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  • #272
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    gozunda wrote: »
    Remember dont forget to talk to your cows

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/world/cows-cattle-communication-scn/index.html

    That said I'm fairly surprised I haven't been locked up yet - as I seem to be having more conversations with animals atm than anyone else ;)

    Do any of ye name any of your cows or cattle ? A friend of mined name her goldfish after me. Was kinda chuffed over that. I talk to plants sometimes but it's more like "ffs" after some pest or disease is after appearing.


  • #273
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,755 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    I cut the tails of some cows today, as they were eating.
    After I'd cut one cow, I spotted her in the yard holding the tail up to one side and she staring at it. Made me laugh anyway.


  • #274
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Bleating Lamb wrote: »
    Remember spending a Summer on a Silage Making team back in the early nineties,was on the buckrake….would have Atlantic 252 blasting out on the radio and oul lads on the pit giving out to ya that that 'feckin music' was too loud......legend of a station.

    My brother used to work for a grain farmer when he was younger and the farmer used to get the radios removed before they were delivered out. Maintained they would not be paying attention to sowing or ploughing if they were listening to the local rave station:D


  • #275
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,833 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    The Dutch Minister for Agriculture wants a ban on calves coming from Ireland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and the Baltic States. We exported 48,000 calves this year to the Netherlands. Unfortunately the article is subscriber only.
    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/dutch-farm-minister-wants-to-ban-irish-calves-580369


  • #276
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Base price wrote: »
    The Dutch Minister for Agriculture wants a ban on calves coming from Ireland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and the Baltic States. We exported 48,000 calves this year to the Netherlands. Unfortunately the article is subscriber only.
    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/dutch-farm-minister-wants-to-ban-irish-calves-580369

    It's on agriland Base. We should ban their Onion, Tomato and Bell Pepper imports and produce them here so if she wants to go the whole hog on sustainability.


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  • #277
    Albert Johnson
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    Base price wrote: »
    The Dutch Minister for Agriculture wants a ban on calves coming from Ireland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and the Baltic States. We exported 48,000 calves this year to the Netherlands. Unfortunately the article is subscriber only.
    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/dutch-farm-minister-wants-to-ban-irish-calves-580369

    Are those state's singled out for any particular reason or are they just them main exporters of calves to the Netherlands? The clock has been ticking for years on live exports, particularly of calves and there's very little other outlets available atm.


  • #278
    Base price
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    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Are those state's singled out for any particular reason or are they just them main exporters of calves to the Netherlands? The clock has been ticking for years on live exports, particularly of calves and there's very little other outlets available atm.
    Apparently it's due to the distance/journey times even though they comply with current EU legislation.
    Link to Agriland article -
    https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dutch-agriculture-minister-seeks-ban-on-irish-calves/


  • #279
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,813 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Base price wrote: »
    Apparently it's due to the distance/journey times even though they comply with current EU legislation.
    Link to Agriland article -
    https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dutch-agriculture-minister-seeks-ban-on-irish-calves/

    The Minister is a member of the Christian Union party.
    It's their version of the Green Party.

    They were trying to set up a green party in Holland but it was a paper exercise into forcing people to set up the Christian Union party and the founders of the Greens joined into the CU's.
    They pride themselves on their Protestant values. While being part of the EU they like their own independence and autonomy of the EU.

    Minister Schouten grew up on a dairy farm and managed her deceased fathers farm with her mother and two sisters for four years after which they ceased farming and moved to the village of Geissen.


  • #280
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,755 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Just got a text from the Limousin Society, Paul Sykes will continue in his role as secretary.


  • #281
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    In the shed today, have a lovely lm heifer weanling off a spx cow- she normally has polled calves. No sign of horns when I was disbudding, she has a pair of butty ones now. You’d barely notice them but too big to do anything with them.

    Probably spring before I get vet to knock them off. He is coming out tomorrow to scan but When she is housed I won’t bother.


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  • #282
    kk.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,534 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Say my name wrote: »
    I remember going to secondary school in a minibus and Atlantic 252 on the radio in the mornings.
    There was one stage for a fortnight the same song was played at the same time every morning.
    You'd know if you were early or late by how far you were on the road when the song came on.
    I forget what it was now. Something from Oasis I think.
    Loved Athantic 252 and Radio Luxembourg great times and music. The tripe they play on the radio now does my head in. I suppose it's age.


  • #283
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    In the shed today, have a lovely lm heifer weanling off a spx cow- she normally has polled calves. No sign of horns when I was disbudding, she has a pair of butty ones now. You’d barely notice them but too big to do anything with them.

    Probably spring before I get vet to knock them off. He is coming out tomorrow to scan but When she is housed I won’t bother.

    I find the LM calves can be very slow to put up horns compared to other breeds. I tagged a very wild LM suck for neighbor during the week and there were no horn buds present despite being off a LMx cow nd LM bull. It often takes them 2 months or more to develop horn's and oftentimes they can be too developed at the stage you notice them.


  • #284
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    I find the LM calves can be very slow to put up horns compared to other breeds. I tagged a very wild LM suck for neighbor during the week and there were no horn buds present despite being off a LMx cow nd LM bull. It often takes them 2 months or more to develop horn's and oftentimes they can be too developed at the stage you notice them.

    When all the Previous siblings were polled, I thought I was lucky again when I checked her. Not so much today.


  • #285
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    When all the Previous siblings were polled, I thought I was lucky again when I checked her. Not so much today.

    Yes genetics really are a lottery and it's not the end of the world either way. I've often had sucks displaying no horn buds at turnout when disbudding there similar aged comrade's. Of course I'd mean to check them in a few weeks and they'd be forgotten about until the horn's were evident and by then it's too late.


  • #286
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,813 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    What's yours is mine and ..all mine.

    From a member of the World Economic Forum 2016.

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is/

    Looper. In power looper.


  • #287
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,813 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Some people have a way with words.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115066620&postcount=2819


  • #288
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Say my name wrote: »
    Some people have a way with words.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115066620&postcount=2819

    Should be working for Fáilte Ireland.


  • #289
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,813 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    NcdJd wrote: »
    Should be working for Fáilte Ireland.

    I know. Probably is. :pac:

    It was a tourist attraction when it was being built.
    Few times I was over last year you'd always meet a dublin family down looking at it.


  • #290
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Say my name wrote: »
    I know. Probably is. :pac:

    It was a tourist attraction when it was being built.
    Few times I was over last year you'd always meet a dublin family down looking at it.

    Some structure. Googled a couple of images seems to blend in very well with the landscape.


  • #291
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    I see going for a ramble next Sunday with the dog looking to shoot a pheasant is off the agenda now with the Covid19 regulations. I didn't see that one coming!

    https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/what-about-pheasant-shooting-during-level-5-.html


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  • #292
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    I see going for a ramble next Sunday with the dog looking to shoot a pheasant is off the agenda now with the Covid19 regulations. I didn't see that one coming!

    https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/what-about-pheasant-shooting-during-level-5-.html

    Thought it was a crow Garda :cool:


  • #293
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    I see the Green Party are pushing to abolish the CAP.
    I particularly like their choice of photos, seems round baling Hay or Straw is the problem.
    No doubt we should be cocking it and building a reek...

    k6KiJ0H.jpg


  • #294
    [Deleted User]
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    This lockdown, what impact will it have on Black Friday I wonder, have been eying that date for a few deals.


  • #295
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭White Clover


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    This lockdown, what impact will it have on Black Friday I wonder, have been eying that date for a few deals.

    Doesn't look to be many deals. I'm looking for a cordless dirty cattle/sheep clippers.
    Let us know if you spot any deals!


  • #296
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,813 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    I see the Green Party are pushing to abolish the CAP.
    I particularly like their choice of photos, seems round baling Hay or Straw is the problem.
    No doubt we should be cocking it and building a reek...

    k6KiJ0H.jpg

    They're looking for funding for themselves.

    There's been huge interest now in people re evaluating their mission in life these past few years.
    Before it was get married, have a family, have a good time.
    Now it's marriage doesn't matter, no pressure to have a family, you've to save the planet, have a place in the countryside, raise your own food because farmers poison you, plant trees and save the environment.

    Except now this takes time and I want to leave my job in the city and be a full-time saviour. So where or what will fund my income?


  • #297
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Our postman dropped of treat bags for all the children in the community.

    Such an amazing man. He gave Easter eggs the last lockdown. And the likes of my mam on her own, he gave a box of sweets.

    A real community hero in my eyes.


  • #298
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Say my name wrote: »
    They're looking for funding for themselves.

    Now it's marriage doesn't matter, no pressure to have a family, you've to save the planet, have a place in the countryside, raise your own food because farmers poison you, plant trees and save the environment.

    They'll have a dose of reality when look out in the morning and all their crops have been eaten by pigeons and rabbits and the septic tank thats no longer visible in their garden has backed up and needs to be emptied / unblocked.

    Pie in the sky utopian living ignoring the day to day realities. Some might make a go of it but it's hard work and I think most of the people interested in this have never done a real hard days physical work in their lives.


  • #299
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,813 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    NcdJd wrote: »
    They'll have a dose of reality when look out in the morning and all their crops have been eaten by pigeons and rabbits and the septic tank thats no longer visible in their garden has backed up and needs to be emptied / unblocked.

    Pie in the sky utopian living ignoring the day to day realities. Some might make a go of it but it's hard work and I think most of the people interested in this have never done a real hard days physical work in their lives.

    Doesn't really matter as they'll have PhDs in nature conservation and be paid under CAP to tell other people how to farm.

    There's a definite disconnect in food production.
    If it were left to some vocal naysayers. You'd have starvation in care homes and the urban population.


  • #300
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Oops, looks like forestry won't be the panacea for urban emissions after all.
    https://twitter.com/farmersjournal/status/1322150510288318464?s=19


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  • #301
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,431 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    Oops, looks like forestry won't be the panacea for urban emissions after all.
    https://twitter.com/farmersjournal/status/1322150510288318464?s=19

    The right forestry in the right place is. We’ve all long known that Irish forestry is driven to feed cheap materials, keep forestry companies flowing in cash and greenwash government.


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