited loops!

Does anyone know where you can get these type ropes in biege/off white softer rope material that wouldnt cut the head of them, a neighbour of mine ties in his weanlings and wouldnt mind getting him a few of these... i think i saw them in NCF coop but were fairly dear

Muckit

Bodacious wrote: »

Does anyone know where you can get these type ropes in biege/off white softer rope material that wouldnt cut the head of them, a neighbour of mine ties in his weanlings and wouldnt mind getting him a few of these... i think i saw them in NCF coop but were fairly dear

It might be the cotton ones your after. I find you need the poly rope ones until you've them trained though, as the others won't take much abuse.

Take a look here. Give them a ring and they'I post out to you

http://www.pedigreecattle.ie/store/products.php?cat_id=2&subcat_id=31&type=subcat

BBNightmares

Heres how to make your own different farm knots

http://www.ansci.umn.edu/practical-techniques/pg51-56.pdf

whelan1

hate the halters thathave a metal ring on them, they're worse than useless

johngalway

Throw away the elastrator, rings and burdizzo for blackface ram lambs. My ram lambs made €12 over what the best of my wether lambs made :rolleyes:

redzerologhlen

Put 4 new boots on the cruiser this morning. €100 a pop......your man reckoned there wasnt 10 miles left in the old ones:rolleyes:

blue5000

lakill Farm wrote: »

See the button with 4x4. use it:D. or else tell herself to get down off the tractor and you drive it properly

4x4 ain't on the button. Using two wd with 25% grips:( I love a challenge. Had to go for a spin in top gear to clean the tyres, got it then;)

blue5000

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Put 4 new boots on the cruiser this morning. €100 a pop......your man reckoned there wasnt 10 miles left in the old ones:rolleyes:

What brand did you go for? I'll be looking soon myself. I suppose yer old ones were too bad for the silage pit.

Muckit

Hose running from the power steering reservoir to the pump on NH was perished and leaking so had to go tinkering :mad: Luckily it was long enough to cut the bad bit off and stick it back on the fitting at pump. Topped up oil and away I went to cut a few silage blocks

redzerologhlen

blue5000 wrote: »

What brand did you go for? I'll be looking soon myself. I suppose yer old ones were too bad for the silage pit.

No pit here. They are savero gt radials. Fair depth of rubber on them now. They are fairly cheap but thats what I had on it the last time around and i knocked a year and a half outta them so cant complain. Dont think you could beat that price anywhere either.

stanflt

cows out for the last day today-replacements have a weeks grass left

vanderbadger

redzerologhlen wrote: »

No pit here. They are savero gt radials. Fair depth of rubber on them now. They are fairly cheap but thats what I had on it the last time around and i knocked a year and a half outta them so cant complain. Dont think you could beat that price anywhere either.

have them as well, you see them on alot of jeeps , nothing wrong with them i think

whelan1

stanflt wrote: »

cows out for the last day today-replacements have a weeks grass left

have 4 days left for cows , never have our cows been out so late in the year.... in at night a few weeks though...