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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #4892
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,471 ✭✭✭naughto


    he looks fuc1ked

    wrong thread


  • #4893
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    I thought you didn't take advice or opinion from the net?:D
    i dont take vetenary/medical advice from the internet- this is a totally different situation


  • #4894
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just do it wrote: »
    Whelan1
    I'm just thinking of the compare and contrast between this neighbour of yours and the other one a few days back :rolleyes:. It's a funny old world :D
    differnce is this guy has lived here all his life she is a blow in


  • #4895
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    bbam wrote: »
    Got a call earlier from silage contractor.. In the afternoon providing he has no breaks.. About 80 bales to cut/bale/wrap so I can see a late night on the cards. Praying the weather holds, we've had a few showers earlier but nothing much.. Rang home, 20 miles away, and it's been dry and sunny all morning..
    )


    Contractor arrived at half seven yesterday evening. We'd had no rain to speak off so all was well. Fields were a little tramped but didn't cut up at all so were very happy with that. Got them all drawn in last night but i didn't get done until half two. Rain here all morning so glad to have it in the yard. ;)


  • #4896
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bbam wrote: »
    bbam wrote: »
    Got a call earlier from silage contractor.. In the afternoon providing he has no breaks.. About 80 bales to cut/bale/wrap so I can see a late night on the cards. Praying the weather holds, we've had a few showers earlier but nothing much.. Rang home, 20 miles away, and it's been dry and sunny all morning..
    )


    Contractor arrived at half seven yesterday evening. We'd had no rain to speak off so all was well. Fields were a little tramped but didn't cut up at all so were very happy with that. Got them all drawn in last night but i didn't get done until half two. Rain here all morning so glad to have it in the yard. ;)
    Well done bbam, you can relax today!


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  • #4897
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Just down from the hill, was looking for 11, got 3. The less sheep, the harder to bring. Was dodging showers, there's a few about today!


  • #4898
    red menace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    Sad news from home this week, a neighbour was killed when he fell down between bales while trying to get a calf out of the bales


  • #4899
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    milkman comes here every other day around 4am- suits us fine as theres no kids in the yard:rolleyes:- this morning he blew his horn:eek: i got up assuming there was something wrong, no he just hit off the horn:rolleyes: but theres nothing better than going back to bed knowing you still can have a few more hours kip- before ye start with the smart comments i sleep with the youngest child who sleep walks:o


  • #4900
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    milkman comes here every other day around 4am- suits us fine as theres no kids in the yard:rolleyes:- this morning he blew his horn:eek: i got up assuming there was something wrong, no he just hit off the horn:rolleyes: but theres nothing better than going back to bed knowing you still can have a few more hours kip- before ye start with the smart comments i sleep with the youngest child who sleep walks:o

    I both sleep walk/talk. Countless times I've been yapping away about whose cattle were whose.And sleepwalk in strange houses. Not fun at all when you wake up!


  • #4901
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I both sleep walk/talk. Countless times I've been yapping away about whose cattle were whose.And sleepwalk in strange houses. Not fun at all when you wake up!
    was very very sick when i was around 12 years of age -mumps and scarlet fever together- had hallucinations and everything anyway my main concern was that calf 110 had its scour tablet :cool: doctor really thought i was gone mad... my youngest who is 4 could go anywhere during he night so i just sleep in with him so i know where he is


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  • #4902
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    red menace wrote: »
    Sad news from home this week, a neighbour was killed when he fell down between bales while trying to get a calf out of the bales

    I read that in the paper yesterday. Suspected the unfortunate man suffered a heart attack or some such, trying to remove a calf trapped between bales.


  • #4903
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Not fun at all when you wake up!

    Depends entirely on WHERE you wake up;)


  • #4904
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    was very very sick when i was around 12 years of age -mumps and scarlet fever together- had hallucinations and everything anyway my main concern was that calf 110 had its scour tablet :cool: doctor really thought i was gone mad... my youngest who is 4 could go anywhere during he night so i just sleep in with him so i know where he is

    The way I normally sleep, a bomb could pass over me and I'd grunt.
    If I know a cow is near sick of calving, a mouse would wake me. Anyone else like that? Probably the worst was waking up in the hayshed after feeding a calf......the walk home seemed a bit much to my asleep mind I guess.:o


  • #4905
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    The way I normally sleep, a bomb could pass over me and I'd grunt.
    If I know a cow is near sick of calving, a mouse would wake me. Anyone else like that? Probably the worst was waking up in the hayshed after feeding a calf......the walk home seemed a bit much to my asleep mind I guess.:o
    hang on john a sec, she now grunts,maybe we will let alone for a other day.:D


  • #4906
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭Figerty


    This year has been great for finding springs in the boggy ground... walking the land this evening and could fell the land floating under me....stuck a shovel in the ground and there it was!

    Out with the digger and opened and drain..will take a while to get the ground dried out enough to travel.


  • #4907
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Depends entirely on WHERE you wake up;)

    Woke up asleep in my wardrobe once, the other odd place would be when watching a cow sick to calve at 2am, go to sit in the hay, BAM, fall asleep. Wake up wondering where the fook I was.
    leg wax wrote: »
    hang on john a sec, she now grunts,maybe we will let alone for a other day.:D

    :pac:


  • #4908
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    I was working away from home a few years back and sharing a hotel room with another lad. he woke up to find me disconnecting the cistern of the toilet in my sleep. At that stage i had moved a heap of furniture aswell.

    On another occasion in Aus the lad sharing the room woke up with me peeing on his head.

    Needless to say he moved rooms that day.
    i meant to say both while sleepwalking (not just randomly)


  • #4909
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Sold one of my bulls today. Well did the deal anyway and have the deposit. Have to keep him for 4 weeks, test him and ring him for the buyer. No halter training or washing. He's only 11 months wohoo!


  • #4910
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    reilig wrote: »
    Sold one of my bulls today. Well did the deal anyway and have the deposit. Have to keep him for 4 weeks, test him and ring him for the buyer. No halter training or washing. He's only 11 months wohoo!

    Was that the nice shapey bull you had up in the photo thread?


  • #4911
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    got my dry cows back out today! hopefully out for good now, put spot on and tar on them on the way out


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  • #4912
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Majority of cattle back in the shed here :(


  • #4913
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Four hours in the hill looking for 7, found four. By the time I found them I hadn't time to bring them in, but at least know where abouts they are now.


  • #4914
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/3086165

    Saw this and it got me thinking, there must still be plenty of sucks at the marts down south where these guys are buying..

    We sold some stock recently and if sucks were good value I'd buy some in..

    Anyone any suggestions of marts where they are being bought? I'd rather go to the mar myself and cut out the middleman if possible :)


  • #4915
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    bbam wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/3086165

    Saw this and it got me thinking, there must still be plenty of sucks at the marts down south where these guys are buying..

    We sold some stock recently and if sucks were good value I'd buy some in..

    Anyone any suggestions of marts where they are being bought? I'd rather go to the mar myself and cut out the middleman if possible :)



    I notice all prices quoted are preceded by the word "from" need to see the stock what you are getting

    the calves shown look fresh and unlike if they have been through a mart, could be farmer sourced

    Kilmallock, Ennis and Bandon would be of the big calf sales in the spring don't know waht kind of numbers @ this time of year.


  • #4916
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    bbam wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/3086165

    Saw this and it got me thinking, there must still be plenty of sucks at the marts down south where these guys are buying..

    We sold some stock recently and if sucks were good value I'd buy some in..

    Anyone any suggestions of marts where they are being bought? I'd rather go to the mar myself and cut out the middleman if possible :)

    doubt you will pick up calves much cheaper than those boys. look well looked after and over allot of their troubles. I would be buying on the understanding they are free of BVD, something that doesn't come at a mart. Its funny I buy a few products through middle men and if I dealt direct I would be paying more. There buying such bulk they are able to sell cheaper than me buying my small quantity. Same with grain, I can buy it cheaper of a merchant than of a farmer


  • #4917
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    fooking pricks robbed my elderly neighbours this evening............. really pissed off, in broad daylight .... the old man has a heart condition and she is unwell.... neighbour on the other side has cctv so looking through that now.... :mad:


  • #4918
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    whelan1 wrote: »
    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

    Any connection? Hope your neighbour is ok and these bastards are caught...


  • #4919
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Any connection? Hope your neighbour is ok and these bastards are caught...
    no ,no connection .... they have a partial reg of the car... the old lady had a box in her wardrobe they took that, bloody dog that goes mental everytime i visit them, never even whimpered:rolleyes:


  • #4920
    Butcher Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    Hi bbam there was 360 calves n bandon today.they were a good trade there.


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  • #4921
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bbam wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/3086165

    Saw this and it got me thinking, there must still be plenty of sucks at the marts down south where these guys are buying..

    We sold some stock recently and if sucks were good value I'd buy some in..

    Anyone any suggestions of marts where they are being bought? I'd rather go to the mar myself and cut out the middleman if possible :)

    How about calling a few of your local dairy farmers? You'd know the ones you'd like to buy off and it could become an ongoing thing.


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