Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Imagine him playing with Roy Keane in the team, the kicking wouldn’t be from the opposition. We have two teenage girls who since they could walk they have being out doors on farms, use to milk for a neighbour a couple of times a week and one would come to feed the calves in turn and he would help us watching cows for calving when we were in work, when lambing starts they were involved. Kids nowadays are very clever and see danger quicker than adults and won’t take risks, our kids spend more time in conversation with adult men since they we’re young that with other girls due to nature of farming. They are not into make up etc and enjoy life. The biggest problem is posh mummy who don’t want the kids outside getting dirty on the farm. No Xbox here.

I've only every done it with a calf and that is place two fingers under the butt of their tail. There is an artery there where Vets used to draw the blood for brucellosis testing.

Had the young one at a rugby blitz this morning, weather was cat and the pitch was atrocious. The poor kids were frozen, lots of crying and not wanting to play. Was thinking that kids are gone very soft these days , until I remembered they were all under nines 😂😂😂, my small one kept going to the end, but wanted to come off at one stage. I told her it was character building and keep going. Got a few looks from a few of the mammies.

My older 2 are stone mad for being out, and the youngest lad who’s only 16 months tears the place down if he sees them or me going out the door and he can’t

currently tidying up a farm we’ve taken and they’re with us every afternoon. Not doing much apart from running around and playing

Jaysus the cold and wet was miserable this morning, everything was called off around here. Id be fairly pragmatic about these things but they just don't have the body mass for getting soaked in it at that age. I'd be afraid I'd have no one next week!

The guy thats renting my tunnel would always have his son with him, he's 14 now and never with him, He's getting €10 -12/hr elsewhere. in jobs that have a better future . He seems to be getting all the work he wants

Often found the girls training or games would go ahead and the lads would be cancelled

Ní hea

Is ea, deirimíd Ní féidir leat nó níl cead again nó mar seo.

(Thats it, so instead of saying no we just have to say you can't or you're not allowed etc)

I like having the children with me, at the safe jobs, I set a potato and veg garden and feeding calves ect.

Most days I would rather do homework or go for a walk with the children, until my wife comes home from work.

I did the health and safety course over zoom for a tams grant and it was a real eye opener.

A child hiding in the long grass getting killed by a mower. A trailer overturned into a dyke with a child on it. Track machine driver not seeing a child behind him.

Things go wrong in seconds.

If they are with you, don't forget they are children

I had a good one today, when I was showing my new Hereford calf to my seven year old. He asked where his dad was, I told him it was insemination. That led to how do the ai man get the baby into the cow?. Ask mammy

Parkinsons law applies

Fully agree …only my opinion but I see some people with there kids on a farm and I cringe and hope to god I never have to face into a funeral …I very nearly lost my young lad at birth and an infant a couple of days old in my wife’s extended sadly passed away and that funeral is one that will always stick with me and one I never want to have to go through again

It's not just the kids you'd be weary of but the elderly too.

Leave the bales out a bit from the feed trough