F&F Chitchat a hocht, an feirmeoir bocht

Anyone know what this weed is. Is it some sort of chickweed?

Very satisfying when you get a splinter out. Tip of a steak knife very effective

ganmo wrote: »

Use a sewing needle much less overall damage

Sometimes a snips is called for

charolais0153 wrote: »

Hands do get fierce sore holding books all day alrite:rolleyes:;)

And your poor auld lads rough as gravel from blocks. Ye grabbers have it too easy.☺

charolais0153 wrote: »

Anyone know what this weed is. Is it some sort of chickweed?

Yes it is a mouse-eared chickweed, not usually a problem.

And you put on your best jumper for the photo too!:)

charolais0153 wrote: »

It was reseeded las autumn and has been grazed 5 or 6 times since but its still in it.will it go over time?

It's more a tillage weed, it shouldn't tolerate grazing. have you fertiliser spread, new reseeds can be demanding on fertility to tiller out and smother weeds

charolais0153 wrote: »

3 rounds

It should be going out of it so, I wouldn't be too worried it's not like as if a huge crop of docks appeared in the reseed.
Just on docks....some of my land is being grazed by cattle this year and there's a fine crop of docks coming, I would've said that I had no docks, so the wooly vermin {sheep} must have been controlling them all along.
The'' barstool experts'' would tell you that they don't eat them

wrangler wrote: »

It should be going out of it so, I wouldn't be too worried it's not like as if a huge crop of docks appeared in the reseed.
Just on docks....some of my land is being grazed by cattle this year and there's a fine crop of docks coming, I would've said that I had no docks, so the wooly vermin {sheep} must have been controlling them all along.
The'' barstool experts'' would tell you that they don't eat them

We have all cattle here bar the twenty ewes and the one garden that I only let the sheep into for the last few years has no docks now .
I have a rake of spraying done this year so hopefully I will have less going forward aswell

Mooooo wrote: »

Could be the cattle disturb the soil more and lead to more germination. Could have come in slurry too

Cattle are only out a fortnight and the field hasn't got slurry in ten years.
Docks just never got the chance to get up with the sheep.

grassroot1 wrote: »

16 acres of arable silage sown and grass seeds set, going to sit back for the rest of the day. Could do with a drop of rain but you would be afraid to ask for it.:D

Were looking for it here, we got 5.5ml last weekend no sowing done today nor yesterday or the day before, few other irish lads getting seriously low hours further in from the coast. Sunday was windy as and sone lads even got a day off due to the wind as it would have blown away what little moisture that was in the furrows.
Boss rang the advisor today and told him to go deeper, sure i suppose every inch counts doesnt it....

I need a GPS system for this guy, it's a good job he has tags too!!

Middle of a clump of rushes yesterday.

Stuck in an old heap of dead ferns this morning.

Pile of whins this afternoon.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I need a GPS system for this guy, it's a good job he has tags too!!

Middle of a clump of rushes yesterday.

Stuck in an old heap of dead ferns this morning.

Pile of whins this afternoon.

That was mower has it's work cut out

Jaysus I just flicked through the channels there and crossed TG4. I seen a few cows and stopped. I couldn't understand a word out of the narrator unfortunately cos my grasp of Irish died at the leaving. I thought it was a bout Vegans, but seems to be more about the plight of bull calves on dairy farms. Programme still on. Called 7 Lá I think. Some disturbing images of dead calves (and older cattle and sheep), and a video of poor calves in a bad way in New Zealand I think. Anyway, was pretty gruesome stuff

whelan2 wrote: »

Local farm store have just set up an online ordering service,free delivery over 80 euro. Great people to deal with. www.deesidecountrystore.ie

Always nice to see a new competitor in the market


Now, just a word of warning with calf jackets as this happened me this evening.
Bought a new jacket as I had been looking at them for a while as we've one calving pen which gets a breeze in off the lake.
Calf a few days old- heifers calf- was put out 2 days ago and was a bit off form, scour this morning. So injected him & drenched him and put the jacket on. Cows sniffed him and were mightily confused, following him around the field. I stayed watching just to see if he'd go to suck. All of a sudden, one of the cows just went for the calf, down on her knees grinding at him with her head and all, booing out of her. I couldn't fecking do anything but drive the quad straight at her and hope she'd back off- luckily she did so i leapt off thinking he was dead as he was flat out.
Calf very shaken and reckon the jacket took much of the force as whatever luck he had he went into a track left by the tractor so wasn't on flat ground.
But she just went nuts at the jacket, with no warning at all. My fault perhaps as I should have rubbed silage or dirt on it to take away the strange smell but still a shock to the system.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

But she just went nuts at the jacket, with no warning at all. My fault perhaps as I should have rubbed silage or dirt on it to take away the strange smell but still a shock to the system.

Not half the shock the poor calf must have gotten and him sick too:eek: You will always be surprised at cattle!