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    #9692
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Base price wrote: »
    I'm useless at identifying plants and trees. Honeysuckle is one of the few that I know because we have lots of it growing here and I love the smell of it especially on a fine Summers evening when I'm out herding.

    We have lots of it too, and I love the smell as well...
    I didn’t know honeysuckle and woodbine were the one plant though?


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    #9693
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,180 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    We have lots of it too, and I love the smell as well...
    I didn’t know honeysuckle and woodbine were the one plant though?
    My Mother always called it woodbine - http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=135&wildflower=Honeysuckle


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    #9694
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    and my mother called it "Lady's Fingers"

    http://theseedsite.co.uk/profile691.html


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    #9695
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,213 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    and my mother called it "Lady's Fingers"

    http://theseedsite.co.uk/profile691.html

    I thought fox gloves were called ladys fingers


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    #9696
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Whelan2, your are correct, Foxgloves, it's latin name is Digitalis, which translates to "fingers".

    My Mom tried growing Foxgloves, they didn't survive, as our soil is alkaline.


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    #9697
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,213 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Was spraying under electric fence wire with grazon earlier. There were loads of caterpillars on the nettles. They were black. Never noticed them before


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    #9698
    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Base price wrote: »
    My Mother always called it woodbine - http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=135&wildflower=Honeysuckle

    It's Woodbine around here too.
    In fact it features in the lyrics of The Offaly Rover..
    ' Oh Kinnity I long to see when the woodbine's in full bloom'


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    #9699
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    There's a yellow weather rainfall warning tomorrow from 2 to 8pm for Galway, Clare and Kerry. 20 to 30mm of heavy showers.


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    #9700
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Hon Cork!


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    #9701
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Hon Cork!

    How they never dropped the heads after such a poor start was brilliant. Great to see not just talented players but mentally strong too


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    #9702
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    zetecescort wrote: »
    How they never dropped the heads after such a poor start was brilliant. Great to see not just talented players but mentally strong too

    Work rate and a never give up attitude are great things to have.


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    #9703
    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    zetecescort wrote: »
    How they never dropped the heads after such a poor start was brilliant. Great to see not just talented players but mentally strong too

    I saw them last weekend vs Tyrone in Tullamore and I was very impressed by them. Great win. And the minors still in the hunt too.


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    #9704
    GoneHome
    Registered Users Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭GoneHome


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Hon Cork!

    That was one of the best games of football of the year (speaking as a Limerick native), well done to Cork, some great future prospects there for the county


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    #9705
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Just watched the Life of Brian again. I haven't seen it in more than 20 years I'd say and still funny as ever even though I know what joke's coming next.


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    #9706
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,248 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Just watched the Life of Brian again. I haven't seen it in more than 20 years I'd say and still funny as ever even though I know what joke's coming next.

    Can’t beat a classic- if I’ve time, the outlaw Josie Wales or animal house or blues brothers.


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    #9707
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,379 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Can’t beat a classic- if I’ve time, the outlaw Josie Wales or animal house or blues brothers.

    I'm a fan of Red Dwarf myself


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    #9708
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,181 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    Is it possible to paint stokboard?

    thinking of green oxide


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    #9709
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,213 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    As of july 31st there are 37 pi bvd animals still in 30 herds . How many years is the testing going on?


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    #9710
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,181 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    whelan2 wrote: »
    As of july 31st there are 37 pi bvd animals still in 30 herds . How many years is the testing going on?

    not as long as the TB Eradication Scheme,


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    #9711
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,227 ✭✭✭tanko


    whelan2 wrote: »
    As of july 31st there are 37 pi bvd animals still in 30 herds . How many years is the testing going on?

    Compulsory testing started in 2012 so eight years and nine if the voluntary testing in 2011 is included.
    It's a complete shambles but sure the labs are making a fortune and that's all that seems to matter.


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    #9712
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    tanko wrote: »
    Compulsory testing started in 2012 so eight years and nine if the voluntary testing in 2011 is included.
    It's a complete shambles but sure the labs are making a fortune and that's all that seems to matter.

    Agriculture is being squeezed to provide incomes outside the farmgate. It's easier than providing real jobs:rolleyes:


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    #9713
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    orm0nd wrote: »
    not as long as the TB Eradication Scheme,

    The current target is to eradicate TB before 2030, so some 65 years old already and some of the provisions they are talking about being implemented are not going to be popular with farmers and some I doubt can be done at all.

    And they think they can achieve it with a minimum of disruption to wildlife but a maximum disruption to cattle. They have a lot of their own biases to overcome before that's going to happen.


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    #9714
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    whelan2 wrote: »
    As of july 31st there are 37 pi bvd animals still in 30 herds . How many years is the testing going on?

    Is every other animal tested?
    Those herds should be restricted in some way


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    #9715
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    ganmo wrote: »
    Is every other animal tested?
    Those herds should be restricted in some way

    If there are only 30 herds compulsory slaughter of the herds and no compensation If any pi reaches a week old and is still in the herd.


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    #9716
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,213 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    If there are only 30 herds compulsory slaughter of the herds and no compensation If any pi reaches a week old and is still in the herd.

    Name the herds that don't comply


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    #9717
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,087 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Name the herds that don't comply

    That'd probably contravene data protection


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    #9718
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,213 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    wrangler wrote: »
    That'd probably contravene data protection

    Probably, but this is going on a long time now.


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    #9719
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    If there are only 30 herds compulsory slaughter of the herds and no compensation If any pi reaches a week old and is still in the herd.

    If they have PIs in the herd, some of the calves will be born not being PIs and get infected before or soon after birth. It'll take at least a week or ten days to get the new tag ordered, sent off and tested. A second test can be positive or negative so that has to be done before confirmation of the BVD status.

    Just restrict the herds till they slaughter the PIs. If they can't sell to anybody except the factory, they won't be long dealing with their PIs.


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    #9720
    TheFarrier
    Registered Users Posts: 607 ✭✭✭TheFarrier


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    If they have PIs in the herd, some of the calves will be born not being PIs and get infected before or soon after birth. It'll take at least a week or ten days to get the new tag ordered, sent off and tested. A second test can be positive or negative so that has to be done before confirmation of the BVD status.

    Just restrict the herds till they slaughter the PIs. If they can't sell to anybody except the factory, they won't be long dealing with their PIs.



    What does PI stand for??
    Thanks


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    #9721
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    TheFarrier wrote: »
    What does PI stand for??
    Thanks
    PI is persistently infected. The cow catches a BVD infection between months 2 and 4 of pregnancy and, if she doesn't abort the calf, the calf will permanently have BVD and can't be cured and will she loads of virus while they are still alive.

    If the cow catches BVD late in pregnancy or the calf catches BVD after being born, they can show positive for BVD but can fight off the infection and test clear after a week or so. They don't persistently shed the virus and will be perfectly normal.


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