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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #3602
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    leg wax wrote: »
    oh christ i was invaluable to him john,i held her tail :D
    Very valuable to prevent infection;)


  • #3603
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    leg wax wrote: »
    oh christ i was invaluable to him john,i held her tail :D

    Better than what I'd have done. I'm usually on the ground seeing stars:D No stomach for the 'B' word :o


  • #3604
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Muckit wrote: »
    Better than what I'd have done. I'm usually on the ground seeing stars:D No stomach for the 'B' word :o

    I'd say you're terrific at castration :D


  • #3605
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    We had a section ourselves a few days ago. Unknown sire.........Teenage mother. The heifer gave it an almighty attempt to calve herself but the calf was just too big for her.
    She went down when she was being shaved and stayed down for the whole thing. When we pulled out the calf I put him at her head and she was licking him as she was being stiched.
    Both are flying it now.


  • #3606
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    blue5000 wrote: »
    50-60 e last time I looked, but bareco ones are dearer, round 80 ish


    Bang on Blue, E60 fpr long black one today although he told me it would do but really i need the yellow one specifically for the PZ hay bob as long black one wouldnt fit correctly.. would that yellow one be the Bareco one you talking about?


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  • #3607
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,964 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Bang on Blue, E60 fpr long black one today although he told me it would do but really i need the yellow one specifically for the PZ hay bob as long black one wouldnt fit correctly.. would that yellow one be the Bareco one you talking about?

    The bareco ones are fairly new to the Irish market, the big advantage they have is that the cover over the hardi-spicer can be unclipped and pulled back for greasing. I'd say the one you bought is fine, especially as I think you are selling it on?
    http://www.bareco.ie/

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



  • #3608
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    aren't c-sections ten a penny nowadays? I know they are necessary but 20 years ago a section in a neighbours yard was the talk of the area...:rolleyes:

    Any one at the mart lately? Ive been told trade is a bit easier....


  • #3609
    topgeas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭topgeas


    dungravan today. calves back 100 a head, frx cattle back 150 ahead, cont stores still holding 600 with the weight.


  • #3610
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    just back from dropping cows to the factory,

    just after coming off the M7 came to garda checkpoint and this lovely young lady garda asks to see my license , the fecking thing is nearly 3 months out of date, nearly got a fecking seizure

    any how she was sound out, just said to get it renewed when i get a chance, & no need to produce it, she didn't even take down my details

    just for devilment I says to her you're not from farming background are you, & she says indeed I am, sure I do the paperwork for my da on my time off & I see he bought his bull from you, :D

    the next license will be my last 10 year one :(:(


  • #3611
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    topgeas wrote: »
    dungravan today. calves back 100 a head, frx cattle back 150 ahead, cont stores still holding 600 with the weight.

    The plainer stock are first to get hit.

    Its looking a bit uncertain isn't it :rolleyes:


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  • #3612
    orangebud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭orangebud


    any tips on powdery mildew? I got neem oil yesterday & sprayed the ladies hope it works


  • #3613
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    serious rain in the east all day- brought 100 heifers home from a block 15km away- took the whole day

    plenty of grass but toooooo much muck


  • #3614
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    this is a question my husband wants to know:confused: could you paint a trailer floor with waste oil- its a timber floor, i said no, what do ye think?


  • #3615
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    two of us are thinking of going up and over to sixmilebridge mart on saturday for a look ,anyone know what time it starts and directions,thanks in adv


  • #3616
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    stanflt wrote: »
    serious rain in the east all day- brought 100 heifers home from a block 15km away- took the whole day

    plenty of grass but toooooo much muck

    Thats unreal Stan...here in the NW we haven't had a drop of rain since last Mon nite and that was a welcome drop at the time.
    That said however, a lot of stock gone back indoors here also. Fields gone from yellow to red now. What next ? :rolleyes:


  • #3617
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    stanflt wrote: »
    brought 100 heifers home from a block 15km away- took the whole day

    What kind of a trailer had you?18'?


  • #3618
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    whelan1 wrote: »
    this is a question my husband wants to know:confused: could you paint a trailer floor with waste oil- its a timber floor, i said no, what do ye think?

    We did it before years ago - it prob helped preserve the floor, but it was lethal to walk on for ages afterwards, mad slippery...
    Although when we did it, we were small, so we thought 'twas fierce craic to be slipping around... :rolleyes:
    I wouldn't recommend it ;)


  • #3619
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    this is a question my husband wants to know:confused: could you paint a trailer floor with waste oil- its a timber floor, i said no, what do ye think?

    We put a new larch floor in two months ago and painted it with oil. Two coats good and generous. Have only used it once and no issues seen. Then again we be at stuff that lots would consider "unusual".


  • #3620
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    whelan1 wrote: »
    this is a question my husband wants to know:confused: could you paint a trailer floor with waste oil- its a timber floor, i said no, what do ye think?
    I do it at the start of every winter with both timber and steel floor trailers. If you leave it long enough, it will actually dry out. Might take a month or so. If you plan on using the trailer soon, then don't. The oil will get on everything.


  • #3621
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    leg wax wrote: »
    two of us are thinking of going up and over to sixmilebridge mart on saturday for a look ,anyone know what time it starts and directions,thanks in adv
    Coming from Waterford, take the Ennis road from Limerick City to Co. Clare. Head out the Ennis road until the first flyover after about 5 miles. Up through Cratloe village and then on into Sixmilebridge. When you arrive in the center of SMB village, take a left over the small bridge, then a right. The mart is out that road, on the right hand side after a mile and 1/2. You'll pass the hurling field and school as you go. Starts at 11am as far as I know.
    It's a small enough Mart compared to say Ennis, up the road.


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  • #3622
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    leg wax wrote: »
    two of us are thinking of going up and over to sixmilebridge mart on saturday for a look ,anyone know what time it starts and directions,thanks in adv

    Jaysus boy you travel some mileage to marts leg wax!


  • #3623
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Cattle test read this evening.
    All clear.
    It's always a great releif.
    Vet was very accommodating, read them at seven as we were working late.


  • #3624
    jerdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    its there bread and butter.

    do you put them all through the crush to read them..


  • #3625
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Juniorhurler wrote: »
    Jaysus boy you travel some mileage to marts leg wax!

    One end of Ireland to the other isnt big enough for some cattle men when buying :rolleyes:


  • #3626
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    jerdee wrote: »
    its there bread and butter.

    do you put them all through the crush to read them..

    Yep. All ran through.


  • #3627
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jerdee wrote: »
    its there bread and butter.

    do you put them all through the crush to read them..
    they have to go through the crush to be read!


  • #3628
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Coming from Waterford, take the Ennis road from Limerick City to Co. Clare. Head out the Ennis road until the first flyover after about 3 miles. Up through Cratloe village and then on into Sixmilebridge. When you arrive in the center of SMB village, take a left over the small bridge, then a right. The mart is out that road, on the right hand side after a mile and 1/2. You'll pass the hurling field and school as you go. Starts at 11am as far as I know.
    It's a small enough Mart compared to say Ennis, up the road.

    do you have to book cattle in Pak or just show up with them?


  • #3629
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    do you have to book cattle in Pak or just show up with them?
    I haven't sold or bought there since it re-opened, but I doubt it. You didn't have to book them in, in the old days anyway. It's very rare that it would be packed to capacity.


  • #3630
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    they have to go through the crush to be read!

    Not always. Our vet walks around them and looks at them all. Any suspect is put in the crush. We actually had a vet clip and inject an animal in the field. She laughed the whole way through it as she couldn't believe it.


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  • #3631
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Not always. Our vet walks around them and looks at them all. Any suspect is put in the crush. We actually had a vet clip and inject an animal in the field. She laughed the whole way through it as she couldn't believe it.
    it is my understanding that all animals should be measured on day 1 and when being read.... how does the vet know from a few metres away if there is a lump or not, it could be under the skin.... also under the new rules the time frame of testing and reading must be adhered to, you can not test animals at 8am and read then at 8pm on the reading day... think there needs to be alot more spot checks done on tb testing, we are paying enough for it... we will never be rid if its not done right


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