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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #6722
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    hugo29 wrote: »
    any one set up paddock system, going to set up this year if it ever stops raining, what size would you go for, was thinking 3 acre blocks
    I set one up this year and felt it helped out given the wet year that was in it. The roadways are crucial so that each paddock leads back to the shed. It will be next year before I get a full year out of it though.

    I looked at what freedominacup is referring to but everything I do is all about minimising time I need to spend on the farm. Strip grazing requires constant moving of the forward and back fence and I've neither the time nor patience for that! Sure if I was full-time that would be a different story.

    Regarding the size of padock you'll have to give us a bit more info. What's your farming system, what size group are you looking at?


  • #6723
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Horrible misty rain here all day too, the auld lad is on a blood pressure moniter for 24 hours so I'm at all the work for yesterday & today. He picked great weather to send me out!:P
    Jeez Kovu, how much work are you talking about each day? Now that all my stock are in I spend between 20-40mins farming each week day and jobs like dosing etc are for the weekend.

    Now if only I could find some way of only having the cows calf at the weekend?:D


  • #6724
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    ABlur wrote: »
    Young farmer for sale!


    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/tractors/4174922
    I hope that young fella knows he's up on d'net. I don't mean to get morbid but a few lads around here have hung up their boots early this year and stuff like this could trigger something in a sensitive type. On the other hand he looks like a lad that's up for a good laugh and will see the funny side of it


  • #6725
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    leg wax wrote: »
    on another note, you all know of my small calves problem,the last calf that went to the lab has sent alam bells ringing in the dept.i have to blood test all cows that had funny calves tommorow as they think its this new virus thats in cork.time will tell.
    That's the new schmallenberg virus they're worried about see here. Jeez legs I hope you've seen the end of it. Have you many more to calf around now? From what I've read on it the cows pick it up from biting insects in early pregnancy so if it is it, it actually came into your farm months ago.

    What ever it is, I wish you the best. It's hard enough to make a profit without the likes of this thrown into the mix.


  • #6726
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    What's going on? A few weeks ago lads were complaining it has gotten too quiet on here and all of a sudden its taken me 45min to read through this one thread and pen a few replies!;)


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  • #6727
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Have 30 acres beside each other of which i used to hold 12 for silage,will move silage ground, want to spend less time moving cows on road as farm is fragmented, want to split into 2 six acre paddocks with week grazing on each and 6 three acre paddocks which have to last 2 weeks between them, plan to hold 13 cows and bull on these, culls and heifers elsewhere


  • #6728
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just do it wrote: »
    I hope that young fella knows he's up on d'net. I don't mean to get morbid but a few lads around here have hung up their boots early this year and stuff like this could trigger something in a sensitive type. On the other hand he looks like a lad that's up for a good laugh and will see the funny side of it
    couldnt agree more, my eldest lad - only 11- is now being refered to counselling following internet bullying, now theres 1 side of me that says he shouldnt be on the internet but the other half says that the boy causing all the trouble has no idea the hurt and pain he has caused to another child, kids can be so hurtful without thinking


  • #6729
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    this internet bullying is getting out of hand, can i ask what sort of stuff they say, i hope it sorts it self out for you, i am interested as a parent who will prob face the same thing, did you monitor the computer or was your kid grounded enough to come to you


  • #6730
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    are allot of kids just getting soft and are now dealing with these things themselves. have there social skills disappeared with the use of all the latest communications. all learning nowadays is based around introverts where when I was a little boy we were all brought up as independent extraverts


  • #6731
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    this internet bullying is getting out of hand, can i ask what sort of stuff they say, i hope it sorts it self out for you, i am interested as a parent who will prob face the same thing, did you monitor the computer or was your kid grounded enough to come to you
    luckilly my son tells me everything- sometimes too much- this lad told him no one liked him and more or less that he was better off dead:eek::eek::eek: now i had monitored the computer but i cant be there 24/7 so now, 10 minutes a day on fb, no messages allowed, i have his password and can go through everything anymore trouble and he's off it....


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  • #6732
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    couldnt agree more, my eldest lad - only 11- is now being refered to counselling following internet bullying, now theres 1 side of me that says he shouldnt be on the internet but the other half says that the boy causing all the trouble has no idea the hurt and pain he has caused to another child, kids can be so hurtful without thinking

    Is it a kid from his school that's involved? If so is it a continuation of the same sort of thing happening in the playground? If something is happening in school I'd be dragging the school into it, I'd be looking for sanctions from the school. The school is obliged to have an anti-bullying program/strategy in place. Get a copy of it and make them stick to it. There's a possibility they will try to move your son on as it's easier to deal with the victim than the bully, suspension proceedings and esp expulsion proceedings often end up in court.

    I was on the wrong end of this s**t as a child, I covered it up for years until I ended up being seriously assaulted by a gang in a classroom. Looking back I think the teachers were aware to some degree I was getting a hard time but didn't intervene as it was easier not to. After I was assaulted the ballgame changed utterly, absolute panic stations because if there was a likelyhood of a court case it would have been instigated by my family. Bullies were sanctioned to what degree I never found out but while I never had a particularly enjoyable time in school afterwards the grief was 99% gone. Point being if you're going to the school be prepared to bring the pain. Make it abundantly clear that you will be trouble until they sort out the problem. Point out that you are self-employed, that you make your own hours and that the principal better clear a couple of hours a day every day for dealing with you until the bullying is sorted. Best of luck with it but keep after it.


  • #6733
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bob charles wrote: »
    are allot of kids just getting soft and are now dealing with these things themselves. have there social skills disappeared with the use of all the latest communications. all learning nowadays is based around introverts where when I was a little boy we were all brought up as independent extraverts
    i said something similar to the principal, she said in your day there was no internet, we can not monitor what is being said on the internet, playground stuff can be tackled but what is said on the internet on a friday night stays in a kids mind til monday til they can deal with it


  • #6734
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Is it a kid from his school that's involved? If so is it a continuation of the same sort of thing happening in the playground? If something is happening in school I'd be dragging the school into it, I'd be looking for sanctions from the school. The school is obliged to have an anti-bullying program/strategy in place. Get a copy of it and make them stick to it. There's a possibility they will try to move your son on as it's easier to deal with the victim than the bully, suspension proceedings and esp expulsion proceedings often end up in court.

    I was on the wrong end of this s**t as a child, I covered it up for years until I ended up being seriously assaulted by a gang in a classroom. Looking back I think the teachers were aware to some degree I was getting a hard time but didn't intervene as it was easier not to. After I was assaulted the ballgame changed utterly, absolute panic stations because if there was a likelyhood of a court case it would have been instigated by my family. Bullies were sanctioned to what degree I never found out but while I never had a particularly enjoyable time in school afterwards the grief was 99% gone. Point being if you're going to the school be prepared to bring the pain. Make it abundantly clear that you will be trouble until they sort out the problem. Point out that you are self-employed, that you make your own hours and that the principal better clear a couple of hours a day every day for dealing with you until the bullying is sorted. Best of luck with it but keep after it.
    school have been brilliant, couldnt fault them really , its the boys parents that are the real disaster in all this....


  • #6735
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    There was a programme on bullying last night on RTE. Sad really. The internet opens up a whole new world for this sort of thing.
    I watched it last night and I couln't help but think of a guy in our secondry school who got bullied so bad, the whole year was spoken to about it. He was mad into computers, so all the usual 'computer nerd' name calling stuff. He ended up going to the same uiversity as myself. At graduation, he was the last person to be called up. He got an award for the highest points across all the courses. He also had a PhD lined up in Oxford University. This was before computers really took off. I often wonder what all the little sh1ts that were teasing him are at now.

    Just googled him. :) He's on Wikipedia now :)


  • #6736
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    school have been brilliant, couldnt fault them really , its the boys parents that are the real disaster in all this....

    I'm glad the school have been helpful, not much surprise that the boy's parents haven't been much cop. Anyone around handy @ the oul IT maybe know a guy who could make unpleasant things happen to internet connections and devices. Slow the f**ker down a bit if nothing else.


  • #6737
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    we are blessed that we have a fantastic female community garda in this area, who lets say often goes beyond the call of duty & deals with issues in her own particular way


  • #6738
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    what technology has to answer for eh, what happened to gettin a bit of grief in the yard and teachers sorting it out and that was it end off,

    my yound lad at 2 and half as well as a few of his friends was getting bullied in play school (yes play school) by an out of control 3 year old, creche turned blind eye and we only found out when he told us himself, i mean do these people not understand if you dont catch this in time it gets worse,

    there has to be a way of stopping this on net, little sh!ts


  • #6739
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Just googled him. :) He's on Wikipedia now :)

    and your still stuck on boards:D


  • #6740
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    what technology has to answer for eh, what happened to gettin a bit of grief in the yard and teachers sorting it out and that was it end off,

    my yound lad at 2 and half as well as a few of his friends was getting bullied in play school (yes play school) by an out of control 3 year old, creche turned blind eye and we only found out when he told us himself, i mean do these people not understand if you dont catch this in time it gets worse,

    there has to be a way of stopping this on net, little sh!ts
    would you believe this has been going on since junior infants, 8 full years, i know the mother well and she knows what he is like, but, "its very hard to give out to him":eek::eek: like ffs deal with your kids,sad part is my daughter and their daughter are best friends .... she says its second child syndrome, other people have said for my son to give your man a box, but he's not like that . he's a softie


  • #6741
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jomoloney wrote: »
    we are blessed that we have a fantastic female community garda in this area, who lets say often goes beyond the call of duty & deals with issues in her own particular way
    i am done trying to talk to the mother , so if school cant sort it out i will be going to the guards, if he's like this now what will he be like in a few years time


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  • #6742
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    actually i am with the smack in the head group, its not good to advocate violence but as kenny rodgers said "sometimes you have to fight to be a man"

    my yound lads grandfather taught him how to pretend he was going to smack the bully (we did not even know until my lad showed me), my lad was also a softie but it seemed to work

    if the mother (or father) wont step up to the mark and sort it out then yes you have to do whats best for your kid, if that upsets the other parents so be it


  • #6743
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    just do it wrote: »
    Did you go with one of the local lads listed or the wexford crowd?

    Ordered the gates local alright but murphy concrete were the only ones I could find doing the concrete troughs in 550 gallon.


  • #6744
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just watching las tnights bullyproof on rte player, hard stuff to watch:(


  • #6745
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    No offence lads, but God between poor chippy1's and Whelan1's misfortunes, this thread is gone more like Primetime than 'chit chat' ! :o:(:o


  • #6746
    adne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭adne


    Muckit wrote: »
    No offence lads, but God between poor chippy1's and Whelan1's misfortunes, this thread is gone more like Primetime than 'chit chat' ! :o:(:o


    Chippy1 did your vet come back yet with the reason the cattle were dying ??


  • #6747
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    another thing i noticed in mart yesterday was the very low value of hereford cattle, one fella had angus and white head heifers and the was difference of up to €300 on the bidding of same weight animals:eek: why is this? the bidding on the angus was mad compared to the wh


  • #6748
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    whelan1 wrote: »
    another thing i noticed in mart yesterday was the very low value of hereford cattle, one fella had angus and white head heifers and the was difference of up to €300 on the bidding of same weight animals:eek: why is this? the bidding on the angus was mad compared to the wh

    Because bar as a recipient to calve an embryo no whitehead will ever calve in my pen. A lot of other Suckler farmers around here feel the same too. Angus heifers will be bought as breeding stock, imo that is the difference.


  • #6749
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    whelan1 wrote: »
    another thing i noticed in mart yesterday was the very low value of hereford cattle, one fella had angus and white head heifers and the was difference of up to €300 on the bidding of same weight animals:eek: why is this? the bidding on the angus was mad compared to the wh

    what kg? price? did herefords make?

    if i wanted bulling heifers and they were of good quality id be trying them some of the best weanlings here are off hereford cows, takes little to keep them i think they are good cows, one hereford heifer here at moment had calf about month ago from a lim bull and i cant wait to see him this time next year hes doing exceptionally well


  • #6750
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    simx wrote: »
    what kg? price? did herefords make?

    if i wanted bulling heifers and they were of good quality id be trying them some of the best weanlings here are off hereford cows, takes little to keep them i think they are good cows, one hereford heifer here at moment had calf about month ago from a lim bull and i cant wait to see him this time next year hes doing exceptionally well

    I aim for the shipping trade though and off hereford cows you wont make that.


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  • #6751
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    afair 400kg, hereford making from 650 -800 , aa up to 1000... didnt write anything down but it was very noticable the price difference


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