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No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

gozunda

whelan2 wrote: »

One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning

Photo please :pac:

Did he pull up the electric fence pic or was he rooting?

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kollegeknight

wrangler wrote: »

What height are you

1.82m just shy of 6 foot

kollegeknight

_Brian wrote: »

Forgot to post this.
Picked up our Heifer from the butcher.

She weighed 550kg going, 220kg coming back. He said she had a hurt on back end that needed cutting out. Was surprised by that. At grass all her life bar last three weeks ground went to hell and she was in slatted shed in a pen of 8

Very happy, they packaged labelled steaks etc depending on how many in each house as it’s split in two. Frozen and all coming.

Let the feasting begin !!

I mistakenly said we were paying similar to knowlegenight, ours was more expensive @ €350 for all.

Better value for you €350. I was nervous looking at the stuff freezing.

wrangler

kollegeknight wrote: »

1.82m just shy of 6 foot

Just asked as I'm about the same weight and always get a lecture from the GP for it, I'm 6' 1

148multi

whelan2 wrote: »

Some of those fitness trackers are terrible. I used to get digger steps with a fitbit. Have a garmin now that eldest lad used to use. A lot more accurate

Had a friend who got a fitbit as a present, counted 17,000 steps one day while he drove a track machine.

Grueller

148multi wrote: »

Had a friend who got a fitbit as a present, counted 17,000 steps one day while he drove a track machine.

Got 52,000 one day spreading fert on silage ground. Only steps I did were from the tractor to the loader and back.

wrangler

Grueller wrote: »

Got 52,000 one day spreading fert on silage ground. Only steps I did were from the tractor to the loader and back.

If I do a long distance at slow speed my phone asks me was I really walking/running

[Deleted User]

Deleted User wrote: »

I had to go and look, and one of the first mentions of cattle and famine in a search is from an unelected person I have muted. Twitter is a nicer place with good use of the mute button.

Just watching The Hunger now, I can see where she got the thinking from. That some British saw the famine in Ireland as an opportunity to clear out (by natural starvation) the poorest people and free up that land, or at least some amount of land so they could model this country after Scotland & Wales.

Shocked to see my own village featured.

_Brian

Deleted User wrote: »

Just watching The Hunger now, I can see where she got the thinking from. That some British saw the famine in Ireland as an opportunity to clear out (by natural starvation) the poorest people and free up that land, or at least some amount of land so they could model this country after Scotland & Wales.

Shocked to see my own village featured.

She then goes on to drag the hole out of the point by saying that farmers now are essentially no better because it’s cattle and not people on the land.

As if it would be somehow more acceptable to have 6 million people living in huts eeeking out an existence.

[Deleted User]

_Brian wrote: »

She then goes on to drag the hole out of the point by saying that farmers now are essentially no better because it’s cattle and not people on the land.

As if it would be somehow more acceptable to have 6 million people living in huts eeeking out an existence.

Ah when I saw who was making the comments I never delved deeper than the headline act.

God it was a desperately sad thing, makes me wonder all the more about old maps and old buildings around the place. Who went before us.

That we were once one full third of the population of the then UK.

Genghis Cant

148multi wrote: »

Had a friend who got a fitbit as a present, counted 17,000 steps one day while he drove a track machine.

I've a Garmin Forerunner 45. I don't really believe all the stats it throws out but it's a good device to compare things day to day or week to week.
I've the Connect App on the phone that keeps all the info .
The watch also gives an alert when emails, texts and WhatsApp messages come in to my phone. I could disable that if I tried hard enough.

kollegeknight

Jjameson wrote: »

Did you weigh out the individual cuts?
It would be interesting to price them out in a supermarket.

I was wondering the same. Mistakenly didn’t do that. Will know better next time.

Butcher had said I had over €1200 worth of meat- that was probably at wholesale- €3.50/€4/kg.

Water John

kollegeknight wrote: »

I was wondering the same. Mistakenly didn’t do that. Will know better next time.

Butcher had said I had over €1200 worth of meat- that was probably at wholesale- €3.50/€4/kg.

Ah teacher Sir, the maths, it works out there at €5.45/kg!!
No matter the price you are sure of the quality.

148multi

Jjameson wrote: »

Did you weigh out the individual cuts?
It would be interesting to price them out in a supermarket.

Would think it near 1,600

kollegeknight

Water John wrote: »

Ah teacher Sir, the maths, it works out there at €5.45/kg!!
No matter the price you are sure of the quality.

I figured my maths would be caught out- I reckon i under estimated the weight when I brought her box’s in the shed. I had estimated each box at 20kg. (Based on the mince boxes) I reckon the bigger boxes were closer to 30kg when I did a bit of a break down of contents with a friend who is used to getting a heifer killed. The return was higher than the 220kg- closer to 270kg-300kg

I have had sleepless nights trying to figure it out.

And in my classroom, I alway say never be afraid to make mistakes as long as we learn from them- I will definitely learn from this experience,

Water John

270/300 kg would make more sense, I think. Just over 50% kill out, plus a bit for the rejected injury.

Have some bullocks myself around 530/550, wondering should I now feed meals along with clover/grass silage and take them to finish? I think that would have a fairly high protein % and the meal should be energy focussed.
Opinions are welcome.

kollegeknight

Water John wrote: »

270/300 kg would make more sense, I think. Just over 50% kill out, plus a bit for the rejected injury.

Have some bullocks myself around 530/550, wondering should I now feed meals along with clover/grass silage and take them to finish? I think that would have a fairly high protein % and the meal should be energy focussed.
Opinions are welcome.

I have no clue on finishing side-but o don’t think you are a million miles off. That friend of mine, wasn’t happy with mart prices and kept his bullocks for finishing and still reckons he will come out well from it. But he is a pro at the profit side of things but good land- he has called out to me numerous times and scratches his head on how to make money from the place.

He sells a few heifers off farm to locals- they pay the killing and pay per kg after butchered.

whelan2

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I've a Garmin Forerunner 45. I don't really believe all the stats it throws out but it's a good device to compare things day to day or week to week.
I've the Connect App on the phone that keeps all the info .
The watch also gives an alert when emails, texts and WhatsApp messages come in to my phone. I could disable that if I tried hard enough.

Does yours do this buzzing thing to tell you to move? Frightens the crap out of me

_Brian

Water John wrote: »

Ah teacher Sir, the maths, it works out there at €5.45/kg!!
No matter the price you are sure of the quality.

Did I see on another thread some time ago that €8-9/kg would be the average retail of beef in a butcher’s shop

Buford T. Justice XIX

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

roosterman71

The Vegans win again. Slowly chipping away, piece by piece

Best of luck Buford. You'll be missed

_Brian

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Were definitely the worse for this.

Thanks for all your help, thankfully there are other realms we all exist in. boards.ie would do well to remember that.

White Clover

I concur with Brian. We will be the worse for this with the loss of Buford.
The Mods on this forum are people of the highest integrity, genuine, honest, respectful, knowledgeable and understanding people.
They are the standards to which all Mods should be measured against but alas the good ones are often allowed to slip away.

NcdJd

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Top man Buford. You will be missed but understand your position. Not many like you around this place bar the three mods you referenced. Best of luck and hope you come back as a normal user, if your not here already somewhere.

Water John

Really sorry to lose you, Judge, always very fair, and really appreciate the amount of time it took you.

BTW the bullocks are organic so ration would be fairly dear and need to justify itself. Was thinking of something like 2kg rolled barley and 1kg to the rest of the animals.
Bass Reeves had also a good point, stopping the meal to stores 4/6 weeks before turnout and availing of compensatory growth. That would be a great saving.
Probably should move this question across to a beef thread but was prompted by Knight and his freezer full of lovely meat last night.

[Deleted User]

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Thanks for all the hard work, it's no easy job.

I can totally understand your POV on this. The f&f forum is somewhat of a bubble on this site as a whole. The expectation of fair play will always lead to disappointment as it doesn't cater to the business of the site as a whole. Nor will it ever as this will never be a farming site.

The way I use this place now is kinda like the way I used to view politicians (changed view on them again since), that it's here to "be used". Then be utterly hard nosed about everything else to do with it, meaning stuff that's outside of the thinking of the myriad of views on the f&f forum itself.

While ya could say we all support it, my thinking now is I do it in a parasitic way

whelan2

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Gutted. Know you from here for years. Liverpool supporter and all. Stay safe. Thanks for all the time you've given to the forum over the years

Water John

Jjameson wrote: »

Are they Angus Hereford types? If the silage is reasonable at all I would bother with meal at all. Minerals yes. Use the grass and your barley next summer and you will see gains of close to 2kg a day in June.

Ch and Lm. They're the first half of weanlings bought last autumn. That could be a good shout. Organic meal is dear but I think 1kg to all until Mid Feb might be worth it. That would be 2.5T. See if I can get 500kg bags.
Yes went with the Himalayan rock salt for minerals.

Organic stock sale in Kilmallock on Sat, will look in. Some non organic farmers pick up stock there too, good quality for anyone interested.

Gawddawggonnit

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Big loss to the forum.
One of the best.
Intelligent, informed and broad minded with a great sense of justice and balance.

Not many left...

Say my name

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Well that's the end of farming & forestry on Boards!!

I know the job was taking a lot of your time especially with the perks of Coke and hookers. But still there'll be a void there.

Feck it anyway now I'll have to put up a profile picture on facebook and try and get into it now for the long posts. :rolleyes: However I'll deal with the crowds there now?

Have you a bomb or anything for your way out? I might know a few Chinese lads that love a bit of spam.

Sale on tumbleweeds..

*You know where to find me if you want a question answered or there's a little nugget of information you've found that you think I might be interested in.

gozunda

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Hi all, didn't quite know where to post this so here is as good as anywhere else.

Just a quick post here, my last in fact, to let you know I'll be closing my account tomorrow.

I suppose I must acknowledge that you lot are the nicest bunch of strangers I've never met:D. It's been my absolute pleasure to be moderating you here with the three lads these last few years. We've had our ups and downs but you've made what could have been a difficult job a most rewarding experience for me. We've worked through our best and worst moments and helped and supported each other and it's stuff like that that I'll remember about you:) We were never afraid of feedback from you and you were never shy about giving it to us if you felt we were handling a situation incorrectly so we had to be on our toes to make the correct decisions every time.

I know I'll be leaving you in great hands here, the three lads I was helping here are absolutely top notch, the soundest lads you could hope to meet so I have no fear of walking away.

All I can say is we tried our hardest to represent you as best we could but anything that's been achieved here this last fortnight is all down to you and you alone. There are so many aspects to this dispute that I didn't agree with and still don't agree with that it would take me hours to put it down again. Suffice to say that I think you have been treated badly here and I refuse to support a site that not only refuses to recognise that but doesn't even acknowledge that, never mind apologise to you for doing so.

Many of you have been carded and banned over this while worse breaches were ignored, it's there in black and white for all to see. Any sanction you have received from me here has been orders of magnitude less that what's being ignored so all I can say is I'm deeply sorry to any of you that I've sanctioned here.

I cannot stand over any of those sanctions so feel free to contact your Cmods to get those reversed, they are unjust and you deserve to have them removed from your records.

So that's about it, folks, it's been an honour and a privilege to have posted here with you and I take nothing but fond memories of you with me.

Buford T. Justice XIX:)

Christ Buford but your going will leave a big gap that no amount of bailer twine, pallets nor cable ties are going to fill

That said I understand your position Buford. But Its not going to be the same here without your input and keeping us in line. In all fairness we should have a full 21 gun salute with the cannons and artillery positioned for full effect. Keep up the good fight.
Slán go fóill mo chara.