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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #8012
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Kovu wrote: »
    That brat of a calf born this morning is eating silage this evening beside the mother! :eek:

    Not a bad complaint, I had a cow calf a dead calf about a month early this morning!


  • #8013
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Not a bad complaint, I had a cow calf a dead calf about a month early this morning!

    Crap, sorry to hear that. Hurt from a cow d'ya reckon?


  • #8014
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Kovu wrote: »
    Crap, sorry to hear that. Hurt from a cow d'ya reckon?
    I'd say so , I let in a few new cows in the shed so there mightve been some horseplay . The cow isn't bothered anyhow so at least she is alright


  • #8015
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,493 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    I said wrote: »
    No harm pity he would bring that other fella with him

    which lad?


  • #8016
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    which lad?
    Chris I assume, Ivan must have been a very young minister for ag?


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  • #8017
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    Have 2 heifers, 1 AAX 400Kg & 1 LMX 460-490Kg, good cover, butcher coming to look at them, what should I be asking?


  • #8018
    Butcher Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    AA 850 and the lm 1000,


  • #8019
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    which lad?

    Chris thing


  • #8020
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Hell of an agricultural start to "Happy Valley" on RTE1.


  • #8021
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,984 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    ''Something old*, something new, something borrowed, something blue.''

    Have you got news for us kovu??:eek:

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



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  • #8022
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    blue5000 wrote: »
    ''Something old*, something new, something borrowed, something blue.''

    Have you got news for us kovu??:eek:

    Haha. Who the hell would put up with me! :D


  • #8023
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Kovu wrote: »
    Haha. Who the hell would put up with me! :D

    Some poor divil.....


  • #8024
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,984 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Kovu wrote: »
    Haha. Who the hell would put up with me! :D

    I reckon a townie wouldn't last long, twud have to be someone from an agri background who likes cats, sucklers etc.

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



  • #8025
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    MickeyShtyles wrote: »
    Some poor divil.....

    Says the lad making tables on the kitchen floor :p
    blue5000 wrote: »
    I reckon a townie wouldn't last long, twud have to be someone from an agri background who likes cats, sucklers etc.

    Cats, sucklers etc? I don't see the correlation between them but maybe you do!


  • #8026
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Kovu wrote: »
    Haha. Who the hell would put up with me! :D
    sher don't we keep coming back here no matter what abuse you sling about :P


  • #8027
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    _Brian wrote: »
    sher don't we keep coming back here no matter what abuse you sling about :P

    I don't fling abuse around.....I slag. Semantics :p


  • #8028
    Parishlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Would I be completely mad to let off a few cows and calves this weekend? Have nothing except a few yearling bullocks let off yet. My fear is letting calves out, with the forecast for cold and wet weather.


  • #8029
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Parishlad wrote: »
    Would I be completely mad to let off a few cows and calves this weekend? Have nothing except a few yearling bullocks let off yet. My fear is letting calves out, with the forecast for cold and wet weather.
    I would keep them in if possible, nothing worse than looking at stock hunched up at the ditch


  • #8030
    Parishlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I would keep them in if possible, nothing worse than looking at stock hunched up at the ditch

    No real problem keeping them in. Have plenty silage for them. Just don't like having them inside for this long.
    Should have said that where I plan to put them they would have access to an old shed. Not bedded or anything but if they were cute enough to go in they would be out of the wind and rain at least.
    Decisions, decisions!!


  • #8031
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Parishlad wrote: »
    No real problem keeping them in. Have plenty silage for them. Just don't like having them inside for this long.
    Should have said that where I plan to put them they would have access to an old shed. Not bedded or anything but if they were cute enough to go in they would be out of the wind and rain at least.
    Decisions, decisions!!

    They'll find the shed if its there... shake some straw round it and it should be ideal.


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  • #8032
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    Kovu wrote: »
    Cats, sucklers etc? I don't see the correlation between them but maybe you do!
    What's the opposite of that dogs and dairy?;)

    Here's one for reggie if he's lurking around.
    I was at a farm walk today and a guy specialising in minerals said that by aerating the ground you expose the soil to the air and oxidise the iron in the soil releasing 20 units of nitrogen to the grass plant.


  • #8033
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Did anyone read the letter in the journal about rotavec corona only having a shelf life of 8 hours when opened, I never knew that and have been using it years


  • #8034
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Did anyone read the letter in the journal about rotavec corona only having a shelf life of 8 hours when opened, I never knew that and have been using it years
    Lots of vaccines have very short use bys once opened.

    It's worth reading the leaflet in the box because each vaccine is different.


  • #8035
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,746 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    A lot of those vaccines have to be kept in the fridge too. The first year I bought the BVD vaccine, I never put it in.


  • #8036
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,397 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    I've a passenger for the day at slurry


  • #8037
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    I've a passenger for the day at slurry
    ground looks dry


  • #8038
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,397 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    whelan2 wrote: »
    ground looks dry

    Ground is fine down here. Travelling with just the 2nd on


  • #8039
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    whelan2 wrote: »
    ground looks dry

    The ground? He has a friggen black sheep sitting beside him in the tractor and you're looking at the ground.:confused:

    Edit: The ground actually does look dry.


  • #8040
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,984 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Clear test and got a few loads out as well today.

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



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  • #8041
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Clear test and got a few loads out as well today.
    Was that your annual test?


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