Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

whelan2 wrote: »

Lovely job https://www.facebook.com/cowsmo/photos/a.10150201146895899.311913.21100185898/10154285043190899/?type=3

For our wedding, I wanted to give a TY student the opportunity to make our cake. He had an interest in baking so I said I'd give him a shot. The OH wanted an agricultural theme. She got cake toppers made in the uk and got the student to match the pattern. While the littlest bit rough around the edges, we were delighted with it for a 16yo.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I got a Fanzone ticket for Rammstein in Estonia in June. :D:D:D:D

Grr!
The face got roasted off me when I saw them a few years ago

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I got a Fanzone ticket for Rammstein in Estonia in June. :D:D:D:D

Savage band

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Anyone know anything about the pH meters for measuring soil?
When it goes dark at night does the pH of the soil (presume not) go to neutral (7)?

I was out measuring paddocks this evening (for the craic) and it was working fine on paddocks measuring 6.4, 6.5.
Then when it got dark the fecking thing was reading 7.
Even on the paddocks I measured before it was reading 7.
The moisture readings are working fine but the pH is reading neutral.

It's the meter with the 2 dissimilar metal probes.

I may try it again tomorrow in the daylight to make sure.

ph is temperature dependant

Have been trying to coax a cow and new calf into the shed to tag and she has been skirting us nicely for the past few days. Fenced a small spot that she got through yesterday - she headed for it, spotted the new fence, turned around and walked into the shed - knew she was snookered.

Waffletraktor wrote: »

TBH the electric probes wouldn't be renowned for accuracy. You want a "BDH soil test kit" , which would be used as a guide for what needs more detailed lab work. Though they all struggle if you go below 5 ph

BDH? Does that stand for be da hokey?

You learn something new every day (or else cop on a bit more )
Took a calf in with scour a couple of days ago and treated him for it, still sucking the heifer greedily enough so only gave him the powder, had water in a bucket left for him in the lying area too, along with calf nuts & hay. But up to last night was very lethargic, cold ears, no temp, no draw in the lungs, just wrong looking. So mixed up 2l of electrolyte and drenched it into him. He's like a new calf this morning, cudding away!
So heifer not able to provide enough to bring him back from a scour dehydration, definitely on the cull list now.

Clear herd test this morning.......thank jaysus

I see a nice bit of a frost in the forecast for a couple of days. Anyone that has a few earlier spuds or veg might want to think about covering them or get up before sunrise to water the frost off the spuds.
I see some apple blossom here that's gonna take a hit!

greysides wrote: »

Not sure I follow the logic. The calf is scouring because the gut can't absorb the milk due to damage. Water is staying with the undigested milk due to attraction.
Electrolytes use ion pumps in the intestinal wall to suck water in. Some of the electrolyte solutions contain special ingredients to promote the pumping.
I don't see how the heifer can be held responsible for the calf dehydrating.

Calfs scour had cleared up by midday yesterday, if anything was gone the other way. I don't know what gave him the scour in the first place as he was out, chill perhaps, but I'm not blaming the heifer for him getting that way in the first place. This is the same calf I switched from bottle feeding to the heifer as she wasn't showing much signs of milk when she calved and tbh hasn't progressed much in that dept despite getting dairy nuts each day.

Just was watching him going to suck yesterday, then going back again and again so she looks like she really has nothing for him to speak of and he was thirsty yet wouldn't drink the water I had left for him. Wouldn't suck the mix either so that's why I drenched it into him.
It just looked like despite his gut having cleared up, she wasn't giving him enough to fix whatever dehydration had occurred? I'm likely to be very wrong though :pac:

Sticking my nose in here for a while again after an absenxe for a while ... howd calving go for everyone hope it went well !!! Was on macra ag affairs trip last week well worth going on. Great mix of farms and factory tours.

davidk1394 wrote: »

We're all still talking to each other here at home after the spring. Heading out to Holland myself the end of May. Won a student bursary off the ASA so something to look forward to after the exams.

Thats the main thing anyway!!! Best thing you can do as a young farmer is go on as many trips as you can like thst lad what are you going to see over there? Indoor system, robots or machinery

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Proof reading a thesis here, I'll never get this time back and it's only half of it! :O

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