what was your worst moment of 2013

biddy2013 · 31-12-2013 6:47pm #1

Oh said it was when he overturned the slurry tanker. Mine was having no silage left in may

Conmaicne Mara · 31-12-2013 6:54pm

No doubt one or other of the rows I've had with Dad. We'll just never see eye to eye.

feartuath · 31-12-2013 7:00pm

Finding a 350kg limousine heifer dead in the creep,I still dont know what happened her.

Muckit · 31-12-2013 7:04pm

God that pub must be rockin

td5man · 31-12-2013 7:06pm

Losing my dad was and is still hard to come to terms with .

biddy2013 · 31-12-2013 7:08pm

Muckit wrote: »

God that pub must be rockin

Going on my phone as there's a row going on with 2 gob****es that have been on beer all day. Quite entertaining though

agriman27 · 31-12-2013 7:17pm

td5man wrote: »

Losing my dad was and is still hard to come to terms with .

I know how you feel my dads 4th anniversary today, doesn't feel that long. Time really is a good healer though. Life goes on especially on a farm always some job waiting to done!

bob charles · 31-12-2013 7:18pm

cant think of a worst moment thankfully, twas just ****e the whole time

Timmaay · 31-12-2013 7:20pm

About 10cows coming down with mastitis last jan, alongside scc results of up to 800k and protein 2.8! Other than that, hmm the cow I lost to ecoli mastitis was a bummer, not even the fact that I lost her, but for spending about 400 on the vet beforehand when I should of called the knackery.

case 956 · 31-12-2013 7:23pm

loosing top of my finger in silage harvester, sun beaming I hand all bandaged up

Conmaicne Mara · 31-12-2013 7:23pm

bob charles wrote: »

cant think of a worst moment thankfully, twas just ****e the whole time

Consistency in a world gone mad Bob.

Miname · 31-12-2013 7:31pm

I hadnt a bad year after a couple of brutal ones. id no really bad situation that couldnt be overcome. Any one who can post on here is still kickin so alls not bad.

Zoo4m8 · 31-12-2013 7:44pm

Miname wrote: »

I hadnt a bad year after a couple of brutal ones. id no really bad situation that couldnt be overcome. Any one who can post on here is still kickin so alls not bad.

Yeah, as a neighbour says " if you're havin' a stretch in the morning after waking and you don't feel timber, then it's goin' to be a half decent day'

Zoo4m8 · 31-12-2013 7:50pm

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

No doubt one or other of the rows I've had with Dad. We'll just never see eye to eye.

Think of td5man's post next time you feel one brewing...;)

jersey101 · 31-12-2013 8:13pm

Possibly not continuing my dairy management course. Get pissed off at home dealing with my father. Would prefer to be working some where else for a while but im in too deep at home now

Farrell · 31-12-2013 8:24pm

Had 2 have a heifer sectioned ( pelvis too narrow), then had a cow put down as calf inside was dead & causing infection, bad week

Hershall · 31-12-2013 8:26pm

Herding bunch of limousin maidens ready to sell only to find c##t of a charlaois scrub belonging to neighbour in the middle of them. At least he was happy!!!!!

Username John · 31-12-2013 8:30pm

jersey101 wrote: »

Possibly not continuing my dairy management course. Get pissed off at home dealing with my father. Would prefer to be working some where else for a while but im in too deep at home now

Can you not go back to do it still? You're not in too deep yet I woul say...

jersey101 · 31-12-2013 8:33pm

Username John wrote: »

Can you not go back to do it still? You're not in too deep yet I woul say...

I could but the place would go back a lot. I do most of the work now and the fathers hip and knee is getting worse

dar31 · 31-12-2013 8:46pm

Super levy

If it wasn't for it, would have been a whopper of a year

Losing 2 sectioned heifers a day after each other

Timmaay · 31-12-2013 8:54pm

Ha Jersey, I know if I started working on the farm fulltime with my dad at your age, it would have ended in punches! But anyways, if going back and finishing off the course is something you want to do, even just to escape the farm, then why not, obviously you can't just up and leave, but you can work towards it, set say a timeframe, aim for 2yrs time, meanwhile try get in a student this spring (you surely know afew from being there last yr!), then also try to get some paid hired labour, for milking etc and get yourself and your father use of the idea of having someone work for yas, even if its just part time, and eventually you'll have someone you can depend on being able to do all the choirs on the farm for long enough to escape yourself The more dependent you dad becomes just on you for all the labour, the harder it is to escape. Its largely what I'm trying to work towards, I sure as sh%te dont plan on doing the milking and all the other manual labour jobs on the farm for the rest of my days ha!

jersey101 · 31-12-2013 8:58pm

Timmaay wrote: »

Ha Jersey, I know if I started working on the farm fulltime with my dad at your age, it would have ended in punches! But anyways, if going back and finishing off the course is something you want to do, even just to escape the farm, then why not, obviously you can't just up and leave, but you can work towards it, set say a timeframe, aim for 2yrs time, meanwhile try get in a student this spring (you surely know afew from being there last yr!), then also try to get some paid hired labour, for milking etc and get yourself and your father use of the idea of having someone work for yas, even if its just part time, and eventually you'll have someone you can depend on being able to do all the choirs on the farm for long enough to escape yourself The more dependent you dad becomes just on you for all the labour, the harder it is to escape. Its largely what I'm trying to work towards, I sure as sh%te dont plan on doing the milking and all the other manual labour jobs on the farm for the rest of my days ha!

Ah I wanted to do it but not sure now. In 5 yrs time ill be pretty much in charge I'd say so can't feck off now. Wouldn't really be enough work here as yet for another body. Can pretty much do it on my own up till now. Next yr might be different

exercise is the antidote · 31-12-2013 9:05pm

jersey101 wrote: »

I could but the place would go back a lot. I do most of the work now and the fathers hip and knee is getting worse

Did you do the level 5 jersey and then go on too do the herd management. Or do you have to get the level 6 for greencert?

jersey101 · 31-12-2013 9:06pm

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Did you do the level 5 jersey and then go on too do the herd management. Or do you have to get the level 6 for greencert?

I've a level 6 in herd management. FMC course is level 7

yellow50HX · 31-12-2013 9:13pm

Watching darach honans shot/fumble dribble over the line past anthony Nash was fairly pissing for me alight as there was nothing I could do about or had input into it. Was fairly down until I got out of the stadium and bumped into a few friends I hadn't seen in a while and was back to normal.

As it's the last day of the year and I am struggling to think of a really soul destroying day from the farm in 2013 so that's a good thing. Had a few downs and a couple of losses but nothing that I could have done anything about or for saw.

Timmaay · 31-12-2013 9:17pm

Similarly the last minute of the Ire/NZ match was utter heartbreak!

keep going · 31-12-2013 9:27pm

Usual disaster s here so all good

bob charles · 31-12-2013 9:35pm

I have being trying to think but havnt anything really, as usual lost too many animals, but we are learning how to reduce it which is the important:D.

oh and falling back to sleep one morning has to go down as my worst moment 2013

loveta · 31-12-2013 10:36pm

Timmaay wrote: »

Similarly the last minute of the Ire/NZ match was utter heartbreak!

The same as that, was there, i felt physically sick, i genuinely woke with nightmares/flash backs for the next couple of nights after it

:(:(

dar31 · 31-12-2013 11:07pm

loveta wrote: »

The same as that, was there, i felt physically sick, i genuinely woke with nightmares/flash backs for the next couple of nights after it :(:(

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loveta · 31-12-2013 11:12pm

dar31 wrote: »

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No comprenda dar??

tabby aspreme · 31-12-2013 11:13pm

Nothing too bad here , except how much extra meal I fed

dar31 · 31-12-2013 11:18pm

loveta wrote: »

No comprenda dar??

Was trying to get smiley banging head against wall, to no avail

Nz match was worst sporting memory.... Ever..ish, was a great match to be at bar the result

TUBBY · 31-12-2013 11:27pm

Was thinking of worst farm moment from year.

Selling cattle I bought too dear in 12 when things were mad and selling on for feck all more probably. Finding bullock dead one morning too after buying good few from same herd. Worried at time about virus etc but turned out it was heart attack.

At the time, some things look bad and ya are in bad form over it. Ina couple of months ya can't remember what it was and there is something equally as small which seems like the end of the world.

yellow50HX · 01-01-2014 7:23pm

dar31 wrote: »

Was trying to get smiley banging head against wall, to no avail

Nz match was worst sporting memory.... Ever..ish, was a great match to be at bar the result

Surprised so many of the rugby heads focus on the nz game especially after they got thumped by the Aussies in the other authunm games, and got beaten by perennial cannon fodder Scotland and Italy and were beaten at home by England in games that actually matter.

quader · 01-01-2014 7:25pm

after getting the money to go milking dept tell me we cant get the quota :mad::mad::eek:

:mad:

yellow50HX · 01-01-2014 7:36pm

quader wrote: »

after getting the money to go milking dept tell me we cant get the quota :mad::mad::eek::mad:

That sucks.

quader · 01-01-2014 7:49pm

tell me about it after being told no bother geting back the quota by the dept , getting the bank finance in place , getting planning permission for parlour , and ready to go , then told NO would loved to bate the head of brother that day:eek::mad:

jersey101 · 01-01-2014 7:52pm

quader wrote: »

tell me about it after being told no bother geting back the quota by the dept , getting the bank finance in place , getting planning permission for parlour , and ready to go , then told NO would loved to bate the head of brother that day:eek::mad:

What's your plan now??

delaval · 01-01-2014 7:52pm

quader wrote: »

tell me about it after being told no bother geting back the quota by the dept , getting the bank finance in place , getting planning permission for parlour , and ready to go , then told NO would loved to bate the head of brother that day:eek::mad:

Had the quota been sold?

Timmaay · 01-01-2014 7:54pm

yellow50HX wrote: »

Surprised so many of the rugby heads focus on the nz game especially after they got thumped by the Aussies in the other authunm games, and got beaten by perennial cannon fodder Scotland and Italy and were beaten at home by England in games that actually matter.

Fair point, and we did throw away the win ourself with a shocking 2nd 1/2 performance, but its the fact that it was NZ who we've never bet before, and we came so bloody close.

quader · 01-01-2014 7:58pm

yea big family dispute , hope to buy bulling heifers and go milking this time next year , but have to go back to bank with new farm plan as 1 of the conditions were getting the quota and as i told them there was no bother ,now i look a bigger dickhe8h than normal

delaval · 01-01-2014 8:02pm

quader wrote: »

yea big family dispute , hope to buy bulling heifers and go milking this time next year , but have to go back to bank with new farm plan as 1 of the conditions were getting the quota and as i told them there was no bother ,now i look a bigger dickhe8h than normal

Wishing you all the best

case 956 · 01-01-2014 8:03pm

loosing 4 cows and 4 calves after not loosing a cow or calf in 5 year but once it outside the back door it not all that bad

yellow50HX · 01-01-2014 8:15pm

Timmaay wrote: »

Fair point, and we did throw away the win ourself with a shocking 2nd 1/2 performance, but its the fact that it was NZ who we've never bet before, and we came so bloody close.

I think it sums up an irish thing where we hype up things like beating nz in 1 off games over winning games that matter. I wonder what Roy Keane would make of it? It's like us beating Kerry in the Munster football final then fall flat on our face when we get to croke park.