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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #992
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got an call there have a calf health inspection by the dept next friday, anyone have one? at least i have a good bit of notice

    It's a first on me! Will they treat any unhealthy ones they might find?!


  • #993
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got an call there have a calf health inspection by the dept next friday, anyone have one? at least i have a good bit of notice

    probably very similar to the feed and water checks that we routinely have. a job to keep someone employed


  • #994
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    just do it wrote: »
    It's a first on me! Will they treat any unhealthy ones they might find?!

    Good idea but i doubt it.


  • #995
    DoubleB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭DoubleB


    Yikes, that was a really rude reply saying I'm a crap cook. Was just wondering and thought u guys wud b best people to ask. Thanks to everyone else for their replies.


  • #996
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got an call there have a calf health inspection by the dept next friday, anyone have one? at least i have a good bit of notice

    Is it milkers or sucklers?


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  • #997
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Any good, weather link? Or should I say 'any good weather, link?


  • #998
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got an call there have a calf health inspection by the dept next friday, anyone have one? at least i have a good bit of notice
    Medicine records and scripts n.b.
    All the rest is good welfare, from what you've been telling us re calves I doubt you'll have any bother:)

    Book thrown at me 3 years ago as i was docking tails she was horrified, But what did me was when she asked 'what age do I dehorn'? I couldn't figure out wheather to say early or late so I said 3 weeks...........you guessed she wanted to see the script for anes. which I did not have as not used. She told me later that had I said 10 days I would have been fine.
    She wanted to see my records about the amount of live heifers:bulls, we did not have a lot of live Jersey bulls that year...............she calmed down eventually. I am sure you will not have any such problems.:rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #999
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    td5man wrote: »
    Is it milkers or sucklers?
    milkers, he is actually going to do a post abortion retest at the same time


  • #1000
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    made a bit of a fook up, how many days do you have to register a calf birth?


  • #1001
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just do it wrote: »
    It's a first on me! Will they treat any unhealthy ones they might find?!
    will let ya know next friday


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  • #1002
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    delaval wrote: »
    Medicine records and scripts n.b.
    All the rest is good welfare, from what you've been telling us re calves I doubt you'll have any bother:)

    Book thrown at me 3 years ago as i was docking tails she was horrified, But what did me was when she asked 'what age do I dehorn'? I couldn't figure out wheather to say early or late so I said 3 weeks...........you guessed she wanted to see the script for anes. which I did not have as not used. She told me later that had I said 10 days I would have been fine.
    She wanted to see my records about the amount of live heifers:bulls, we did not have a lot of live Jersey bulls that year...............she calmed down eventually. I am sure you will not have any such problems.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

    If she was so horrified by your tails being docked you should have invited her to milk cows without tails docked - she wouldn't be long becoming unhorrified then


  • #1003
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    it hits 10C for about an hour and the string top vests are out..... only in Ballinasloe! :rolleyes:


  • #1004
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    Muckit wrote: »
    it hits 10C for about an hour and the string top vests are out..... only in Ballinasloe! :rolleyes:

    Yeah nothing like a bit of sunshine to bring out the busted couch s,mother of jaysus.


  • #1005
    Askim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭Askim


    hugo29 wrote: »
    that "how late can a tractor start working thread" is funny, talk about getting a roasting
    whelan1 wrote: »
    is that the same guy that was on a few weeks ago?
    hugo29 wrote: »
    not sure, his name sounds like he should be running at aintree
    boys are giving him a severe roasting
    brought a smile to my face

    They should just feck off & leave Bob alone, when else is he to do his work, dealin all day, sowing his wild oats at the weekend, any other spare minute he is on here, complaining about the council!!!!!

    Also I think his exhaust is about to fall off, he should take it off before he heads out tonight, don't want it breaking the window, also keep her well reved on the headland, don't want it cutting out ;-)

    A


  • #1006
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    no shock in my electric fence today, so went to investigate, 1 handle hanging on sheep wire, still no shock... 1 handle broken still no shock, plugged in fencer then there was a shock:D so lesson learnt and could have saved myself over an hour walking


  • #1007
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    no shock in my electric fence today, so went to investigate, 1 handle hanging on sheep wire, still no shock... 1 handle broken still no shock, plugged in fencer then there was a shock:D so lesson learnt and could have saved myself over an hour walking

    And todays leather medal goes to........:D


  • #1008
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    whelan1 wrote: »
    no shock in my electric fence today, so went to investigate, 1 handle hanging on sheep wire, still no shock... 1 handle broken still no shock, plugged in fencer then there was a shock:D so lesson learnt and could have saved myself over an hour walking

    First lesson in technical support "Ask have they plugged it in" :pac:


  • #1009
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    freedominacup wrote: »
    And todays leather medal goes to........:D
    also drove over a manhole in my yard and damaged exhaust on my car, drive over it 10 times a day:cool:


  • #1010
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    First lesson in technical support "Ask have they plugged it in" :pac:
    didnt mind had 2 youngest with me , was laughing at the 2 of them... youngest lad fell about 5 times and just got up, his first tooth fell out aswell, so major adventure


  • #1011
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Savage day in these parts. Was up at 5am and had 40 bales of silage in the yard before 10am - have enough to keep us going for a month now. Had to draw them through miles of fields that were only dry enough now to travel through multiple times. Will try to keep some over in case we have to house during the summer like the last few years.

    Spread 40k gallons of pig slurry after that. Then rolled 10 acres with the ring roller.

    It was so warm - the kind of weather you'd hope for in summer. I swear you can see how much the grass grew from morning to evening.

    Don't want to see rain, but judging by tonight's watery sun it's on its way.

    Got 4 calves in the midst of it all today too - all unassisted. New jack has only been used twice since last november.

    I love productive days!! :D:D:D


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  • #1012
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    women, i have a dose of man flu what do i do to get rid of it :confused:


  • #1013
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    "It was so warm - the kind of weather you'd hope for in summer. I swear you can see how much the grass grew from morning to evening"


    I agree. Definitely grass growth out today. I bought fertiliser today. Wasn't intending spreading it as it was so cold but turned out a lovely day after.


  • #1014
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    still snow lingering up north. oh was up there today


  • #1015
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    whelan1 wrote: »
    still snow lingering up north. oh was up there today


    Just back from Paris. Not a lot of crops sowed. Only saw one guy working on a field. Mostly untilled fields or hungry looking winter crops. Is the snow gone from the north east yet? noticed the Dublin mountains snowcapped.


  • #1016
    cloverleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭cloverleaf


    just back from Mayo and I sure hope that the grass is growing -40 shades of green - more like forty shades of brown.


  • #1017
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    reilig wrote: »
    .

    I love productive days!! :D:D:D

    i had the exact opposite yesterday evening - got up at half five yesterday morning and gathered a dozen january born lambs to take to market, got them in and got them tagged and then went to local merchants to get a tonne of ewe nuts as i was nearly out. By the time i got back to the yard it was eight oclock and too late to take the lambs to the mart before heading onto work. Decided to let them stand in a pen beside the cattle crush and take them to a different mart last night. Left work early to get home to get them loaded and the father had let them out as there were two cows bulling and he was waiting on ai man and didn't know why the lambs were in. Eventually got them loaded and set off in the jeep and small sheep trailer. Ten miles down the road i could see smoke coming from the back of the trailer and thought i had a puncture but the bearing had collapsed in the hub and the wheel was about to overtake me down the road. Had to pull into a layby and unhook the trailer and head home for the cattle trailer and bring it back and unload the lambs into it and take them back to the yard and then unhook the cattle trailer and hitch up the flatbed and go back and run the sheep trailer up the skids onto the flatbed and bring it back to the yard. sixty miles for fook all and lambs will likely be back about 50p/kg next week by the time i get them out again. The joys of part time farming.:rolleyes:


  • #1018
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Askim wrote: »
    They should just feck off & leave Bob alone, when else is he to do his work, dealin all day, sowing his wild oats at the weekend, any other spare minute he is on here, complaining about the council!!!!!

    Also I think his exhaust is about to fall off, he should take it off before he heads out tonight, don't want it breaking the window, also keep her well reved on the headland, don't want it cutting out ;-)

    A

    and how the hell did you know my exhaust is broke? noticed it ****ed again the other day, anyone know where to go get those fancy stainless steel ones, can they be got so as I can still sound like a boy racer


  • #1019
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    whelan1 wrote: »
    no shock in my electric fence today, so went to investigate, 1 handle hanging on sheep wire, still no shock... 1 handle broken still no shock, plugged in fencer then there was a shock:D so lesson learnt and could have saved myself over an hour walking

    did almost the opposite, went to turn off the switch on the electronic fence, then walked down to open a paddock gap, only to get a massive bloody shock off it! Only then did it dawn on me that it had been off before and I had turned it back on instead of off! At least I know its working!

    Tb all clear so good day mostly!


  • #1020
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Am I the only lad in the country that got sun burnt today :embarrassed:


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  • #1021
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,961 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Ah redzer have you freckles as well as the red hair??:D

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



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