Farming Chit Chat

AntrimGlens · 18-01-2013 10:20PM

bob charles wrote: »

I dont, but find i constantly am, keeps the crows at bay feeding at night

looks like you'll deffo be feeding the cows after 9 tonite bob

whelan1 · 18-01-2013 11:06PM

was watching a cow to calve all evening- calving shed is just across yard from house... went out about half an hour ago and the calf was coming backwards:eek::eek: brought her over to crush, with snow pelting down.... now its bad enough when a fr calf is coming backwards but to be faced with the arse of a blue is not my idea of fun on a friday night, anyways slow and steady i got him out alive and well... so having a glass of wine now ... cheers, he's an akh

Timmaay · 18-01-2013 11:22PM

Ouch, go treat yourself to calving gate/headlock inside in the calving shed!

whelan1 · 18-01-2013 11:25PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Ouch, go treat yourself to calving gate/headlock inside in the calving shed!

have a calving gate in a shed that we dont use for calving anymore:rolleyes: must move it

freedominacup · 18-01-2013 11:27PM

just do it wrote: »

Was that due to just one cow with mortellaro infection? Just shows how close to sterile milk is now being collected at considering she hadn't mastitis and you've the dilution effect of the other cows milk (although you mightn't have that many milking at the mo).

Three or four had it fairly bad and the rest of them were showing signs of it. Washed hooves and treated with linco then copper footbath. Need a kick in the hole for not spotting it sooner, only excuse is it blew up over Christmas.

redzerologhlen · 19-01-2013 03:10AM

just do it wrote: »

Good luck with the inspection, although it's probably finished now. I presume it went well?

Ya, everything was in order for them and I have got the go ahead to start the work for 2013.

hugo29 · 19-01-2013 10:02AM

Had to drive to dublin yesterday, young lad has hospital appointment, left home to light snow, got to midlands and the snow was unreal, then dublin to a cold wet day, it was lashing up there,

bogman_bass · 19-01-2013 12:57PM

checked stock this moring and have about 5 acres of a lake in one field. outwintered stock looking misrible in these conditions

kevthegaff · 19-01-2013 02:30PM

i had cows out until today, def putting up another shed this year. never again am i outwintering

Marooned75 · 19-01-2013 02:57PM

Hello new to this enjoy reading posts find it very helpful will attempt to join in threads if i have anything useful to post

whelan1 · 19-01-2013 03:01PM

Marooned75 wrote: »

Hello new to this enjoy reading posts find it very helpful will attempt to join in threads if i have anything useful to post

welcome to farming and forestry

whelan1 · 19-01-2013 03:02PM

another cow calved there now was very surprised to see she had a red and white friesian heifer, all my cows are black and white apart from 1 i bought in... calf out of hmy

freedominacup · 19-01-2013 03:03PM

kevthegaff wrote: »

i had cows out until today, def putting up another shed this year. never again am i outwintering

I kept 10 or a dozen cows on a 20 acre stubble close to the yard before Christmas trying to keep pressure off housing big mistake. Everything a lot easier once they were housed.

Kovu · 19-01-2013 03:06PM

Marooned75 wrote: »

Hello new to this enjoy reading posts find it very helpful will attempt to join in threads if i have anything useful to post

Welcome indeed, we're a friendly bunch

Also...very apt username for today's flooding:pac:

freedominacup · 19-01-2013 03:07PM

whelan1 wrote: »

another cow calved there now was very surprised to see she had a red and white friesian heifer, all my cows are black and white apart from 1 i bought in... calf out of hmy

Genetic throwback. We were often tempted to use a bit of red and white but the bulls were never quite good enough.

bob charles · 19-01-2013 04:02PM

freedominacup wrote: »

I kept 10 or a dozen cows on a 20 acre stubble close to the yard before Christmas trying to keep pressure off housing big mistake. Everything a lot easier once they were housed.

Outwintering heavy animals will always come back to bite you in the ass especially if its productive land there are on, always lose on grain yield off out wintered stubbles

kevthegaff wrote: »

i had cows out until today, def putting up another shed this year. never again am i outwintering

Aslong as you's learn your lessons. cheap in the short run maybe, get a pig of a year like this year and its a joke and much costing excerise

leg wax · 19-01-2013 04:05PM

40 spring calvers thru the crush this morn done them with rotavec,lepto,and dose.watch ruby now for the day in front of the stove.

bob charles · 19-01-2013 04:08PM

leg wax wrote: »

40 spring calvers thru the crush this morn done them with rotavec,lepto,and dose.watch ruby now for the day in front of the stove.

some fellows have it queer easy.

just do it · 19-01-2013 04:23PM

Marooned75 wrote: »

Hello new to this enjoy reading posts find it very helpful will attempt to join in threads if i have anything useful to post

Welcome. The more the merrier

leg wax · 19-01-2013 05:30PM

bob charles wrote: »

some fellows have it queer easy.

bob i run the farm,the farm does not run me,except when ...........................................................................:D.

freedominacup · 19-01-2013 05:35PM

leg wax wrote: »

bob i run the farm,the farm does not run me,except when ...........................................................................:D.

That works fine in theory......

freedominacup · 19-01-2013 05:36PM

Where's theory?

Manoffeeling · 19-01-2013 05:47PM

bob charles wrote: »

some fellows have it queer easy.

How many times a day do you log on here? :rolleyes:

linebacker52 · 19-01-2013 07:16PM

First cow calved during the week twin heifers out of our best ebi cow not a bad start for the year. have 60 to calve in February having operation on shoulder week on Wednesday week going to be a busy month.

freedominacup · 19-01-2013 07:18PM

linebacker52 wrote: »

First cow calved during the week twin heifers out of our best ebi cow not a bad start for the year. have 60 to calve in February having operation on shoulder week on Wednesday week going to be a busy month.

Is that the shoulder reconstruction job? If it is someone else is going to be busy calving;)

just do it · 19-01-2013 07:50PM

linebacker52 wrote: »

First cow calved during the week twin heifers out of our best ebi cow not a bad start for the year. have 60 to calve in February having operation on shoulder week on Wednesday week going to be a busy month.

Jeez you picked your time to have surgery! Make sure you obey the rest period and physio or else you may as well not get it done.

linebacker52 · 19-01-2013 07:57PM

just do it wrote: »

Jeez you picked your time to have surgery! Make sure you obey the rest period and physio or else you may as well not get it done.

Don't worry I wont be back in work till I have been given the all clear farm relief already booked and the auld lad is still fairly active.

td5man · 19-01-2013 09:09PM

Anyone using txu from eurogene?

Timmaay · 19-01-2013 10:45PM

freedominacup wrote: »

I thought it was 300. Ours spiked from 170 to 470 over a couple of colections no sign of mastits. Then we spotted a fairly severe mortellaro infection treated it for 3 days and footbathed a couple of times, problem treated and second collection cell count back down to 150.

Talking about Mortellaro, have afew cows with it at the minute, I just spotted this on Donedeal, anyone used it?: http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/dairycattle/4377442

1chippy · 19-01-2013 11:41PM

Went down to connemara picking up a load of weanlings today. You really have to admire the way lads that do farm down there can make so much out of what would be considered unreclaimable land up here.
Had to drive back with lights gone on the trailer, of course i met nearly every squad car on the way back, luckily wasnt pulled in. Got back and found one weanling lying panned out on the floor, exhausted.

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