Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

Genghis Cant

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Have any of ye come across this before lads? Last calf born here tagged about 5 weeks ago and he has big scabs formed over where both his ears were pierced and some of the tag itself. Have never seen it to happen before and only noticed it a few days ago.

I saw it before on a calf I was dehorning. I remember putting sudocrem on it cos I was using it anyway on the horn buds. I can't remember did I do anything else with it.

davidk1394

Reggie. wrote: »

Good idea but too slow for loading I thought

and a lot of moving parts aswell

ganmo

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Have any of ye come across this before lads? Last calf born here tagged about 5 weeks ago and he has big scabs formed over where both his ears were pierced and some of the tag itself. Have never seen it to happen before and only noticed it a few days ago.

Ya seen it in sheep. Not nice to deal with.

Shannon757

Parishlad wrote: »

What kind of bale transporter is it? Any pics?

https://twitter.com/FJMachinery/status/778966562757832704

ganmo

looks like a serious piece of kit

Muckit

Reggie. wrote: »

Nothing like getting into the bed after a day at the ploughing

Manys the lad waited til he went to bed to start the ploughing!!

Muckit

Reggie. wrote: »

Good idea but too slow for loading I thought

If it stacks them aswell it'd save time on that end with less handling than with a loader and trailer setup.

davidk1394

Muckit wrote: »

Manys the lad waited til he went to bed to start the ploughing!!

Some lads wouldn't even made it as far as the bed !!!

Genghis Cant

Christ almighty I'm after seeing some sight on the telly.
Marty Morrisey in full safety gear with a chainsaw. Scary stuff!

Reggie.

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Christ almighty I'm after seeing some sight on the telly.
Marty Morrisey in full safety gear with a chainsaw. Scary stuff!

Run away

Longford Leader

The postman handed me a white envelope this morning and the return address was the Cross Compliance Unit in Portlaoise.

I got weak in the knees thinking I had been inspected some how and wasn't going to see any money this year :eek:

Turned out it was a bloody booklet on how to be cross compliant :rolleyes:

Not a nice start to the day

Water John

Perfect reading for a wet day!!!

orm0nd

Longford Leader wrote: »

The postman handed me a white envelope this morning and the return address was the Cross Compliance Unit in Portlaoise.

I got weak in the knees thinking I had been inspected some how and wasn't going to see any money this year :eek:

Turned out it was a bloody booklet on how to be cross compliant :rolleyes:

Not a nice start to the day

got that last week, it's filed away for future reference :rolleyes:

did every body else the letter re the herd identifier change for the new tags?

Limestone Cowboy

orm0nd wrote: »

got that last week, it's filed away for future reference :rolleyes:

did every body else the letter re the herd identifier change for the new tags?

Ya got it here.

Reggie.

Yep

Buford T. Justice XIX

orm0nd wrote: »

got that last week, it's filed away for future reference :rolleyes:

did every body else the letter re the herd identifier change for the new tags?

I've started reading the cross compliance book but that's a day of my life I won't get back.

I haven't got the tag stuff though. What's it about?

davidk1394

Lit the stove for the first time tonight. the winter is near:eek:

Nekarsulm

Got the cross compliance book last week, and the Tag letter today.
Is this the third or fourth generation of plastic tag format we are on now?

kowtow

davidk1394 wrote:

Lit the stove for the first time tonight. the winter is near

You must have the tag letter then... that cross compliance booklet was too damp too light anything.

whelan2

Have 2 dogs here, they are on a chain at night .They go a bit crazy when we let them off in the morning. I was walking over the yard with a bucket of meal this morning, one of them ran straight into the bucket of meal and the other straight into my leg , dont know who got the bigger fright ,them or me

OverRide

I see in today's Irish times,that a huge amount of farmers were taking mabs leaflets at the ploughing but weren't going to the desk in case they'd be seen


Does it grate you like it does me that bus drivers are on strike earning 55k,twice what a young nurse or teacher gets ,and want a 15% pay rise?
Whereas in Ireland we get as farmers feck all of a rise even though we are funding 1000's of jobs in the food industry all on decent pay with our product?

kowtow

OverRide wrote:

Does it grate you like it does me that bus drivers are on strike earning 55k,twice what a young nurse or teacher gets ,and want a 15% pay rise? Whereas in Ireland we get as farmers feck all of a rise even though we are funding 1000's of jobs in the food industry all on decent pay with our product?

Sure we're a different case entirely... no matter how much they strike they'll never let the bus drivers go to the ploughing and buy their own bus!

Nekarsulm

OverRide wrote: »

Does it grate you like it does me that bus drivers are on strike earning 55k,twice what a young nurse or teacher gets ,and want a 15% pay rise?
Whereas in Ireland we get as farmers feck all of a rise even though we are funding 1000's of jobs in the food industry all on decent pay with our product?

Sure aren't you sitting on assets worth northwards of a million euro?
And you want the hard pressed urban dweller to fund your lifestyle as well?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

OverRide

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Sure aren't you sitting on assets worth northwards of a million euro?
And you want the hard pressed urban dweller to fund your lifestyle as well?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Helpful comment
Makes a lot of sense

Waffletraktor

OverRide wrote: »

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Sure aren't you sitting on assets worth northwards of a million euro?
And you want the hard pressed urban dweller to fund your lifestyle as well?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Helpful comment
Makes a lot of sense

Just because it inconvenient doesn't make it untrue. Most farmers have assets most Joe public will never have.

laoch na mona

OverRide wrote: »

Does it grate you like it does me that bus drivers are on strike earning 55k,twice what a young nurse or teacher gets ,and want a 15% pay rise?
Whereas in Ireland we get as farmers feck all of a rise even though we are funding 1000's of jobs in the food industry all on decent pay with our product?

to be fair if I worked for a company which promised me a pay rise in 2008 which was never delivered on and then asked me to accept various changes during the recession I'd expect them to do right by me when the company returned to profitability. This is basically what Dublin bus drivers are doing

Buford T. Justice XIX

OverRide wrote: »

I see in today's Irish times,that a huge amount of farmers were taking mabs leaflets at the ploughing but weren't going to the desk in case they'd be seen


Does it grate you like it does me that bus drivers are on strike earning 55k,twice what a young nurse or teacher gets ,and want a 15% pay rise?
Whereas in Ireland we get as farmers feck all of a rise even though we are funding 1000's of jobs in the food industry all on decent pay with our product?

At this stage, I've almost, almost accepted that the only interest in farming that the government and general public holds in Agriculture is in protecting and expanding the downstream jobs that Agriculture supports.

OverRide

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Just because it inconvenient doesn't make it untrue. Most farmers have assets most Joe public will never have.

That's only useful as a comment if every acre in the country went up for sale in the morning and made what just one acre would make if the rest was not for sale

Waffletraktor

OverRide wrote: »

That's only useful as a comment if every acre in the country went up for sale in the morning and made what just one acre would make if the rest was not for sale

Want to have go rephrasing that? Otherwise, "Helpful comment
Makes a lot of sense".

OverRide

I think if all farmers tried to sell their land in the morning,it wouldn't sell because there'd not be enough buying
It's not an option ergo the comment is not useful

People commenting that we're all sitting on millions need to recognise that fact
If everyone liquified,most get very little or nothing
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