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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #1232
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Off farm job and sucklers can be a disaster.

    That's always a problem.
    Ya have to rely on others too much.
    I was working 50 miles away an it just couldn't be done. We gave them up a few years ago.


  • #1233
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Off farm job and sucklers can be a disaster.

    That's always a problem.
    Ya have to rely on others too much.
    I was working 50 miles away an it just couldn't be done. We gave them up a few years ago. I'm working closer to home now but no interest in going back as with a job it's just too easy to miss a cow calving when your away.


  • #1234
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    bbam wrote: »
    That's always a problem.
    Ya have to rely on others too much.
    I was working 50 miles away an it just couldn't be done. We gave them up a few years ago. I'm working closer to home now but no interest in going back as with a job it's just too easy to miss a cow calving when your away.

    I live a few miles from my farm. As much as I love sucklers, it's a major no-no if you don't live near them. Even then, things can go wrong. The option of a very easy calving bull is not really an alternative, because you would probably be only producing middle of the road stock, which you could buy in handier. And by easy calving, I mean hr or aa bull.


  • #1235
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    AntrimGlens wrote: »
    i can second that - was in early (5 to 9) yesterday morning and one of the girls in office says oh you're in before me this morning. Well i was about to let fly at her as the only reason i was in early was cause i was up at four to calve a cow that i'd been watching and hadn't got back to bed. All i could feel was a nose and called the vet and pulled a dead calf out of her. Bull calf off cerberus so yer one was lucky i didn't take her to pieces and she only lives two minutes from the office and i'm 25 mile away. :mad:

    Smile at her and ask if she's just out of the bed, as "the first half of the day was good" :)

    Never let on you're annoyed ;)


  • #1236
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    AntrimGlens wrote: »
    ... Bull calf off cerberus .... :mad:
    Have you any Cerebus calves on the ground?


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  • #1237
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Herd inspection on monday, what do i need to have right for it? :(


  • #1238
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,961 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Just back from the scrap yard, got 60 yoyo for half a ton of mostly flakey galvanise sheets and flattened barrels, 40 quid worth of diesel and 2 new wipers for the jeep, oh happy days.;)

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



  • #1239
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    td5man wrote: »
    Herd inspection on monday, what do i need to have right for it? :(
    i have mine tomorrow:eek::eek:


  • #1240
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Check out youtube '****ed for the Irish oral then' real mother and son in KK


  • #1241
    nhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭nhg


    delaval wrote: »
    Check out youtube '****ed for the Irish oral then' real mother and son in KK

    Just looked at it, its hilarious, I don't know who they are but from where he said he lived they are not a million miles from me, I hope he doesn't use the mothers language in the exam.

    Hailstones here at the minute!

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  • #1242
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Bodacious wrote: »
    My worst night farming ever .. Am dosed with the flu, overtired etc set clock for 4.30 ... Slept in til 6.30... Totally my own fault and will always be kicking myself but lost a whopper of a bull calf out of my best cow.. She couldn't stir him.. Barely ever I took him at the hips ... I can only blame myself ;-(
    Sorry to hear it Bod, it's a hard one to put to the back of your mind alright. The joys of suckler farming...


  • #1243
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bbam wrote: »
    That's always a problem.
    Ya have to rely on others too much.
    I was working 50 miles away an it just couldn't be done. We gave them up a few years ago. I'm working closer to home now but no interest in going back as with a job it's just too easy to miss a cow calving when your away.
    Is it just the irregularity of it? I'd imagine what you're doing now demands just as much time but possibly easier to schedule.


  • #1244
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    lovely day its after turning out to be here in west Kerry, the sea is looking inviting if only I could swim.


  • #1245
    limo_100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭limo_100


    have a cow gone 290days to blue bull DEP should i be worried :eek:


  • #1246
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    limo_100 wrote: »
    have a cow gone 290days to blue bull DEP should i be worried :eek:

    My stock bull is breeding out of dep most cows bring 287- to 292 days with him


  • #1247
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    td5man wrote: »
    Herd inspection on monday, what do i need to have right for it? :(
    all movements up to date, all medicines up to date, labels on antibiotics, prescriptions...................... just spent half an hour signing blue cards zzzzz


  • #1248
    limo_100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭limo_100


    hugo29 wrote: »
    My stock bull is breeding out of dep most cows bring 287- to 292 days with him

    are you happy with the calves?? easy calved?


  • #1249
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    would the mart have a record of animals you sold there even going back a few years


  • #1250
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    quadboy wrote: »
    would the mart have a record of animals you sold there even going back a few years
    yup, you could probably get it on agfood or in your herd register either:rolleyes:


  • #1251
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    think I got in trouble in the goat farming thread


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  • #1252
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    quadboy wrote: »
    think I got in trouble in the goat farming thread

    You gotta be kidding :-)


  • #1253
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    I dunno bah


  • #1254
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I need sleep. Looked that up and couldn't figure out why I was getting pics of dogs lying down.

    Turns out it's not Corgirest:o

    Vet on way here now.
    hows the calf?


  • #1255
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    just do it wrote: »
    Sorry to hear it Bod, it's a hard one to put to the back of your mind alright. The joys of suckler farming...

    Thank you Just Do It,

    Calved a good few in my time and never saw anything as big.. never would have thought that this could happen with a lim sire, our worst cow a AAX FR X CH little mousy butt of a cow has calved this lad unassisted and what id call a good wide lump of a 3rd calver produces this thing :mad: my father and i had a job to pull him along the ground yet alone out of a cow, she stood no chance


  • #1256
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    limo_100 wrote: »
    are you happy with the calves?? easy calved?

    Big boney cows are farting out big lumps of calves, small muscley cows need the jack, great calves to get up and suckle, generally good quality,


  • #1257
    limo_100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭limo_100


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Big boney cows are farting out big lumps of calves, small muscley cows need the jack, great calves to get up and suckle, generally good quality,

    mine is a big boney lim x brfr calf. just about to go down now and see wat shes doing. In fairness im not worried she calved him last year a massive heifer calf calved unassisted, but his naval gave way and his insides came out :mad: lets hope for better luck this year


  • #1258
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    are navals coming off the calves only common in suckler herds cos we were dairying up till last year and never seen it happen. think it happened to a lamb last week though but no guts came his naval was just gone and a small bit of blood.


  • #1259
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Thank you Just Do It,

    Calved a good few in my time and never saw anything as big.. never would have thought that this could happen with a lim sire, our worst cow a AAX FR X CH little mousy butt of a cow has calved this lad unassisted and what id call a good wide lump of a 3rd calver produces this thing :mad: my father and i had a job to pull him along the ground yet alone out of a cow, she stood no chance

    Its a sickener alright. I suppose all of us on here can identify with it. What I see with our cows is that like you say above, it can be the really good big thick cows that can give the most trouble. They just seem sometimes to produce a bear of a calf, whereas a plain enough cow to the same bull will never put such power into a calf. We would identify cows like that and keep them away from the CH bull and use AI on them.
    Anyway I'm rambling. Sickening an all as it is, you still have your good cow standing.


  • #1260
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    limo_100 wrote: »
    have a cow gone 290days to blue bull DEP should i be worried :eek:

    No. Not for a week or so yet. And even if you do worry, it wont change the situation.


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  • #1261
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    hows the calf?

    Back to herself!
    Spotted a hare with a broken leg down the field earlier.

    10/1 odds that Kovu the demonic ct will drag him into the house later:pac:


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