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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #872
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    my heating isnt working right, have to go out to boiler and press reset button, could work grand for months and then you have to go out every night for a week, got caught out my milkman in my pyjamas one night


  • #873
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Will someone turn on the fecking heating? :confused:

    http://www.tickld.com/images/content/55846.jpg

    :D


  • #874
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    whelan1 wrote: »
    my heating isnt working right, have to go out to boiler and press reset button, could work grand for months and then you have to go out every night for a week, got caught out my milkman in my pyjamas one night
    This thread is getting a bit durrty now again with that kinda talk :D


  • #875
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,900 ✭✭✭mf240


    whelan1 wrote: »
    caught out my milkman in my pyjamas one night

    As bad as it would have been if he had been in his own pyjamas


  • #876
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    There's more than one way of putting litres in the tank :P


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  • #877
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    I hope Pat Mustard isn't your milkman :eek:


  • #878
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Timmaay wrote: »
    I hope Pat Mustard isn't your milkman :eek:
    Ya, there are some very hairy babies around Co.Louth.


  • #879
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    He never had his own tool box either :D


  • #880
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just had an adventure;) went to let cows in, plan was eldest lad would drive them up to yard and i would do half an hour cutting briars that are growing through a 4 strand barbed wire fence... so i was working away and i heard him roaring for me , one of the cows had fallen in to the river over the bridge:eek::eek: lucky i had the pruning shears with me... got in to river and cut aload of brambles to get down to where she was.. then cut an area around the bank, used the shears to cut the barbed wire and eventually got her out safe and sound ;) thats what i get for working on a bank holiday


  • #881
    Bactidiaryl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭Bactidiaryl


    One way of changing the subject:) ;)


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  • #882
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    whelan1 wrote: »
    my heating isnt working right, have to go out to boiler and press reset button, could work grand for months and then you have to go out every night for a week, got caught out my milkman in my pyjamas one night

    We always sleep naked. Good for the marriage:D


  • #883
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    We always sleep naked. Good for the marriage:D

    That's oversharing.


  • #884
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    We always sleep naked. Good for the marriage:D
    We have to wedge door closed if I've been good. When we opened it recenly 4 kids fell into the room;);););)


  • #885
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    moy83 wrote: »
    Did ye ate the turkey delaval ?
    Had plenty of help all demolished. A case of wine was also consumed so not really sure if it was fully thawed but all well this am, head a little sore though. Christmas should be in April every year eather more seasonal:cool::cool:


  • #886
    f140
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 875 ✭✭✭f140


    how much grass would be in a field on average before cutting it for first cut silage eg in a grazing field there might be 1400-2000kg?


  • #887
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Rotten day today, found a 3 month old heifer calf dead. Then found another heifer calving seemed i wasnt too sure so called the vet, heifer started pushing out the head so i decided to jack. unfortunately got caught at the hips by the time the vet came and ended up having to put down the calf and cut him out of the heifer. Thought i had finished with this sh*t last year.


  • #888
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Sorry to hear that chippy. Of all the posters on here you probably deserve a slice of luck the most. Hope it comes soon for you.


  • #889
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    f140 wrote: »
    how much grass would be in a field on average before cutting it for first cut silage eg in a grazing field there might be 1400-2000kg?

    What size is the field?


  • #890
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    1chippy wrote: »
    Rotten day today, found a 3 month old heifer calf dead. Then found another heifer calving seemed i wasnt too sure so called the vet, heifer started pushing out the head so i decided to jack. unfortunately got caught at the hips by the time the vet came and ended up having to put down the calf and cut him out of the heifer. Thought i had finished with this sh*t last year.
    thats crap, any idea what the 3 month old died from


  • #891
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    whelan1 wrote: »
    thats crap, any idea what the 3 month old died from
    i can only presume pneumonia, a lot of the calves started coughing about a week ago so i went around with resflor on anything i found coughing. There were 2 pens i couldnt get into due to aggressive cows but i watched the calves closely and couldnt notice anything wrong with them so i presume i missed her. another couple with slight temps today so got draxxin and some other shot for the ones that had. we have another calf that seems pretty watery too, so got a few shots for him and stuck him under a lamp. Decided to sacrifice a 10 acre field adjoining the yard and let all the cows and calves out together with access to a cubicle house and creep for the calves, so hopefully may help disease build up a little.


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  • #892
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Weather looks promising for next week. Looks like we will be back under the Atlantic's influence


  • #893
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    1chippy wrote: »
    i can only presume pneumonia, a lot of the calves started coughing about a week ago so i went around with resflor on anything i found coughing. There were 2 pens i couldnt get into due to aggressive cows but i watched the calves closely and couldnt notice anything wrong with them so i presume i missed her. another couple with slight temps today so got draxxin and some other shot for the ones that had. we have another calf that seems pretty watery too, so got a few shots for him and stuck him under a lamp. Decided to sacrifice a 10 acre field adjoining the yard and let all the cows and calves out together with access to a cubicle house and creep for the calves, so hopefully may help disease build up a little.

    Having one of those days meself chippy .
    Best heifer calf i have this year is flat out with pneumonia . Went to vet and gave her flunxin and nuflor earlier but too early to see any improvement yet.
    Really hope she pulls through , she an outstanding calf .

    Went out around 10 to look at a cow that has started calving about 8.30.
    The last one thank god .
    Had feet and head up but not makin any progress .
    Heavy pull with jack and got him out .
    Went to fetch iodine from medicine cabinet and came back to find guts out on straw through navel .
    Lucky enough i have a needel and surgical thread and stitched him up .
    Dunno will it be a success though .
    Milked cow , fed calf and put in pen away from cow .

    Into shed with sheep then to find 7 new lambs .
    2 triplets and single . One dead lamb and two very weak .
    Stomach tubing and under Infra red lamp for an hour .
    Another ewe that lambed earlier this evening is rejecting a lamb i think .
    And to top it off there is wind blowin here that would cut you in two .


  • #894
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    fantastic morning here, there is actually heat out there, yipee... sun shining


  • #895
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    1chippy wrote: »
    i can only presume pneumonia, a lot of the calves started coughing about a week ago so i went around with resflor on anything i found coughing. There were 2 pens i couldnt get into due to aggressive cows but i watched the calves closely and couldnt notice anything wrong with them so i presume i missed her. another couple with slight temps today so got draxxin and some other shot for the ones that had. we have another calf that seems pretty watery too, so got a few shots for him and stuck him under a lamp. Decided to sacrifice a 10 acre field adjoining the yard and let all the cows and calves out together with access to a cubicle house and creep for the calves, so hopefully may help disease build up a little.

    chin up lad.. letting them out is a good move and hopefully it'll turn a corner now with the weather picking up..
    whelan1 wrote: »
    fantastic morning here, there is actually heat out there, yipee... sun shining

    Same here.. pleasure to be out and about..


  • #896
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    fantastic morning here, there is actually heat out there, yipee... sun shining

    yep same here:D, back to the 9-5 though so inside and yesterday was outside freezing me gnoads off


  • #897
    saranac1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭saranac1


    Anyone feed a cheap ration to freisin bull yearlings at grass. Weights average 270kg
    Not much grass about and will be killed at 2 yrs


  • #898
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Was on the road quite a bit over the weekend. The whole countryside looks like a desert. Anywhere there was grass, it has been ate. Poorer land looks like it's been scalded. Was travelling on the M6 motorway on saturday and all you could was clouds of dust rising from the fields. Very little ploughing done either.


  • #899
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Yeah, passed by some reseeded fields yesterday that should have been a lush green. Whilst they had grass, it was patchy and that poorly brownish colour.


  • #900
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    What's round bales of silage making at the moment?


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  • #901
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    just do it wrote: »
    What's round bales of silage making at the moment?

    from what I can see there is none left only rubbish, Meal better option for next few week me thinks


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