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  • #5072
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Looks like we're not the only ones missing JG
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056720926&pp=15&page=1

    Let's hope he's reading and comes back in a new guise


  • #5073
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    On a more serious matter...............

    Does anyone know a handy way to get the glue and mart sticker off a beasts back?

    i bought a few nice bbxlim heifers and want to tidy them up without leavin a hole in the hide.

    A couple of days of this weather might melt the glue???


  • #5074
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    On a more serious matter...............

    Does anyone know a handy way to get the glue and mart sticker off a beasts back?

    i bought a few nice bbxlim heifers and want to tidy them up without leavin a hole in the hide.

    A couple of days of this weather might melt the glue???

    your not thinking of showing them in a mart again in a few days are you:roll eyes:, If you are keeping the animals the stamps will lift off in a week or so if the animal is thriving. Otherwise a animal hair comb and hot water was the way it used to be done. Havnt done it for years mind. Drives me nuts to see some guy after putting a heap of glue on an animals back to hold on the stickers. The new type stickers are a great job.


  • #5075
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Ta Bob.
    No Ill be keeping these ladies, but a very nosey chap down the road will hit me with the usual 20 questions on seeing the stickers!:o


  • #5076
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Ta Bob.
    No Ill be keeping these ladies, but a very nosey chap down the road will hit me with the usual 20 questions on seeing the stickers!:o

    tell him they were running in the "track and FIELD" in london :rolleyes:


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  • #5077
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Ta Bob.
    No Ill be keeping these ladies, but a very nosey chap down the road will hit me with the usual 20 questions on seeing the stickers!:o

    I find that with lads like that it's much more fun to spin them one. Wind them up and off they go, see how long it takes to get back to you.


  • #5078
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    bbam wrote: »
    I find that with lads like that it's much more fun to spin them one. Wind them up and off they go, see how long it takes to get back to you.

    Believe me I've told this buck every blatant lie and spun him the most fantastic yarns but you couldnt insult him :rolleyes:

    Bought a young charolais bull a couple of years ago that brought all bull calves the first year...of course he was on the case straight away...told him I got the vet to clamp his right stone because the left one was male and this year I needed replacements so I was going to do the opposite....!


  • #5079
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    FarmerBrowne wrote: »
    Anyone in Elphin yesterday? There was apparently 40 pens of weinlings booked in, any idea what the trade was like?

    I didnt hear but last sat week I was in Dowra. 400kg ch bull weanlings very nice yellow types not overpushed 900 to 950e.
    seller was disgusted.


  • #5080
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    SOme amount of silage knocked in the last 18 hours round here. If the weather holds there'll be some amount of stuff wrapped up by Saturday evening.

    I know a few lads who are pulling their hair out at this stage, hopefully these few days will ease the pressure.


  • #5081
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    22 acres ready if only the weather was:mad:.new grass seeds will now have to be cut have not been in the field since it was set in march, we did spray weeds but more have come back. a well:pac:


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  • #5082
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Ta Bob.
    No Ill be keeping these ladies, but a very nosey chap down the road will hit me with the usual 20 questions on seeing the stickers!:o
    Tell him you bought them from a dealer from N.I. and you know nothing else about them. That'll get him going. As an uncle of mine says about nosey parkers "tell them lies" ;)


  • #5083
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    30 acres to cut down myself this evening, please god i get it in by saturday!


  • #5084
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    I didnt hear but last sat week I was in Dowra. 400kg ch bull weanlings very nice yellow types not overpushed 900 to 950e.
    seller was disgusted.
    sold 2 part bulls on sat in new ross 455kgs 1055euro,i was very happy.


  • #5085
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    leg wax wrote: »
    sold 2 part bulls on sat in new ross 455kgs 1055euro,i was very happy.

    Heard that the previous Saturday, there was a large selection of weanlings there with lots of quality on show too.


  • #5086
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    leg wax wrote: »
    sold 2 part bulls on sat in new ross 455kgs 1055euro,i was very happy.

    Good to hear yours are still breaking the €1,000 mark. I'd a LM bull entered in ennis yesterday but decided to hold him and squeezed him instead


  • #5087
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    just do it wrote: »
    Good to hear yours are still breaking the €1,000 mark. I'd a LM bull entered in ennis yesterday but decided to hold him and squeezed him instead

    you decided to hold and squeeze him? what did Mrs Do It have to say about that?:D


  • #5088
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    just do it wrote: »
    Good to hear yours are still breaking the €1,000 mark. I'd a LM bull entered in ennis yesterday but decided to hold him and squeezed him instead

    you decided to hold and squeeze him? what did Mrs Do It have to say about that?:D
    What she doesn't know won't hurt her ;)


  • #5089
    Hay_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Hay_man


    John is still posting on the BFF

    http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=72402

    Spotted this one today


  • #5090
    johnpawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭johnpawl


    leg wax wrote: »
    sold 2 part bulls on sat in new ross 455kgs 1055euro,i was very happy.

    I've a few part bulls myself, they wont be that quality though. When were yours born? Eat alot of meal?


  • #5091
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    johnpawl wrote: »
    I've a few part bulls myself, they wont be that quality though. When were yours born? Eat alot of meal?
    sept 18th and 25th i think,yes they were on add lib finishing what was left in the bin since 16th june


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  • #5092
    tismesoitis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭tismesoitis


    sold 4 bb heifers in carnaross last tuesday night all august sept born heres how they went...400kgs €960 435kgs €960 480kgs €1160 435kgs €1030. 1st 3 heifers were wkf last one was an rsw. happy enough but thought we'd get a bit more trade definatly slipping. Btw delighted to hear the good money for the parts we'l have our first bulls for sale in or around november.

    on the sudject of the parthenais has anyone calved part heifers yet?? I'm thinking ours look a little narrow in the rump?? Have 7 now so goin to see how they go before using any more.


  • #5093
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Anyone get a letter from the dep of ag stating that they had overclaimed on a land parcel? There's supposed to be a ball of them out in the last week?

    I got one. They sent back maps of 2 land parcels which I had spent a lot of money cleaning scrub from last october. My planner had amended the maps yet they sent me back maps which still show the scrub in place and do not show my planner's amendments. They completely ignored the details that he editied in the maps - I'm furious. I paid good money to have those amendments done, and now I have to do it again. Just off the phone with the planner who says that any amendments that planners made to maps were ignored and maps sent back as if the amendments had never been made.

    Talk about wasting money!!!


  • #5094
    gav86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭gav86


    reilig wrote: »

    Talk about wasting money!!!

    Do you know were the ammendments done with red pen on the map or on the new online system?
    Did you not get a copy?


  • #5095
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    tismesoitis wrote: »
    sold 4 bb heifers in carnaross last tuesday night all august sept born heres how they went...400kgs €960 435kgs €960 480kgs €1160 435kgs €1030. 1st 3 heifers were wkf last one was an rsw. happy enough but thought we'd get a bit more trade definatly slipping. Btw delighted to hear the good money for the parts we'l have our first bulls for sale in or around november.

    on the sudject of the parthenais has anyone calved part heifers yet?? I'm thinking ours look a little narrow in the rump?? Have 7 now so goin to see how they go before using any more.

    they must have been nice heifers to make those prices, fair play


  • #5096
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    gav86 wrote: »
    Do you know were the ammendments done with red pen on the map or on the new online system?
    Did you not get a copy?

    They were done with a red pen on the map. I did an online application, but there was no facility for to make amendments to the map online. He gave the map to me, I took a copy. Then I posted it off to the dep of ag. I got a digital receipt for it from them on my agfood account. Yet they still went and sent me out last years maps again which I have to amend for a second time in 4 months. They completely ignored the amendments made to the maps that I sent in with the application and sent me out more maps as if to ask me "are you sure you actually cleared the scrub from this land". Of course I'm f****ng sure. Isn't that why I sent you the amended map in the first place. These guys are just trying to make work for themselves. I'll bet I won't see any SFP until after christmas because they will have a delay in digitising this or something !!!!


  • #5097
    gav86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭gav86


    reilig wrote: »
    They were done with a red pen on the map. I did an online application, but there was no facility for to make amendments to the map online. He gave the map to me, I took a copy. Then I posted it off to the dep of ag. I got a digital receipt for it from them on my agfood account. Yet they still went and sent me out last years maps again which I have to amend for a second time in 4 months. They completely ignored the amendments made to the maps that I sent in with the application and sent me out more maps as if to ask me "are you sure you actually cleared the scrub from this land". Of course I'm f****ng sure. Isn't that why I sent you the amended map in the first place. These guys are just trying to make work for themselves. I'll bet I won't see any SFP until after christmas because they will have a delay in digitising this or something !!!!

    Ah they are a torture alright but nothing stopping you sending in the copy again (or your planner sending it in) with a note saying that this is the change that needs to be made!! No need to red line the map or re-measure again.
    There was a facility online this year for the first year to make amendments to maps but maybe it wasnt available to farmers and was just available to advisers.


  • #5098
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    gav86 wrote: »
    Ah they are a torture alright but nothing stopping you sending in the copy again (or your planner sending it in) with a note saying that this is the change that needs to be made!! No need to red line the map or re-measure again.
    There was a facility online this year for the first year to make amendments to maps but maybe it wasnt available to farmers and was just available to advisers.

    What I have is just a photocopy of the satelite image map to which the advisor made the changes. its probably easier for me to just draw in the new lines again on the new map and sent it off to them as the photocopy is just black and white.


  • #5099
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    I also cleared off scrub last year, which entitled me to amend my maps and claim a bit more.
    However I knew well the system would go into meltdown dealing with a bit of extra work in the office, so I decided to forego the extra few bob, and didn't amend the map.
    At least I might get my money on schedule!

    There is no doubt but anything which entails dealing with any government service, comes with pain and punishment for joe citizen.


  • #5100
    gav86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭gav86


    reilig wrote: »
    What I have is just a photocopy of the satelite image map to which the advisor made the changes. its probably easier for me to just draw in the new lines again on the new map and sent it off to them as the photocopy is just black and white.

    Probably the best idea, if the copy was colour and visible i'd just send that in but if you don't mind re-doing it then just copy what was done before basically, shouldn't take too long. Would the planner not do it as part of the original deal?


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  • #5101
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    gav86 wrote: »
    Probably the best idea, if the copy was colour and visible i'd just send that in but if you don't mind re-doing it then just copy what was done before basically, shouldn't take too long. Would the planner not do it as part of the original deal?

    The planner is swamped at the moment and it would be a week before he could get to me. He said that a load of these have come back to him - even the ones that he did online. They also have come back for 2 other planners who dealth with this last april who have now moved on so he has to deal with that too. He says that every planner he knows has had them sent back to them also. The letter that came with it says that there will be no delay in payment if it is returned within 7 days. So I asked the planner what I should do, he said just get out the red pen and do what he did and write a note with it.


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