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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #692
    runningblind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭runningblind


    have a good one about them fecking mice, in the meal shed filling buckets and came across a mice nest, managed to close the door before many got out, ended up killing 15 mice with the shovel! :)


  • #693
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    greenpilot wrote: »
    I work for one of the Connacht Gold Branches, and yep.....it always reads wrong.....you should always beat the side with a stick!!:D
    yup , ours is a 16 tonne meal bin so i have to go up quite a height to hit it with a hurley:)


  • #694
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    whelan1 wrote: »
    yup , ours is a 16 tonne meal bin so i have to go up quite a height to hit it with a hurley:)
    theres your problem a hurley was only made to hit fellas around the knees and ankles,it must have fallen off the back of a kilkenny lorry.:p


  • #695
    mossy1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭mossy1


    Just wondering how much ground lads on here would allow for say 60 heifer calves for the simple for grazing for the year??


  • #696
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    It's great to be mechanically minded - I'm not. Met the fella who fixed my chainsaw last time at the mart this morning (sheep prices back a long way in the past three weeks :eek: ). All that needed doing? Half turn of a little screw on the engine :rolleyes: Buzzing like a hive of bees now.


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  • #697
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    had a friesian bull calf that got an infection in his throat could hear him from a mile away the noise of him , got vet to look at him a few times and was commenting to my dad how great he was doing , the fecker was dead this morning with bloat:mad:


  • #698
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had a friesian bull calf that got an infection in his throat could hear him from a mile away the noise of him , got vet to look at him a few times and was commenting to my dad how great he was doing , the fecker was dead this morning with bloat:mad:
    The vet was right! The infection in his throat didnt kill him:)

    Hate that though


  • #699
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    The worst thing about an animal dying is you then have to pay to get rid of it, and often after having a vet bill to go with it.


  • #700
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Min wrote: »
    The worst thing about an animal dying is you then have to pay to get rid of it, and often after having a vet bill to go with it.
    was banking on him to buy kids uniforms:rolleyes: never count your chicks til they've hatched... €25 to knackery , didnt get specific call outs for him , only if vet was out to something else, still a total bummer...


  • #701
    anfieldrd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭anfieldrd


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had a friesian bull calf that got an infection in his throat could hear him from a mile away the noise of him , got vet to look at him a few times and was commenting to my dad how great he was doing , the fecker was dead this morning with bloat:mad:


    In the same boat whelan1, let a batch of calves out a fortnight ago and the father goes, not one bit of sickness between them all. Within 2 days one was down with pneumonia, after getting the vet out he seemed to be picking up, then after coming back from the match last week he was dead.


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  • #702
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    leg wax wrote: »
    theres your problem a hurley was only made to hit fellas around the knees and ankles,it must have fallen off the back of a kilkenny lorry.:p

    Two best times to pull with the hurley, is first before the ball comes in, and second after the ball is gone:cool:


  • #703
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    mowed silage this mornin, hope it stays dry for a few hours now:cool:

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #704
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    scanned 25 cows this morning 21 in calf , am happy enough with that


  • #705
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    as whelan1 says fook it ,1 of my part heifers aborted,just back from the lab have to wait and see what they find.


  • #706
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    leg wax wrote: »
    as whelan1 says fook it ,1 of my part heifers aborted,just back from the lab have to wait and see what they find.

    That's a bummer. Was she long gone?


  • #707
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    reilig wrote: »
    That's a bummer. Was she long gone?
    due the end of july/aug:mad:


  • #708
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    do you lepto ?


  • #709
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    do you lepto ?

    I hope you're not going to suggest that he should be vaccinating against lepto, that would consitute giving vetinary advice :D


  • #710
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    I hope you're not going to suggest that he should be vaccinating against lepto, that would consitute giving vetinary advice :D
    god no! was only asking as i am being nosey , maybe i should delete that question:)


  • #711
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    whelan1 wrote: »
    do you lepto ?
    yes


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  • #712
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    leg wax wrote: »
    yes
    once or twice a year, maybe it was just one of those things , i had one threw her calf a few weeks got her tested and nothing showed up , i have a bitch of a cow that headbutts and i blame her :rolleyes:


  • #713
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,034 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Turf still under water in Mayo - my plot didn't even get a break from this rotten summer over the weekend up here:(!!


  • #714
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Turf still under water in Mayo - my plot didn't even get a break from this rotten summer over the weekend up here:(!!

    Mine are cut since May 1st. I have 19 out of 25 hoppers footed. Its painful work. They have received so much rain, and haven't shrunk at all. I sprayed the grass around them a few weeks back which has helped to dry them a bit better. Hopefully this week will see the rest of them lifted.


  • #715
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    was looking out the window last night , i have 7 calves and 2 pet lambs in a paddock beside the house... the playacting of them was unreal , the 2 lambs where running through the calves legs and the calves where trying to catch them ... should have video'd it for you tube


  • #716
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    did all the cows for lepto this morning-knocked 30acres of grass for second cut-hopefully rain will stay away-will do cows for bvd in 3days and then its time for spot on- like to leave 3days between them all


  • #717
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Turf still under water in Mayo - my plot didn't even get a break from this rotten summer over the weekend up here:(!!

    Have all my turf home two weeks ago. It was cut in the real good spell back in april. Some people on on our bog cut a second cut two weeks ago.


  • #718
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,034 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    sea12 wrote: »
    Have all my turf home two weeks ago. It was cut in the real good spell back in april. Some people on on our bog cut a second cut two weeks ago.

    Where are you?? - since theres been a massive difference in the elements from East to West this summer!!


  • #719
    Rollant46
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Rollant46


    we have all footed and some of he turf on pallets so they are dry enough id say if ther was another day or two of dry weather they would be fit for home!!:)


  • #720
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    I've never cut turf....but, can you not bring it home wet and dry it in an open shed.


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  • #721
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    pakalasa wrote: »
    I've never cut turf....but, can you not bring it home wet and dry it in an open shed.

    Its not the ideal solution. If you put it in the shed before it drys, it tends to break into very small pieces as it drys and you end up with a lot of turf moul.
    Turf needs weather (sun, rain and wind) in order for it to dry properly over a period of time.


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