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What a day

  • 23-04-2015 9:48pm
    #1
    High bike
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    What an absolute bitch of a day,started with a calf with crypto first of the year t.g,then one with pnuemonia and to top it all off a cow with grass tetanus who went nuts in the crush and nearly got the vet with a kick,lucky man he wasn't going to a&e.Wouldnt mind but this is supposed to be enjoyable work and people think farmers have it handy.:D


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  • #2
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,555 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    High bike wrote: »
    What an absolute bitch of a day,started with a calf with crypto first of the year t.g,then one with pnuemonia and to top it all off a cow with grass tetanus who went nuts in the crush and nearly got the vet with a kick,lucky man he wasn't going to a&e.Wouldnt mind but this is supposed to be enjoyable work and people think farmers have it handy.:D

    Sure it wouldn't be the same without the hardship ;)


  • #3
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    High bike wrote: »
    What an absolute bitch of a day,started with a calf with crypto first of the year t.g,then one with pnuemonia and to top it all off a cow with grass tetanus who went nuts in the crush and nearly got the vet with a kick,lucky man he wasn't going to a&e.Wouldnt mind but this is supposed to be enjoyable work and people think farmers have it handy.:D

    I told ya get into the milkers less stress on ya


  • #4
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    High bike wrote: »
    What an absolute bitch of a day,started with a calf with crypto first of the year t.g,then one with pnuemonia and to top it all off a cow with grass tetanus who went nuts in the crush and nearly got the vet with a kick,lucky man he wasn't going to a&e.Wouldnt mind but this is supposed to be enjoyable work and people think farmers have it handy.:D


    Hope they get better all of them.

    I was out wed night at 12.45 am with a headlight , a knife and 2 ropes trying to get a stone out of a suckler .. It had wedged up between the 2 hooves and she was in pain and pure crazy ... Headlight ... Cow swinging head and lashing out all of this combined with a sharp knife ... And all I could think of was how the leg hoist and head scoop could save my fingers/ face tonight but no .. I had to spend 2,460 min to apply

    Great feeling when you eventually get the stone loose though as she gets relief almost immediately


  • #5
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Great feeling when you eventually get the stone loose though as she gets relief almost immediately

    Could you tell she had a stone between the hooves before you ever lifted the leg?


  • #6
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    OP we all get days like that, sure it's over now anyway.

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



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  • #7
    Sam Kade
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    Amazing how on those days when one thing goes wrong everything goes wrong, thankfully they don't happen very often.


  • #8
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,332 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Amazing how on those days when one thing goes wrong everything goes wrong, thankfully they don't happen very often.
    would be nice to have a bit of fore warning so you could be perpared for it


  • #9
    High bike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,541 ✭✭✭High bike


    I said wrote: »
    I told ya get into the milkers less stress on ya
    Try telling that to the dairy men:rolleyes:


  • #10
    High bike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,541 ✭✭✭High bike


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Amazing how on those days when one thing goes wrong everything goes wrong, thankfully they don't happen very often.
    Thats for sure,anyway 2 out of the 3 seem to be on the mend today now if this fu....g crypto would only f..k off:o


  • #11
    I said
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    High bike wrote: »
    Try telling that to the dairy men:rolleyes:

    I will when it's 15c a litre


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  • #12
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    onyerbikepat wrote: »
    Could you tell she had a stone between the hooves before you ever lifted the leg?

    Yep had a feeling as had 2 last year and 1 this year they go on three legs and kinda pawing like a horse and putting no weight on it when standing just when walking !

    2 different cows, 2 different years !


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