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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #8762
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    unbelievable. If thats true I would have more regard for the thief than I would for the Guard who provided such a lame excuse to avoid doing his/her job.

    I'd take that Donedeal add with a pinch of salt. I see there are trailer locks for sale on Donedeal today, also in Dublin. Or am I just being cynical?


  • #8763
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    pakalasa wrote: »
    I'd take that Donedeal add with a pinch of salt. I see there are trailer locks for sale on Donedeal today, also in Dublin. Or am I just being cynical?

    +1.

    The 4x4 in the pics is too unique not to be identifiable.
    Also, if the guards get a vehicle reg, they will act on it!!


  • #8764
    hoseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭hoseman


    just do it wrote: »
    Sure he's no need to borrow it then ;).

    Let us know how you get on
    Used the hook drench first time to-day,giving a vitamin drench,When you get something like this,you say to yourself"How did I manage without it".Very happy with it.


  • #8765
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭st1979


    hoseman wrote: »
    Used the hook drench first time to-day,giving a vitamin drench,When you get something like this,you say to yourself"How did I manage without it".Very happy with it.
    I was the same. Real handy with a locking barrier feed rail but your hand gets no rest. With all the pumping of the gun


  • #8766
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    reilig wrote: »
    +1.

    The 4x4 in the pics is too unique not to be identifiable.
    Also, if the guards get a vehicle reg, they will act on it!!

    The guards will act on it, but there is damn all they can do. i found half of my trailer which had been stolen, for sale on donedeal. they had taken the body off and put it on a different chasis. The guards came with me to look at it, but the lad who was selling it got a garage to say that they had done all the modifications and welding that made my chasis unique. it was just coincidental that they had welded the exact same pieces in the exact same places as i had and that the mudguard brackets that i had gotten made were identical and the spurious reflectors and lights were the same.
    Thieves have got to be the lowest form of scum out there.


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  • #8767
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    pakalasa wrote: »
    I'd take that Donedeal add with a pinch of salt. I see there are trailer locks for sale on Donedeal today, also in Dublin. Or am I just being cynical?

    Mmm...:rolleyes:...when you put it that way or maybe you've just been hangin around too long with Jim Corr.


  • #8768
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    I bought a nice breeding weanling heifer privately today blue Grey BB X Lm.. 2 Purchases in a week That's my dealing done now for a while !


  • #8769
    hoseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭hoseman


    st1979 wrote: »
    I was the same. Real handy with a locking barrier feed rail but your hand gets no rest. With all the pumping of the gun
    Same here,have arithsis in the hands,still better then catching heads


  • #8770
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Bodacious wrote: »
    I bought a nice breeding weanling heifer privately today blue Grey BB X Lm.. 2 Purchases in a week That's my dealing done now for a while !

    How are lads getting on with blues for breeding? i just took a limo heifer out the side door of a reasonable sized first calver. we have 3 blues here and had 2 caesarians. both would be good r grading at best but both very narow pelvis,s.
    I bought a couple of limo heifers out of blue cows and the few heifers i had from my own and might chance them on as cows instead.


  • #8771
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    1chippy wrote: »
    How are lads getting on with blues for breeding? i just took a limo heifer out the side door of a reasonable sized first calver. we have 3 blues here and had 2 caesarians. both would be good r grading at best but both very narow pelvis,s.
    I bought a couple of limo heifers out of blue cows and the few heifers i had from my own and might chance them on as cows instead.

    Blue on BBX cow or muscley BB type cow X CH is the problem. that been said a neighbour of mine has a Sim X BB cow breeding back to the likes of FHZ (BB) and she churning out show calves year on year.

    Ive only 2 blues and they will be crossed to lim only, one claved to OZS lim, good shapey calf , lady i bought today is out of a good big wide 50% BB cow with milk and AI Lim (not sure of code yet - will find out from AI Man records) either way she 25% BB and 50% lim


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  • #8772
    awaywithyou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    Great day on the farm yest... we finally became a clear herd again having been restricted due to TB for the last 18 months....


  • #8773
    johnpawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭johnpawl


    Have a very big aaxfr cow, was thinking of chancing bb bull stq on her. I wonder would a heifer calf from that bull and cow be any good for breeding? Also what quality weaning bulls would you get from that type of cross.


  • #8774
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    johnpawl wrote: »
    Have a very big aaxfr cow, was thinking of chancing bb bull stq on her. I wonder would a heifer calf from that bull and cow be any good for breeding? Also what quality weaning bulls would you get from that type of cross.

    Hi JP,

    If the FR brings a bit of height and milk to the cross then it could be a nice all round breeding animal... ive seen alot of aa x bb and they very stumpy and hard sold but as you say the fr x should be the difference


  • #8775
    TEAT SQUEEZER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 516 ✭✭✭TEAT SQUEEZER


    jaysis its quiet around here tonite...i hate waiting for a cow to calf this time of night.. and theres feck all on the telly... that michael douglas wants to bump off the missus... he`s so wooden he could club her to death with himself...


  • #8776
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    good morning:D:D ,,,,,,,,, jesus who turned out the lights,its always bright when i get up:D:D, calves did not know what was going on when i apeared in the shed a while ago ,you could nearly here them mutter where the fook is the lad going at this hour,say nothing hes fillin the creep phew:):).


  • #8777
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    You're like a child waiting for santy legs. All excited about letting those weanlings under David Quinns hammer. Not able to sleep, up at about 3 in the morning to check.


  • #8778
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    leg wax wrote: »
    ..,say nothing hes fillin the creep phew:):).
    Adding a bit of cheap weight? I've done it myself on sale day.


  • #8779
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,860 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Anyone manage to shift a bit of slurry today? I'm going to try a few loads later on, will be driving in straight off a roadway to avoid gaps though.

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



  • #8780
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Anyone manage to shift a bit of slurry today? I'm going to try a few loads later on, will be driving in straight off a roadway to avoid gaps though.
    Spreding on stubble ground yesterday it was soft enough.
    Theres a chance of frost next week not that i spread on frozen ground.


  • #8781
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Anyone manage to shift a bit of slurry today? I'm going to try a few loads later on, will be driving in straight off a roadway to avoid gaps though.
    Put out a few loads before lunch just to keep it a foot or so below the slats for another while but its still soft around here (nothing new there:D ) I see M.T. Cranium is predicting a possibility of hardy weather next week so Ill chance another few then if we get it


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  • #8782
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    moy83 wrote: »
    Put out a few loads before lunch just to keep it a foot or so below the slats for another while but its still soft around here (nothing new there:D ) I see M.T. Cranium is predicting a possibility of hardy weather next week so Ill chance another few then if we get it

    2 of the cattle tanks are full up to slats and just taking a load and putting into another tank, third tank is 10" from top but all slurry is now being drawn to that tank so will be full in under a week. What I have found over the last few weeks is that it takes 100 beef cattle to make a thousand gallons of ****e per day.


  • #8783
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,860 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    At least we beat wales, slurry now, thanks for replies

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



  • #8784
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Lovely day here. Real feel of spring in the air. Notice that the young whitethorns are starting to shoot.


  • #8785
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Adding a bit of cheap weight? I've done it myself on sale day.

    never bother giving them meal on day of sale, only ends up on floor of trailer ;)


  • #8786
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Dupont


    Absolutely lovely day here. Plenty of heat if in the sun. A real spring day. But judging from mt cranium forecast the calm before the storm.


  • #8787
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    bob charles wrote: »
    2 of the cattle tanks are full up to slats and just taking a load and putting into another tank, third tank is 10" from top but all slurry is now being drawn to that tank so will be full in under a week. What I have found over the last few weeks is that it takes 100 beef cattle to make a thousand gallons of ****e per day.
    Its great to have the extra storage but its a pain in the a$$ sucking it up and letting it into another tank , knowing that you will have to agitate it all again and waste more diesel .
    We got 500 squids of diesel this week and I nearly cried into the tank when I saw how little it filled it up :mad:


  • #8788
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Any of you Dairy lads calving Belgian Blues from british fresians .
    And if so what sort of money are you getting/expecting for the heifer calves??


  • #8789
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Any of you Dairy lads calving Belgian Blues from british fresians .
    And if so what sort of money are you getting/expecting for the heifer calves??
    most of the lads on here would hopefully have the common sense not to pay what other lads are but the cheapest i seen sold so far is 350.


  • #8790
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    well legs how did they go?


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  • #8791
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    so who's on calving duty tonight? just watched a heifer calving, off to bed now, shouldnt be anymore til tomorrow, good night:)


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