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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #1712
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,454 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    when I was tought how to judge dairy cows I was told "you're looking for the same thing you're looking for in a woman; tits, legs and arse in that order" :D


  • #1713
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    when I was tought how to judge dairy cows I was told "you're looking for the same thing you're looking for in a woman; tits, legs and arse in that order" :D

    http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/clapping/citizen_cane.gif
    :D


  • #1714
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Dupont


    Bodacious wrote: »
    some of them never settle, i bought a lovely black lim heifer in 08 to keep and she turned out to be a pure header, every time i came into the field she jumped out of it and jumped back into the cows when i was gone!! sold her on again when i eventually got vet to blood test her

    maybe its up here now;)


  • #1715
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Sold the calves tonight at Mohill.
    2 blue bulls, 365kg- €850, 360kg- €900.
    Four blue heifers 300kg-€740, 300kg- €790, 345kg- €920 and my red blue was 310kg- €1150.:D

    No complaints with the four heifers averaging at €900......:p


  • #1716
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan1 wrote: »
    scanned sucklers this morning and weaned some of them, scanned 21 , 21 in calf:D

    That's a great result. Do you mind me asking how much it costed to scan them? Is it a standard call out charge and something like €2 a head?

    Thanks Whelan1


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  • #1717
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Karen112 wrote: »
    Sold the calves tonight at Mohill.
    2 blue bulls, 365kg- €850, 360kg- €900.
    Four blue heifers 300kg-€740, 300kg- €790, 345kg- €920 and my red blue was 310kg- €1150.:D

    No complaints with the four heifers averaging at €900......:p

    They are great prices Karen. What side of the auctioneer were you when they were being sold? :D:D


  • #1718
    jerdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    jesus the good citrus is moving fairly fast 700 ton yestersday loaded out ...and there all back for more this morning..........icon6.gif


  • #1719
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Muckit wrote: »
    That's a great result. Do you mind me asking how much it costed to scan them? Is it a standard call out charge and something like €2 a head?

    Thanks Whelan1
    charged me €380 for scanning 127animals


  • #1720
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Muckit wrote: »
    They are great prices Karen. What side of the auctioneer were you when they were being sold? :D:D

    On the end of a phone:mad: Had to work last night.


  • #1721
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    Feeding the cattle in the slatted shed beef ration of 14%. My nephew (6 years old) has 2 female goats (we are tryng to "sell" them behind his back) and they are living on the feed passage way but they love to have there share of the ration. Will this do them any harm? before this they always got sheep ration. Oh the feed is Flynn feeds if it makes a diff


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  • #1722
    thetangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭thetangler


    Hi Karen
    Well done
    A: Your guess of weight was very close.
    B: The red heifer made a serious price.


  • #1723
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    thetangler wrote: »
    Hi Karen
    Well done
    A: Your guess of weight was very close.
    B: The red heifer made a serious price.

    C- She's not gone too far so I get to visit her!;)


  • #1724
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan1 wrote: »
    charged me €380 for scanning 127animals

    OK. Thanks a mil. It will give me an idea of costs ;) works out around €3 roughly a head so or say €60call out plus €2.50/head

    Much appreciated

    Muckit


  • #1725
    Suckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Suckler


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    Feeding the cattle in the slatted shed beef ration of 14%. My nephew (6 years old) has 2 female goats (we are tryng to "sell" them behind his back) and they are living on the feed passage way but they love to have there share of the ration. Will this do them any harm? before this they always got sheep ration. Oh the feed is Flynn feeds if it makes a diff

    didnt do ours any harm!

    We have an aul goat that took up with our cattle for years now, we always throw out a separate handful of meal when feeding otherwise she starts pucking the others out of her way to the trough. Divil of a yoke.

    I remember during a real cold spell I felt sorry for her and let her in to the yard where I had a few weanlings. She did nothing but torment them, had a job to to catch her in the end and fire her back out.


  • #1726
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Karen112 wrote: »
    Sold the calves tonight at Mohill.
    2 blue bulls, 365kg- €850, 360kg- €900.
    Four blue heifers 300kg-€740, 300kg- €790, 345kg- €920 and my red blue was 310kg- €1150.:D

    No complaints with the four heifers averaging at €900......:p

    well done there Karen, did you sell the 2 bulls you posted pics of there at one point, one lad was blackish in color, blues i think


  • #1727
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    Cheers Suckler,

    I was only checking, as it wount be worth living if something happened them. You know yourself, doing a favour for someone is a right pain.

    I hear they are lucky around cattle, especially in red water areas, if you can keep them fenced in.

    I think if they are staying around ill get them a fella for a few weeks. May as well be in kid than eating my beech hedging


  • #1728
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    well done there Karen, did you sell the 2 bulls you posted pics of there at one point, one lad was blackish in color, blues i think

    Thanks! They were sold earlier on last month, these two were younger calves, a while blue that could pass as a CH and another lad off a tiny lim cow that has milk for Ireland! He's already in a shed in Sligo and will be shipped abroad in Jan.
    Never actually got pictures of them though!


  • #1729
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Found this site today. A few tractors for sale on it.

    http://haybay.ie/


  • #1730
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Good site pakalasa


  • #1731
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Sculled a few cows there today and when i was gathering up the butts after to throw over the wall i saw 5/6 blue bottles stuck to them ... i thought they would be well gone!


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  • #1732
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,035 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Sculled a few cows there today and when i was gathering up the butts after to throw over the wall i saw 5/6 blue bottles stuck to them ... i thought they would be well gone!

    Currently up at my holding in North Mayo and noticed a few hanging around the scuttery end of the sheep myself - can only put it down to the fact that the past 2 months have felt warmer then most of summer. To highlight that it looks like getting up to 18C this Sunday according to the folks on the weather forum which is an eye-opener for the middle of November!!:eek::confused:


  • #1733
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Currently up at my holding in North Mayo and noticed a few hanging around the wrong end of the sheep myself - can only put it down to the fact that the past 2 months have felt warmer then most of summer. To highlight that it looks like getting up to 18C this Sunday according to the folks on the weather forum which is an eye-opener for the middle of November!!:eek::confused:

    I will have to keep lashing on the alamycin and stocktar until they heal !! wont complain if its 18 degrees though


  • #1734
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,035 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Bodacious wrote: »
    ! wont complain if its 18 degrees though

    I know - but I feel its a waste at this time of year with the days so short - if this was July we'd be talking temps in the high 20's which we haven't seen for years now:(, plus I feel we'll be payin for it later in the winter or spring!!:(


  • #1735
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Bodacious wrote: »
    I will have to keep lashing on the alamycin and stocktar until they heal !! wont complain if its 18 degrees though
    its kinda unnatural weather though isnt it? i see some nights if you open the back door of the house all the little midgeys come in. Ive never seen so much grass on the farm at this time of year and all the stock housed and the place swimming..probably not great news for next year with all that old grass, even the bloody lawn is growing all the time


  • #1736
    Charlie Charolais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭Charlie Charolais


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    its kinda unnatural weather though isnt it? i see some nights if you open the back door of the house all the little midgeys come in. Ive never seen so much grass on the farm at this time of year and all the stock housed and the place swimming..probably not great news for next year with all that old grass, even the bloody lawn is growing all the time

    Its real unnatural, 13 degrees this morning @ half six!
    Could be a fierce year for fluke with all the wet in the ground & the humidy heat.
    Bought in lambs to graze off but they can hardly keep it ate, the cattle in the slats are looking out at them with a jealous look in their eye!


  • #1737
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    It has been a great Autumn in fairness. We got a spurt of grass growth and fine weather just when we needed it. I have all the cattle out still and still a lot of grass to go. I plan to house the cows this weekend and let the lighter cattle graze whats left.

    BTW, LIDL are selling Coffee cheap this week. I think it's cheap anyway.
    I know a lot of it can get used on a Dairy farm.


  • #1738
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Ordered 5 blue poly rope halters off Pedigreecattle yesterday morning and got them in the post this morning.

    Now that's what I call service! And very competitive. €5 a pop + €4.99 total carriage.

    I'm sure if a lad had the patience and the knack you could make a few by the fire over the winter. Anyone ever made them? Now I don't mean a 'country job' with big dirty knots, these have plaited loops!

    ropehalter.jpg


  • #1739
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    pakalasa wrote: »
    It has been a great Autumn in fairness. We got a spurt of grass growth and fine weather just when we needed it. I have all the cattle out still and still a lot of grass to go. I plan to house the cows this weekend and let the lighter cattle graze whats left.

    BTW, LIDL are selling Coffee cheap this week. I think it's cheap anyway.
    I know a lot of it can get used on a Dairy farm.

    If the temperatures stay up like this, we can start growing our own coffee;)


  • #1740
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Tora Bora wrote: »
    If the temperatures stay up like this, we can start growing our own coffee;)

    And coke and maybe a few other exotics as well:D What's the rice market like?

    Land was in fair slop this mornin, took 3 attempts to back up to the creep feeder to move it. I still have a lot of cattle out, all that's in is the in-calf heifers. Cutting maize is going to be messy.

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



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  • #1741
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Muckit wrote: »
    Ordered 5 blue poly rope halters off Pedigreecattle yesterday morning and got them in the post this morning.

    Now that's what I call service! And very competitive. €5 a pop + €4.99 total carriage.

    I'm sure if a lad had the patience and the knack you could make a few by the fire over the winter. Anyone ever made them? Now I don't mean a 'country job' with big dirty knots, these have plaited loops!

    ropehalter.jpg
    ye, my dad can make them... very handy to have around the place- both dads and halters:D


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