Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Say my name wrote: »

^^ Set it if you're thinking of development potential.
Sell it now if you want a handier life.

Probably not the answers you want but sure someone had to get them out of the way.

Emaherx I believe has land adjacent to an urban area.

You said it Say my name. Sell if it's yours or rent somewhere else if it's not.

You'll never have peace there, we had land behind a housing estate and you couldn't keep cattle there, all of the fences were cut and the gates disappeared. Joy riders moved in and burnt out cars. We used to stack burnt out cars in the gaps and just take 2 cuts of silage a year from the land. It's sold now but the town is slowly creeping up on the home farm too.

Seen an article on Agriland yesterday where young lads chased a cow till she fell over dead.

Trailer carrying 50 young cattle overturns.

https://www.thatsfarming.com/news/trailer-of-up-to-50-cattle-overturns-on-motorway

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Trailer carrying 50 young cattle overturns.

https://www.thatsfarming.com/news/trailer-of-up-to-50-cattle-overturns-on-motorway

The driver, a man in his late teens, was uninjured in the single-vehicle incident.

Few questions will be asked there...hope he wasn't on TikTok at the time...

I was driving along the road where I live yesterday. Just after finishing the Herd test and heading home. My neighbour pulls out in front of me. I hear this load bang and I'm looking around me wondering what it is.

Suddenly the left side of her car drops down and the front wheel comes off. A few feet later and another bang, this time the front right wheel rolls across the road. I hop out of the jeep and go straight to the wheel hub, thinking the nuts were never put on. I had seen the car jacked up outside their house the day before. Turns out her son had got alloys from a scrap yard and used nuts that were too small. The alloys came off over the nuts. She was only 1/2 mile from the Motorway and her daughter was driving as she was learning to drive.

Lad that was with me was roaring laughing, when we got back into the jeep. :rolleyes:

kollegeknight wrote: »

Have a calf off a heifer that’s 2.5 weeks old, born via section. Mother hasn’t taken to him so I have to catch her to allow him suck.

Looked in the paddock today and he was missing. He climbed up a ditch and down a 9 foot fall and was in the neighbouring forest. Definitely has a death with. My sister was around for the section and she called him rocky because he is a fighter. I think He is taking his name literally, gets knocked down and gets back up again.

I have one of them here that hasn't taken after a section last Sunday either. No badness in her just won't stand for the calf to suck, right nuisance having to stand with her twice a day.

I fostered a calf to a cow that lost her calf this year. Getting nowhere for a week.or so until I happened to let another cow in at the same time to nurse her own calf.
She let him drink then , no problem.
Might be worth a try.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I fostered a calf to a cow that lost her calf this year. Getting nowhere for a week.or so until I happened to let another cow in at the same time to nurse her own calf.
She let him drink then , no problem.
Might be worth a try.

I have another heifer that I fostered a calf onto in them.
She took to her new calf no bother and the one with her actual calf isn’t taking. I’ve plenty paddocks around the house and I can make time to do it until they take, if they take

Base price wrote: »

I've a racist ex dairy cow here that I adopted three calves onto during the week. She will allow two angus bulls to suck but kicks and pucks at a whitehead bull. The whitehead is getting clever and is now sucking her from behind. They are still in a pen but hopefully I can turn them out into the paddock behind the house to keep an eye on them over the weekend.

We used have a dairy cow that wouldn’t give milk to women or children. Dad would have to milk her when he came home from a day on the digger. He thought it was the machine she didn’t like so sold her to a neighbour who hand milked a cow for the house. When he would be gone and the wife would milk her, she would give very little and be roaring to be milked when he came home.

Say my name wrote: »

Boo. Waste of carbon.
Boo. Waste of nutrients.
Boo. Killer of ecosystems.
Boo. Boo. :pac:






Boo.

I think the thread is haunted by an environmentally conscious ghost :eek:

Say my name wrote: »

Makes you wonder what a cow ghost sounds like?

If it's an Irish ghost cow....Bóo :pac:

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I was trying to register a calf this morning and the dam had already calved in April, much to my surprise. And hers too, I imagine.:D

So I started looking for the animal that was milking and had no calf and eventually found her. I register with a computer package and if you put in the dams number, it sometimes shows another cow with the same digits earlier in her number and she gets 'calved' instead of the proper dam.

So more fun with my favourite ER94b form this evening:rolleyes:

You really mean - DAFM

Base price wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EZtStZZKEs :rolleyes:

Too dark.

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I don't think they like me, Base.

I tried to register a calf to her 15mo mother today and they sent me on a nasty email.

Makes me wonder why I bother trying to do things the right way:(

They need to have a look back at a TV series that was filmed around the Ceithre Cos Veterinary practice, one program showed a call out to assist with a fourteen month old heifer giving birth, The Vet called it a teenage pregnancy.