If you see a job that needs doing..
My late Dad is visible out checking in a few past images.
Also we are very close to town, technically within the town limits now, so interesting to see the development appear around us in a few years.
Cant understand how his co-op/bord bia, department of ag havent suspended milk collections, basically forcing him to sell his cows, he needs jailing, but will the department then take control of his herd, our make arrangements re labour and have a manager etc in place to oversee any staff on the place
He’s representing himself which is never a good move. He’s been allowed a “McKenzie Friend” (a lay person that can assist, take notes and give quiet advice)
I looked up the “friend” and he looks a bit of a loon
https://oji.ie/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ongoing-litigation-for-accountability-of-judges
https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/court-dismisses-action-against-revenue-in-decade-long-wine-dispute/36116699.html
is he the same man that done a Nuffield scholarship years ago on dairying and used to contribute to the farmers journal?
If so then you’d have to wonder how it all went so wrong.
Over 800 cattle. Doesn't take a lot for an operation that size to go wrong. Staff leaving, sickness, bad weather etc etc
It never went right no matter where he was .... as they say paper doesn't refuse ink
I have no problem with anyone changeling the legal system but 40 counts of animal cruelty, apparently up to 500 dead calves within two calving seasons, discrepancies with DAFM/AIM on another 250 animals relating to TB testing (I wonder what he did when the Vet came to TB test that day!) another 15 dead calves found in a shed a two weeks ago and he now wants the Judge and DPP Solicitor to step aside - you couldn't make it up.
Another Mayo man with a simular attitude to the law as Eunuch Burke and family - hopefully this one is not going to play out as long as the Burke fiasco as the health and safety of calves/cattle are at immediate risk.
Thin
Was told he had an ad up for a manager €37k, it's a pretty harsh environment there and landlord would be ruthless .
Seen them moving a herd of incalf heifers, reckon they were only 350-400kg asked the man driving them were they incalf, he replied I'm only paid per hour.
It went wrong when he went to new Zealand and tried to set up the mirror image in this country. And we've still the gobsh1tes promoting the crap from big corporate farms, to foreign labour, to weak animals in genetics, to substandard accommodation for the labour, to substandard accommodation for the livestock.
I'm not throwing stones in glass houses. But he really should be banned from farming. He'll be seeing all this as just business, the way he's coming across in that article.
It's not a one off though, as reported. And the numbers not adding up either at TB testing.
The small farmer would be kicked asunder in an instant. The farmer above it took multiple dept visits and finally a court case by the dept and he still thinks nothing's wrong that he is victimised and wants the judge to act against the dept and media.
Often times these cases you'd wonder if there is mental health issues where maybe people know things are going badly but bury their head in the sand.
In this case it looks more like he's just dillusional and sees nothing wrong other than him being persecuted.
Yes usually the first paragraph, lots of us have let things get on top of us and things go to to hell, he's just on a bigger scale.
Also some people are too brainy to keep on top of the manual work, like looking after calves.
Was it him that wrote in the journal that he could produce milk at 18c litre
No, that was Rachael Reeves, the lad that knows everything and knows nothing at the same time
No but he would subscribe to that school of thought..
There's no mental health issues with that lad
I did the green cert in Mountbellew with him, he had a fair opinion of himself even back then.
He hasn't much of an opinion of his workers with the way he'd be roaring at them. There's a hole in the quarry being filled all the time, a few hundred feet deep, wonder if there's many frx in it.
Knows it all and a bit with it
I went the complete other way and ordered a wall hanging of a photo of a horse my father bred winning a national showjumping competition. The wall hanging is in aluminium for outside. We are not at the horses anymore and he was at them his whole life as a business/hobby.
And how I came about this this evening was because of your post Brian and another post on Tiktok of someone mentioning an Irish showjumper and the hang on moment came to me that there was a horse bred by ourselves with that showjumper.
So I've a fairly big picture made up on aluminium to be fastened to a wall.
He drank the cool aid. Been to new Zealand gang. Came back with all the answers and more.
We took a shine to a stray cat on the farm here around Xmas.Lovely friendly thing once we started feeding and handling her but has started leaving dead rats at the back door here.Bit of a shock when you walk out first thing in the morning in you socks for the wellies and you feel a furry lump on the door mat
The cat likes you…leaving you gifts, a sign of affection.
WWas It ever right. You just have to read the rag to see the issues. Was the Greenfield farm any better. Look at these demo farms where they put a young wet behind the ears young lad in as a "farm manager" code word for long hours and a small salary. Contract in everything. Get annidiot to do a 60-70 hour week.
If they were that good they would be at something else.
By the way nothing wrong with farming just kerpmot as a side gig
It was one of those days. We had to use the jack on a cow in the early hours of this morning (first time using it this year) and one of OH's wellies decided to leak and he didn't get time to buy a new pair today. I made a nice beef stew which kept both of us on track - the cow and heifer calf are fine - I'm wrecked.
ropes on the range remind me, we used to always give a warm drink to a cow after calving. Wonder if anyone else doing it now
Big bucket of warm water with some salt, they drink it all down in one go. I think it speeds up passing the afterbirth.
Always if it's an assisted calving. otherwise they will nearly always have drank from the drinker in pens if normal calving
Stepfather used to put ordinary salt on a calf back after he was born in the signnof the cross. From the neck down along the back and accross the shoulders. Cow always licked it off. Probably a double whammy got salt into the cow and helped with the bonding process
Think I read it helps avoid displaced stomach by filling space left by calf???
