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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #7952
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Just back from doctors, i have spent over 220 euro on doctors and prescriptions since sunday:mad:


  • #7953
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    I have a 12 month old Lim bull that I plan to sell in March or April leaving him 15-16 months old. How many mature suckler cows could he handle say from May on without killing him in happiness!!!!


  • #7954
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    I have a 12 month old Lim bull that I plan to sell in March or April leaving him 15-16 months old. How many mature suckler cows could he handle say from May on without killing him in happiness!!!!
    have been many discussions on here about this, your bull at that age would only be suitable for heifers i am afraid, would never ever sell a bull that age for use on cows


  • #7955
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    I have a 12 month old Lim bull that I plan to sell in March or April leaving him 15-16 months old. How many mature suckler cows could he handle say from May on without killing him in happiness!!!!

    I ran a 14 month bb bull with 20 cows and he handled them


  • #7956
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    hugo29 wrote: »
    This morning just reminded me why I don't drink much anymore, all I can say is help, went out last night thinking I was 21 again (and that birthday was a while ago) brother is home from oz so tore the ass out of it and now I am sitting here feeling sorry for my self, I'd swear my wife gave my youngest son that drum on purpose,
    I feel your pain, im squinting looking at this, my head feels like a bucket of frogs and i realise now why as you get older that its not possable to drink all night and get up and work the way i used to.


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  • #7957
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Dunno if this has been posted before.Reminds me of my son haha http://youtu.be/e3kwdue5XS0


  • #7958
    Beefbaron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Beefbaron


    Up every night for the past two weeks looking at cows due to calve on two out farms. Exhausted but 13 live calves TG, no casualties. A lot more to go. Can't keep this up!!! any tips on cameras??


  • #7959
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    this is going to be the longest milking ever, feel like i have been run over by a bus:( thought meds would have kicked in by now


  • #7960
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Beefbaron wrote: »
    Up every night for the past two weeks looking at cows due to calve on two out farms. Exhausted but 13 live calves TG, no casualties. A lot more to go. Can't keep this up!!! any tips on cameras??

    Just got one and it's brilliant. Watching the cows from bed! Have a read through here :
    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056741425?page=1


  • #7961
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    whelan1 wrote: »
    this is going to be the longest milking ever, feel like i have been run over by a bus:( thought meds would have kicked in by now

    Here's wishing you a speedy recovery ;)


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  • #7962
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    whelan1 wrote: »
    this is going to be the longest milking ever, feel like i have been run over by a bus:( thought meds would have kicked in by now

    did you check your bin for nuts since?


  • #7963
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    did you check your bin for nuts since?
    they are at an angle, both view holes are visible,so just praying every time i turn on augers, should be 2 weeks in there


  • #7964
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    does anyone have experience of mc aree enclosed silos? the vmac ones :confused:
    thinking of getting a handy silo


  • #7965
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    i have a 16 tonne one, have it about 8 years, a few peoblems recently of nuts going in slanty ways but otherwise no problems


  • #7966
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i have a 16 tonne one, have it about 8 years, a few peoblems recently of nuts going in slanty ways but otherwise no problems

    have never owned a silo, how long would a nut or ration hold out fresh in it? just trying to make my mind on what size would be appropriate, when im finishing a batch of bullocks i normally go through about 200 kg a day over roughly 3 months , sick of the jfc meal bin or ''coal bunker'':rolleyes: im kinda thinkin a six tonne one


  • #7967
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Jeez the wind is unreal out there ...and the same forecasting for tmrw :(

    When will this weather stop...


  • #7968
    thetangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭thetangler


    severeoversteer wrote: »

    have never owned a silo, how long would a nut or ration hold out fresh in it? just trying to make my mind on what size would be appropriate, when im finishing a batch of bullocks i normally go through about 200 kg a day over roughly 3 months , sick of the jfc meal bin or ''coal bunker'':rolleyes: im kinda thinkin a six tonne one
    200kg per day is 2t per 10 days 6t per month no prob with nuts keeping for a month I think there is a 3 nth expiry on them. Are you filling the Jfc every 4 days ?


  • #7969
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    thetangler wrote: »
    200kg per day is 2t per 10 days 6t per month no prob with nuts keeping for a month I think there is a 3 nth expiry on them. Are you filling the Jfc every 4 days ?
    filling jfc and an ibc yokeevery saturday normally:rolleyes: , that is when im finishin the batch once a year, ya 20 tonne over 100 days we'll say;) , silo would be idle out from them 3 months, unless i change system get more cattle or finish them in two batchs rather than all together


  • #7970
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Mad b*st**d !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3Jc6VJzr0


  • #7971
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Muckit wrote: »
    Mad b*st**d !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3Jc6VJzr0

    Ah come on, he is far from cross just agitated by poor handling


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  • #7972
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    bob charles wrote: »
    Ah come on, he is far from cross just agitated by poor handling

    Yeh I want my 2mins back that I wasted watching the video :P


  • #7973
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    Muckit wrote: »
    Mad b*st**d !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3Jc6VJzr0

    :rolleyes:

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #7974
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    pity i couldnt record my best but ****in daft charolais bullock makin **** of my headgate :eek:, would be a better video, at least he saved me havin to dehorn him ;)


  • #7975
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    this is more the sort of thing Muckit

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImtoWZxNFtw


  • #7976
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    These are the guys you'd want in the marts, the way things are going.



  • #7977
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Muckit wrote: »
    Mad b*st**d !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3Jc6VJzr0
    jeeny that was the worst you tube video i ever watched, kept waiting for something to happen


  • #7978
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    my cousin does rodeo in austrailia ccomplete with his carlow football socks- he reckons they bring him luck....he loves it


  • #7979
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    pakalasa wrote: »
    These are the guys you'd want in the marts, the way things are going.


    Im going to try one of those back flip jumps next time an animal comes after me:D


  • #7980
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bob charles wrote: »
    Ah come on, he is far from cross just agitated by poor handling


    ....am.... I was referring to your man, not the bull.... talk about jumping to conclusions!! :p


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  • #7981
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    I'll never wear a Man Utd jersey t the mart again!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tmx4fkAcQA&feature=fvwp&NR=1


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