Farming Chit Chat

tismesoitis · 25-02-2012 08:56PM

Great day ...poured 49cubic meters of concrete today on our new silage slab just another 70 odd to go,next saturday weather going well!!:rolleyes:

dar31 · 25-02-2012 09:03PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

Got wacked in the ribs by a swinging gate while helping the father inlaw let the girls out for their first run of the year - bloody sore now:(

not nice, fell off the maize pit 4 weeks ago, me ribs used the back of loader bucket to break my fall. only coming right this week, still can only sleep in one position in the bed though, reckon it will still take another 2 weeks to get full over it.

to crown it off this evening was crouched over feeding newborn calf in a pen with others, and a little fecker came along and pucked me in the ribs
not impressed

Muckit · 25-02-2012 09:20PM

Out with the fertiliser spreader here today. The best of our land just about trafficable. Grass growing great so this should give it a boost on. God it was a cracking day, real cut of spring about it. Very mild.

Had a few other jobs planned but didn't get to them. Typical. Never enough hours in the day as far as farming is concerned. If I was at work the day would drag! :rolleyes:

5live · 25-02-2012 09:21PM

whelan1 wrote: »

overcast here and coldish, not short and tshirt weather anyway... edited to add , we sowed lawn seed last sunday and its flying, so must be good growth out there for the week

I think if there was a foot of snow on top of the lawn the bloody lawn would still be growing. Lawn grass doesnt follow the same rules as normal grass:mad:

Dupont · 25-02-2012 10:05PM

tismesoitis wrote: »

Great day ...poured 49cubic meters of concrete today on our new silage slab just another 70 odd to go,next saturday weather going well!!:rolleyes:

is that walls an all or just floor,must be right lump of a pit.

was just remembering today when had to help a lad catch the stock bull to injeect him cos he was lame on the back legs.it was an on a rough bit of land with no crush or pens so we :eek: used a nailbar and got it hooked through his ring:eek: and used it to (try) hold him steady. it was a good job he was as lame as he was cos he was pulling us about the place then had to hold him myself cos the the needle was one of those real stiff ones and he had to get two needle fulls.i was shaking when we were finished:o

just do it · 25-02-2012 11:16PM

Karen112 wrote: »

dar31 wrote: »

What's the rest of the country like, absolute cracker of a day here on east Wicklow

Nice dry but overcast day here (Leitrim). Ould lad thought I was mental 3/4 length trousers and a shirt though.....:rolleyes:

You or him? ;-)

Kovu · 26-02-2012 01:16PM

just do it wrote: »

You or him? ;-)

Thankfully me;) I don't like looking at his hairy legs. Got seven shades od s**te kicked out of me this morning while dehorning that calf we had sectioned. He had late developing buds so he was a bit older than usual. The cow cleared a five foot gate to get to him too. Thank feck the auld fellow had sense to close the second gate:o

JohnBoy · 26-02-2012 04:19PM

whelan1 wrote: »

overcast here and coldish, not short and tshirt weather anyway... edited to add , we sowed lawn seed last sunday and its flying, so must be good growth out there for the week

That's great news.

I ploughed the last of our garden in november, but it's been soaked since, finally got a tripleK on it yesterday with the 20. great craic

if I can get some time in the next few weeks it'll be done. only downside is it'll add an hour to cutting them, might finally have to invest in a rideon.

who the fug · 26-02-2012 07:59PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

Got wacked in the ribs by a swinging gate while helping the father inlaw let the girls out for their first run of the year - bloody sore now:(

Could be worse, whacked In the nuts by the old lady of the herd was a bitch, and she liked me

island of tighe · 26-02-2012 08:09PM

i put out suckler cows and calves today.great grass around here and the ground is fairly good so hopefully the weather holds.ive abandoned the ai and let the bull off with the cows not yet served.im scanning the served cows during the week

tismesoitis · 26-02-2012 09:24PM

Dupont wrote: »

is that walls an all or just floor,must be right lump of a pit.

was just remembering today when had to help a lad catch the stock bull to injeect him cos he was lame on the back legs.it was an on a rough bit of land with no crush or pens so we :eek: used a nailbar and got it hooked through his ring:eek: and used it to (try) hold him steady. it was a good job he was as lame as he was cos he was pulling us about the place then had to hold him myself cos the the needle was one of those real stiff ones and he had to get two needle fulls.i was shaking when we were finished:o

just the floor there i cut the expansion joints into it this mornin with a con saw back was broke after that:(. Theres a 56meter 2.4 high L shaped wall on 2 sides. I'll try get a couple of pics up soon.

keep going · 26-02-2012 10:52PM

came across a couple of "piseogs" about cows calving lately.one is that cows calve if the barometer is droping or before a storm and another is that if a cow hasnt calved by high tide it wont calve until the tide is starting to rise again 6 hours later.anybody else heard these before

johnpawl · 26-02-2012 11:31PM

Cork here too, but where I am from, the term "piseog" has a more sinister meaning than what you describe

Bizzum · 26-02-2012 11:42PM

keep going wrote: »

if a cow hasnt calved by high tide it wont calve until the tide is starting to rise again 6 hours later.anybody else heard these before

The problem with growing up in Offaly is that the tide didn't feature too highly in our old wives tales:D

who the fug · 27-02-2012 08:12AM

Bizzum wrote: »

The problem with growing up in Offaly is that the tide didn't feature too highly in our old wives tales:D

Id did once but no old wives lived to talk about it

whelan1 · 27-02-2012 09:36AM

see minister burton is looking into sw payments for self employed people , about time me thinks

5live · 27-02-2012 11:18AM

whelan1 wrote: »

see minister burton is looking into sw payments for self employed people , about time me thinks

The downside is the increased PRSI contributions we will have to make to qualify, up 50% iirc:(

johngalway · 27-02-2012 12:30PM

5live wrote: »

The downside is the increased PRSI contributions we will have to make to qualify, up 50% iirc:(

Yeah, I heard that one the radio last evening.

5live · 27-02-2012 01:40PM

johngalway wrote: »

Yeah, I heard that one the radio last evening.

I cant see us getting the full range of benefits either. Sick pay? Dental? Dole? I can see the 50% increase in cost but not even 20% increase in benefits:mad:.

Any of your contacts 'in the know', John?:pac:

reilig · 27-02-2012 02:18PM

I was out for a cycle early on sunday morning and passed by a field that had silage cut off it. I met the owner a few hundred yards further up the road and he told me that it was a pasture field that had gone too strong. Its too wet to carry cows yet and its across a main road from his yard and it would bring too much muck onto the road to let the cows across to it twice daily. it was easier for him to go in with the conditioner every second day, bale it up and land it to the cows heads.

Surely has to be a record for early cutting? I have seen pictures on the journal in the past of people cutting silage in february or march, but it was always a meadow which remained uncut from the previous year. This was grass that had grown since November.

johngalway · 27-02-2012 05:48PM

5live wrote: »

I cant see us getting the full range of benefits either. Sick pay? Dental? Dole? I can see the 50% increase in cost but not even 20% increase in benefits:mad:.

Any of your contacts 'in the know', John?:pac:

Contacts? :pac:

I'll get Charrrrrrrrrrrrrlieeeeeeeee Birrrrrrrrrrrd right on it

I'm practising the ancient oriental discipline of ostrichigami, basically sticking my head in the sand until everyone lives happily ever after.

Working so far :cool:

stanflt · 27-02-2012 07:21PM

reilig wrote: »

I was out for a cycle early on sunday morning and passed by a field that had silage cut off it. I met the owner a few hundred yards further up the road and he told me that it was a pasture field that had gone too strong. Its too wet to carry cows yet and its across a main road from his yard and it would bring too much muck onto the road to let the cows across to it twice daily. it was easier for him to go in with the conditioner every second day, bale it up and land it to the cows heads.

Surely has to be a record for early cutting? I have seen pictures on the journal in the past of people cutting silage in february or march, but it was always a meadow which remained uncut from the previous year. This was grass that had grown since November.

this is called zero grazing around here- works very well but expensie

johngalway · 27-02-2012 07:33PM

I'm going to put up some bat boxes on my little corner of Connemara this year. Been meaning to do it for a while now, but with this Schmallenberg thing on the loose may as well do it soon. I do realise it'll probably have as much impact as pissing in the ocean but, it'll make me feel better.

Anyways, who doesn't like killing midges. Apparently bats can eat something like 3,000 of the little buggers a night.

Got an old cattle crush that I don't particularly use. I'll rob the six poles out of it and use them to raise up the boxes.

snowman707 · 27-02-2012 07:45PM

stanflt wrote: »

this is called zero grazing around here- works very well but expensie

2 zero grazers in this area met one drawing a load about mid january ,

moy83 · 27-02-2012 08:40PM

johngalway wrote: »

I'm going to put up some bat boxes on my little corner of Connemara this year. Been meaning to do it for a while now, but with this Schmallenberg thing on the loose may as well do it soon. I do realise it'll probably have as much impact as pissing in the ocean but, it'll make me feel better.

Anyways, who doesn't like killing midges. Apparently bats can eat something like 3,000 of the little buggers a night.

Got an old cattle crush that I don't particularly use. I'll rob the six poles out of it and use them to raise up the boxes.

We have a good few of them nesting in old canvas bags that the grandfather had hanging over rafters years ago in an old hay shed . They might eat midges but dont expect to notice a dent in their population as i still get ate alive on the odd summers evening

Will they just come once you have the boxes up for them or will you have to get a few somewhere to get them started ?

whelan1 · 27-02-2012 08:52PM

loads of midges around yesterday, decided to take up running and got a mouthful of them yesterday:cool:

johngalway · 27-02-2012 08:52PM

moy83 wrote: »

We have a good few of them nesting in old canvas bags that the grandfather had hanging over rafters years ago in an old hay shed . They might eat midges but dont expect to notice a dent in their population as i still get ate alive on the odd summers evening
Will they just come once you have the boxes up for them or will you have to get a few somewhere to get them started ?

Lol, not expecting a dent at all, but I'll be happier knowing a few of them will be meeting their end because of me

I'm not sure really, just been looking at box plans. I'll have to do some more investigating. I know there are bats in and around the village, and I have seen one little fells crawl out from behind a rafter in a shed once when we were sheltering from a bad shower waiting on a fox.

Get ate myself, there's a wood with a stream through it on my border, often have had to leave off DIY projects in the yard because of them.

johngalway · 27-02-2012 08:53PM

whelan1 wrote: »

loads of midges around yesterday, decided to take up running and got a mouthful of them yesterday:cool:

We'll have to start calling you Nora Batty then W :pac:

moy83 · 27-02-2012 09:10PM

I think there is a crowd that rehome bats . You could check it out they might be looking for somewhere to place a few .

JohnBoy · 28-02-2012 07:09AM

5live wrote: »

I cant see us getting the full range of benefits either. Sick pay? Dental? Dole? I can see the 50% increase in cost but not even 20% increase in benefits:mad:.

Dont worry, by the time it's implemented there wont be any benefits left, they're cutting them hard and fast.

you'll just pay more taxes

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