Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

K.G.

darragh_haven wrote: »

Jeez, both the milk price thread and the dairy thread are locked..... them dairy lads must be mad in the head. Start a fight in a phone box.

This time next year youll be cranky too

darragh_haven

whelan2 wrote: »

Ye. Us dairy ladies wouldn't carry on like that

I know ye dairy ladies are a way more refined.

darragh_haven

K.G. wrote: »

This time next year youll be cranky too

I'm already cranky. I just hide it. I was really considering going back onto dairying but made the decision to stay at what I'm at back in February. The indecision was holding me back in my current job. Now I've got 4 years work ahead and free working holidays to France. (France is booming in AD)

Water John

Not sure if anyone is banned. just a cooling off period, maybe.

pedigree 6

whelan2 wrote: »

Ye. Us dairy ladies wouldn't carry on like that

I always say hello and thank you very much to my dairy ladies every morning.:):D;)

pedigree 6

Water John wrote: »

Not sure if anyone is banned. just a cooling off period, maybe.

Who cares. It's nonsense anyway.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Mod note.

Lads and lassies, it's being dealt with. As soon as the threads are cleaned up, they will be opened up and continue as normal. Just a reminder, avoid engaging and just report the post and the mods will deal with it as soon as we can.

Now, moving quickly along...

Buford T. Justice.

patsy_mccabe

Buford T. Justice XIX

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

More like..

kollegeknight

Was tagging the last calf of the season with the BVD tag- he pulled just as I was going pressing the handle. It scraped some amount of skin with little or no effort. I watch a tv show called Forged in fire where they make knives etc and nothing as sharp as that tag.

whelan2

I got 8 http://www.farmersjournal.ie/quiz-leaving-certificate-ag-science-283496

patsy_mccabe

whelan2 wrote: »

I got 8 http://www.farmersjournal.ie/quiz-leaving-certificate-ag-science-283496

7 here.

Water John

8 here. Lucky on one or two.

Username John

9 here, a good few were lucky guesses... the fact I hadn't ever done Ag science I think stood to me

have2flushtwice

Was in the bull picture thread there, the bull whose caption is the last summer of frollicks..... Some bull...


There's a fine calf behind him, what's a lad like that worth at a month old?

Hard Knocks

Charolais 0153 has a great bull, what's the breeding?

charolais0153

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Charolais 0153 has a great bull, what's the breeding?

Pte x lsp. We sold him in march ,he wasn't used on our cows

I said

Work is the ruination of the drinking class

whelan2

Eldest lad wants to buy some calves. I am pushing him towards January/feb born fr bulls as the hard work would have been done with them. Budget is 2500. What do ye think?

Odelay

whelan2 wrote: »

Eldest lad wants to buy some calves. I am pushing him towards January/feb born fr bulls as the hard work would have been done with them. Budget is 2500. What do ye think?

You do the dealing and pocket 10% for yourself, don't go for 20% cos if you get too greedy he will cop it.

davidk1394

What's scrap metal making at the moment ? Have a trailer load of stuff here

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

Eldest lad wants to buy some calves. I am pushing him towards January/feb born fr bulls as the hard work would have been done with them. Budget is 2500. What do ye think?

Oh was talking to a friend who said that fr bull calves are expensive (€110-€140) for square 2 week old calves considering were in June. Better value to be got for weaned calves if you can source a few from the one source rather standing in a mart for a day. Unless you have whole milk sub 26/27c a litre then buying sucks is a no brainer. He knows how to rear calves so doesn't need to learn that lesson. I would consider whiteheads or aa over fr though.

dzer2

whelan2 wrote: »

Eldest lad wants to buy some calves. I am pushing him towards January/feb born fr bulls as the hard work would have been done with them. Budget is 2500. What do ye think?

Could get 10 hex heifers for that, 18 - 20 days old good solid calves too.

Base price

dzer2 wrote: »

Could get 10 hex heifers for that, 18 - 20 days old good solid calves too.

Jaysus, paying €250/h for sub 3 week old whitehead heifer calves.
I've bought 42 whitehead heifer calves (14 to 47 days old) since mid April until the end of May at an average of €167.37/h.

dzer2

Base price wrote: »

Jaysus, paying €250/h for sub 3 week old whitehead heifer calves.
I've bought 42 whitehead heifer calves (14 to 47 days old) since mid April until the end of May at an average of €167.37/h.

You wouldn't get the likes of these for that money I will throw up a pick if I can get close during the week end

have2flushtwice

charolais0153 wrote: »

Pte x lsp. We sold him in march ,he wasn't used on our cows

I'd take it that that calf I'm on about is approx 400+?
Friesan bull calves 145, at five weeks in Ballinasloe two weeks ago.

Base price

dzer2 wrote: »

You wouldn't get the likes of these for that money I will throw up a pick if I can get close during the week end

The ones that I got came from Cork/Kerry dairy herds the same as every other year. The dairy farmers down South know how to breed cross bred calves for up the country folks like me.

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

The ones that I got came from Cork/Kerry dairy herds the same as every other year. The dairy farmers down South know how to breed cross bred calves for up the country folks like me.

I prefer the louth cattle myself

I said

Reggie. wrote: »

I prefer the louth cattle myself

Lick arse

_Brian

Came across this earlier..
http://www.freshacres.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=122

God it seems the biggest snakeoil sell I've seen in a while..

"Protects against fault lines in the earth" :eek: