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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #8672
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    whelan1 wrote: »
    aldi have the 4 pack of scissors for 2.99 on thursday, great for cutting tails

    I wouldnt entertain anything only the Friskars classic 21cm for cutting tails. So boring am I, I bought 4 pairs last night after midnight :rolleyes:


  • #8673
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    bob charles wrote: »

    I wouldnt entertain anything only the Friskars classic 21cm for cutting tails. So boring am I, I bought 4 pairs last night after midnight :rolleyes:
    Mundial 170 8sr re serrated edge here. foc when you know the right person.


  • #8674
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    aldi have the 4 pack of scissors for 2.99 on thursday, great for cutting tails

    Keep up the good work, bought a cheap body warmer in dunnes on your recommendation


  • #8675
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Keep up the good work, bought a cheap body warmer in dunnes on your recommendation
    got another one there on friday,good buy


  • #8676
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,797 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Just after weighing a milking cow that is on her way now to the cull cow sale in car carmaross. She is calves a year and lost a calve. She was still doing 21 litre a day but below herd avg. any way she weigh 894kg


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  • #8677
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Rough day outside here this mornin, think I'll be doing a profit monitor and catching up on paperwork .

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #8678
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Rough day outside here this mornin, think I'll be doing a profit monitor and catching up on paperwork .

    Tell me about it blue, had 2 cows gone into a neighbours place this morning and it took me an hour to find them, thought i was going to keel over outside in it. I went to doolin pier by the cliffs of moher for a spin last night, the waves were coming over the pier and the whole pier and car park was covered in big stones. Its the worst few days i have seen around here in a long time!! Pic is of the car park

    photo-2474.jpg


  • #8679
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Is that where you get the ferry out to aran and the boat trip to the cliffs? Was there a couple of years ago, tis fairly exposed.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #8680
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    stanflt wrote: »
    Just after weighing a milking cow that is on her way now to the cull cow sale in car carmaross. She is calves a year and lost a calve. She was still doing 21 litre a day but below herd avg. any way she weigh 894kg

    God that's a great weight for a dairy cow Stan. You prob don't give a damn what the next lad does with her, but do you think she'I get the hook or be milked on?


  • #8681
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Is that where you get the ferry out to aran and the boat trip to the cliffs? Was there a couple of years ago, tis fairly exposed.

    Ya thats it blue, It was a sight to behold last night and just showed how powerful the sea can be, there were stones 100ft from the high tide mark.


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  • #8682
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,797 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Muckit wrote: »

    God that's a great weight for a dairy cow Stan. You prob don't give a damn what the next lad does with her, but do you think she'I get the hook or be milked on?


    She will get hooked. She made 1170 not bad for a cull straight out of the parlour


  • #8683
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    went to run in 2 angus bulls that where outwintered, field about quarter of mile from yard, got them to yard and one of them point blank refused to go in to the shed, let rest of cattle out to him, still refused to go in, let a group of cows out , still wouldnt go in:mad: got a bucket of meal and he walked in after me, 5 minute job turned into 45 minutes .Then when milking, my fr bull caught his ring in the thing that holds the cluster on when washing on the last jar in parlour and broke the jar... lucky he didnt do more damage....


  • #8684
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had a guy ring me last night looking for biestings, i keep some in the freezer, he said he had a heifer calved yesterday morning and the calf hadnt drank yet, he said he would get the biestings this morning, so calf wont have had a drink for a full 24 hours after it was born:eek::eek: not a great start for it
    guy arrived this evening looking for more milk for the calf:eek: said he hadnt see it drink yet and it has a hump in its back, like wtf.... he said sure he wouldnt be alive at this stage if he wasnt drinking.....


  • #8685
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭dzer2


    whelan1 wrote: »
    guy arrived this evening looking for more milk for the calf:eek: said he hadnt see it drink yet and it has a hump in its back, like wtf.... he said sure he wouldnt be alive at this stage if he wasnt drinking.....

    Why the hell has he not put the calf on the heifer. I always give newborns 500mm of beastings out of freezer and then watch calf to see it drink if after half a day it doesnt I bring them into the calving shed put the cow in the heading gate and put the calf on for a drink


  • #8686
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Why the hell has he not put the calf on the heifer. I always give newborns 500mm of beastings out of freezer and then watch calf to see it drink if after half a day it doesnt I bring them into the calving shed put the cow in the heading gate and put the calf on for a drink

    When I had sucklers, I'd always turn on the video recorder as soon as the cow calved to record the calving camera channel, then in three hours I would play it at four times the speed........saved a lot of time , 90% of the calves would have sucked in that three hours


  • #8687
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    rancher wrote: »

    When I had sucklers, I'd always turn on the video recorder as soon as the cow calved to record the calving camera channel, then in three hours I would play it at four times the speed........saved a lot of time , 90% of the calves would have sucked in that three hours

    Good idea,

    It's a great relief to see them get that first suck... It's over to nature then !


  • #8688
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Then when milking my fr bull caught his ring in the thing that holds the cluster on when washing on the last jar in parlour and broke the jar... lucky he didnt do more damage....[/QUOTE]

    i wont ask whelan, it could be misinterpreted.


  • #8689
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    1chippy wrote: »
    Then when milking my fr bull caught his ring in the thing that holds the cluster on when washing on the last jar in parlour and broke the jar... lucky he didnt do more damage....

    i wont ask whelan, it could be misinterpreted.[/QUOTE]
    will put in a comma:cool:


  • #8690
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    went to run in 2 angus bulls that where outwintered, field about quarter of mile from yard, got them to yard and one of them point blank refused to go in to the shed, let rest of cattle out to him, still refused to go in, let a group of cows out , still wouldnt go in:mad: got a bucket of meal and he walked in after me, 5 minute job turned into 45 minutes .Then when milking, my fr bull caught his ring in the thing that holds the cluster on when washing on the last jar in parlour and broke the jar... lucky he didnt do more damage....

    Did you not take the jeep to him :D like the lad on first time farmers


  • #8691
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Did you not take the jeep to him :D like the lad on first time farmers

    cant get c4 here so cant get any bad ideas:)


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  • #8692
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    my fr bull caught his ring in the thing that holds the cluster on when washing on the last jar in parlour and broke the jar... lucky he didnt do more damage....
    Nasty indeed...
    I repaired a parlour once where a heifer being trained went crazy... Managed to get in over the rump-rail into the pit.. She bent three spines and broke the jars on them.. They had to cut the rail at the front of the parlour to get her out.. Scary for the lad in the pit !


  • #8693
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    My eyes still sore from feeding there tonight, absolute gale blowing and cows kept shaking haylage so got even more in my eyes ! Feeders are elevated corner of field as drier /run off etc but the westerly wind is torture... Will need goggles feeding!


  • #8694
    awaywithyou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    had a TB test today.... running cattle through our outside crush was serious craic in the weather we had...


  • #8695
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    awaywithyou wrote: »
    had a TB test today.... running cattle through our outside crush was serious craic in the weather we had...
    Hope all gets clear on thursday


  • #8696
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Feckin wind yesterday.
    Our weather station is quite low to the ground but still registered 55kph, just three feet from ground level. Keep meaning to move it higher. Had to tie in a few sheets on one shed as a timber beam gave way, another job for the summer.
    No ammount of stock seen on my trip to Cork at the weekend, seemed the same as everywhere else, just lads with no feeding I'd say. The Tipp-Cork area is looking great and green though, I'd say a dry week and stock will be out grazing down there. More than a bit jealous.


  • #8697
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    trying make room in the over crowed lambing pens , just check the forecast ... Friday 30mm perception Temp. 5c wind chill effect -2c :mad::mad:


  • #8698
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Anyone know where to get a sharpening stone/file for a hoof pairing knife?


  • #8699
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    I've a problem with reseeded field that's a bit unusual ... It's attracted lots of hares and they keep eating the bottom strand of electric fence wire? I've battery turned off on it must leave it on for a few nights now... Teach them a lesson!


  • #8700
    saranac1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭saranac1


    8 trees down on our land today, serious gusts of wind yesterday and today, but ill be kept warm till 2020 with all this wood😜😜


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  • #8701
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    saranac1 wrote: »
    8 trees down on our land today, serious gusts of wind yesterday and today, but ill be kept warm till 2020 with all this wood😜😜

    The wind was blamed for knocking the wall on those people in Connaught gold in Longford


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