Fodder Crisis

Grueller

Just home after being in town for Sunday dinner with herself and the chaps. After the Christmas I have had I am starting a self inflicted fodder crisis tomorrow.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Grueller wrote: »

Just home after being in town for Sunday dinner with herself and the chaps. After the Christmas I have had I am starting a self inflicted fodder crisis tomorrow.

I'd say I'm after putting on a complete condition score:pac:

foxy farmer

A bowl of palm kernel every morning will soon have ye back in shape.

Buford T. Justice XIX

February and March won't be long peeling the condition off me.

whelan2

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I'd say I'm after putting on a complete condition score:pac:

I'm having a glass of wine for Nollag na mban, that's my excuse anyway. Back to reality tomorrow. Daughter threw down her school uniform to be washed about an hour ago....

roosterman71

I've 6 cans of Smithwicks here to get through shortly. Starting back running with a vengeance tomorrow and aiming for the Mullingar Half on Paddy days

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

I'm having a glass of wine for Nollag na mban, that's my excuse anyway. Back to reality tomorrow. Daughter threw down her school uniform to be washed about an hour ago....

Loads of time, sure.

vincenzolorenzo

jimini0 wrote: »

Mini round bales v normal rounds. What's the difference in amount. Would a mini be half a normal one

What diameter is a mini bale? Normal rounds 4.5 ft?

orm0nd

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

What diameter is a mini bale? Normal rounds 4.5 ft?

Ask some of the lads selling straw last harvest. Some of the round bales I saw offered for sale were a disgrace.

Grueller

Grueller wrote: »

Just home after being in town for Sunday dinner with herself and the chaps. After the Christmas I have had I am starting a self inflicted fodder crisis tomorrow.

Just an update. Pulled on the good trousers today to go to a funeral. Button pulled off when I closed it. No option but to hide it with a belt and drive on. I'd like to know who let the trousers in since I wore it 3 weeks ago.

grassroot1

orm0nd wrote:

Ask some of the lads selling straw last harvest. Some of the round bales I saw offered for sale were a disgrace.

One local miser baled 23 4 by 4 to the acre I would imagine there easy to sprong around

Say my name

grassroot1 wrote: »

One local miser baled 23 4 by 4 to the acre I would imagine there easy to sprong around

New loaders with weighcells and a moisture meter would sort a lot of that out.
You're codding no one with that carry on.
Build a good relationship with a straw supplier and knowing that no crap will be carried out on both sides means everything.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Grueller wrote: »

Just an update. Pulled on the good trousers today to go to a funeral. Button pulled off when I closed it. No option but to hide it with a belt and drive on. I'd like to know who let the trousers in since I wore it 3 weeks ago.

They just don't make trousers like they used to:D

tabby aspreme

Grueller wrote: »

Just an update. Pulled on the good trousers today to go to a funeral. Button pulled off when I closed it. No option but to hide it with a belt and drive on. I'd like to know who let the trousers in since I wore it 3 weeks ago.

Them skinny jeans show no mercy

wrangler

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Them skinny jeans show no mercy

Everyone knows that chocolates make clothes shrink in the wardrobe

Bullocks

wrangler wrote: »

Everyone knows that chocolates make clothes shrink in the wardrobe

Are you getting much cycling done since you reduced the flock a bit

Green farmer

wrangler wrote: »

Everyone knows that chocolates make clothes shrink in the wardrobe

Lads, it’s the washing machine, it keeps shrinking my pants. Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Reggie.

Green farmer wrote: »

Lads, it’s the washing machine, it keeps shrinking my pants. Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

I'm blaming the dryer.

freedominacup

whelan2 wrote: »

Don't think there was any, he said mow today pick up Saturday

Someone near Dungarvan must've been drinking the same koolaid. Saw a load of freshly made unwrapped bales on the road between there and the aforementioned Lemybrien on Saturday. Cows out here today. I couldn't cope with the peer pressure. Like being 15 all over again.

Grueller

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Them skinny jeans show no mercy

Nothing skinny about any jeans I ever got into

wrangler

Bullocks wrote: »

Are you getting much cycling done since you reduced the flock a bit

None, I had a lot of problems this year with a hernia and didn't get it fixed until september. hopefully this year now

Reggie.

wrangler wrote: »

None, I had a lot of problems this year with a hernia and didn't get it fixed until september. hopefully this year now

Excuses excuses

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Excuses excuses

Says the one...

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Says the one...

You leave me alone missus

memorystick

Is 9 pound enough of ration for fattening AAx heifers on good silage? Sound

charolais0153

memorystick wrote: »

Is 9 pound enough of ration for fattening AAx heifers on good silage? Sound

Plenty id imagine

Danzy

Half of them out, for the last week, 9 of that have not seen my shed since arrival in Sept.

Have the silage but making the most of the weather.

Fields closed in Dec. are looking good for march, if not sooner with any mildnesd.

Fields closed in oct are being kept fir silage, no choice now, grass lifting for the last 3 weeks, relatively speaking. The fields being strip grazed are already seeing growth in the first part.

The cattle were dosed 8 weeks ago.

Make the most of it now if one can, take pressure off the back end, just in case. It is an April turnout here, often enough as is.

mengele

I have 3/4 of the pit left (at least enough until may) but I always like to have some left over. Everyone around here still have big pits of silage left. Still see silage being put up on done deal for 40 a bale. I'd say those lads will be left with it at that price. Also another gas thing is that nearly all the ads are saying silage from reseeded fields. I'd say the reseeded part was from 20 years ago.

Dakota Dan

mengele wrote: »

I have 3/4 of the pit left (at least enough until may) but I always like to have some left over. Everyone around here still have big pits of silage left. Still see silage being put up on done deal for 40 a bale. I'd say those lads will be left with it at that price. Also another gas thing is that nearly all the ads are saying silage from reseeded fields. I'd say the reseeded part was from 20 years ago.

Keep your powder dry, it's early days yet, anything could happen.

older by the day

Dakota Dan wrote: »

How many selling bales demand payment before they are loaded?

They should, nearly every one I know have been "caught" at sometime. I had a very careful lad telling me last year what a good cash customer he had paying him b4 he loaded, he collected two loads th we same day in March and told the lad he would be back in the evening from the bank to pay, he's not back yet. EATEN BREAD IS SOON FORGOTTEN. As I'm at it it costs me 22 Euro to make a bale, drawn into the yard. Including fert, mowing, baking, plastic, slurry, drawing. I do most of the mowing and drawing but machinery has a cost too.