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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #452
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    was closing in the cows this morning and was great to stop and listen to them munching away..... happy days


  • #453
    metalwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭metalwood


    Got all the sheep sheared yesterday.........great to get ahead of the maggots for once :D

    Did the lambs later on with dysect pour on......heavy shower 20 mins after i let them out......I hope it wasnt washed out i suppose time will tell


  • #454
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    The frickin cab we bought for our ford 4600 is from a frickin 6600, it'll fit, but not properly, would be a nightmare getting up and down off it.

    And this was discovered after the wings were patched and painted.


    ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


    Even if the lad who sold it to me was to agree to give me my money back, it's sod all use to me, he's half a day and a tank of diesel away. off to donedeal it shall go.


  • #455
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    metalwood wrote: »
    Got all the sheep sheared yesterday.........great to get ahead of the maggots for once :D

    Did the lambs later on with dysect pour on......heavy shower 20 mins after i let them out......I hope it wasnt washed out i suppose time will tell

    Are u not worried its a bit cold for the sheep to be sheared. Especially if they have the lambs on them?


  • #456
    metalwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭metalwood


    There are alot of sheep sheared around here .....I know the weather has got cooler but my shearers were available and ill take my chances

    They are on well shelter ground so should be grand


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  • #457
    Storminateacup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    Do you think its okay for a calf of four weeks old to be drinking complan as a snack


  • #458
    jeff greene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 733 ✭✭✭jeff greene


    Storminateacup wrote: »
    Do you think its okay for a calf of four weeks old to be drinking complan as a snack

    A bit young I reckon:rolleyes:

    Its only milk,sugar and vitamins really, so its ok I reckon


  • #459
    whelan1
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    any one having problems with pnuemonia in suckler calves... had vet out again yesterday to young calves.. bloody weather


  • #460
    whelan1
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    thats some wind


  • #461
    Atilathehun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    whelan1 wrote: »
    any one having problems with pnuemonia in suckler calves... had vet out again yesterday to young calves.. bloody weather

    My calves, are coughing like mad at times. Can't be worms, surely. Only out on the land 6 weeks.
    Had a few of them coughing in the shed earlier on in the year. Injected with something the vet prescribed. Worked fine. But one or two of them picked up the cough again outside. Gave another round of antibiotics. Worked fine again, but looking at them on Saturday, half of them coughing away, like they were smoking 60 woodbine daily:mad:


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  • #462
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    Atilathehun wrote: »
    My calves, are coughing like mad at times. Can't be worms, surely. Only out on the land 6 weeks.
    Had a few of them coughing in the shed earlier on in the year. Injected with something the vet prescribed. Worked fine. But one or two of them picked up the cough again outside. Gave another round of antibiotics. Worked fine again, but looking at them on Saturday, half of them coughing away, like they were smoking 60 woodbine daily:mad:
    Have you tried niquitin? And take away the cigs; they are too young to smoke:).
    i have 2 angus sucklers and dosed the calves on saturday because they were coughing. They are much improved today so maybe early lungworm?:confused:


  • #463
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    thats some wind
    We're having 20/30km hour winds and gusts to 50km... I'm thinking of a few loose sheets of tin praying to god they hang on and I'll stick a few tech screws in them next week...


  • #464
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    whelan1 wrote: »
    any one having problems with pnuemonia in suckler calves... had vet out again yesterday to young calves.. bloody weather

    A neighbour of mine heard from a local Vet (Co. Clare) that there is a lot of pneumonia going around, even in older cows.

    I noticed a few suckler calves coughing too. I'm hoping it's only worms. Maybe time to do them with pour-on.


  • #465
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    whelan1 wrote: »
    thats some wind

    I came through Ballinrobe this morning early and saw few sheep absolutely in pieces from the cold, they had sheep shearing competition there over weekend!! Great timing!!!! I thought it was cruel the wind going through them, even if they kept them in for a week or so!


  • #466
    whelan1
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    bbam wrote: »
    We're having 20/30km hour winds and gusts to 50km... I'm thinking of a few loose sheets of tin praying to god they hang on and I'll stick a few tech screws in them next week...
    had to run in cattle earlier , jesus i never saw anything like it


  • #467
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had to run in cattle earlier , jesus i never saw anything like it

    indeed... tried chasing down a wendy house but it beat me :( Now I have to convince the girls it's a tree house at the bottom of the hedge :rolleyes:


  • #468
    whelan1
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    bbam wrote: »
    indeed... tried chasing down a wendy house but it beat me :( Now I have to convince the girls it's a tree house at the bottom of the hedge :rolleyes:
    my dads hat blew away 4 times:D before he gave up and left it off:)


  • #469
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭stanflt


    :D


  • #470
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    :) good advert for armstrong machinery there


  • #471
    johngalway
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    Coming home from Galway this morning along the lake west of Maam Cross, some waves on it for a small lake, tops were whipped off and onto cars on the road. But, that was nothing compared to getting home and going to the farm. Road back is along the sea but higher up, I have seen some storms, but I've never seen waves that big out to sea before. Had no camera :rolleyes:


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  • #472
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    bbam wrote: »
    We're having 20/30km hour winds and gusts to 50km... I'm thinking of a few loose sheets of tin praying to god they hang on and I'll stick a few tech screws in them next week...
    had lost a sheet of tin on the hayshed roof and was not safe to get up and put it back on.been their done that.lost two more sheets and more to follow the wind has died down thank god i hate the wind:mad:


  • #473
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Had to put 10 cows and 10 calves back into the shed yesterday evening. Ground is just too wet. They were ploughing to their bellies after all the rain on sunday night. They're quite happy eating silage indoors.


  • #474
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    Are you that afraid of an inspection, stanflt?:D


  • #475
    jerdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    cows and calves happy out eating silage listening to the wind and rain any cure for a cow with a touch of mastitis in rear tit as calf not strong enough to drink all yet have drawn twice and a little betamox any thing else i can do.

    jerry


  • #476
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    other half is on the way to the mater eye and ear as he got a bit of steel in his eye when angle grinding , this is the third time in 3 years:mad::mad: i asked him where were the goggles - there are 3 or 4 pairs in the shed , he said they are hanging up:confused::confused:


  • #477
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Us men have the disadvantage of having our brains 4 feet lower down then women.

    hope he's ok


  • #478
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    whelan1 wrote: »
    other half is on the way to the mater eye and ear as he got a bit of steel in his eye when angle grinding , this is the third time in 3 years:mad::mad: i asked him where were the goggles - there are 3 or 4 pairs in the shed , he said they are hanging up:confused::confused:

    That's the place for them alright. I hope that it's not serious and he's let out after a good lecture ;)

    Just happened to be looking for my own pair of safety specs earlier, was going to sharpen up a spade, couldn't find them so made do with it as was. Dad got a sliver of rock in his eye years ago breaking a boulder with a sledge, always been wary of flying stuff since then.


  • #479
    whelan1
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    they left here at half 12 and they are still waiting to be seen, i would say the humour is fantastic , glad i am at home:D


  • #480
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    johngalway wrote: »
    Coming home from Galway this morning along the lake west of Maam Cross, some waves on it for a small lake, tops were whipped off and onto cars on the road. But, that was nothing compared to getting home and going to the farm. Road back is along the sea but higher up, I have seen some storms, but I've never seen waves that big out to sea before. Had no camera :rolleyes:

    John - I thought you liked wind:eek:;)

    PS: Another day of getting blasted with 20+ knots of wind at my front door - this has got to be the windiest bl**dy May ever:(


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  • #481
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    John - I thought you liked wind:eek:;)

    PS: Another day of getting blasted with 20+ knots of wind at my front door - this has got to be the windiest bl**dy May ever:(
    my da went to the march in dublin, he was saying alot of lads are feeding silage as there is feck all grass growth, a wet and windy may fills the barns with wheat and hay... we didnt get much rain here at all ,but we did get wind


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