Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

kollegeknight · 21-07-2016 08:41AM

A friend of mine had offered me silage bales for the cost of baling it but I'm not a fan of dealing with friends. If I were buying I'd prefer to pay market value. Bales are 5 miles away down a narrow busy road. Hay or straw delivered to yard would be less stress.

Just as a contingency if I don't have enough silage.

whelan2 · 21-07-2016 09:55AM

Waiting on vet. Have a calf I reckon has meningitis, eye sight gone.

blue5000 · 21-07-2016 10:33AM

Grueller wrote: »

He found a victim not a customer. I ran out last winter and paid €10 a bale collected from my man. I don't get any further North in Wexford without entering Wicklow.
Lads at €19 a bale I would be finding an alternative. A lad I know takes all the chaff from a large grain intake for just supplying the trailer for them. Its a great job.

Shhhhsh will ya, they'll all want it now:eek:

Nekarsulm · 21-07-2016 01:25PM

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whelan2 · 21-07-2016 01:37PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

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wont work for me :mad:

tanko · 21-07-2016 01:41PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Waiting on vet. Have a calf I reckon has meningitis, eye sight gone.

I had a 15 month old heifer with Meningitis last summer, found her in a drain. She was blind and couldn't walk, treated her for a week or so and had to put her down. It's a horrible condition.
Any hope for yours?

whelan2 · 21-07-2016 02:18PM

tanko wrote: »

I had a 15 month old heifer with Meningitis last summer, found her in a drain. She was blind and couldn't walk, treated her for a week or so and had to put her down. It's a horrible condition.
Any hope for yours?

Was just back over with her now, she seems brighter, but she walked into the wall when we were leaving, she doesnt have a temp. Had to give her another go of cortisone

greysides · 21-07-2016 02:26PM

Vitamin B1 is like a brain tonic so worth giving with meningitis.

whelan2 · 21-07-2016 02:34PM

greysides wrote: »

Vitamin B1 is like a brain tonic so worth giving with meningitis.

Yes vet gave her some this morning thanks

davidk1394 · 21-07-2016 03:56PM

Gave 2 hours baling with a new holland belt baler. God damn would make you question the will to live. Stupid things going wrong with it

dzer2 · 21-07-2016 06:39PM

davidk1394 wrote: »

Gave 2 hours baling with a new holland belt baler. God damn would make you question the will to live. Stupid things going wrong with it

Young lad baled 16 acres here today never got off the tractor

davidk1394 · 21-07-2016 07:42PM

dzer2 wrote: »

Young lad baled 16 acres here today never got off the tractor

Well I had no experience with it. But I had bother with the netting system. Complicated system compared to the Lely

Grueller · 21-07-2016 09:15PM

Grueller wrote: »

As some of you know I am part time and was doing the herd test today and got a comment from the vet which I took as a compliment despite it probably not being one. I was filling the crush, soaked in sweat, covered in scutter and the vet says "your day job must be fairly sh1t if this is what you do for leisure". I got a great kick out of it.

All clear thankfully.

tanko · 21-07-2016 10:19PM

I have a 15 month old heifer which was a twin along with a bull. I had assumed she wouldn't be suitable for breeding but this evening she seems to be in heat. The four bullocks in the field think so also and she is standing for them.
Will a freemartin heifer show signs of heat and still be infertile or is it possible that she may be suitable for breeding?
I haven't had her examined yet.

carrollsno1 · 21-07-2016 10:24PM

tanko wrote: »

I have a 15 month old heifer which was a twin along with a bull. I had assumed she wouldn't be suitable for breeding but this evening she seems to be in heat. The four bullocks in the field think so also and she is standing for them.
Will a freemartin heifer show signs of heat and still be infertile or is it possible that she may be suitable for breeding?
I haven't had her examined yet.

If you thibk shes suitable for breeding be no harm to stick a straw in her might be the best thing you ever do but could also be the worst thing you could do

MickeyShtyles · 21-07-2016 10:25PM

tanko wrote: »

I have a 15 month old heifer which was a twin along with a bull. I had assumed she wouldn't be suitable for breeding but this evening she seems to be in heat. The four bullocks in the field think so also and she is standing for them.
Will a freemartin heifer show signs of heat and still be infertile or is it possible that she may be suitable for breeding?
I haven't had her examined yet.

AFAICR Freemartin heifers have a 97% chance of being infertile. .......
Burgers.

tanko · 21-07-2016 10:41PM

If she comes into the yard in the morning i might know more.

Base price · 21-07-2016 11:05PM

tanko wrote: »

I have a 15 month old heifer which was a twin along with a bull. I had assumed she wouldn't be suitable for breeding but this evening she seems to be in heat. The four bullocks in the field think so also and she is standing for them.
Will a freemartin heifer show signs of heat and still be infertile or is it possible that she may be suitable for breeding?
I haven't had her examined yet.

Had a few freemartins when I kept the pb/suckler herd and they never bred.
I bought a pb freemartin yearling heifer from a friend many years ago. She was very well bred and I had my fingers crossed hoping for a miracle. Kept her along with other replacement stock and within a few months she came a bulling. Left her for a few cycles to make sure she was regular. Sure enough she was like clockwork. Introduced her to the junior stock bull and he did the biz. Same scenario 3 weeks later and 3 weeks after that and 3 weeks after that etc.....
I fed her on to finish and she left the best clear profit that I have ever made from any animal. She was as good as a vasectomised bull amongst the junior heifers.

Farrell · 22-07-2016 07:28AM

Just in Dublin, couldn't believe how quiet the N3 is after the M50, say I've saved a good 1/2 hour compared to other times.
Is this holiday season?

ganmo · 22-07-2016 08:24AM

Farrell wrote: »

Just in Dublin, couldn't believe how quiet the N3 is after the M50, say I've saved a good 1/2 hour compared to other times.
Is this holiday season?

Ya ever since the schools have been off the roads have been quieter

whelan2 · 22-07-2016 08:25AM

ganmo wrote: »

Ya ever since the schools have been off the roads have been quieter

Just over 5 weeks holidays left

greysides · 22-07-2016 08:36AM

Freemartins aren't a set thing, it's a spectrum of abnormality running from normal, to half a uterus to no uterus to ovaries/no uterus or intra-abdominal testicles.... etc.
If intending to AI her, warn the technician as he may do damage if he forces something that's not possible.

kollegeknight · 22-07-2016 08:51AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Just over 5 weeks holidays left

Are you trying to depress me? I've only 5 weeks left.

Kovu · 22-07-2016 08:53AM

kollegeknight wrote: »

Are you trying to depress me? I've only 5 weeks left.

But sure its only 22 weeks to Christmas

Water John · 22-07-2016 08:54AM

Fr. Jack's reply to that, Kovu.

blue5000 · 22-07-2016 08:57AM

Kovu wrote: »

But sure its only 22 weeks to Christmas

Counting down to the burpday are we?:D

Kovu · 22-07-2016 09:00AM

blue5000 wrote: »

Counting down to the burpday are we?:D

No no no, once I hit the latter side of 25 I stopped celebrating them!

Nekarsulm · 22-07-2016 09:46AM

This wouldn't upload yesterday.
Ideal for silage contractors?

whelan2 · 22-07-2016 10:44AM

Kovu wrote: »

But sure its only 22 weeks to Christmas

The day after we came back from holidays, my daughter gave me her christmas list :rolleyes:

kollegeknight · 22-07-2016 11:12AM

Guess the type of bird that was on the silage while we were in Limerick? Only 1 bale holed badly and about 3 with pin holes.

Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

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