Farming Chit Chat

jay gatsby · 08-10-2012 11:38AM

Not a huge amount, but better in my pocket than the banks and the governments. Buys 7 bags of beef nuts:cool:[/QUOTE]

You can't tell whoever you're paying to hang on to the card for a week though. Lot to be said for the old cheque book, I for one will be sorry if they go which I hear is in the pipeline for personal accs at least.

pakalasa · 08-10-2012 11:46AM

reilig wrote: »

Some serious deals to be had on ebay for mains fences from time to time too. Couple of years ago I bought an Elephant mains fence from a company in the uk who were clearing stock for €120 inc postage. Magenta were selling the same one for €260 at the time. There must be some mark up on that kind of stuff!?

I repaired my battery fencer there a while back, ...just corroded coil ends. Anyway, what really struck was how simple the circuit was. Really nothing to it. I reckon, you could make up your own, very cheaply.

Tipp Man · 08-10-2012 11:50AM

jay gatsby wrote: »

Not a huge amount, but better in my pocket than the banks and the governments. Buys 7 bags of beef nuts:cool:

You can't tell whoever you're paying to hang on to the card for a week though. Lot to be said for the old cheque book, I for one will be sorry if they go which I hear is in the pipeline for personal accs at least.[/QUOTE]

Yep by 2016 I believe cheque books will be a thing of the past

whelan1 · 08-10-2012 12:08PM

jay gatsby wrote: »

Not a huge amount, but better in my pocket than the banks and the governments. Buys 7 bags of beef nuts:cool:

You can't tell whoever you're paying to hang on to the card for a week though. Lot to be said for the old cheque book, I for one will be sorry if they go which I hear is in the pipeline for personal accs at least.[/QUOTE]
hate when you ask someone to hold on to the cheque for a week and they lodge it straight away:mad::mad:

whelan1 · 08-10-2012 12:15PM

scanned cows this morning scanned 90, 10 not in calf, happy enough... was dreading it

just do it · 08-10-2012 12:22PM

whelan1 wrote: »

scanned cows this morning scanned 90, 10 not in calf, happy enough... was dreading it

Good result given the year that's in it

Richk2012 · 08-10-2012 02:16PM

whelan1 wrote: »

scanned cows this morning scanned 90, 10 not in calf, happy enough... was dreading it

Will you dry off and fatten them or let them off straight away when they finished milking ??

naughto · 08-10-2012 02:22PM

whelan1 · 08-10-2012 02:24PM

Richk2012 wrote: »

Will you dry off and fatten them or let them off straight away when they finished milking ??

will bring some of them to the mart and the rest i have a dealer will buy them from me

leg wax · 08-10-2012 03:09PM

just scanned sping calvers all 40 of them incalf ,now they were all covered over 90 days 1st may- 30 july , only 5 bulled in july so very happy,will stop around 20 july next year and so on every year to get a more compact herd:rolleyes::rolleyes:,i have delayed ai now by 10 days so will start at the end of this week for the winter calves.

AntrimGlens · 08-10-2012 10:45PM

every days a school day when you're farming.. We've a small herd of pedigree limmies and one of the bulls is about eight months old and looking great for sale next spring. I noticed him a day or so ago a bit slow to rise and walking a bit gingerly so ran my hands down his legs when he was feeding at the trough, felt nothing until i felt his sack and it was as hot as coals and swollen hard so called the vet. Diagnosis is Orchitis - a new one on me. Inflammation of the testes, i was asking one of the vets in work today and he says that its a blood borne infection and not that rare in bulls and rams and generally leaves the animal infertile. So i'm gonna wait for six weeks and then get a semen sample from him to get it tested and see if he's infertile and if so he's for the hook, was wondering if anyone else had come across this infection before and was the animal permanently infertile?

yellowlabrador · 09-10-2012 02:13AM

naughto wrote: »

This tractor was found on a cliff by the sea, buried in a hedge. It actually started and ran on the diesel and oil still in the tank after all those years. Pure tractor porn.

whelan1 · 09-10-2012 04:51AM

AntrimGlens wrote: »

every days a school day when you're farming.. We've a small herd of pedigree limmies and one of the bulls is about eight months old and looking great for sale next spring. I noticed him a day or so ago a bit slow to rise and walking a bit gingerly so ran my hands down his legs when he was feeding at the trough, felt nothing until i felt his sack and it was as hot as coals and swollen hard so called the vet. Diagnosis is Orchitis - a new one on me. Inflammation of the testes, i was asking one of the vets in work today and he says that its a blood borne infection and not that rare in bulls and rams and generally leaves the animal infertile. So i'm gonna wait for six weeks and then get a semen sample from him to get it tested and see if he's infertile and if so he's for the hook, was wondering if anyone else had come across this infection before and was the animal permanently infertile?

what did the vet treat him with, never heard of it before

Charlie Charolais · 09-10-2012 03:51PM

not much chat today - are ye all gone protesting?

whelan1 · 09-10-2012 05:51PM

Charlie Charolais wrote: »

not much chat today - are ye all gone protesting?

fantastic day here, went to mart and was spreading slurry:D

bob charles · 09-10-2012 05:53PM

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/farmproduce/3892378

why did he bother taking a picture of the cobs? if he just had shown the grown crop he would get plenty of callers. Someone sold the wrong seed variety me thinks.

Dont be daft · 09-10-2012 05:58PM

bob charles wrote: »

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/farmproduce/3892378

why did he bother taking a picture of the cobs? if he just had shown the grown crop he would get plenty of callers. Someone sold the wrong seed variety me thinks.

Lots of maize around with very poor cobs.

Why do say it was the wrong seed?

just do it · 09-10-2012 06:33PM

Charlie Charolais wrote: »

not much chat today - are ye all gone protesting?

Left home yesterday early and have being in various meetings since, getting home late tonight. I'd much prefer to have being farming!

Kovu · 09-10-2012 08:29PM

Last of our older bull calves are for off tomorrow. About a month before our heifers are ready anyway.
One blonde, one charolais, one blue, roughly same weights and ages so it will be interesting to see the differential in ppk.

reilig · 09-10-2012 08:50PM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Last of our older bull calves are for off tomorrow. About a month before our heifers are ready anyway.
One blonde, one charolais, one blue, roughly same weights and ages so it will be interesting to see the differential in ppk.

Beat of luck with them. I presume its to Mohill? I think prices were fairly good there last week?

We have 12 to 15 to go this Autumn. Most are blues and they are March to May calves. Have them weined off the cows almost 2 weeks now - cows on slats and calves back out on grass where they are getting 3kg of weinling crunch each per day. Hoping to put a bit more weight on them and sell them around mid-november. Going to weigh them the week after next so I will have a good idea of DWG.

Keeping 12 smaller weinling till Monaghan Day and will feed them over the winter.

Tipp Man · 09-10-2012 09:02PM

reilig wrote: »

Keeping 12 smaller weinling till Monaghan Day and will feed them over the winter.

Am i being highly ignorant by asking what and when Monaghan Day is??

johnpawl · 09-10-2012 09:24PM

reilig wrote: »

Beat of luck with them. I presume its to Mohill? I think prices were fairly good there last week?

We have 12 to 15 to go this Autumn. Most are blues and they are March to May calves. Have them weined off the cows almost 2 weeks now - cows on slats and calves back out on grass where they are getting 3kg of weinling crunch each per day. Hoping to put a bit more weight on them and sell them around mid-november. Going to weigh them the week after next so I will have a good idea of DWG.

Keeping 12 smaller weinling till Monaghan Day and will feed them over the winter.

So do you swap them over onto beef nuts atall before selling?

wesleysniper38 · 09-10-2012 09:52PM

Tipp Man wrote: »

Am i being highly ignorant by asking what and when Monaghan Day is??

February (as far as I know)
Its the big sales date for each type of cattle i.e. one day for heifers, bullocks and weanlings.
Why its called Monaghan day.....................I dont know

bob charles · 09-10-2012 11:18PM

Dont be daft wrote: »

Lots of maize around with very poor cobs.

Why do say it was the wrong seed?

because if the cobs are still white like the one in the picture they will never even come close to ripening. Maize seed is classed in how many heat units is needed for full potential of the crop. the variety show in the add was either sown way too late or else is a variety that would never reach its potential in Ireland. for instance the cobs on my maize plants are turning from yellow to golden and will be full ripe in a couple of weeks. without the cobs ripening there will be no starch in the maize and its for starch its primarily grown.

Manoffeeling · 10-10-2012 08:15AM

bob charles wrote: »

because if the cobs are still white like the one in the picture they will never even come close to ripening. Maize seed is classed in how many heat units is needed for full potential of the crop. the variety show in the add was either sown way too late or else is a variety that would never reach its potential in Ireland. for instance the cobs on my maize plants are turning from yellow to golden and will be full ripe in a couple of weeks. without the cobs ripening there will be no starch in the maize and its for starch its primarily grown.

It takes energy for a plant to ripen. Do you not think that it maybe water related? Did you see any fodder beet this year? Very small. Not seed related I'd say, just water issues.

freedominacup · 10-10-2012 08:28AM

Manoffeeling wrote: »

It takes energy for a plant to ripen. Do you not think that it maybe water related? Did you see any fodder beet this year? Very small. Not seed related I'd say, just water issues.

Yeah one of the neighbours was lamenting his crop. It looks ok from the road but v.small roots he reckons because the roots never had to grow down to look for water.

bob charles · 10-10-2012 08:55AM

Manoffeeling wrote: »

It takes energy for a plant to ripen. Do you not think that it maybe water related? Did you see any fodder beet this year? Very small. Not seed related I'd say, just water issues.

energy comes from light and unfortunatly we didnt get much this year. if it was a late planted crop it would have gotten less light again. I bet not knowing the sowing date that a late maturing variety was sown and it has probably only gotten say 60% (guess) of the light so far needed for the crop to mature. I will post a pic later in the day of a couple of early varieties I have that will be close to cutting in a few weeks.

Sugar beet - doesnt look bad here except for a few headlands where there must be compaction issues from last maize harvest also my best field cattle spent upwards of 3 days inside it unknown to me when I was laid up in bed, typical. Where the leaves are small there are good roots under neath and the opposite where the leaves are large. The grower that mentioned about beet not needing to go down for moisture is quite right, The warmer and drier the year the better sugar beet do.

Kovu · 10-10-2012 09:52AM

wesleysniper38 wrote: »

February (as far as I know)
Its the big sales date for each type of cattle i.e. one day for heifers, bullocks and weanlings.
Why its called Monaghan day.....................I dont know

Monaghan Day derives from St. Manachan, who founded a monastery in Mohill,
Co. Leitrim in 500 A.D. Hence, Feb 25th is Monaghan Day--a day for a big fair in the town and it was apparently famous for faction fights.
John McGahern talks about it in one of his novels.

reilig wrote: »

Beat of luck with them. I presume its to Mohill? I think prices were fairly good there last week?

We have 12 to 15 to go this Autumn.
Keeping 12 smaller weinling till Monaghan Day and will feed them over the winter.

I'll be looking out for them!;)

reilig · 10-10-2012 10:29AM

johnpawl wrote: »

So do you swap them over onto beef nuts atall before selling?

I don't know. I have them on a high protein ration at the moment. Would people recommend to put them on something with lower protein for faster weight gain?

bob charles · 10-10-2012 12:14PM

bob charles wrote: »

because if the cobs are still white like the one in the picture they will never even come close to ripening. Maize seed is classed in how many heat units is needed for full potential of the crop. the variety show in the add was either sown way too late or else is a variety that would never reach its potential in Ireland. for instance the cobs on my maize plants are turning from yellow to golden and will be full ripe in a couple of weeks. without the cobs ripening there will be no starch in the maize and its for starch its primarily grown.

just a follow up picture showing the above. the two cobs on the right were planted 2 weeks later and is clear from the picture maturity is still some way away. look at the colour difference between left and right the ones on the left are still filling as shown by the gaps between the grains. the rest of the early planted fields are fairly similar to the cobs on the right where as the ones on the left are probably the better cobs from the later planted stuff

overall the crop is adequate for the early grown stuff and poor to moderate for the stuff sown late around the 4th of May due to weather. estimate a dry yeild of something just over 3 ton per acre. talking to a boy that is involved in maize and he had just being back for Belgium and they were harvesting a very late maturity variety at 20t of grain per Ha, he said the cobs were nearly a foot long. not much hope for us here

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