This Farming Life back on BBC

Jaycornyn

Sky has just recorded the new series of This Farming Life for me. Never heard it was back on. Really enjoyed last series. Worth the watch!

Muckit

http://www.ffermio.tv/

This programme is worth a look too.

Just press 'services' button on sky remote and turn on subtitles unless u have good Welsh!

tractorporn

Anyone got a stream for this I missed it?

Jaycornyn

tractorporn wrote: »

Anyone got a stream for this I missed it?

You can get it on iPlayer. You'll need to Google how to get it to work in Ireland tho. Next ep. Is on 2moro.

Jaycornyn

tractorporn wrote: »

Anyone got a stream for this I missed it?

You can get it on iPlayer. You'll need to Google how to get it to work in Ireland tho. Next ep. Is on 2moro.

visatorro

Watching it here this morning, there's nothing handy about lambing outside anyway. No manual handling course's done either. I wonder is any reference made to manual handling in green cert classes or open days.

Floki

visatorro wrote: »

Watching it here this morning, there's nothing handy about lambing outside anyway. No manual handling course's done either. I wonder is any reference made to manual handling in green cert classes or open days.

Taught in this country anyways.

Bend knees, back straight.

tanko

Anyone notice the bit where the farmer started the tractor while standing in front of the back wheel outside the tractor. Madness.
Then he started talking about farm safety and having a gas detector when agitating slurry.

MickeyShtyles

Floki wrote: »

Taught in this country anyways.

Bend knees, back straight.

Kick the box.

Attie

This Farming Life on tonight 7/8 if anyone interested.

Jaycornyn

12000 is a nice price to be getting for any animal and that was guineas. Don't know much about cows but he was some beast! Was his dad called Irish? Wonder is there any connection with here. I remember from last season they just went through the alphabet to name there bulls so might just have been on 'i' when they named him.

tanko

Jaycornyn wrote: »

12000 is a nice price to be getting for any animal and that was guineas. Don't know much about cows but he was some beast! Was his dad called Irish? Wonder is there any connection with here. I remember from last season they just went through the alphabet to name there bulls so might just have been on 'i' when they named him.

That farmers stock bull is called Powerful Irish, a Haltcliffe Dancer son. I think he was bred in Cavan.

Mac Taylor

Jaycornyn wrote: »

12000 is a nice price to be getting for any animal and that was guineas. Don't know much about cows but he was some beast! Was his dad called Irish? Wonder is there any connection with here. I remember from last season they just went through the alphabet to name there bulls so might just have been on 'i' when they named him.

The bull is powerful Irish a dancer bred bull by Philip Crowe.

Mac Taylor

Mac Taylor wrote: »

The bull is powerful Irish a dancer bred bull by Philip Crowe.

Tanko bet me to it

tanko

Ah, i cant sleep. Did you ever use Dancer?

Mac Taylor

tanko wrote: »

Ah, i cant sleep. Did you ever use Dancer?

Yeah, I had about 15 straws from him. I sold 3 or 4 bulls off him and have 2 heifers coming up from him, fine bull but his figures are crap just like abi

Hard Knocks

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Yeah, I had about 15 straws from him. I sold 3 or 4 bulls off him and have 2 heifers coming up from him, fine bull but his figures are crap just like abi

Is there reason to why their figures are bad

tanko

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Is there reason to why their figures are bad

Dancer has serious terminal figures but maternal figures are poor because hes hard calved and has bad daughters milk and fertility.

ABI has above average calving difficulty, poor docility and daughters milk figures.

Both are super terminal bulls but not so good maternally.

Hard Knocks

tanko wrote: »

Dancer has serious terminal figures but maternal figures are poor because hes hard calved and has bad daughters milk and fertility.

ABI has above average calving difficulty, poor docility and daughters milk figures.

Both are super terminal bulls but not so good maternally.

Thanks
Have heard people refer to ABI and say his daughters were some of their best cows, so thought the stars were giving him an injustice

Mac Taylor

tanko wrote: »

Dancer has serious terminal figures but maternal figures are poor because hes hard calved and has bad daughters milk and fertility.

ABI has above average calving difficulty, poor docility and daughters milk figures.

Both are super terminal bulls but not so good maternally.

Tanko, I agree with you on Dancer, he is a serious terminal bull, I put him on one of my highest maternal cows and got originally a 4 * heifer which is now 3*. I am in two minds as to whether I will breed her or not.


The attached picture has a Dancer calf born end of Jan and a ABI cow with her March On-dit son. I have two ABI cows (not a great sample!!!) which are both quite and milky. So in summary I think the Dancer figures are accurate the ABI ones are not!!!

tanko

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Thanks
Have heard people refer to ABI and say his daughters were some of their best cows, so thought the stars were giving him an injustice

Yeah, thats entirely possible, there are always plenty of exceptions to icbf figures.

tanko

Its on again this evening at 7

Limestone Cowboy

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Tanko, I agree with you on Dancer, he is a serious terminal bull, I put him on one of my highest maternal cows and got originally a 4 * heifer which is now 3*. I am in two minds as to whether I will breed her or not.


The attached picture has a Dancer calf born end of Jan and a ABI cow with her March On-dit son. I have two ABI cows (not a great sample!!!) which are both quite and milky. So in summary I think the Dancer figures are accurate the ABI ones are not!!!

I hope ye're right lads, bought a dancer bull earlier in the year

Jaycornyn

Was there any follow up on the carrots and parsnips for the buffalo? I didn't see it mentioned.

solerina

Jaycornyn wrote: »

Was there any follow up on the carrots and parsnips for the buffalo? I didn't see it mentioned.

Hasn't been mentioned yet anyway, smelly buffalo maybe !! They didn't seem too keen to eat them though so maybe not !!

wiggy123

say be hard to put beef on them... say heaviest any be--600kg ish... mature bull.. or am I wrong

FeelTheBern

Jaycornyn wrote: »

Was there any follow up on the carrots and parsnips for the buffalo? I didn't see it mentioned.

No - not a word. Seemed very radical move to me. But then looking at how scary they made a stomach tube sound last night there might have been good bit more thought going on than just dumping artic load of veg in to them.

AntrimGlens

FeelTheBern wrote: »

No - not a word. Seemed very radical move to me. But then looking at how scary they made a stomach tube sound last night there might have been good bit more thought going on than just dumping artic load of veg in to them.

Not that i know much about buffalo, and don't want to be critical and i don't know if it was done for tv viewer drama or not. Somehow don't think i'd have been leaving a newborn calf like that one 6 or 8 hours before i got it a drink. If it was as bad or weak as they had made out, i'd have had it under a lamp and sucking a bottle within the first hour. But hey still a good programme.

wiggy123

thought same

Bullocks

Sending the child into the heifer that was calving was dodgy aswell , I wouldn't have been showing that on TV if it happened in our place

Jaycornyn

It does come across a bit dramatised at times. I've only seen the buffalo eating silage since so I'm guessing it didn't work to well. Wouldn't have left the calf that long either. With the lambs I prefer try a bottle before the stomach tube. Make them put a bit of effort in. Stomach tube would be second option.

Just thinking from before. Martin and Mel dosed 600 sheep in 1hour and 15 mins. That's some going. Or are we a bit slow around here.

stantheman1979

It's 8 sheep a minute!!! Hardly Guinness world record standard lol

Bullocks

stantheman1979 wrote: »

It's 8 sheep a minute!!! Hardly Guinness world record standard lol

Ya I'd say with a good set up and good dosing gun it would no bother and the wife was keeping them pushed up to him .

Attie

This Farming Life BBC 2 tonight bit about milk fever.

flutered

i cannot see it on $lys listings

Lady Haywire

Attie wrote: »

This Farming Life BBC 2 tonight bit about milk fever.

Was that not on last week where the chap lost a cow to it? Blamed a change of feed as he got a heap of cows with it all of a sudden.

Attie

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Attie wrote: »

This Farming Life BBC 2 tonight bit about milk fever.

Was that not on last week where the chap lost a cow to it? Blamed a change of feed as he got a heap of cows with it all of a sudden.

Sorry Lady for not getting back to you fall asleep, you are right but I missed last week's.

Lady Haywire

Attie wrote: »

Sorry Lady for not getting back to you fall asleep, you are right but I missed last week's.

Think it was on every evening last week! I certainly watched it most days, was very good. Watching the auld fella getting the cameraman to help calve the highland was pretty interesting tv!

Muckit

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Think it was on every evening last week! I certainly watched it most days, was very good. Watching the auld fella getting the cameraman to help calve the highland was pretty interesting tv!

I thought he was going to calf himself! They're both gone too old for that sort of craic.

MollsGap

Great show. Bet the Auld fella needed  some Biomoxil after that exertion!

Lady Haywire

Muckit wrote: »

I thought he was going to calf himself! They're both gone too old for that sort of craic.

Aren't his kids working abroad or something? I'd feel far too guilty working abroad if I knew my elderly parents were working on a farm alone.

MollsGap

Clever kids making a run for it by the looks of things.
The guy should be sitting inside sipping a hot whiskey instead of doing the work he is doing.
But that's just his generation... never stopping

sea12

MollsGap wrote: »

Clever kids making a run for it by the looks of things.
The guy should be sitting inside sipping a hot whiskey instead of doing the work he is doing.
But that's just his generation... never stopping

He is a grumpy bollox though. Wouldn't like working for him. Agree they should be retired or taking it easy. Seem them tag calves last week. Only a matter of time before one of them get hurt. And she is sick too I think.

Bullocks

sea12 wrote: »

He is a grumpy bollox though. Wouldn't like working for him. Agree they should be retired or taking it easy. Seem them tag calves last week. Only a matter of time before one of them get hurt. And she is sick too I think.

She was lucky not to get a kick in the puss when they were tagging the calf on his back .
The old boy looks grumpy alright , are they really making a living from them few cows and sheep though ? It said he would be hoping for £500 when he sold a calf next year , that's not much use and every time I see him going to the cows he has a bucket of nuts with him !

liam7831

They are both musicians just doing the farming for the love of it not for the money

adam14

liam7831 wrote:

They are both musicians just doing the farming for the love of it not for the money

Like most of us!

adam14

liam7831 wrote:

They are both musicians just doing the farming for the love of it not for the money

Like most of us!

adam14

liam7831 wrote:

They are both musicians just doing the farming for the love of it not for the money

Like most of us!

adam14

liam7831 wrote:

They are both musicians just doing the farming for the love of it not for the money

Like most of us!

Bullocks

liam7831 wrote: »

They are both musicians just doing the farming for the love of it not for the money

This farmer hasn't a note in his head haha

Dickie10

what do u lads make of the usual story from British farming programmes of dairy farmers going out of business because theres no money in it and some converting back to beef?