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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #662
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    its too cold to send them out, todays plan is to tidy their rooms, should go down well:rolleyes:


  • #663
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭dzer2


    whelan1 wrote: »
    its too cold to send them out, todays plan is to tidy their rooms, should go down well:rolleyes:

    Normally ends up in world war 3 and all the die hards rolled in together :D


  • #664
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    so should see better weather when kids go back to school, cracking up here, one of them feels that i should be bringing her somewhere everyday as its her holidays, am slowly getting that idea out of her head...:cool:

    It was grand to see my oldest 2 strolling back in last night around 7 after locking the cows in with hardly a leg left between them. They were with us all day. It was one of those days with a lot of small jobs so they were on their feet a good bit. In for the tea and they just wanted somewhere to sit quietly.


  • #665
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    eldest lad will go off around the yard, but this madam is unreal, she just texted me from her bed "what are we doing today":mad:


  • #666
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    so should see better weather when kids go back to school, cracking up here, one of them feels that i should be bringing her somewhere everyday as its her holidays, am slowly getting that idea out of her head...:cool:
    Whats in the cat's in the kitten :p


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  • #667
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    td5man wrote: »
    Whats in the cat's in the kitten :p
    nope, if i carried on like that i would have gotten a toe in the hole


  • #668
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    eldest lad will go off around the yard, but this madam is unreal, she just texted me from her bed "what are we doing today":mad:

    That's brilliant! I'm definitely using that tomorrow morning:D


  • #669
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    td5man wrote: »
    Used to hire a 2600 when we had a 1100 some difference between the two and the 2600 wasnt much harder to pull.

    ya believe it or not i found that the 750 gallon one was the worst on ground, it would go down thru the road! the 1100 with those narrow wheels wasnt a great job either


  • #670
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    its too cold to send them out, todays plan is to tidy their rooms, should go down well:rolleyes:
    Was it too cold for you to go out to milk this morning ?


  • #671
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    nope, if i carried on like that i would have gotten a toe in the hole
    And would you not use similar tactics,its needed here some days .


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  • #672
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    td5man wrote: »
    Was it too cold for you to go out to milk this morning ?
    going out milking is my escape route...


  • #673
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    thats me done for Easter ;), bring on the Scandinavians, blonde's breeding lines this weekend im viewing


  • #674
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    bob charles wrote: »
    thats me done for Easter ;), bring on the Scandinavians, blonde's breeding lines this weekend im viewing

    Enjoy Bob, probably warmer than here up there

    Whereabout you headed??


  • #675
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    ya i think thats what happened to the last one, me rushing to meet her with meal bags in the back of the jeep! Its easy to get them harder to keep them:D

    no sign of Kev today

    the date must have gone well


  • #676
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    no sign of Kev today

    the date must have gone well

    ur right, she must have been impressed with his slurry tanker


  • #677
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    Can anybody help today's journal says IFA leitrim meeting went well with some "robust"criticism yet the indo on Tuesday had pictures of protesters with placards at meeting.Can anyone clear up the confusion surrounding these conflicting reports.


  • #678
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    It went well for the IFA.
    - They didn't have to pay the cost of hiring the hotel conference room.
    - They didn't have to answer any questions from people that they didn't want asking questions.
    - The people that they had strategically placed to ask questions all got the opportunity to ask questions and fill the time alloted for asking questions.
    - The county chairman who previously voiced his dissatisafaction with the IFA on numerous occasions over the last 4 weeks has somehow changed coats and while he didn't voice his support for the IFA's position on CAP, he didn't voice his dissatisfaction on the night. (Perhaps he wasn't allowed?) However, he was one of the organisers of the protest.
    - They went through the motions, got through them without any hassle and got out of there fast. It was win all around for the IFA.

    Did the meeting go well for the Leitrim farmers?
    I felt let down after it as did anyone else that I spoke to.

    I expect that the Journal only contacted the IFA for their view on this meeting.

    They have tripled the estimate of the number of people who attended.

    They say that 30 people were outside protesting - there were over 200 people protesting in the lobby who then moved to the meeting after it began.

    The Journal and IFA used the politicans as scapegoats with a crude comment about a county councillor (and farmer) who has delivered more for farming in Leitrim over the last few years than the IFA ever did.

    Journal will print whatever the IFA send to them!
    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Can anybody help today's journal says IFA leitrim meeting went well with some "robust"criticism yet the indo on Tuesday had pictures of protesters with placards at meeting.Can anyone clear up the confusion surrounding these conflicting reports.


  • #679
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    hugo29 wrote: »
    ur right, she must have been impressed with his slurry tanker hose
    :D


  • #680
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    picture.php?albumid=2143&pictureid=14783


  • #681
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    No nothing in today's indo,only thing about farming in today's indo is the shortage of fodder and the price of it.


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  • #682
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,462 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    no matter how quiet a bull is would you take the risk with a child that young?

    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/4756855


  • #683
    tismesoitis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭tismesoitis


    Not a hope very foolish man!!Could very easily go all wrong.


  • #684
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    No nothing in today's indo,only thing about farming in today's indo is the shortage of fodder and the price of it.
    Reading the wrong days indo, too much lambing, 540 lambs since the first march


  • #685
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/4756855
    A good picture for the Health And Safety Authority.


  • #686
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 575 ✭✭✭ZETOR_IS_BETTER


    pakalasa wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/4756855
    A good picture for the Health And Safety Authority.

    Tis only gonna draw trouble for them!


  • #687
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Scanned 45 cows today. Considering the winter was in it and the summer last year 42 of them in calf is not too bad of a result. Add it to a clear herd test last Saturday and it hasn't been a bad old week. Touch wood.


  • #688
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Oh, and I should have said two sets of twins.


  • #689
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    just do it wrote: »
    FCC II only 16days old and already >600 posts! At this rate of going we'll have FCC III in the Autumn. You've a lot to answer for whelan1;):D

    Just noticed that this thread has had nearly 30,000 views :eek:


  • #690
    Catphish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭Catphish


    td5man wrote: »
    Just noticed that this thread has had nearly 30,000 views :eek:
    *slips out of the shadows*


    And about 15,000 are me :P jokes aside, I've been reading through everyones ups and downs here now for a while. we're looking into getting somewhere with a bit of land, not much though as we'd be newbies to it all. My heart goes out to both farmers and animals alike with the weather we're having.

    Hello to everyone by the way, you're a great bunch. I wonder how Kev got on :D I'll go back to my spying for now pacman.gif


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  • #691
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    What way is Boards gone, with the change of format. If you post after a post with an attachment, it's quoted in your own post. I hope it's not just me?


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