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Muckit · 10-06-2012 03:27PM

johngalway wrote: »

The only topper I can use is for pencils

Buy a biro and sell the topper

Kovu · 10-06-2012 05:02PM

Anyone else seeing redwater rife at the minute? Speaking to the vet earlier and he had 5 transfusions to do yesterday:eek:
Wlaked through a right of way to our land (grass is long and stringy) and I picked off nearly twenty ticks off meself. Hope I don't come down with it!!

johngalway · 10-06-2012 05:07PM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Anyone else seeing redwater rife at the minute? Speaking to the vet earlier and he had 5 transfusions to do yesterday:eek:
Wlaked through a right of way to our land (grass is long and stringy) and I picked off nearly twenty ticks off meself. Hope I don't come down with it!!

Buy yourself one of these:

http://www.otom.com/how-to-remove-a-tick

You're more at risk from Lyme disease. My girlfriend got it a while back, it's something you seriously don't want to have.

Kovu · 10-06-2012 05:16PM

johngalway wrote: »

Buy yourself one of these:

http://www.otom.com/how-to-remove-a-tick

You're more at risk from Lyme disease. My girlfriend got it a while back, it's something you seriously don't want to have.

We have three different types (I think) over here. One is red backed, one red-spotted backed and one is a small black lad. Do they all carry it? I've just picked them off me since I could walk, and I'm no spring chicken:rolleyes:

johngalway · 10-06-2012 05:28PM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

We have three different types (I think) over here. One is red backed, one red-spotted backed and one is a small black lad. Do they all carry it? I've just picked them off me since I could walk, and I'm no spring chicken:rolleyes:

I am not sure, I know ticks in Connemara have it, we're supposedly one of the "hot spots" in Ireland.

This site might have more information:

http://ticktalkireland.org/

Kovu · 10-06-2012 05:31PM

johngalway wrote: »

I am not sure, I know ticks in Connemara have it, we're supposedly one of the "hot spots" in Ireland.

This site might have more information:

http://ticktalkireland.org/

I think I'll be a typical farmer and go.....meh:o
I got over fifty in one day last year on an island in Lough Derg.
The hills I was on is a hot spot too. No heifer we buy in can go there. Best land we have too:(

Just off for a dip in the lake now, washing off last nights tan!!!

johngalway · 10-06-2012 05:38PM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

I think I'll be a typical farmer and go.....meh:o
I got over fifty in one day last year on an island in Lough Derg.
The hills I was on is a hot spot too. No heifer we buy in can go there. Best land we have too:(

Just off for a dip in the lake now, washing off last nights tan!!!

If you get a bulls eye type bruise around the site of where you've been bitten don't come crying meh to me

Kovu · 10-06-2012 05:44PM

johngalway wrote: »

If you get a bulls eye type bruise around the site of where you've been bitten don't come crying meh to me

I will not, I'll go crying to the doctor! Just picked another red-back off my leg. This is unreal, have not seen this amount in years.

johngalway · 10-06-2012 05:46PM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

I will not, I'll go crying to the doctor! Just picked another red-back off my leg. This is unreal, have not seen this amount in years.

Tell the doctor what it is, they likely won't have a clue

Strange, we were going through some lambs today and thought there's less ticks around this year than last.

whelan1 · 10-06-2012 06:37PM

good luck ireland:D had to put my bunting up 3 times today as my youngest kept pulling it down:mad:

1chippy · 10-06-2012 07:03PM

was watching a heifer to calve today. checked every two hours. got up this evening and found a spine and head left. something strippped it clean, cleanings and all.

johngalway · 10-06-2012 08:04PM

whelan1 wrote: »

good luck ireland:D had to put my bunting up 3 times today as my youngest kept pulling it down:mad:

The way things are going he might pull it down yet again tonight

I'm glad I stayed out on the farm long enough to miss most of the match :rolleyes:

Kovu · 10-06-2012 08:26PM

1chippy wrote: »

was watching a heifer to calve today. checked every two hours. got up this evening and found a spine and head left. something strippped it clean, cleanings and all.

Jebus:eek: Don't tell me more stories of big cats will appear.
Very strange though, unless it was a pack there aren't too many predators in Ire that will strip a calf in one night.

johngalway · 11-06-2012 12:22AM

Odd thought to post at this time of night but what better weather we're having compared to last years incessantly dull, wet misery of an affair.

Muckit · 11-06-2012 10:19AM

Little misty this morning, but has blown off. Baling at 1.30pm so hope no big showers before then :rolleyes:

Great growth the last few days

leg wax · 11-06-2012 10:31AM

putting in 14 acres in a pit after lunch,must be10 years since i had a pit of my own silage:rolleyes:.

Muckit · 11-06-2012 10:50AM

leg wax wrote: »

putting in 14 acres in a pit after lunch,must be10 years since i had a pit of my own silage:rolleyes:.

Is it a heavy crop? You'I have a nice sized pit

You can't beat a pit to keep costs down. Not making one this year and kinda half regretting it now, but tis good to change things around now and again.

What will you be using to feed it out, have you anything planned?

bob charles · 11-06-2012 12:27PM

stuck inside doing the nutrient management plan. talk about joining the dots together, little did we realize when the consequences when the IFA were stuffing their mouths, that the Nitrates directive would have.

KCTK · 11-06-2012 12:30PM

leg wax wrote: »

putting in 14 acres in a pit after lunch,must be10 years since i had a pit of my own silage:rolleyes:.

Cut 40 acres Saturday evening and going in to pit in next few hours, say at least 5 years here since last pit (sounds like confession!!!)

MfMan · 11-06-2012 02:35PM

KCTK wrote: »

Cut 40 acres Saturday evening and going in to pit in next few hours, say at least 5 years here since last pit (sounds like confession!!!)

Two types of farmers, those with pit, those who wish they had!!!!!

:D:D

snowman707 · 11-06-2012 05:20PM

leg wax wrote: »

putting in 14 acres in a pit after lunch,must be10 years since i had a pit of my own silage:rolleyes:.

KCTK wrote: »

Cut 40 acres Saturday evening and going in to pit in next few hours, say at least 5 years here since last pit (sounds like confession!!!)

my son mows for a guy with a fusion, he told me 3 of their customers have gone back to pit silage this season

bogman_bass · 11-06-2012 06:03PM

MfMan wrote: »

Two types of farmers, those with pit, those who wish they had!!!!! :D:D

I dont know about that! I'm pretty glad I wont have to come home from work this winter to face into rolling back a pit cover that had collapsed down the face of the pit

rancher · 12-06-2012 05:44AM

bob charles wrote: »

stuck inside doing the nutrient management plan. talk about joining the dots together, little did we realize when the consequences when the IFA were stuffing their mouths, that the Nitrates directive would have.

You're right....there should be no derogation....stocking rate of less than 170kg or else penalties.....were we foolish or what, trying to obtain a derogation from the EU while we were 'stuffing our mouths'

Muckit · 12-06-2012 02:58PM

bogman_bass wrote: »

I dont know about that! I'm pretty glad I wont have to come home from work this winter to face into rolling back a pit cover that had collapsed down the face of the pit

Simple answer to that one - stanley knife

Roll the bottom sheet on its own and the top sheets together. Cut the top sheets and leave the one bottom one intact if they fall down like that. It's easy horse back up one.

I'm really not looking forward to all the wet net and wraps we'I have around the yard this winter... and having to pay to dispose of it

whelan1 · 12-06-2012 05:31PM

hatched a few chicks last week in the incubator, they are in the house. Left the kitchen door open for a few minutes, yesterday, while i went out to get something and met the fooking cat with one of the chicks in her mouth when i was going back in:eek: Decided to catch the cat in the mink trap- shes half wild- and we brought her to our outfarm which is 2 miles away.Saw her there this morning. Was finishing up milking this evening, and there bold as brass is the cat

Pat the lad · 12-06-2012 06:36PM

whelan1 wrote: »

hatched a few chicks last week in the incubator, they are in the house. Left the kitchen door open for a few minutes, yesterday, while i went out to get something and met the fooking cat with one of the chicks in her mouth when i was going back in:eek: Decided to catch the cat in the mink trap- shes half wild- and we brought her to our outfarm which is 2 miles away.Saw her there this morning. Was finishing up milking this evening, and there bold as brass is the cat

remember giving a cat to a relation about 10 miles away from us when we were kids. we travelled at night and cat was in the boot, anyway cat was back in the yard the next evening!!!!!

Kovu · 12-06-2012 07:52PM

I have two mouser kits just about ready to go if anyone would like one. 9 weeks old and this morning at 7 am I opened the door to a kit with a mouse tail sticking out of her gob:eek:
(my Kovu got a bit active before I realised:o)

Juniorhurler · 12-06-2012 08:34PM

bogman_bass wrote: »

I dont know about that! I'm pretty glad I wont have to come home from work this winter to face into rolling back a pit cover that had collapsed down the face of the pit

Never mind that, I'm just in from covering the pit after work this evening. Soaked to the skin and as black as an angus off the tyres. 14 acres gone in with the same for the second cut. Have 13 acres ready for mowing for bales. We always like to have a few about so we don't have to open the pit until all stock are in and we're able to clean the face every few days.

Muckit · 13-06-2012 08:50AM

What are you doing on boards Whelan1?? There's a pit to be sealed!!

Out you go and horse up those tyres!!

whelan1 · 13-06-2012 08:52AM

Muckit wrote: »

What are you doing on boards Whelan1?? There's a pit to be sealed!!

Out you go and horse up those tyres!!

contractors came back at 7.15 amand covered the pit while i was milking.... raining now:D

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