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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #2762
    tismesoitis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭tismesoitis


    As from yesterday tismesoitis is a Gentleman:D little baby girl arrived safe n sound herself and mam doin great.wonder what her 17 mth brother will make of her when he meets her tomorrow;):D life does'nt get better!!!!!


  • #2763
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    tismesoitis wrote: »
    As from yesterday tismesoitis is a Gentleman:D little baby girl arrived safe n sound herself and mam doin great.wonder what her 17 mth brother will make of her when he meets her tomorrow;):D life does'nt get better!!!!!

    Congratulations to you all:)


  • #2764
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Finno59 wrote: »
    i'd say leave her alone, the only cure is time, The back legs being weaker than front means its defo paralysis, the nerves will heal up over time. Lift her if you like but not sure if it will speed things up.
    +1
    Having her on a good soft bed to avoid pressure sores is way more important than lifting. She'll get up when she's ready


  • #2765
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    tismesoitis wrote: »
    As from yesterday tismesoitis is a Gentleman:D little baby girl arrived safe n sound herself and mam doin great.wonder what her 17 mth brother will make of her when he meets her tomorrow;):D life does'nt get better!!!!!

    Congratulations, and you're right, it doesn't get much better than that!!:D What will you call her, shesminesosheis?:D;)


  • #2766
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    tismesoitis wrote: »
    As from yesterday tismesoitis is a Gentleman:D
    \
    pffft! I'll believe that when I see it lad!:D


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  • #2767
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    just do it wrote: »
    They're an aid alright, but I'd say the more you can observe them the better. I used them but not with great success. I've a vasectomised bill now and he's a far better job. I don't have the time to watch them closely enough.

    The one tip I'd give is don't rush in and ai them too early. The bull tends to start picking them up a day or two before they're standing. Even when they are standing I'm inclined to ai them closer to 24 hours later rather than 12 hours later.

    Best of luck!

    Case in point. A first calver was standing for strong male bulls 2 days ago. No activity yesterday, at least not while I was at the shed. No sign this morning and now this evening she's mad bulling again:rolleyes:.


  • #2768
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Offline for 2 days and I get back to a downer cow, a dead cow, and a child being born.
    Getting shocking like a soap opera in here!
    Hard luck/Best of luck to all.

    The wheel of life keeps on turning.


  • #2769
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Offline for 2 days and I get back to a downer cow, a dead cow, and a child being born.
    Getting shocking like a soap opera in here!
    Hard luck/Best of luck to all.

    The wheel of life keeps on turning.

    two more dead and no life here, to add to the drama :D:D


  • #2770
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Grumpy Smurf is selling his Same tractor;

    "Readvertised due to pure time wasters no one has came to look at this yet constantly gettin phone calls no one commin if ye want some one to talk to ring the samaritans not me..."

    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/tractors/2869590

    We should all ring him for the laugh........


  • #2771
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    pakalasa wrote: »

    We should all ring him for the laugh........

    I don't think he'd get the joke. I don't blame him. I HATE selling anything private. The amount of timewasters is unbelievable. The sad thing is that a lot of lads I think do ring up because they are lonely and its a common interest, they're just not interested in buying it though.

    But in saying that, it's something that has to be allowed for and accepted if you want to sell anything. I just bite my lip now and try and at least waste their phone credit if nothing else :D


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  • #2772
    PMU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭PMU


    Muckit wrote: »
    I don't think he'd get the joke. I don't blame him. I HATE selling anything private. The amount of timewasters is unbelievable. The sad thing is that a lot of lads I think do ring up because they are lonely and its a common interest, they're just not interested in buying it though.

    But in saying that, it's something that has to be allowed for and accepted if you want to sell anything. I just bite my lip now and try and at least waste their phone credit if nothing else :D
    bangor erris; you want milage just to go look at it!


  • #2773
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Went out there a bout an hour ago to put the bale handler on the tractor for the morning. Looked up the mountain behind the house while I was doing it and spotted a cow a bit off by herself that the auld lad said wouldnt calve for a fortnight. Said to myself I better run up and take a look at her so got the quad and the flashlamp and headed off, sure enough she had a grand red lim heifer inside under when I got as far as her, grand to see the first calf of 2012 and time to put the auld lad into retirement me thinks :D


  • #2774
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Went out there a bout an hour ago to put the bale handler on the tractor for the morning. Looked up the mountain behind the house while I was doing it and spotted a cow a bit off by herself that the auld lad said wouldnt calve for a fortnight. Said to myself I better run up and take a look at her so got the quad and the flashlamp and headed off, sure enough she had a grand red lim heifer inside under when I got as far as her, grand to see the first calf of 2012 and time to put the auld lad into retirement me thinks :D

    Good luck with this year's calvings, and especially with getting the auld lad to retire!:D;)


  • #2775
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Went out there a bout an hour ago to put the bale handler on the tractor for the morning. Looked up the mountain behind the house while I was doing it and spotted a cow a bit off by herself that the auld lad said wouldnt calve for a fortnight. Said to myself I better run up and take a look at her so got the quad and the flashlamp and headed off, sure enough she had a grand red lim heifer inside under when I got as far as her, grand to see the first calf of 2012 and time to put the auld lad into retirement me thinks :D

    Reminds me of my late grandfather telling my dad that a certain cow looked like she was going to calve that night. The same cow was calved two months:o


  • #2776
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,961 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Grumpy Smurf is selling his Same tractor;

    "Readvertised due to pure time wasters no one has came to look at this yet constantly gettin phone calls no one commin if ye want some one to talk to ring the samaritans not me..."

    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/tractors/2869590

    We should all ring him for the laugh........

    That man has my sympathy, there definitely is ppl just ringing up for a chat. I'm half thinking of putting a number for the samaritins next time I put an ad on dd.

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



  • #2777
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Was on the road earlier and saw what looked like a brand new small square baler on the back of a truck heading towards Cavan town.
    Don't know when I saw a new one last?? Probably the 70's. Wouldn't be much call for one round these parts.


  • #2778
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    bbam wrote: »
    Was on the road earlier and saw what looked like a brand new small square baler on the back of a truck heading towards Cavan town.
    Don't know when I saw a new one last?? Probably the 70's. Wouldn't be much call for one round these parts.

    I taught they were still making cocks of hay in Cavan


  • #2779
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    bob charles wrote: »
    I taught they were still making cocks of hay in Cavan

    That's right.
    Wooden rakes, bottles of cold tea, batch loaf and the butter sliced onto it (none of that spread muck, that's for city folks). An auld fella twisting hay ropes.
    Me thinks the memory is better than the reality ever was.

    Funny we went straight from cocks and a rick of hay to a slab of concrete and a out of silage. Never made a bale of hay. Sometime round 75/76 timeframe from what I remember ( obviously I'm far too young to remember clearly)


  • #2780
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    bob charles wrote: »
    I taught they were still making cocks of hay in Cavan

    One or two still make them around here. After last years downpour that might be the end of them, one lads hay was pure black.


  • #2781
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    My Dad used to do them and still did up until a few years ago, in one field that is inaccessible for a baler. I used to be the one on the top of the trailer tramping it. Great fun until you fell on a thistle:o

    Me and my brother were wild when we were younger, used to climb to the top of the three round bales that were stacked in the hayshed, hang off the beam and jump/fall onto the loose hay below:P
    Great craic altogether!

    Actually thinking back, that hay was only about a metre deep if even that. Ah well, we still survived.


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  • #2782
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bbam wrote: »
    Was on the road earlier and saw what looked like a brand new small square baler on the back of a truck heading towards Cavan town.
    Don't know when I saw a new one last?? Probably the 70's. Wouldn't be much call for one round these parts.
    a few people round here do them for the horsey people


  • #2783
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    testinfg today, just have milkers left to do vet coming back at 4 as cows are out.... wrecked already.... :o will enjoy a glass of wine tonight


  • #2784
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Calf number 2 hit the ground today, the auld lad's timing was a bit better with this one
    photo-34.jpg


  • #2785
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Calf number 2 hit the ground today, the auld lad's timing was a bit better with this one
    Cow is in great nick for one that was outwintered without silage or hay.


  • #2786
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    pakalasa wrote: »
    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Calf number 2 hit the ground today, the auld lad's timing was a bit better with this one
    Cow is in great nick for one that was outwintered without silage or hay.
    She held well now alright and put up a great bag, they are gettin 3kg meal a head with the last 3 weeks alright though.


  • #2787
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Calf number 2 hit the ground today, the auld lad's timing was a bit better with this one

    Thats a sight that would warm the cockles of your heart :D


  • #2788
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    downer cow still not up:( shes a picture of health, just one of those things

    on a more positive note i milked my first FLT heifer this evening. she calved around 11, a smashing HVA heifer calf


  • #2789
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    did ya get the vet to have a look at her? well done on the heifer:D


  • #2790
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    whelan1 wrote: »
    did ya get the vet to have a look at her? well done on the heifer:D


    yeah vet has looked at her twice- heart is perfect no temp- eyes not sunken- biggest problem is she is bursting with milk


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  • #2791
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    feck hate that, just when you think you have them milked out there's more:eek: must be some sort of hurt so..... did you hear about the vet dropping dead in the factory in duleek today, young man:(


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