Farming Chit Chat

johngalway · 12-07-2012 12:47PM

Forecast for here was rain in the afternoon. Was in the car, Angelus bells just came on as the drops started hitting the wind shield. How's that for an accurate forecast

bob charles · 12-07-2012 01:07PM

JohnBoy wrote: »

grrrrrrrr

Contractor too busy with grass for the last few days to spread fertiliser, finally came and did it last night, and now you're saying it's lashing down this morning.

god dammit.

perfect in my eyes unless you are on the side of a mountain. like a shot of heroin for plants

whelan1 · 12-07-2012 01:29PM

actually got a paddock topped today... sun still shining

Butcher Boy · 12-07-2012 04:25PM

:mad:good god have about 20 cows with baby calves about a weak old .will have to bring them in to nite .you should see them after last nites rain it would make you cry.

1chippy · 12-07-2012 09:18PM

pretty decent day here today. Even got a little sunburnt. I passed a couple of fields that were baled last night and they looked like they had been ploughed and then spread with slurry. up the road 200 yards and they they were in as good a nick as can be expected for the weather. really showed up the variations in the ground within an area.

JohnBoy · 12-07-2012 10:17PM

bob charles wrote: »

perfect in my eyes unless you are on the side of a mountain. like a shot of heroin for plants

Mountain is a bit of a strong word, but you'd sure feel the burn in the back of your legs walking up it.

The lads who took the silage this year brought a small loader with them to push the trailers up the hill.

hopefully some of it soaked in.

snowman707 · 13-07-2012 07:21AM

Pi$$ed out of the heavens all night long, and still coming down,

getting a quick cuppa and heading to the out farm to let the heifers into a field of after grass we had hoped to make bales of in a couple of weeks

whelan1 · 13-07-2012 07:35AM

snowman707 wrote: »

Pi$$ed out of the heavens all night long, and still coming down,

getting a quick cuppa and heading to the out farm to let the heifers into a field of after grass we had hoped to make bales of in a couple of weeks

thats what it has been like here for the last few weeks... totally depressing:mad:

Muckit · 13-07-2012 08:57AM

Temps are supposed to rise next week and the showers not supposed to be as frequent. Fingers and toes crossed

I was clearing out my pile of old IFJ's ans was looking at a pic from May this year where a lad got to save Hay. He said the last time he saved hay in May was back about 40years ago and that it rained for 6weeks non stop after that...... history repeating itself ....

pakalasa · 13-07-2012 09:03AM

I remember reading that. Make Hay while the sun shines !!!!

bob charles · 13-07-2012 09:03AM

"Tis down for the day"

On a more uplifting note, just watching the calf who lost his mum about three weeks ago walking in out of the fields and going about 150m to eat some of the finishing cattles grub in the feed passage, smart f*cker

Kovu · 13-07-2012 10:45AM

Mowing here today:D

Also managed to dye my hair a form of orange yesterday......it would happen on the day that was in it!!:pac:

lakill Farm · 13-07-2012 02:03PM

next door mowed 15 acres at 9am and is baling now.

I walked 12 acres i hope to pull slurry out onto. If it comes right ill let fly with it sunday morning:rolleyes:

leg wax · 13-07-2012 02:29PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=4mBxSOl2mL8 well done bordbia.

reilig · 13-07-2012 02:32PM

leg wax wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=4mBxSOl2mL8 well done bordbia.

here here

Bizzum · 13-07-2012 04:26PM

leg wax wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=4mBxSOl2mL8 well done bordbia.

Some paper trail and button pushing goes on to satisify traceability. Rightly so.
I noticed one farmer in Moyvore crept through the name blanking out process.

Muckit · 13-07-2012 05:26PM

lakill Farm wrote: »

I walked 12 acres i hope to pull slurry out onto. If it comes right ill let fly with it sunday morning:rolleyes:

Indian curry saturday night so?

Muckit · 13-07-2012 09:17PM

splashplate or trailing shoe Iakill?

Muckit · 13-07-2012 09:39PM

leg wax wrote: »

well done bordbia.

And well done to those farmers featured in the charolais, BB, limousin videos. Serious quality uniform stock and excellent grass/clover.

Anyone know any of the lads that had their stock featured?

pakalasa · 14-07-2012 09:54AM

"Irish farmers should face facts and prepare for an end to the live cattle export trade, Green MEP Ms Patricia McKenna said yesterday."

From, Year 2004;
http://friendsoftheirishenvironment.net/paperstoday/index.php?action=view&id=3473

johngalway · 14-07-2012 10:18AM

The irony of an MEP giving out about live exports, sure didn't we export her too

johngalway · 14-07-2012 10:20AM

(Apologies, this isn't farming related but some might enjoy it if it turns up!)

Apparently the effects of a "coronal mass ejection" from the sun will reach the Earth from 7pm tonight. Hopefully it'll put on a decent light show.

The weather forecast (bold words for here I know) is promising for somewhat clear skies.

http://www.facebook.com/AstronomyIRL

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/13/solar-storm-expected-to-hit-earth-on-saturday/?hpt=hp_t2

whelan1 · 14-07-2012 08:18PM

crappy day today, one of the kids up all night with kidney infection, temperature peaked at 39.9:eek::eek: trip to out of hours doc €60 and medicine €46! cows are still in at night, one of them went down in cubicle shed during the night , she was bulling last night, had to lift her out this morning... 50/50 chance she will stand again... was going out with digger to lift her again this evening, had a bucket of silage another one of meal and a drum of water in front bucket of digger, stopped digger to open gap in to paddock, it wouldnt start when i got back in:eek: got it started loader wouldnt lift... hardy spicer had broken on the live drive to the hydraulics:mad:... 4pm on a saturday evening ffs, with a total lack of sleep the night before... local jcb dealer had had a bad accident a few weeks ago and is still in hospital... eventually got the part and a neighbour fixed it up for me

1chippy · 14-07-2012 09:37PM

Remember whelan those bad days make the good ones feel so much better. i tried to think of that yesterday evening while i was cutting a weanling out of a gate with a consaw. (gate not animal for any activists reading this)

Muckit · 14-07-2012 10:05PM

1chippy wrote: »

i tried to think of that yesterday evening while i was cutting a weanling out of a gate with a consaw.

While driving the roads I'd often spot gates bent in a hoop or with a big bow in the top and I'd ponder what the f**k happened it......I'd do some head scratching if I came across your gate!!

Mac Taylor · 14-07-2012 10:28PM

Have one of those gates, bowed in the middle due to a 5yr old CH bull who figured he could clear the gate. He landed in the middle of it and then tipped himself forward. Shortly afterwards he was on the menu in Super£acs:D

1chippy · 14-07-2012 10:59PM

took the gate with her off the hangers and the main problem was trying to hold her down. you wouldnt believe how entangled she was.cutting bars that were wrapped round her legs when she was moving wasnt easy. A lad who worKs for me is getting a week upgrading all gates and barriers next week. Had planned to do it any way, but so much more on the list to do, it made me prioritise a bit better.

Kovu · 14-07-2012 11:12PM

You'd be surprised how well a towel/sheet across the eyes and cotton wool in the ears works with that. Our weanling gates to the lying area of our shed are no more :rolleyes:
How we learned- Consaw + sparks + Lim heifer......enjoyable day.

dar31 · 14-07-2012 11:58PM

enough with the rain, for f**k's sake

the fun has gone out of it altogether

looking out the window at the cows in the field out side this evening, thinking where the f**k will i put ye Monday morning

some one please

bob charles · 15-07-2012 12:06AM

dar31 wrote: »

enough with the rain, for f**k's sake

the fun has gone out of it altogether

looking out the window at the cows in the field out side this evening, thinking where the f**k will i put ye Monday morning

some one please

cheer up man, there is no money to be made from dust, wherever there is water there's money.

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