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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #4802
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    pissing down here now.... the first night i let the cows out for the night:mad::mad:


  • #4803
    Atilathehun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    whelan1 wrote: »
    pissing down here now.... the first night i let the cows out for the night:mad::mad:

    You shouldn't have listened to whoever advised you to let them out!!!


  • #4804
    Atilathehun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    whelan1 wrote: »
    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Conditions are perfect for meningitis. But it could something else.
    call me old fashioned or stupid but i would prefer to get a diagnosis from a qualified vet rather than some one i have never even met:rolleyes:

    But you are not old fashioned!! -:)


  • #4805
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Atilathehun wrote: »
    But you are not old fashioned!! -:)
    am sick of threads on here with people giving diagnosis- at the end of the day the vet should be your first port of call , not your fellow boardies


  • #4806
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    johngalway wrote: »
    It's dry out :eek: I'll put the lifejacket back under the stairs.


    utter deluge here from 3.00 to 6.00 ..unreal the amount of water that fell,

    on a side note John, do you know if the Brennan Sisters are still performing to gether, ? saw them at a sharon shannon gig a few years back, very talented family.


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  • #4807
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Can't say I know who they are :confused:


  • #4808
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    T-shirt off out in the sun today, got home and nearly blowing water bubbles with all the rain there is. Yes to Odelay i was in the frack. Loved it down there, but couldnt face a life of farming round it.


  • #4809
    Atilathehun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    Been using ivermectin injections of one kind or another now for a good few years, in the fight against worms etc,
    Decided to change to a white dose just to break the cycle. Dosed the whole lot except the cows this evening. It's a nightmare tring to catch some of the hoor, and then get the shot into them.
    Injections so much easier on man and beast. Used Endospec.


  • #4810
    J DEERE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭J DEERE


    Atilathehun wrote: »
    Been using ivermectin injections of one kind or another now for a good few years, in the fight against worms etc,
    Decided to change to a white dose just to break the cycle. Dosed the whole lot except the cows this evening. It's a nightmare tring to catch some of the hoor, and then get the shot into them.
    Injections so much easier on man and beast. Used Endospec.

    Tis many a day I skinned my knuckles giving a white dose :D


  • #4811
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭dar31


    anyone ever get their meal/ration tested for quality.
    got 4 t of meal that looked liked it was swept off the floor.

    how do you go about getting it tested???


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  • #4812
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    dar31 wrote: »
    anyone ever get their meal/ration tested for quality.
    got 4 t of meal that looked liked it was swept off the floor.

    how do you go about getting it tested???
    send a sample to oldcastle laboratories.. we did it a few years ago afair they are allowed a 10% tolerance level , i think our crowd where well over that... if its coarse meal its harder to get an accurate result than nuts.... think it was around €35 but this was a few years ago


  • #4813
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    It turned out a fantastic late evening so I went out for an hour or so with my weed wiper, die rushes, die!


  • #4814
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    johngalway wrote: »
    It turned out a fantastic late evening so I went out for an hour or so with my weed wiper, die rushes, die!

    It's gas the difference 30/40 miles can make. It's been making a heavy drizel here right up until now. :mad:

    At least I'm saving a fortune on suncream:D


  • #4815
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    It's gas the difference 30/40 miles can make. It's been making a heavy drizel here right up until now. :mad:

    At least I'm saving a fortune on suncream:D

    There's a line, it moves but not too much, somewhere between Oughterard and Maam Cross. You can start the day in Galway with blue skies, and by the time you're nearing Maam Cross it's grey, or vice versa.

    Bear in mind though, it piddled down here most of the day, and I do mean proper rain. Got my hit of blue skies this evening :D I was starting to figure out how a junkie feels going cold turkey :D


  • #4816
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    snowman707 wrote: »
    utter deluge here from 3.00 to 6.00 ..unreal the amount of water that fell,

    on a side note John, do you know if the Brennan Sisters are still performing to gether, ? saw them at a sharon shannon gig a few years back, very talented family.
    They are good alright , two of them used to be barmaids in my local a few years ago and a few of us used to go into town on a sunday evening to listen to them . I presume they are still playing together but i havent seen them in awhile ,since I had kids my time is limited for that kind of craic :D


  • #4817
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Dry here this morning and looks like it may be a dry day :)


  • #4818
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    just do it wrote: »
    Dry here this morning and looks like it may be a dry day :)

    still spitting here and much cooler, cows were covered in sh1te this morn, must have sheltered during the night
    moy83 wrote: »
    They are good alright , two of them used to be barmaids in my local a few years ago and a few of us used to go into town on a sunday evening to listen to them . I presume they are still playing together but i havent seen them in awhile ,since I had kids my time is limited for that kind of craic :D

    been there done that , my kids are all reared now ,

    thinking of hitting away for few days and taking in a few C&W sessions


  • #4819
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    Just learned of Paddy's death

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0725/1224320764502.html

    a truly great voice for farmers, a successful farmer, politician and sportsman

    condolences to his family


  • #4820
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    RIP - I met him once, just a few words at the mart one day. Thought he was a real gentleman.


  • #4821
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I'm sure he was. I don't know if I'm showing my age, my ignorance, or both.... but I never heard of the man :o


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  • #4822
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    not a farming topic but a bit of a warning- was in doctors with 1 of the kids yesterday, had a long wait, waiting room was full.... there where 2 old dears having a good gossip, couldnt not listen in... anyway they where talking about an elderly man who had just gone in to the doc... they said out loud, where he lives, that he lives on his own , that he goes to the graveyard everynight from half 7 to half 8..... :eek: now unbeknown to them the was 1 of the local scumbags in the waiting room.... so this guy had gotten a bag full of info from just listening to these 2 old ones.... then they wonder why their house is robbed


  • #4823
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    There's a reason for the saying "whatever you say, say nothin" and there's even a song about it.


  • #4824
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    johngalway wrote: »
    There's a reason for the saying "whatever you say, say nothin" and there's even a song about it.
    yup. felt like telling them to shut up....


  • #4825
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    whelan1 wrote: »
    yup. felt like telling them to shut up....

    women :D


  • #4826
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    yup. felt like telling them to shut up....

    Like they used to say in the war.
    "loose lips sink ships"


  • #4827
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    I have spent the last six months trying to beat the build up of sh*t round the yard.Finally beat it today, i know it will be all dirtied again the next time they go through the yard but i finally have every last shed and slab powerhosed. felt great getting that last bit done. Now has anyone any recommendations on a really good but reasonably priced disenfectant. Had a case of joint ail and a few with pneumonia this year and hoping not to let it reappear next year.


  • #4828
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    My apologies, this isn't farming related but....

    179985_3449626128021_1535766596_n.jpg


  • #4829
    huey1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭huey1975


    I did a caesarean for a client on Monday night on a springer that he bought supposedly in calf to a limousin bull. She had a uterine torsion and a massive blue bull calf. I called today to see how they were keeping. Farmer was telling me that he sold twin bullocks today 445 kg at €1230 at about 17 months. The mother of the twins has been on his farm for eight years and had fourteen calves (13 bulls and 1 heifer) and all made it to sale. Surely some sort of a record


  • #4830
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    fantastic day here:D


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  • #4831
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    fantastic day here:D

    Yep..
    Rainfall radar looks nice and clear all over..

    http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp


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