No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

This is why the derogation is under pressure - putting out slurry ahead of heavy rainfall warnings = major risk of runoff to rivers etc.

LLm off continental heifers

Seriously,well less then half of country has weather warning ,I presume you have no problem with farmers spreading in the other 16 counties.

HardHardly a man of 70 years of age. Local here had the same incident about 2 weeks ago. Cow fired him into a manger. Reckoned it saved him as if she got him into a corner the cow would have crushed him

Thanks be to jaysus I don’t.

poor man. hopefully he will get some resolution

Suckler cows after calving are so unpredictable. I had one calve out in the field last week. Normally a real pet. You could rub her on the head in the field.

She had just calved and I arrived down with the bottle of iodine. I could see her looking at the bottle and she lunged at me. I backed off, put down the bottle about 20 feet away and she was grand then. Even let me hold the calf to drink her. Just to confirm my theory on the bottle, I walk towards her with it, a second time. Same result.

Suckler cows after calving are so unpredictable. I had one calve out in the field last week. Normally a real pet. You could rub her on the head in the field.

It's getting harder with a lot in the suckler game being part time. Even if you do nothing of an evening but walk through the cows it makes it so much easier for dosing/calving/testing. All our suckler cows are well used to people and some are the usual pest type pets looking for a scratch etc. but when they calve you can see they get more agitated if you're getting too close. A big issue is that most part timers will be doing herding in the evening after a days work, cows are a bit more flighty around dusk as it is.

Was walking across the cattle grid here earlier and happened to look into it to see what was in it. And here was a hedgehog marooned on a small island of sand and surrounded by water. No idea how long it was there. 3 hours it took between dismantling the grid and putting it back together. Had to try get the bars of the grid up to get a shovel in to scoop the little fella out. God only knows how long ago the bolts and things were last opened but it took some effort. Got the hedgehog out and let him off down the garden behind the house. Hopefully he appreciates the effort and is more careful on his journeys.

Well done. I found 2 last year and gave them to a local lady who has a rescue. Both returned a few weeks later in good health to where they were picked up.

Any hedgehog out by day is sick which is where i found one, The other one got a clip of a car she thought.

Nice little animal, but they do smell. They'll eat cat food no bother and it's OK for them.

Had a bull out of Malibu here that I was nervous of,he would jump wires to get from the heifers to the cows(which actually suited me) and he let me know I wasn't stopping him.I sold him for fattening,the buyer put him indoors a few days afterwards as he turned on him.

I looked up Malibu, born 1996, stars have collapsed & docility is very low. The fact the cows from him here were so quiet is probably more down to their ancestry from British Friesians. The cows that did get flighty here were off Sympa, though they were OK in their early years, it kicked in after about 3/4 calvings, they're mostly weeded out now.

Oh got home for a few hours today. Straight to the lorries. Eldest lad had to help him into it. They moved a few trailers around and then he went to bed. Stairs were difficult. He said he's failed alot since last time he was home. Has to go back by 5. Happy to be in his own bed. Fast asleep now.