whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
I guess I'm biased but I have a certain liking for the mounted hunts - it stems from the fact that my Great Grandfather and Grandfather rode out with the famous "Crossboyne" hunt outside Claremorris that used to set off from Lord Oranmores Castlemaggaret pile. All came to an end though in the late sixties when that place was sadly sold after 500 years in the same family:(. I met an old lady a few years ago that remembers my Great Grandfather calling into her fathers farm yard sometime in the 20's with a bottle of brandy to thank him for letting the hunt cross his land. She was only a child at the time but remember been well impressed with the fine white charger he sat on and all that tweed😎😉
Depends a lot on the soil type in your area too...
Only once in my lifetime saw a mounted hunt here in our part of Cavan.
Galloped across two silage fields ( this time of year) and broke down the hedge out onto the laneway, left a hole you could drive a tractor through.
If you tried to rotovate a a 40 metre wide section across the fields you couldn't have made a bigger mess.
insurance cover issues are almost resolved, the hunts should up and running shortly.
I imported about 30k gls of slurry on Thursday from a lad that gets grass off me. We filled an empty tank and left about 6-8inches free under the slats. I'm just after sucking out 3 tankers of water out of it after I discovered it was after lifting over half the slats on that tank. Never saw slurry to expand like that. Its right thick stuff with a share of hay and straw mixed through it
There's been some sort of slurry bugs added somewhere. Whether it was in the slurry tankers from last year or your own or intentionally added in his slurry. That's what the anaerobic bugs do. Agitation gets them going. Which is what happened with the filling and emptying the tanker. And then the mild weather lets them multiply. If there was silage juice already in your own tank so much the better for them.
Just levelled the local soccer clubs carpark after the floods on Christmas Day with the tractor and loader.
Good few turned up with rakes and shovels but no one else had horsepower. Did in one hour what 20 people wouldn't do in a week. Then went back for the roller to finish it off.
There's perks to being friendly with your local farmer.🤣
When that does calm down. You'll see the benefit of that on the land carry longer than your ''normal'' slurry.
Seemingly the big Stephens day hunt went ahead in Dunlavin.
"The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
Oscar Wilde
I'm alive. A Christmas miracle. I succumbed to the bug Christmas evening. Breakfast, dinner and evening sandwich all made an unwanted undigested reappearance around 8pm. Both floodgates opened. As they say around here, bushes wouldn't hold the **** coming out of me (ye liking this story?? 😁) St. Stephens Day was spent lying on the couch in a dimmed room on my own with just the radio on. The pictures on the tv were moving a bit fast for my eyes. 27th seen tv introduced and the recliner. Back in action today. Not a nice dose but was inevitable I'd get it. Wife still not 100%. She needs to harden up.
Throw a half spoon of cement in her tea.
Michael Collins and whiskey time
I got out there for a few pints at bar at sisters house. No opening or closing times. Very relaxed. Pints were savage.
And....... she's positive.
Off we all go for tests now.
Annnnnnnnd a very happy Christmas 🌲⛄⛄🌲😂😂😂😂
Yeah, sick because of a booster, then no symptoms with Covid...... The antigen tests aren't worth a damn either. She (obsessively) took 11-12 of them, all negative, then 1 PCR test, positive.
Ya they seem to be very hit and miss far as I can see
Seemingly the antigen tests are very poor at recognising the Omicron variant.
Oh right new information cheers thanks for that
Anyone going to do veganuary?
A few hundred crows gathering here every night. Going on for a few weeks now. Anyone know what's that about? There up on wires and top of houses.
I am ya .......
Was reading on another forum, some people are doing it. Life is depressing enough without putting yourself through that. Some even said you'd have to give up wine too...
Soo disappointed in you right now ….
Don’t know if OH would survive, steak & wine is Saturday treat here
My brother, a close contact, tested positive on an Antigen test. Not a hope of getting a PCR test at the moment. I took an antigen test , but negative.
It's all getting nuts now.
Seems to be kicking off all over the world really at the moment not just here. We alll had a dose here in the few days around Christmas our mother took an antigen test and it was negative were all 100% now and carrying on as normal. If this new variant is as harmless as its been reported it seems a massive over reaction at the moment and just a way of instilling fear in the population for the sake of it.
I find January miserable enough without adding more misery!
I was joking...
Absolutely!
I can go the odd dinner without meat but it would be my preference to have meat with every dinner.
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