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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #5402
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    In hosp again. Thank f**k I thought of the laptop this time.


  • #5403
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    bloody hell its after making a flash flood here in a 5 min spell

    Mind you dont get swept to lahinch :D


  • #5404
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Mind you dont get swept to lahinch :D

    no the flood waters didnt quite make it up the hill, i still got a good soaking though :D


  • #5405
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    In hosp again. Thank f**k I thought of the laptop this time.
    look after yourself...


  • #5406
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    leg wax wrote: »
    part cow went 305 days, big dead calf a smell off him after he came out the side, hope the cow will be alright a bit worried as calf was smelly.
    Jeez sorry to hear it legs, hope the cow pulls through for you


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  • #5407
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    unreal morning, pissing rain, was a young calf missing so walked the place in lashing rain, no sign, spent over an hour looking for it, then went back to shed and it was there all the time:cool: i had posted 8 bvd tag samples last tuesday and i would normally get the results on friday, no sign so i rang enfer,want to bring some of them to mart tomorrow, they never got them:eek: fookity fook, had visions of having to re order tags for them ... then they rang me back and they had found them:D thank god will have results this evening... then brought kids to town as a treat before going to school, put my hand in my pocket to pay , no visa card:eek::eek: had visions of some scanger going on holidays on my card, was deciding if i would cancel it or not after turning the house upside down when i found it under the keyboard of the computer... phew!

    Can I ask how the calves sold or did you make it to the mart. We're there many calves on offer and how we're calf prices in general? I'm in the market and wondering how prices are looking
    Cheers


  • #5408
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bbam wrote: »
    Can I ask how the calves sold or did you make it to the mart. We're there many calves on offer and how we're calf prices in general? I'm in the market and wondering how prices are looking
    Cheers
    Bbam
    Is it tricky getting genuine BF crosses with the amount of holstein breeding in the national dairy herd?


  • #5409
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    just do it wrote: »
    Bbam
    Is it tricky getting genuine BF crosses with the amount of holstein breeding in the national dairy herd?

    Yea.
    Everything is called a BF cross until you see it, some lads seem to have very boney BF cows!


  • #5410
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,470 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    the Tipp/Kilkenny area is the palce to go for BF cows. Probably down to being the main catchment area of Dovea


  • #5411
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bbam wrote: »
    Can I ask how the calves sold or did you make it to the mart. We're there many calves on offer and how we're calf prices in general? I'm in the market and wondering how prices are looking
    Cheers
    34 calves in the sale, i brought 4, got 150 for 2 and 100 for 2, very hard sold:o a friend was buying calves bought a nice whitehead heifer a month old for €320, a ch heifer for 250 and blue heifer for 300,... most fr bulls around 100, angis heifer around 150


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  • #5412
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    the Tipp/Kilkenny area is the palce to go for BF cows. Probably down to being the main catchment area of Dovea

    There are hard got, when I was in dairying I tried to avoid holstein breeding, but a lot of my cows would have some holstein blood in them, maybe 5-10% even though they are half angus! This was from using dovea (fr?) bulls always.

    I think the only way you'll get genuine british fresians is from someone who had their own bulls and were breeding pedigrees.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #5413
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    we picked up a good few lim out of bf this year. they were very hard got. the two farmers i bought off were the only two round here with the bf herds. both were more traditional dairy herds. I bought a couple through the mart too and you can really see the diference as they go on. reckon more holstein in them.


  • #5414
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Lashing here, sitting in the car waiting for it to pass. Cows in again but hopefully only for 2 days.


  • #5415
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    just do it wrote: »
    Lashing here, sitting in the car waiting for it to pass. Cows in again but hopefully only for 2 days.

    yep a few days fine weather promised but they would want to be fairly good after this morning..


  • #5416
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    yep a few days fine weather promised but they would want to be fairly good after this morning..
    not raining here yet:rolleyes:


  • #5417
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    After having 2 hours of thunder and lightning here as well as a big cloudburst last night :(


  • #5418
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Some fine weather on the way folks;
    http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/avnpanel1.html


  • #5419
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Serious serious rain in the West lastnight... and letting it down still ;-(


  • #5420
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    sun splitting the stones here, unreal, sweat running off me :D please keep the rain down there


  • #5421
    Butcher Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    lashing down here in west cork.and not looking good for tte rest of the weak.


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  • #5422
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    http://thestory.ie/2012/08/29/european-commission-review-of-irelands-bailout-programme/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

    page 52 onwards if people want to see where the country is heading,

    the auld phrase of "tough times don't last, tough people do" comes to mind


  • #5423
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Bob i'm trying to live in my own little bubble and here you come and throw in a heap of politics. I'm not going to even bother giving my opinion on whats written on it.


  • #5424
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    bob charles wrote: »
    http://thestory.ie/2012/08/29/european-commission-review-of-irelands-bailout-programme/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

    page 52 onwards if people want to see where the country is heading,

    the auld phrase of "bought times don't last, tough people do" comes to mind

    Had a glimse through it. Tough times ahead alright. "Value-Based" property tax....pg 61. Funny how the same people that flooded the country with cheap money, are now the ones telling us to get our house in order. We are no longer a soverign state.


  • #5425
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Had a glimse through it. Tough times ahead alright. "Value-Based" property tax....pg 61. Funny how the same people that flooded the country with cheap money, are now the ones telling us to get our house in order. We are no longer a soverign state.

    just to add insult to injury

    by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev

    http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2012/08/2982012-some-facts-about-irish-average.html

    the real headliner is

    Weekly earnings in the private sector fell by 0.5% annually, compared with an increase of 2.8% in the public sector (including semi-state organisations) over the year, bringing, average weekly earnings in Q2 2012 to €611.66 and €918.99 respectively.


  • #5426
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    any one else have kids starting school, youngest lad started this morning:D:D peace and quiet


  • #5427
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    whelan1 wrote: »
    any one else have kids starting school, youngest lad started this morning:D:D peace and quiet


    No one step better. herself is back to the classroom. Thank god.

    Only her 10th day back since Easter after a GAA injury :rolleyes:.


  • #5428
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    Ok how much is a set of tractor weights

    I finally sourced a set for a same tractor to suit my weight bar and i want to know the going rate. I know supply and demand aand check donedeal, this dealer (JD) has them at least 6months.

    it 6 weights (i say there 45kg each).

    Previously i saw 6 for sale for €350 in donegal (may have been in iceland)
    and €250 for 6 in Tullamore (sold within 20 mins of been on donedeal)

    So any idea? €35 each €40 each or more?


  • #5429
    sideboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    bob charles wrote: »
    just to add insult to injury

    by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev

    http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2012/08/2982012-some-facts-about-irish-average.html

    the real headliner is

    Weekly earnings in the private sector fell by 0.5% annually, compared with an increase of 2.8% in the public sector (including semi-state organisations) over the year, bringing, average weekly earnings in Q2 2012 to €611.66 and €918.99 respectively.

    I have had some experience working in the public service and farming -both at the 'foot-soldier' end. The one thing that I have learned (and God knows that that amount is very limited), is that you are always trying to make do just to get by.

    I felt for my colleagues still in the public service over the past few years when I would read comments like yours that their wages had gone up in 2012, when I know how tough they are finding things having taken cuts of about 20% in this time, whilst taking on a plethora of new demands from 'Management'.

    I find strong parallels when I hear urban commentators talk of our land wealth and 'free' money from Europe for CAPS, REPS etc so the latest move is now to look at our farm asset as a means to cut back on 3rd level grants and not whatever meagre income we make off the land.

    We all know that there is a small core of top-brass in the public service who have always done alright, just as there are ranchers amongst us who have done well and always have done so.

    We should stop poisoning attitude to other groups in this country as perception is a dangerous thing and I know plenty of dispirited workers (many are our own sons and daughters) in the public service and believe me, we need them just as much as the country needs us as food producers. (Rant over :eek:)
    whelan1 wrote: »
    any one else have kids starting school, youngest lad started this morning:D:D peace and quiet

    @Whelan1, I do hope they have a great experience, it is so important at their age.

    We also need enthusiastic teachers who will fire up their imagination, but by cutting new entrants salaries by €11,000 to those they work alongside is hardly the best way...and then tell them that the PS had a 2.8% rise last year! Be Happy :rolleyes:


  • #5430
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    whelan1 wrote: »
    any one else have kids starting school, youngest lad started this morning:D:D peace and quiet

    Jeepers the years are flying , thought it was only a couple of months ago that you had him in a buggy at the ploughing :)


    of course you know when the nest is empty,

    you can always start a fresh clutch ;)



    nice dry morn here but chilly, some rain fell yesterday evening :eek:


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  • #5431
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    any one else have kids starting school, youngest lad started this morning:D:D peace and quiet

    One went back Tuesday and one back Wednesday.. We decidd the youngest lass would have another year at Montasori as she's just four... Both love it and had a great time, it makes getting them out much handier..
    Herself took this week off to be at home to get them settled which is nice.

    We had some rain yesterday evening around eight... I couldn't hear myself think it was so bad !


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