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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #9392
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,412 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Base price wrote: »
    What neck of the woods are you in - County. I never heard a pishogue about twins unless they were mixed sex.
    At the minute we have a problem with diphtheria in two bull calves. Haven't had a issue with diphtheria in years. The two animals are fields apart. One is about 5 months old and the other about 3 months.
    What are you treating them with? Had it here earlier in the year. Pen/strep for 10 days.....


  • #9393
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    whelan2 wrote: »
    What are you treating them with? Had it here earlier in the year. Pen/strep for 10 days.....
    Vet gave them a few injections and left us pen strep and a oral spray.


  • #9394
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    whelan2 wrote: »
    What spray would you use? The fella was telling her to get a licensed spray man to spray it

    There is a thread on here somewhere about it. It is very difficult to kill, roundup does not always succeed. This is the spray that was recommended. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kill-Horsetail-Mares-tail-and-other-weeds-with-Kurtail-weedkiller-0-5ltr-/321495269973?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Fertiliser_C&clk_rvr_id=1049647652454&afsrc=1&rmvSB=true

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057239245


  • #9395
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,412 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    longgonesilver wrote: »
    There is a thread on here somewhere about it. It is very difficult to kill, roundup does not always succeed. This is the spray that was recommended. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kill-Horsetail-Mares-tail-and-other-weeds-with-Kurtail-weedkiller-0-5ltr-/321495269973?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Fertiliser_C&clk_rvr_id=1049647652454&afsrc=1&rmvSB=true

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057239245
    would she spray thee whole area or just were the weed has come through?


  • #9396
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    Was in Dublin via N/M3, on the road early, see 1 of the N3 lanes closed before Kells turn-off .... for some side of the road trimming.
    A complete stretch with high volume of traffic & to make matters worse the lorries & tractor were stopped


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  • #9397
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    whelan2 wrote: »
    would she spray thee whole area or just were the weed has come through?

    I would guess only the green parts of the plant, including the flower beds and lawn. Never tried to kill it specifically but some of it here is beside the public road and never saw it coming through the tar. It sits at the side of the field here and does not seem to be invasive, but I would be careful when reseeding not to pull roots out into the field.


  • #9398
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    longgonesilver wrote: »
    I would guess only the green parts of the plant, including the flower beds and lawn. Never tried to kill it specifically but some of it here is beside the public road and never saw it coming through the tar. It sits at the side of the field here and does not seem to be invasive, but I would be careful when reseeding not to pull roots out into the field.
    Pulling them doesn't work. Yer not getting the whole root.


  • #9399
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,743 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Is there trouble in Paradise again? Accounts closing left right and center.:(


  • #9400
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Is there trouble in Paradise again? Accounts closing left right and center.:(

    Something kicked off on the complaining about dairy etc thread. Kovu's after hiding the evidence at this stage. Must have got nasty I'd say.


  • #9401
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    Something kicked off on the complaining about dairy etc thread. Kovu's after hiding the evidence at this stage. Must have got nasty I'd say.

    Nope, I cleaned it up. Just stuff that wasn't of particular benefit to the thread. Can show you the whole thread if you like, not trying to hide anything but trying to get it back on track.


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  • #9402
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,077 ✭✭✭White Clover


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Is there trouble in Paradise again? Accounts closing left right and center.:(

    A lot of posters are taking these forums way too serious.


  • #9403
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,743 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    White Clover wrote: »
    A lot of posters are taking these forums way too serious.
    Always stems from pressure in the real world, I think.


  • #9404
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Poor old Simon will be the next to pull the plug. Don't think he had as many protesters in his face for his whole stint as ag minister as he has had the last week! No point shouting about our problems on here.


  • #9405
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Some change from having both the Army and the SIU under your control, to having the bin men and people looking a L.A. house bending your ear.
    It's enough to make a man look at the private sector. !


  • #9406
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    Kovu wrote: »

    Nope, I cleaned it up. Just stuff that wasn't of particular benefit to the thread. Can show you the whole thread if you like, not trying to hide anything but trying to get it back on track.

    Ah I'm only codding Kovu, Ive no interest in those dairy threads anyway. They'd make your head sore with figures.


  • #9407
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    White Clover wrote: »
    A lot of posters are taking these forums way too serious.

    Some of ye really wind me up sometimes alright !


  • #9408
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,412 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Always stems from pressure in the real world, I think.
    Think so. Although why anyone would close their account is beyond me:) Hopefully they will come back, found the once a day milking very interesting


  • #9409
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,410 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Think so. Although why anyone would close their account is beyond me:) Hopefully they will come back, found the once a day milking very interesting

    Farm where i work the boss would go against the grain all cows are only milked oad for the month of february for labour point of view abd from cow point of view thin cows are kept on once a day after february to help put on condition and start cycling regularly it turns the cows inside out so it does

    Better living everyone



  • #9410
    Mrs cockett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Mrs cockett


    How much are people paying to have silage mowed baled and wrapped. Is it dearer to get it chopped?


  • #9411
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Did you ever stop to wonder, why are milking parlours called parlours?
    Wouldn't Milking Kitchen, or Milking Shed, or Milking Room be more likely?
    When mechanized milking was invented, the Parlour was a room you never used, unless the Clergy came to visit or some such. My granny had a parlour that was NEVER used. Done up to the last re. furniture and pictures etc.
    It was entered twice a week. To get her furry Sunday hat off a side table for church, and then to replace the hat afterwards.
    So why Milking Parlour?


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  • #9412
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,412 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Did you ever stop to wonder, why are milking parlours called parlours?
    Wouldn't Milking Kitchen, or Milking Shed, or Milking Room be more likely?
    When mechanized milking was invented, the Parlour was a room you never used, unless the Clergy came to visit or some such. My granny had a parlour that was NEVER used. Done up to the last re. furniture and pictures etc.
    It was entered twice a week. To get her furry Sunday hat off a side table for church, and then to replace the hat afterwards.
    So why Milking Parlour?
    Whats a cow byre ? Would that have been the name before parlour?


  • #9413
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Whats a cow byre ? Would that have been the name before parlour?
    The byre would have been the shed or cubicle house as it is now.

    Tie up byres.

    We still have the chains in the walls in our old cubicle house.


  • #9414
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    The byre would have been the shed or cubicle house as it is now.

    Tie up byres.

    We still have the chains in the walls in our old cubicle house.

    We use the chains to keep gates closed :pac:

    In our place the parlour was where you entertained the visitors, sure isn't it a nice way to say you talk to the cows twice a day. Meeting them in the parlour for the chats. :)


  • #9415
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Kovu wrote: »
    We use the chains to keep gates closed :pac:

    In our place the parlour was where you entertained the visitors, sure isn't it a nice way to say you talk to the cows twice a day. Meeting them in the parlour for the chats. :)
    For the sh!t and giggles.

    Though more of the first in mine anyway:mad:

    I'll have to go milking soon, 2 lads still spreading slurry here.


  • #9416
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    The byre would have been the shed or cubicle house as it is now.

    Tie up byres.

    We still have the chains in the walls in our old cubicle house.

    I use them for closing gates around pillars , handy hook for that . Especially hand if the gate isn't closing right on the latch


  • #9417
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,419 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Mrs cockett wrote: »
    How much are people paying to have silage mowed baled and wrapped. Is it dearer to get it chopped?

    €8.25 a bale.
    Mowed, tossed out, rowed up, baled, wrapped. Chopped with half set of blades in if that makes any sense.


  • #9418
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    _Brian wrote: »
    €8.25 a bale.
    Mowed, tossed out, rowed up, baled, wrapped. Chopped with half set of blades in if that makes any sense.

    €7.50 Raked, baled and wrapped.


  • #9419
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    _Brian wrote: »
    €8.25 a bale.
    Mowed, tossed out, rowed up, baled, wrapped. Chopped with half set of blades in if that makes any sense.

    I think it's €11 a bale here mowed , baled and wrapped and we have to supply the wrap . It's chopped but doubt it's with all the knives in either . That's fragmented west of Ireland prices and why we make our own pit silage


  • #9420
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    €7.50 Raked, baled and wrapped.

    I should break it down a bit more. It's €1.50 a bale to rake it and €6 to bale and wrap. We supply the plastic.


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  • #9421
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,077 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Congratulations to Buford and best of luck to him in his new role!
    Only spotted it now!!


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