Farming Chit Chat

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Went to look at a 5 year old limo bull yesterday. Man was selling him because he has heifers kept out of him. He was bringing him to the mart today so went down to the mart with the auld lad and said we'd have a stab at him. Thought he would be bought for a bit less than 2k. The auld lad went to €2450 on him :eek: Just as well he didnt get him!! You'd get a lovely young bull for that many bucks!!

id say not too easy get young bulls cheap this year redzer, you would surely pay 2 for any sort of nice bull id say nearly, young bull always a bit of a gamble as well

Oh the joys of dehorning calves today, I was the one behind so (again) got kicked a lot, Had to laugh at our sectioned blue calf though. He's only just the bare 3 weeks and was up to my thigh in the pen. (I'm 5'7)

whelan1 wrote: »

hate the hour change, i know it will be bright this evening but an hour less in bed is crap:(

Sleep is for the weak

johngalway wrote: »

Sleep is for the weak

checked the sheep last night at 12.30... 2 ewe lambs might lamb before morning ,put them into individual pens, put the clock forward so got to bed at 2, got up at 5.15, a single and a double , single was strong but ewe was mismothering and dancing away , twins were weak and needed to be tubed, sorted them and on to the other shed , 5 lambs and 3 mothers fighting over them in loose pen, (thought we might 1 here but didn't bank on the other 2 ) matched them up as best we could,

only barely had the cows milked when the milk lorry came at 8, though we might get a bit of leeway with the hour, but you Pat is never more than 10 minutes either way

but on a glorious morning like this isn't it just fabulous to be out and about

Now I see the value of an opinel knife larger than size seven.

What am I at?

Cutting spear thistles!

vanderbadger wrote: »

fine sized pheasant flew into window of kitchen today, must have broke his neck, was dead outside..bizarre

Hunting section under Sports/Shooting has plenty of recipes

Just thinking about it now the first ten cows that have calved to our own bull have had ten heifers, strange, does the bull have anything to do in determining the sex of the calf because we had a lot more heifers than bulls last year aswell. Maybe its just chance....

Some afternoon

Borrowed the quad again, two local donkeys have destroyed a road into part of Dads land. Can't get a car in there now and it's a good step in to see the 50 sheep there, who need feeding. So I was taking 6 25kg bags at a time and some feed buckets. All went grand, fantastic day, bit of a tan, bugs in my teeth :pac:

Then she cut out just as I finished at the end of the road. Wouldn't start again and an unfamiliar light was on. Rang the owner to say I'd broke down

He came down just before dark, had some steel plate and a 4 inch thick plank to go over the hole and the hi-ace was away He wasn't a bit worried about the sound of cracking timber or the bangs, scrapes or load re-arranging by the bad road :pac:

So we get to the end of the road and I say go to the top of the hill, cos you can't really go farther, well, you can, but you won't be coming back any time soon.

Off up he goes, past the top of the hill and.... Bang!

Oh noes :rolleyes:

Here we are, at the end of a buggered road, night coming, van stuck, quad not starting

Miraculously after a bit of fiddling the quad comes to life and he zooms off up the hill, hits the van, and drives by it at 45 degrees through a furze with his shoulder to the side of the van.

How many points do you have on your license again, says I

Now for something I never seen before. A loaded to the gunnels hi-ace, front passenger wheel off the "road" and hung up on a rock facing downhill in semi-dry muck... He shows me a knot and attached it to the hitch of the van and quad.

"Pull me out!"

Ya what? :eek:

Into 4wd I go and into reverse goes the van and out she comes easy as pie! I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been there. Watching him turn then was like watching someone drive blindfolded on a bar of soap, some craic.

"Anytime ya want her again just call!!" And off he goes.

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Just thinking about it now the first ten cows that have calved to our own bull have had ten heifers, strange, does the bull have anything to do in determining the sex of the calf because we had a lot more heifers than bulls last year aswell. Maybe its just chance....

You can look this up on www.icbf,com for the different AI bulls, under the Calving Traits tab. I was wondering the same before, as I seemed to be getting a lot of bulls from the same bull. Answer is about 51% male is the norm. For example some well known bulls as follows;
MBU - Total 13,487 births, 51% male
CF52 - Total 12,165 births, 52% male
HKG - Total 9,331 births, 50% male