Farming Chit Chat

yellowlabrador · 03-10-2012 10:27PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Noticed too, an awful lot of lookers on with a few contributors. If you look on the bottom of the main page when you are signed in you'll see something like 4 or 5 members and 50 viewers. Often wondered who they are.

I have a look in although I don't post as I'm not a farmer. I'm of farming stock, have lived on a farm and am very interested. Most of my neighbours and friends are farmers and if I had a chance, I'd buy a farm. My son who's now 25 loved helping with milking and looking after the livestock. But no money and no land means that he now works in Cork.

whelan1 · 04-10-2012 08:33AM

just got my silage results...
cut 1 dmd 70%
dm 21.5%
protein 13.5
ph 4
ndf 52
me 10
ufl 0.78

cut 2
dmd 65
dm 32
protein 10
ph 4.3
ndf 52
me 9
ufl .72

spt88 · 04-10-2012 08:34AM

i know i haven been on here in ages.. too busy over the summer months. but now im back for the winter. n just pulled a smashing bull calf out of a 2yr old yellow charolais springer

Tipp Man · 04-10-2012 09:00AM

Charlie Charolais wrote: »

I noticed that too,
I'm here a bit more this week after a busy summer, the cattle went into the shed on Tuesday!

I suppose every body is mental busy when the weather picked up a bit - trying to get work done that should have been done during the summer

Mental busy ourselves lately - putting up new shed, extending roadways and some reseeding - bank balance is taking a whack

Tipp Man · 04-10-2012 09:02AM

yellowlabrador wrote: »

I have a look in although I don't post as I'm not a farmer. I'm of farming stock, have lived on a farm and am very interested. Most of my neighbours and friends are farmers and if I had a chance, I'd buy a farm. My son who's now 25 loved helping with milking and looking after the livestock. But no money and no land means that he now works in Cork.

Feel free to post anytime - you don't need to be a farming expert. God knows i'm not

The more the merrier as they say

bbam · 04-10-2012 09:32AM

Tipp Man wrote: »

I suppose every body is mental busy when the weather picked up a bit - trying to get work done that should have been done during the summer

Did I sleep through that??:rolleyes:
Yesterday we had thunderbursts of rain and hail... Temperature was down in frost regions for a good deal of the night..

We've only had the odd day without percipitation of some level, maybe 10 sonce the start of the summer.. 90% of the land couldn't be traveled without leaving ruts.

It's a funny little Island indeed..

Tipp Man · 04-10-2012 09:37AM

bbam wrote: »

Did I sleep through that??:rolleyes:
Yesterday we had thunderbursts of rain and hail... Temperature was down in frost regions for a good deal of the night..

We've only had the odd day without percipitation of some level, maybe 10 sonce the start of the summer.. 90% of the land couldn't be traveled without leaving ruts.

It's a funny little Island indeed..

September was dry for us - but god knows it was desperately needed

Yeah temperatures way down this last week - it could be a very long winter

bbam · 04-10-2012 09:47AM

Tipp Man wrote: »

it could be a very long winter

Indeed..

naughto · 04-10-2012 11:45AM

got a price of a lad for firewood 80euro delivered ton bag
75euro if the give the bag back after iam done with it.
have another lad with coal 11euro a bag delivered he even give me a bag to try

Username John · 04-10-2012 11:55AM

bbam wrote: »

Did I sleep through that??:rolleyes:
Yesterday we had thunderbursts of rain and hail... Temperature was down in frost regions for a good deal of the night..

We've only had the odd day without percipitation of some level, maybe 10 sonce the start of the summer.. 90% of the land couldn't be traveled without leaving ruts.

It's a funny little Island indeed..

Weird, I thought the June / July in Cavan wasn't so bad? Based on conversations with the in-laws, it seemed to rain every day in June / July down here, but often the weather seemed dry up there

Not saying ye had a good summer, don't think anyone could say that, but surprised to hear you say you had rain every day... but like you say, it is a funny little island.

vincenzolorenzo · 04-10-2012 11:56AM

naughto wrote: »

got a price of a lad for firewood 80euro delivered ton bag
75euro if the give the bag back after iam done with it.
have another lad with coal 11euro a bag delivered he even give me a bag to try

Roughly what weight would a bag of timber be? And is the coal a 25kg bag?

naughto · 04-10-2012 12:01PM

this is what a ton bag that ill be getting
40 kg bag of coal.its not your polish coal its called black gold
i am using it in a open fire.

bob charles · 04-10-2012 12:03PM

Tipp Man wrote: »

I suppose every body is mental busy when the weather picked up a bit - trying to get work done that should have been done during the summer

Mental busy ourselves lately - putting up new shed, extending roadways and some reseeding - bank balance is taking a whack

pick up - gotten worse here, bad now since the 3rd week in may and no let up. Over 60% of animals indoors and glad to be that way. Grass in fields but not worth grazing its such ****e. has being a poor september again and doubt any winter crop will be worth sowing at this early stage. Feed moving in all directions already and its only October, going to be serious issues for smaller farmers just to have money to be able to fed the animals

bob charles · 04-10-2012 12:13PM

whelan1 wrote: »

just got my silage results...
cut 1 dmd 70%
dm 21.5%
protein 13.5
ph 4
ndf 52
me 10
ufl 0.78

cut 2
dmd 65
dm 32
protein 10
ph 4.3
ndf 52
me 9
ufl .72

Anyone else using the Calorie system for analysis of energy? dont understand why it isnt pushed as it a simpler system for the farmer IMV. For once the Americans get something right

reilig · 04-10-2012 12:35PM

Tipp Man wrote: »

September was dry for us - but god knows it was desperately needed

Yeah temperatures way down this last week - it could be a very long winter

Wettest September for us in my memory. Couple that with the wettest June, July and August that I have ever seen and its been a bad year. All cows and calves weaned last weekend and still in the shed. Calves will get out this weekend, but cows are in for the winter. Plenty of grass, but cows ploughing to their knees to eat it.

I was complaining earlier that our ground was too wet to cross with the tractor, after that I lowered expectations and said that it was too wet to travel on with the quad. Now its too wet to walk on - you are sure to lose the wellies. A piece of bogland that we have, I was trying to get cattle off it last weekend and fell into a hole where I went to my waist in black mud. This time last year I took a cut of silage off it. Its a shambles!

Only cattle that we have out now are the dry cows - that's on rented land 35 miles from home. A few heifers are out, but that's because they have to cross a river to get in and its been too high in recent weeks for to get them through it.

snowman707 · 04-10-2012 01:17PM

naughto wrote: »

this is what a ton bag that ill be getting
40 kg bag of coal.its not your polish coal its called black gold
i am using it in a open fire.

doubt very much if that bag will weight 1 tonne, maybe some body in the know would enlighten us

reilig wrote: »

Wettest September for us in my memory. Couple that with the wettest June, July and August that I have ever seen and its been a bad year. All cows and calves weaned last weekend and still in the shed. Calves will get out this weekend, but cows are in for the winter. Plenty of grass, but cows ploughing to their knees to eat it.

I was complaining earlier that our ground was too wet to cross with the tractor, after that I lowered expectations and said that it was too wet to travel on with the quad. Now its too wet to walk on - you are sure to lose the wellies. A piece of bogland that we have, I was trying to get cattle off it last weekend and fell into a hole where I went to my waist in black mud. This time last year I took a cut of silage off it. Its a shambles!

Only cattle that we have out now are the dry cows - that's on rented land 35 miles from home. A few heifers are out, but that's because they have to cross a river to get in and its been too high in recent weeks for to get them through it.

Tuesday's and yesterday's rain was the final straw here. this morning we housed all the incalf heifers and 2 pens of the smaller weanlings,

The milkers are out by day and even then are doing some serious damage , the home farm wouldn't exactly be noted for early grass even in good years, so a scarcity of fodder and an abundance of slurry is something we will have to address

reilig · 04-10-2012 01:23PM

snowman707 wrote: »

doubt very much if that bag will weight 1 tonne, maybe some body in the know would enlighten us

If its unseasoned oak it might weigh a ton. The fact that it is in this bag is why people think it is a ton - they are commonly called ton bags because they will hold a ton of gravel or a ton of sand. In reality, this bag in the picture is just a cubic meter of wood. If its evergreen and seasoned, it may weight less than half a ton. If its broadleaf like ash or oak and unseasoned, it will weigh more.

Black Smoke · 04-10-2012 01:25PM

snowman707 wrote: »

doubt very much if that bag will weight 1 tonne, maybe some body in the know would enlighten us

Tuesday's and yesterday's rain was the final straw here. this morning we housed all the incalf heifers and 2 pens of the smaller weanlings,

The milkers are out by day and even then are doing some serious damage , the home farm wouldn't exactly be noted for early grass even in good years, so a scarcity of fodder and an abundance of slurry is something we will have to address

I saw a bird trying to take off this morning in my place. It had to flap it's wings for about two minutes, before it managed to get daylight between it's feet and the muck. :cool:

naughto · 04-10-2012 02:07PM

snowman707 wrote: »

doubt very much if that bag will weight 1 tonne, maybe some body in the know would enlighten us

Tuesday's and yesterday's rain was the final straw here. this morning we housed all the incalf heifers and 2 pens of the smaller weanlings,

The milkers are out by day and even then are doing some serious damage , the home farm wouldn't exactly be noted for early grass even in good years, so a scarcity of fodder and an abundance of slurry is something we will have to address

that was just a pic i got on google images to show what i was getting.its in the shed since last yr so well seasoned

pakalasa · 04-10-2012 03:13PM

Rainfall - Johnstown castle in wexford only got about 1/3 of the normal rainfall for september, 33mm.
Finner, up near you Relig, got 117mm. That's some difference.
http://www.met.ie/climate/monthly-data.asp?Num=1775

wesleysniper38 · 04-10-2012 04:59PM

Brought home 8 weanling heifers from dowra last saturday.
got the head ate off me by the Senior Man about 2 of them...they were stone mad.
For the sake of peace I'm going to push them on at another mart but do I need to test them again?
they are 9mths old . TB tested on 15/5/12...
I've got differing answers so far from vet and neighbours.

vanderbadger · 04-10-2012 05:09PM

was in ennis mart today briefly, seemed back a good bit from 2 weeks ago when last there, had a mini flood here around 5 o clock

whelan1 · 04-10-2012 05:41PM

wesleysniper38 wrote: »

Brought home 8 weanling heifers from dowra last saturday.
got the head ate off me by the Senior Man about 2 of them...they were stone mad.
For the sake of peace I'm going to push them on at another mart but do I need to test them again?
they are 9mths old . TB tested on 15/5/12...
I've got differing answers so far from vet and neighbours.

ring department and ask them

Richk2012 · 04-10-2012 05:46PM

Juniorhurler wrote: »

I thought it was much quieter too. Maybe everybody just busy. I know I have been chasing my tail for the last month but on top of things now.

Reading a tb test tomorrow is the last of the panic. Herding today I noticed no lumps so fingers crossed.

How did the test go junior ???? Safe for another year i hope

huey1975 · 04-10-2012 05:57PM

wesleysniper38 wrote: »

Brought home 8 weanling heifers from dowra last saturday.
got the head ate off me by the Senior Man about 2 of them...they were stone mad.
For the sake of peace I'm going to push them on at another mart but do I need to test them again?
they are 9mths old . TB tested on 15/5/12...
I've got differing answers so far from vet and neighbours.

You don't have to test them if you have had your own test in the last 12 months, or 4 months if any of your contiguous farmers have had more than 2 reactors in the last 4 months. The new regulations are a bit more complicated than before but you should be ok

simx · 04-10-2012 06:03PM

wesleysniper38 wrote: »

Brought home 8 weanling heifers from dowra last saturday.
got the head ate off me by the Senior Man about 2 of them...they were stone mad.
For the sake of peace I'm going to push them on at another mart but do I need to test them again?
they are 9mths old . TB tested on 15/5/12...
I've got differing answers so far from vet and neighbours.

what weights prices wesley?

wesleysniper38 · 04-10-2012 06:45PM

simx wrote: »

what weights prices wesley?

2 x red lim 340kg - 760e
3 x black lim 310kg - 660
3 x aa 290kg - 605e

not bad I thought. nice well made types- well weaned but 2 of them are like wild deer. :mad:

Juniorhurler · 04-10-2012 07:18PM

Richk2012 wrote: »

How did the test go junior ???? Safe for another year i hope

All clear thank god. Two weanling bulls and a store heifer to Carnew on saturday now and maybe 6-8 weanlings to the weanling sale next wednesday.

Charlie Charolais · 04-10-2012 09:48PM

^^^ Wesley

do you have to hold them for 30 days without a dealer license?

wesleysniper38 · 04-10-2012 09:56PM

I'll check 4sure tomorrow but I think that only applies to blooded stock..

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