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Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::

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  • #3662
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,632 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Floki wrote: »
    The closing date for spreading any N or P is Friday.


    I haven't heard any call for it only on your post.
    So I doubt it.

    The whole idea behind it was for any crops to be able to take up any fertiliser spread and not have it leaching into waterways before the winter stops growth.

    Buy it and spread it Thursday.
    Well then it won't get any then ;)


  • #3663
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    Floki wrote:
    Buy it and spread it Thursday.


    It's bought and sitting in yard. Hasn't stopped raining. Only chance is Thursday or Friday looking at weather. Only have 2 fields to put it out on. So will probably stay in bag. Put lime out last year in December when fit a dry spell, down great job, have bags of that waiting too


  • #3664
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    427762.jpg
    2 incalf heifers we bought


  • #3665
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Floki wrote: »
    Reseed today.
    Sowed Friday 1st sept at roughly 18kgs/acre.
    Got 3 tons dolerite (basalt dust) and 2 tons cal lime per acre.
    Sowed seed with a vicon spreader and rolled once.
    Got 3 bags 10.10.20 per acre on the 2nd sept and got 30 units N per acre yesterday.]

    Brilliant job there. What's your hope grazing wise? Have you sheep or access to them? Or light stock?


  • #3666
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    My poor reseed got flooded for a few hours and haven't ventured out to it since

    +1.


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  • #3667
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Brilliant job there. What's your hope grazing wise? Have you sheep or access to them? Or light stock?

    Weanling heifers will do a job on it. Hopefully.

    But more fencing with sheep and barb wire on the boundary first and then electric on the paddock divisions before grazing.
    I want to slowly get away from electric on the boundaries and all the maintenance that entails with it.
    That's the plan anyway.


  • #3668
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,493 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Picked these this evening, Wild plums. My aunt makes a serious wild plum / clove jam. Got over 6 kg from a few trees. Cattle were eating them as I was picking them.


  • #3669
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Picked these this evening, Wild plums. My aunt makes a serious wild plum / clove jam. Got over 6 kg from a few trees. Cattle were eating them as I was picking them.

    Since when did you become American?

    They're Damsons aren't they?


  • #3670
    furandfeather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭furandfeather


    Floki wrote: »
    Since when did you become American?

    They're Damsons aren't they?

    That's what we would call them


  • #3671
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    furandfeather wrote: »
    That's what we would call them

    They look very like Damsons to me.


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  • #3672
    furandfeather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭furandfeather


    Floki wrote: »
    They look very like Damsons to me.

    Sorry yes I meant its damsons that we call them. I've never seen the word written down before!


  • #3673
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    furandfeather wrote: »
    Sorry yes I meant its damsons that we call them. I've never seen the word written down before!

    Don't worry. I'm just agreeing with you.:p
    But I've never heard them called wild plums before.
    The only reference to wild plum trees I've heard comes from the U.S.


  • #3674
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,632 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Floki wrote: »
    Don't worry. I'm just agreeing with you.:p
    But I've never heard them called wild plums before.
    The only reference to wild plum trees I've heard comes from the U.S.

    For a new buck this floki fella has a lot to say :D


  • #3675
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    Reggie. wrote: »
    For a new buck this floki fella has a lot to say :D

    Fast learner.:)


  • #3676
    johnnyw20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭johnnyw20


    johnnyw20 wrote: »
    Have this lad at home. Not a big farmer and new to finishing cattle. He's 22 months. He was 365kg in February when I bought him. What age would be best to be finishing him at? Would I want to push him to 30 months?

    Bought him to the Mart today. Weighed 565kg and got €1320. Happy out


  • #3677
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,493 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    johnnyw20 wrote: »
    Bought him to the Mart today. Weighed 565kg and got €1320. Happy out

    Good man Johnny.


  • #3678
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    johnnyw20 wrote: »
    Bought him to the Mart today. Weighed 565kg and got €1320. Happy out

    You kept him well.


  • #3679
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,493 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Sprayed these thistles with Roudup I had left over from the weedlicker from last year. Used a small bottle sprayer from Lidl but as you can see, next to impossible to keep the spray off the grass.


  • #3680
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Sprayed these thistles with Roudup I had left over from the weedlicker from last year. Used a small bottle sprayer from Lidl but as you can see, next to impossible to keep the spray off the grass.

    I cringe when I see that in a field
    You've just made room for lots more weeds to grow, had you no MCPA


  • #3681
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    rangler1 wrote: »
    I cringe when I see that in a field
    You've just made room for lots more weeds to grow, had you no MCPA

    What if he used the licker instead of sprayer?


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  • #3682
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,493 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Land too wet to travel with licker. Had to use up round-up. How else do you get rid of it. Think it's even there 2 years now.


  • #3683
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    A good few sprays other than roundup would kill thistles and not grass


  • #3684
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,493 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Its all about how you handle them.



  • #3685
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I think that's Bass Reeves. He's been trying to fatten that lad for last 6 weeks. In the end he just gave up, opened the gate and let him off :D


  • #3686
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,493 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    You're in trouble now boy.


  • #3687
    High bike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭High bike


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Its all about how you handle them.

    [/quotes that's a man with a death wish]


  • #3688
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,894 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Hope to get a few more years out of this lad,

    428106.JPG

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3689
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    I think it's time to wean her :pac:

    ZcwMfjbl.jpg


  • #3690
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I think it's time to wean her :pac:

    ZcwMfjbl.jpg
    She did s great job, well due a rest


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  • #3691
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    She did s great job, well due a rest

    Not due til Feb though, same bull again. Seems to click well with her. CH2161, have him on 5 cows this year.


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