bbam wrote: » Mumbo Jumbo beleifs of some farmers. I'm continually shocked at what some lads believe or choose to believe. I had a lad down looking at some sucks I bought and he was horrified that I was letting them have rolled barley. He said it will bust and sicken them and lie in them until it kills them. I find it handy for starting calves as they seem to love the taste and smell. Actually we feed it to near all animals from chickens to pigs to weanlings, haven't seen one burst yet! He even tried to tell me that the bit of ringworm we have was from feeding barley.
bbam wrote: » Mumbo Jumbo beleifs of some farmers. I'm continually shocked at what some lads believe or choose to believe. I had a lad down looking at some sucks I bought and he was horrified that I was letting them have rolled barley. He said it will bust and sicken them and lie in them until it kills them. I find it handy for starting calves as they seem to love the taste and smell. Actually we feed it to near all animals from chickens to pigs to weanlings, haven't seen one burst yet! He even tried to tell me that the bit of ringworm we have was from feeding barley. I was in the same lads yard a few years ago and he was giving out that the crows ****e was sickening his calves, he choose to believe this rather than washing out teat drinkers after feed time, they were all crusty as mouldy from old milk. Some lads believe any auld rubbish, like dettol or jeys fluid down the troat to cure a scour, can you imagine how that goes on a calfs stomach and intestine, irritating everything and causing god knows what harm.
hugo29 wrote: » any of you fellow posh farmers ever gone on week camping holiday to france, if so would you recommend it, married 10 yrs this year and was thinking of taking herself and kids away for week feckin pricey though:D and who said romance was dead
leg wax wrote: » we go every year to a camp site but stay in the mobile home on site.its great for the kids ,as they make new friends,and we fill up on wine:D,yes its a good hols but every one has there own ideas of what they want out of a hols,what part are you going too.
whelan1 wrote: » second aa cow calved that was scanned not in calf, she had a pb bull, one yesterday evening also had a bull, fine calves.... sometimes you get lucky:cool:
Bizzum wrote: » Who's the Daddy do ya know?
whelan1 wrote: » our pb angus stock bull that was running with them for the summer
reilig wrote: » I wouldn't be wasting too much money on it. The guy stands to make €485k after prizes when he sells the 2000 tickets - this gives him over €12k per acre for his land. What happens if he doesn't sell the 2000 tickets? Will he refund you? He doesn't mention it? Why does he have no mention of having gotten a Garda Permit for it?http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1956/en/act/pub/0002/index.html#zza2y1956 I think that there is also a notice in there that the permit holder is not allowed to get personal profit from a draw. The Gardai love closing down Schemes like this! Think I'll take my money and invest in a nice pyramid scheme instead :eek::eek::eek:
bob charles wrote: » Cant think of the horse gambler that done the same in the early ninties or late eighties, he was involved in a number of betting coups. think he got away with his raffle for his mansion
pakalasa wrote: » 1 Straw of Texan Gie - Price €650 http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/4559310 Mane Cavan Ba******s
freedominacup wrote: » I'm gonna be the awkward one. We tried the French camping thing once and hated every minute of it. We flew to Nice and stayed around 60k west. Expensive, uncomfortable accomodation. Expensive unwelcoming restaurants to the point we felt we'd have been more welcome with a couple of dogs than kids going into them. Far too hot, and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. In a sentence never ever again. We go to the Algarve most years for the same money only difference is we get a good sized apartment that sleeps 6, 2 bedrooms and a couple of pullouts. Fully equiped kitchen, air con, in a nice well managed small complex. Apartment cleaned and restocked with towels and linen a couple of times a week compared to a list of tasks you are expected to perform before you leave in order to get your deposit back from the campsite. Child friendly welcoming restaurants to the point that some have play areas close to the dining area. Great value in the restaurants also. Supermarkets significantly cheaper than home as against more expensive if anything in France. Staff almost every where are happy to get your custom compared to Gallic indifference if you're lucky downright rudeness if you're not. The French trip was so bad that TBH the brother-in-law and I spent a while working out the logistics of moving the two crews across the south of France and down through Spain to our usual hunting grounds. It was a close thing as to whether we stayed or left.Don't do it Hugo think of the kids.:D
bbam wrote: » Indeed.. I've heard that said of Niece before, friends have a house there and really the locals don't like tourists..We always bring the car, the girls, now 10 and 4, get to throw in whatever stuff they want to bring so they have their favourite stuff with them. And we bring our bikes too. travelling by Ferry takes the whole hanging round the airport with small kids out of the equation. You wait in your own car, check-in is out the window of the car, you park on the ferry and carry your overnight bag up to your pre-booked cabin. Stress free. Along the west coast tourists are welcomed, they are the bread and butter and we've found they know it, and work to this ethos. You can judge the temperature along the west cost very well.. Brittany will be like Cork on a really good summer, Bordeaux will be much more Mediterranean. The mobiles on the campsites are nice but the very smallest ones are cramped, we had on one year and it was hard going. Best spend a few bob on a middle range one. Choose a campsite that doesn't do private ownership on site. It tends to be a bit nosier than an all rental site. We book a gas BBQ, do a huge shopping in the nearest super-u and we would tend only to eat out a few times when were there, along the west coast restraunts are good value, you'll pay in any top end place but ordinary restraunts along the sea front are very reasonable as competition is tight. But its not for everyone, my sister went a few years ago and didn't like it. It all started poorly when they picked up the rental car and drove for 2 hours in the wrong direction while the sat-nav was telling them to turn around.. :eek: We booked again last NOv, and pay off a bit every month.. Roll on June !
whelan1 wrote: » just registered my first calves on agfood.ie, very handy isnt it:D
reilig wrote: » Have you not been doing it online all along? Its the dog's nuts! Its handy to be able to type in the dam's last 4 numbers and just pick her out. Also handy that you can save the sire's details. I'm using it for at least 5 years now. I could never go back to the paper trail. Are you still keeping a herd register?
whelan1 wrote: » 7 times i have just rang eurotags before i spoke to someone:o:o fantastic service
