Bad weather tommorrow / Friday

restive

Owing to the weather forecast for tommorow and Friday, I moved cattle out of my callows this evening and into sheltered field with access to a shed.

Am i the only one who has taken precautions or is anyone else moving cattle, being inconvenienced by the promised weather?

Bodacious

restive wrote: »

Owing to the weather forecast for tommorow and Friday, I moved cattle out of my callows this evening and into sheltered field with access to a shed.

Am i the only one who has taken precautions or is anyone else moving cattle, being inconvenienced by the promised weather?

Whats callows? id often move cows and calves off of grazing ground depending on weather and to avoid cutting up fields, ive few rougher woodland /sheltery places that id run them into if high winds or high rainfall predicted

restive

Bodacious wrote: »

restive wrote: »

Owing to the weather forecast for tommorow and Friday, I moved cattle out of my callows this evening and into sheltered field with access to a shed.

Am i the only one who has taken precautions or is anyone else moving cattle, being inconvenienced by the promised weather?

Whats callows? id often move cows and calves off of grazing ground depending on weather and to avoid cutting up fields, ive few rougher woodland /sheltery places that id run them into if high winds or high rainfall predicted

Land that floods annually

Bodacious

restive wrote: »

Land that floods annually

thanks restive, i never knew that

red bull

Was hoping to cut my silage Friday and pick it up Sat looks unlikely now

bbam

We just moved them off fields that were likely to cut up badly to one with good shelter and a good covering of grass.
We've no stock under nine months so access to a shed isn't necessary.

Walked some low fields yesterday evening and it's disappointing how wet they've gotten already. And there was me hoping for a dry summer.

Muckit

red bull wrote: »

Was hoping to cut my silage Friday and pick it up Sat looks unlikely now

Same as

PatQfarmer

All youngstock(2-4 months) have access to a shed. They were all lying inside this morning, listening to/looking at the rain outside, eating hay:)
Moved all other stock into sheltered paddocks (feck the rotation!) as the forecast East wind would blow them to bits if left where they were.
Have paddocks stopped for wrapping, but not looking likely for a while:(
Strip-grazing one, as it is sheltered. My knees are getting soaked every morning:D
Reseed coming on well, should survive without getting washed away:rolleyes:
What a "Spring/Summer"!

vanderbadger

Muckit wrote: »

Same as

sat and sunday dont look too bad, at the moment im hoping to get to cut some sat and bale sunday but sure will hvae to see what comes

bob charles

cut away tomorrow, it could be a blessing in disguise, if we get a hard frozen over winter you wouldn't have to be drawing water to the animals

reilig

We have a digger booked for next monday to install our 2,000 meters of Connacht Agri drainage. Today will dictate whether I should cancel the time off work next week or not.

The only consolation is that MT Cranium in the Weather Forum sees a glimmer of hope for good weather from the 15th of the month.


How many of you complained 2 weeks ago that you needed rain??? :p:p

vanderbadger

i use this site, its a surfers tools really but i find it good, I select lahinch as it fairly close to me, no rain from friday afternoon if its right
http://www.windguru.cz/int/

bob charles

reilig wrote: »

We have a digger booked for next monday to install our 2,000 meters of Connacht Agri drainage. Today will dictate whether I should cancel the time off work next week or not.

The only consolation is that MT Cranium in the Weather Forum sees a glimmer of hope for good weather from the 15th of the month.


How many of you complained 2 weeks ago that you needed rain??? :p:p

we still need rain, even though we got 2" last saturday, another couple of inches won't hurt, unfortunately I had allot of N spread towards the end of last week when none of this was forecast. Up to nearly 100units on N spread on a couple of fields

case 5150

just coming in from bringing the cows in, they were just standing round nd paddock be in sh1t by the time milking time comes, in the cubicles now with baled silage, devil to see cows in at night 7th june

Milton09

bob charles wrote: »

cut away tomorrow, it could be a blessing in disguise, if we get a hard frozen over winter you wouldn't have to be drawing water to the animals

Unless it was minus 15 like 2 years ago, then you'd be drawing hot water to thaw out the silage ice cubes