If you see a job that needs doing..
I agree with that. Climb a mountain, cycling, plenty things to do. Anything to get them, and us away from the screens.
While the term "quality time" is definitely an American import, it's still important to be able to switch off from the work mindset sometimes. Going off on a family holiday probably wasn't the done thing in your parents time, or it may have been unattainable for whatever reason. I never went anywhere on holiday with my parents either but I know it's important to do things together as a family now that's not work related. It doesn't have to be a lavish expensive activity either.
Quality Time isn't a thing anymore. It's just time. The quality part was just an industry thing to extract money from you. I was never on a holiday with my parents and we had plenty time together working on the farm. That man shouldn't be hard on himself or feel as though he didnt measure up. It sounds like he built a business and reared his family, educated them, and sent them on holidays. He is lucky to have his health after all his time and needs to stop overthinking and spend some time on himself now after all his hard work.
Sounds like that farmer used a lot of straw under his animal this winter. If its built up to that height. Again no understanding of what was happening. Helping that trouble maker, whom comes on here now and then with her grudge with that old fella
Yeah Kinda learned that the older I got. Interesting a different sense that you vould do everything for some people for years but in the end they would throw you aside like nothing when it suits them.
Was talking to a man here well into his 70s. He said he used to stay at home when his oh brought the kids on holidays as he was afraid people would need him while he was away, he services things. He said what a fool he was, people will get by and all the chances he missed for quality time with his family.
I'd say the farmer is delighted you know more about keeping animals than they do
It’s also worth remembering that we shouldn’t judge animals by human standards of clean, dirty, comfortable, etc.
Have you tried Google? It would be much quicker than a years worth of asking in a farming forum.
https://www.google.com/search?q=reporting+animal+welfare+issues&oq=reporting+animal+welfare+issues+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjEyODIwajBqMjmoAgCwAgE&client=ms-android-xiaomi-terr2-rso2&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Sounds awful, animals housed for the winter with so much bedding they needed a machine to clean it out!
Would you prefer if she was out in the wind and the rain all winter?
Thanks.
ah tis life. I was considering not making silage anymore as the land is so heavy and looking at the sky all the time.
I’ll bale the good fields and not stress.
the OH and the lads are off to Oz for a month. Kinda wish I went too.
all good from a head space point of view. Training for the 50km is on track.
Who do you contact when a farmer keeps an animal in a shed for months a time. I asked on this forum last year when it was a donkey. Most of the replies were “maybe it’s injured. This year hes kept a poor cow in this tiny shed for weeks and weeks and weeks. Up to her knees in ****. They’ve literally had to hire a mini digger to empty the shed out. Who do I ring? I have photos
That's tough - there must be soil contamination in the silage. Best of luck with the others and most importunately take care of yourself.
dead lifted 180kg yesterday evening,
Went for a 3hour 26km run today after farming,
walking like John Wayne now.
I’ve only 6 cows calving this year.
My best one got listeria and it went deep in her eye and lost her calf 3 weeks from calving.
4 others got it too but vet seems to have caught it on time. So hoping they will be ok.
Finishing up planting hawthorns tomorrow.
Doing some around where I’m setting up for a beehive for OH- bees due in 3 weeks.
How's it going ?
They came back today to do the work they should have done yesterday and get overtime
That's the new normal, even with management
In macroom this morning at 7 30 there was 29 pens of bullocks gone in before me.some mart of cattle and they were a flying trade big and small.
Younger days, first time at listowel races with a friend, not a clue. Picking odds from a race card, placing & winning small. Bumped into a another fellow from the Badmintin club, who was into horseracing who explained the card, what we thought were odds was the jockey's weight. He took us down to the parade ring, all about horses and the tote. We didn't win a blessed thing after that.
sorry forgot to quote. Above was a reply to bog man post above.
You can’t just send frozen produce on an ordinary container. A 40 foot reefer container would cost somewhere in the region of €8k from Australia to mainland UK including miscellaneous and administrative costs. You could probably add in another couple of thousand for transport and storage to and from port at each end.
smaller marts are great for calves or else have your numbers first but that can backfire.
Selling 3 week old fr bulls and angus in the local mart here. Fr making about 200 and Angus making 300 to 350. I'm delighted with that and a fair price on the buyer too I think. Most marts around here have 2 sales a week now. Thousands of calves going through every week. I see on O'Neil dairy farm video earlier that they arrived at the mart at 10 o clock and they were first in the yard. If that was around here you could have 7 - 800 calves ahead of you by 10 o clock.
We've phone rebounders on outfarm. We put a lock on the gate before Christmas as some genius made **** of the field driving up to them. Yesterday , we were late going to outfarm as there was alot going on, around midday. 2 vehicles parked at the gate. They'd been there since 9. No phonecall, just sat in their jeeps. Wtf
They have oir number. Wouldn't you be so annoyed if you were their boss
Enjoy your day, I’m not a betting man either. Might be more satisfying to bet each way though. Try looking at the horses in the ring first, it’s a bit agricultural I know, but this advice is worth exactly what you paid for it!
I sold calves yesterday, and even though im delighted with the price, I hope it was an exporter who bought them. Because there is no way in this world will a fella make money paying 500 plus for 3 wk old Angus calves
Id Be a fiver each way man myself aswell, wouldn't know a good horse if it crossed me. The lads that are gambling all the time don't seem to know any better either!!
I always pick a local trainer and back him all day. Go for gordon elliot.
Be a slow start on the beer, we had a few warm up drinks last night and I can feel them on the head today.
Heard bawling here during the night. Was expecting a weanling to be at it as sold her mother during the week. First thing this morning headed out to find all the weanlings got out of the yard, tru a creep gate into a field of grass. I forgot to put back in the bar on the gate.
God you'd want to see the mess they made of a 1/2 tonne bag of silage wrap and some netting. Why like? A field of fresh lush grass and ……no … let's piss of Patsy and make a mess. As my Father used to say in such circumstances - they wouldn't do it, if you wanted them to!
