No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

Sacrolyte · 21-03-2026 02:40PM

smaller marts are great for calves or else have your numbers first but that can backfire.

Sacrolyte · 21-03-2026 02:46PM

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.

Sacrolyte · 21-03-2026 02:47PM

sorry forgot to quote. Above was a reply to bog man post above.

Lime Tree Farm · 21-03-2026 03:08PM

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.

Butcher Boy · 21-03-2026 05:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124329680#Comment_124329680

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.

148multi · 21-03-2026 08:53PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124329611#Comment_124329611

That's the new normal, even with management

whelan2 · 21-03-2026 09:03PM

They came back today to do the work they should have done yesterday and get overtime

whelan2 · 21-03-2026 09:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124328866#Comment_124328866

How's it going ?

kollegeknight · 21-03-2026 11:10PM

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.

Base price · 21-03-2026 11:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331143#Comment_124331143

That's tough - there must be soil contamination in the silage. Best of luck with the others and most importunately take care of yourself.

Tilikum17 · 21-03-2026 11:23PM

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

kollegeknight · 21-03-2026 11:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331171#Comment_124331171

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.

whelan2 · 22-03-2026 06:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331175#Comment_124331175

Would you prefer if she was out in the wind and the rain all winter?

emaherx · 22-03-2026 08:00AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331175#Comment_124331175

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!

Siamsa Sessions · 22-03-2026 09:09AM

It’s also worth remembering that we shouldn’t judge animals by human standards of clean, dirty, comfortable, etc.

whelan2 · 22-03-2026 09:19AM

I'd say the farmer is delighted you know more about keeping animals than they do

whelan2 · 22-03-2026 09:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331198#Comment_124331198

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.

Reggie. · 22-03-2026 10:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331620#Comment_124331620

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.

older by the day · 22-03-2026 11:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331504#Comment_124331504

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

straight · 22-03-2026 12:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331620#Comment_124331620

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.

endainoz · 22-03-2026 12:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331882#Comment_124331882

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.

straight · 22-03-2026 12:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331938#Comment_124331938

I agree with that. Climb a mountain, cycling, plenty things to do. Anything to get them, and us away from the screens.

Lime Tree Farm · 22-03-2026 01:00PM

"The Valley of the Squinting Windows" with a camera.

Say my name · 22-03-2026 01:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331620#Comment_124331620

There was a relatively young man yesterday round these parts was cleaning out a dung shed for a customer of the contractor he was working for all his life. He was chatting away to the farmer with not a care in the world. He went home after work and seemingly died of a heart attack. He was a tasty man on machinery and kept the contractor going between himself and his brother.

Growing up you think of all these people and neighbours as like immoveable rocks and then the grim reaper takes them as the years go by and they do go by very quick. The time of our youth is a very different world of today. I'm not sure what the answer is. Farmers in general are taken advantage of for work and services the same. Time goes by and we don't get it back.

Further to @straight my parents never went on holidays themselves let alone with the family. Time was spent though making our own amusement on farm with ponies, donkeys, rabbits, hens, ducks, horses, sheep, cows and days out at the mountain, beach, ag shows. You would be jealous though of the families that went on holidays abroad and the stories they had coming back. One family that sticks in my mind were dairy farmers with a real tasty farm and house that holidayed in Spain. That whole family now though sold that farm and moved to Australia. Now maybe they are jealous of us that stayed and kept slogging through. Who knows? Jealously is not an admirable trait either.

We are only all here for a short time either. That's a learned life lesson.

You have to balance things too. The work will still be here when we are dead and gone.

Reggie. · 22-03-2026 01:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124332000#Comment_124332000

Ah depends on the person too. I for one ain't one for travelling. Did enough of that in the army. Do a few jobs during the day and watch abit of TV or play the computer. That keeps me happy. Low maintenance and abit of a tight hoor maybe. Herself does head off to England to the relatives a couple of times a year with the kids.

A Break from them for a week at a time can be as good as a holiday 😅

patsy_mccabe · 22-03-2026 01:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124331663#Comment_124331663

Hate to admit it, but that's the biggest life lesson I had to learn. "Eaten bread is soon forgotten" and all that. "Look after yourself, because no one else will" is my motto now