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Anyone name their beasts these days?

  • 18-08-2012 7:58pm
    #1
    KatyMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone put names on their beasts - the ones they are keeping around for a few years? My kids put names on some of my suckler cows, so I'm stuck with Snookums, Angel, Little Red, Patch, Sheldon, Fee. They work on the principle that these animals will be around the farm for the foreseeable future. It proves useful occasionally as everyone knows what Angel looks like, but they wouldn't recognise her tag number etc. I've also got a Fluffy Lugs, and Knobby. Bet ye can picture these ones in your minds!!


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  • #2
    epfff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭epfff


    KatyMac wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone put names on their beasts - the ones they are keeping around for a few years? My kids put names on some of my suckler cows, so I'm stuck with Snookums, Angel, Little Red, Patch, Sheldon, Fee. They work on the principle that these animals will be around the farm for the foreseeable future. It proves useful occasionally as everyone knows what Angel looks like, but they wouldn't recognise her tag number etc. I've also got a Fluffy Lugs, and Knobby. Bet ye can picture these ones in your minds!!
    Back in the day i used to work in a place where it was female dominated and they were not very ageicultural inclined.most lunch times were filled with farm chat on topics like what do the little baby calves do when we take their milk ect.i was using all this talk of cute animals to my advantage on ever night out ect and was doing nice line with 2 of them and was starting to run out of road.one lunch time when in both of their company and tension was high one of them asked 'do you name your animals' the other replied 'you dont name something your going to eat stupid'


  • #3
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    We seem to have an ever increasing number of "cnuts" ... :o

    The girls have "the three little pigs", who of course are less little every day and it's not the big bad wolf they have to fear either :)

    Our four chucks all have names too


  • #4
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭restive


    When i was young an animal would generally b named after the person we bought it of.


  • #5
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    restive wrote: »
    When i was young an animal would generally b named after the person we bought it of.

    I have one of those ... señorita ... As the man who bred her used to sing Buenos Aires Señorita

    After that I've a Kelis, cindy, pancake, belle, daisy, raisin and a Pamela ... Other than those I stick with surname of man or village i bought her from i don't name calves or yearlings that I not keeping!!


  • #6
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    The 6 year old has names on all the bulls: Binky, Barack and The big Daddy bull.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #7
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    A few cnuts here too, A thief called Healys breed ;), a few branach's, a woods, Howleys and a Miniter, just named after who they were bought off really.


  • #8
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    We have always named the rams - we have had lads called John-Joe, Harry, Pat, Alfie.

    I know lads who name their bulls, one lad has a bull called George and another a lad called Larry. :)


  • #9
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    i split them by months. Januarys repayment, februarys repayment and so on


  • #10
    majorsharpes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭majorsharpes


    we had a heifer who wasn't in with a group of bulls but sometime, probably over a gate or sumtin, some unknown boyo done the deed! well twas an easy choice then, the immaculate conception is her name, or virgin mary as well.


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