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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #872
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    kids had a pack of fruit yesterday and they left the remains in the car, got in to the car yesterday evening - the window had been left open:rolleyes:- there was about 50 wasps in the back seat:eek: so opened all the doors and went on a killing spree.. feckers filled up an empty jam jar with water and killed a few more , even today in the rain there are loads of them


  • #873
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    johngalway wrote: »
    I don't think I've seen a wasp yet this year :confused:

    Very scarce this way too - I've only seen a handfull this week since the weather got warm and humid. I think the winter-like May/June knocked them back a fair bit - like it did alot of things:(


  • #874
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Very scarce this way too - I've only seen a handfull this week since the weather got warm and humid. I think the winter-like May/June knocked them back a fair bit - like it did alot of things:(
    well ye are welcome to our squad


  • #875
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    I have to say, I'm fond of wasps. I've been stung a fair few times but I don't react to the sting.
    They are a nice little surprise to get in a ripe plum, or a sod of turf for that matter!


  • #876
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whelan1 wrote: »
    well ye are welcome to our squad

    Not a fan of wasps - just pointing out how unpleasent the weather has been since May:(


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  • #877
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    whelan1 wrote: »
    kids had a pack of fruit yesterday and they left the remains in the car, got in to the car yesterday evening - the window had been left open:rolleyes:- there was about 50 wasps in the back seat:eek: so opened all the doors and went on a killing spree.. feckers filled up an empty jam jar with water and killed a few more , even today in the rain there are loads of them
    i saw only one this year and i dont want to see anymore i had two huge wasps nests in the attic of the house last year i killed all in one nest and got stung killing them in the second nest because i left on the attic light and they went mad around it.i got stung on the ear and below the eye. the wasps were twice the size of a normal wasp:eek:


  • #878
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Very scarce this way too - I've only seen a handfull this week since the weather got warm and humid. I think the winter-like May/June knocked them back a fair bit - like it did alot of things:(

    I reckon it was the aetic winter we had in nov-jan that wiped a good few out. Slightly off topic but noticed a lot more bumble bees this year.

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



  • #879
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    blue5000 wrote: »
    I reckon it was the aetic winter we had in nov-jan that wiped a good few out. Slightly off topic but noticed a lot more bumble bees this year.

    Maybe it was the fact that we had 2 severe ones in a row - but I can't remember such a cold/windy May/June like the one we had this year:(


  • #880
    Grecco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Grecco


    We didnt have a very warm summer, might that have something to do with it???
    Come to think of it, the number of all types of insect life seems to be down this year


  • #881
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    just had a giga calf, so off to tullamore we go for the day


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  • #882
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Sold the first of my weinlings yesterday. 4 bulls off LimousinX cows and stock Chaorlais bull. All November calves. No meal until the last 6 weeks.

    440kg = 1100
    445kg = 1095
    430kg = 1045
    390kg = 990

    Not bad money. Although 250 - 300kg weinlings are leaving far better profit. Continentals were making 700 - 900 euro. Belgian blues were easily making Eur3 per KG. Small enough amount of cattle out. Suck calf prices appear to be gone mad.

    Saw a nice month old limousin heifer off a dairy cow, nice hair, good legs, nice shape. 2 farmers got stuck into her and she ended up at EUR 450. Its not long ago when we were lucky to get that for 9 month weinling heifer.


  • #883
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    well done i'd say your a happy chappy ... i sold a bb calf that was born in february , he wouldnt drink the cow - out of a friesian cow got €430 i put him in the calf sales. at the calf sale i was at last week there was only 8 calves in it . Hope to go with br/fr calves either this week or next week, have 10 cows calved have 5 bulls and 5 heifers:o


  • #884
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    reilig wrote: »
    Sold the first of my weinlings yesterday. 4 bulls off LimousinX cows and stock Chaorlais bull. All November calves. No meal until the last 6 weeks.

    440kg = 1100
    445kg = 1095
    430kg = 1045
    390kg = 990

    Not bad money. Although 250 - 300kg weinlings are leaving far better profit. Continentals were making 700 - 900 euro. Belgian blues were easily making Eur3 per KG. Small enough amount of cattle out. Suck calf prices appear to be gone mad.

    Saw a nice month old limousin heifer off a dairy cow, nice hair, good legs, nice shape. 2 farmers got stuck into her and she ended up at EUR 450. Its not long ago when we were lucky to get that for 9 month weinling heifer.

    Well done, serious prices. I cant for the life of me see where the next person is going to make money at those prices. Does someone know something about the beef market in the future that I am unaware of


  • #885
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    reilig wrote: »
    Sold the first of my weinlings yesterday. 4 bulls off LimousinX cows and stock Chaorlais bull. All November calves. No meal until the last 6 weeks.

    440kg = 1100
    445kg = 1095
    430kg = 1045
    390kg = 990

    Not bad money. Although 250 - 300kg weinlings are leaving far better profit. Continentals were making 700 - 900 euro. Belgian blues were easily making Eur3 per KG. Small enough amount of cattle out. Suck calf prices appear to be gone mad.

    Saw a nice month old limousin heifer off a dairy cow, nice hair, good legs, nice shape. 2 farmers got stuck into her and she ended up at EUR 450. Its not long ago when we were lucky to get that for 9 month weinling heifer.

    Well done Relig, good prices there. Does anybody know why cattle around the 250-300kg mark always seem to be more expensive than slightly heavier cattle?:confused: Some days it seems to me that a 275 kg animal makes more than an 325kg animal of same breed colour quality etc.

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



  • #886
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    Just left the cows into silage aftergrass from a late cut paddock. Its a sheet of clover, you can barely see the grass. I just hope there is enough bloatguard in the water. I will be living in the paddock the next few days:(


  • #887
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    had a brutal afternoon, had a heifer calved about half a mile away - had very little springing, calf was alive and well- went to bring them home and saw she had a bit of a blow so rang vet while i was making my way home with her..Got to yard and cow that calved this morning had put her womb out:eek: Then got a text of tbc of 563:eek: the one previous to that was 12... anyway vet came out took 3 of us to get the womb back in and bloody wasps where driving us mental. Vet examined heifer and then i had to milk... will sleep well tonight:D


  • #888
    weefarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭weefarmer


    Painted the creep feeder im making earlier on this evening and went away for an hour to come back and it was bloody raining!! Hopefully it wont do any harm :(


  • #889
    KatyMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    had the vet today to a couple of bucket fed calves that have what I can best describe as a wheeze. They in great form, eating and jumping round the field, but last night I heard one of them breathing noisy. Vet said there was no loss on them, they didn't have pneumonia or hoose or anything!!! I put Noromectin on them during the summer and that seems to keep lungworm away, but I still don't like the sound of their breathing.


  • #890
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    tb herd test tomorrow, spent most of the day getting pens ready and bringing home bunches of cattle for the morning

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



  • #891
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    sounds like we all had a great day, vet got me to pour 2 bags of sugar over the cows womb that was hanging out while i was waiting on her to come out, apparently it reduces the swelling, you learn something new everyday:o


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  • #892
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    reilig wrote: »
    Sold the first of my weinlings yesterday. 4 bulls off LimousinX cows and stock Chaorlais bull. All November calves. No meal until the last 6 weeks.

    440kg = 1100
    445kg = 1095
    430kg = 1045
    390kg = 990
    That's great money, especially off a Charolais stock bull. Like the other posts said, you'd wonder about the people buying them, how are they going to make money on them. Did they go for export?


  • #893
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    whelan1 wrote: »
    sounds like we all had a great day, vet got me to pour 2 bags of sugar over the cows womb that was hanging out while i was waiting on her to come out, apparently it reduces the swelling, you learn something new everyday:o

    Yep, done for sheep also.


  • #894
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    I think the sugar draws the moisture out which reduces the swelling


  • #895
    Mr.Success
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Mr.Success


    Was thinking of buying suffolk ewe lambs and breeding them with a texal ram thats already on the farm later in the year. would this be wise? Or will i end up with some very difficult lambing


  • #896
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭Figerty


    Weefarmer: Got any drawings/pictures of the creep feeder? I thinking about doing the same after I finish renovating a trailer.

    Have some steel pipe and other bits around that would be enough to get it started.


  • #897
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    cow was dead this morning when i went out:mad:


  • #898
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    pakalasa wrote: »
    That's great money, especially off a Charolais stock bull. Like the other posts said, you'd wonder about the people buying them, how are they going to make money on them. Did they go for export?

    The heavier 3 did I think. The lighter guy was bought by a farmer. I have 6 more heifers and 1 bull to sell from the autumn calvers in the next 2 weeks. Will be happy to have the extra grass. Planning on selling a lot of the spring calved weinlings in October/November. Hopefully the prices will remain strong!!


  • #899
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    whelan1 wrote: »
    cow was dead this morning when i went out:mad:

    Sorry to hear that. The shock combined with a fast infection is a common killer when they put out the calf bed - not to mention the amount of blood lost through internal bleeding.


  • #900
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    +1 whelan, I've only ever had two of these and both times they died. At least you tried your best. Hope the rest of the calving is going ok.

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



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  • #901
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    blue5000 wrote: »
    +1 whelan, I've only ever had two of these and both times they died. At least you tried your best. Hope the rest of the calving is going ok.
    have 16 calved 5 friesian heifers , 10 friesian bulls:mad:and 1 angus bull- all alive touch wood! milk in tank going up :D Will be off to the mart next tuesday


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