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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #1292
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    whelan1 wrote: »
    bucketing down here now!
    its like that all week down here.


  • #1293
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Found four of my missing hoggets today. By God they did not want to be rounded up nor loaded. Got them with the help of the young dog. Still a couple to nab I think but that's the majority back under tabs.

    Think instead of branding them next year I'll hang bullseye targets from their horns :D


  • #1294
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Poured rain here all day from about ten. Well wipes out the few dry days.
    Spent afternoon with 13screaming girls in the house at DD's birthday party. Would probably rathered been out in the rain pulling ragweed or nettles but sher it's over now. Alcohol is a great stress reliever. :D


  • #1295
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Scanned cows today and it looks like the mop up bull did nothing.Now we were doing the heifers that he was first with after them so i nearly lost the life .Turns out he did the heifers fine but stopped bulling at home:confused:On the plus side my worrys about having too many cows are solved for next year but i probaly will have to carry over the younger ones.looks like all the cows are going to calve in 7 weeks ,finish april1


  • #1296
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bbam wrote: »
    Poured rain here all day from about ten. Well wipes out the few dry days.
    Spent afternoon with 13screaming girls in the house at DD's birthday party. Would probably rathered been out in the rain pulling ragweed or nettles but sher it's over now. Alcohol is a great stress reliever. :D
    not feeling the best myself this morning, my brothers 30th was last night and my nieces birthday party is tomorrow;)


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  • #1297
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭dar31


    why do cows always start calving at the weekend, first one dropped this morning.
    may have a word with bull over xmas


  • #1298
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    thread on boards complaining about a crow banger, i cant copy and paste but if you go in to my user name i have posted on it, its in the sustainability and environment section


  • #1299
    pajero12
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭pajero12


    whelan1 wrote: »
    total ass hole on another thread on boards complaining about a crow banger, i cant copy and paste but if you go in to my user name i have posted on it, its in the sustainability and environment section
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74692504

    Heres the link..What a tosser :rolleyes:


  • #1300
    case 956
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭case 956


    looks lyk england have our heat wave


  • #1301
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    what a balls.

    thought everthing was gone pear shaped, couldnt find the special filler anywhere in stock, then we got onto sika and they said they'd have it delivered the next morning for €25.

    which was great.

    then they forgot half it, which sucked.

    came down and the tank hadnt been emptied during the week, said he'd come today so I hired a big powerwasher this morning, weather was looking good. man said he was coming this afternoon, but not going to agitate as it didnt need it. (there's a floating island, no way it wont need agitating, but I reckon he doesnt have a whisk which this tank needs)

    started to rain around twelve and hasnt stopped.

    I'm going back home tomorrow morning.

    F*ck it


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  • #1302
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Does anybody know how I can get into the new smallholders forum from F&F.
    It's either very difficult or I'm very thick:)


  • #1303
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Does anybody know how I can get into the new smallholders forum from F&F.
    It's either very difficult or I'm very thick:)

    Nope- it looks like its almost fully setup, if you click on Farming and Forestry under the 'Soc' heading- you'll see a pull down arrow to the right of the main forum, which *will* feature the subforum (its not there right now, but the arrow is, so I'm guessing its not fully setup).

    Shane


  • #1304
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Specsavers lads :P

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056406542


  • #1305
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Thanks lads. I can into it from the link John posted and another posted link in F&F but I still can't get there directly.
    So I'm thinking Shane is correct insofar as it not being fully onstream yet?


  • #1306
    13spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    Weaning them now. The roaring/echo with the slatted house full was headwrecking! :D

    Does anyone know the right name for the ''quick-hitch'' red triangles some lads use on the front linkage?


  • #1307
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    13spanner wrote: »
    Weaning them now. The roaring/echo with the slatted house full was headwrecking! :D

    Does anyone know the right name for the ''quick-hitch'' red triangles some lads use on the front linkage?

    Take a couple of cows at a time out of the field where herd is grazing. Do that every three or four days. Put cows in shed out of earshot of calves.
    Most stress free way of weaning. Calves barely know what has happened.


  • #1308
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    13spanner wrote: »
    Weaning them now. The roaring/echo with the slatted house full was headwrecking! :D

    Does anyone know the right name for the ''quick-hitch'' red triangles some lads use on the front linkage?

    Dont know about front linkage but back ones are A Frame quick attachments. Google that and see if thats what you are looking for.


  • #1309
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Tora Bora wrote: »
    Take a couple of cows at a time out of the field where herd is grazing. Do that every three or four days. Put cows in shed out of earshot of calves.
    Most stress free way of weaning. Calves barely know what has happened.
    Was in the mart today and the ammount of weanlins landing there straight from the cow without being weaned... Serious stress on all stock there..


  • #1310
    LostCovey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭LostCovey


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Thanks lads. I can into it from the link John posted and another posted link in F&F but I still can't get there directly.
    So I'm thinking Shane is correct insofar as it not being fully onstream yet?

    Yeah I assume it will be a proper sub-forum like you see on other forums once it's properly set up.

    I can't find it except by clicking that link either.

    LostCovey


  • #1311
    13spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    towzer2010 wrote: »
    Dont know about front linkage but back ones are A Frame quick attachments. Google that and see if thats what you are looking for.
    That's bang on what I was looking for, thanks :)


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  • #1312
    case 956
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭case 956


    had ta milk dis morn for my uncle after been at a party til 7 this morn. not a nice job to do wen u p*ssed out of your mind


  • #1313
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    case 956 wrote: »
    had ta milk dis morn for my uncle after been at a party til 7 this morn. not a nice job to do wen u p*ssed out of your mind

    Ya 4got the 3 'P' s then?:eek:

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



  • #1314
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭dar31


    case 956 wrote: »
    had ta milk dis morn for my uncle after been at a party til 7 this morn. not a nice job to do wen u p*ssed out of your mind

    nothing like a run up and down the pit to sober you up.
    acrs come into their own on these mornings
    row up, snooze, row up, snooze:D


  • #1315
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    case 956 wrote: »
    had ta milk dis morn for my uncle after been at a party til 7 this morn. not a nice job to do wen u p*ssed out of your mind
    sorry to be a killjoy, but that would drive me mental, getting some one to milk and paying tham when they are not in a state to do it... got some one to milk for me yesterday morning as i knew i wouldnt be in a state to do it myself, had a cow with gangrene in her back quarter yesterday evening, yesterday morning was the first morning in months that i didnt milk:mad:


  • #1316
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    whelan1 wrote: »
    sorry to be a killjoy, but that would drive me mental, getting some one to milk and paying tham when they are not in a state to do it... got some one to milk for me yesterday morning as i knew i wouldnt be in a state to do it myself, had a cow with gangrene in her back quarter yesterday evening, yesterday morning was the first morning in months that i didnt milk:mad:
    Dead right whelan its one thing being having a lash of porter the night before but being pissed out of your mind milking cows or any other job is a disaster .


  • #1317
    haybob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭haybob


    Went to Ennis last Saturday to buy a few shorthorn heifers anything nice was between 1400 and 1600, couldn't get over it will be going to Kilfenora bank holiday monday.


  • #1318
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    haybob wrote: »
    Went to Ennis last Saturday to buy a few shorthorn heifers anything nice was between 1400 and 1600, couldn't get over it will be going to Kilfenora bank holiday monday.

    Was in Granard mart in Longford last week and purebredd shorthorn heifers with papers were not making 900e. Some lad had 10 in and i say 6 didnt make the 1k mark.


  • #1319
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    Just swapped 2 bull calves next spring for 25 bales of 2010 haylage, good stuff, delivered. Happy out, will give me a chance to move the poorer bales (of nappies:eek:) to get at the good ones at the middle


  • #1320
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    was at the mart today, there was a few weanlings from a farmer the oldest was born last november , mostly simmentals-brown and white- averaging 550 kg and the best made €1300 . was great to watch them going through, top quality, they where obviously on alot of meal but i would say he was happy going home


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  • #1321
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan1 wrote: »
    was at the mart today, there was a few weanlings from a farmer the oldest was born last november , mostly simmentals-brown and white- averaging 550 kg and the best made €1300 . was great to watch them going through, top quality, they where obviously on alot of meal but i would say he was happy going home

    Were they bulls or heifers whelan1?


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