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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #1682
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    naughto wrote: »
    not being smart here but you could sell him to some one who does not have the same quality of cattle that you have.yours is at that top end there would be people with middle of the road cattle that he could do a job for.

    But there are loads of correct bulls out there for sale. If I sell this guy for breeding, I will end up having to take a cut price for him in comparison to a more correct bull. I could probably get more money out of him by factorying him than by halter training, showing or advertising him.

    There are enough bad bulls for sale out there. I don't want to add to it. I have to be realistic.

    I still have 2 bulls for breeding that I will be feeding over the summer.


  • #1683
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    No Promise of dry weather over the next 5 days unless you're below the Esker Riada. 2 or 3 warm days which will promote growth, but it's to get cold again at the weekend with temperatures below normal. No end in sight really!


  • #1684
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    reilig wrote: »
    No Promise of dry weather over the next 5 days unless you're below the Esker Riada. 2 or 3 warm days which will promote growth, but it's to get cold again at the weekend with temperatures below normal. No end in sight really!

    Dry land is wet around here at the moment, something would want to change for the better in the next fortnight or we will be in trouble here. Fields I can normally drive on with the jeep any day of the year are too wet to spread fert on at the moment :(


  • #1685
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Wet night now, had a white lgl bull calf there unassisted , 3rd calver 3 bulls, can't complain fl22, cvv and now Lgl. Great comfort in a cow like that she just gets on with it, last 5 calves in a row were bulls but the best one didn't make it ;-(, 3 more and calving is done for this year thank god

    I spoke too soon.. She had the calving bed out at 7am on last check before work, ;-( her mother calving at moment , Another white cow also LGL!


  • #1686
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    reilig wrote: »
    But there are loads of correct bulls out there for sale. If I sell this guy for breeding, I will end up having to take a cut price for him in comparison to a more correct bull. I could probably get more money out of him by factorying him than by halter training, showing or advertising him.

    There are enough bad bulls for sale out there. I don't want to add to it. I have to be realistic.

    I still have 2 bulls for breeding that I will be feeding over the summer.

    Fair play Reilig,
    too many lads think all their geese are swans and this attitude does nothing to improve the national herd


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  • #1687
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    fcukin hell is it just me or does it get harder with the end (or supposedly so ) in sight, had to run out from work at 2pm home, jack a calf, drop everything and run back to work, god i hope i dont smell (too bad):D


  • #1688
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    hugo29 wrote: »
    fcukin hell is it just me or does it get harder with the end (or supposedly so ) in sight, had to run out from work at 2pm home, jack a calf, drop everything and run back to work, god i hope i dont smell (too bad):D

    "The darkest hour is always before the dawn". This dawn better be worth waiting for.


  • #1689
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bob charles wrote: »
    "The darkest hour is always before the dawn". This dawn better be worth waiting for.

    it better come quick, cause this ship is close to sinking, the captain is close to taking to the bottle:D


  • #1690
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    it better come quick, cause this ship is close to sinking, the captain is close to taking to the bottle:D
    i'm not too far behind ya tbh, 2 kids with vomiting bug just to rub salt into the wounds


  • #1691
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i'm not too far behind ya tbh, 2 kids with vomiting bug just to rub salt into the wounds

    wine for you, bimostat for the kids:D


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  • #1692
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    wine for you, bimostat for the kids:D
    think the younder lad is beyond bimastat coming both ways:mad: cant wait to get out of the house to milk


  • #1693
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    whelan1 wrote: »
    think the younder lad is beyond bimastat coming both ways:mad: cant wait to get out of the house to milk

    Never heard a dairy farmer say that before.


  • #1694
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Quick question, can you write off a mobile phone against the farm tax? Or 2/3s of it as is with your phone and esb bills? Or is that only for bills? Seeing as I do use the mobile for likes of agrinet etc!!


  • #1695
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Dry land is wet around here at the moment, something would want to change for the better in the next fortnight or we will be in trouble here. Fields I can normally drive on with the jeep any day of the year are too wet to spread fert on at the moment :(

    weren't you the fecker that said you wanted a drop of rain?


  • #1696
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    reilig wrote: »
    What would a 600kg 18 month old pedigree bull make in the factory these days? He has never bred. I assume he would grade very well.
    Similar situation here. Factory quoted between 1500-1600 for a 680kg bull last Friday. Bull is fine for breeding but being offered less than that for breeding.


  • #1697
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Quick question, can you write off a mobile phone against the farm tax? Or 2/3s of it as is with your phone and esb bills? Or is that only for bills? Seeing as I do use the mobile for likes of agrinet etc!!

    yes, every cost associated on farm should include in farm accounts. otherwise you will be taxed on the double.


  • #1698
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    weren't you the fecker that said you wanted a drop of rain?

    That was me alright :o It forgot to stop when it started though, Im only 2 miles from the sea here surrounded by mountains so its the first stop for any rain clouds blowing in from the Atlantic. We needed a few sun showers rather than the washout we have got.


  • #1699
    tismesoitis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭tismesoitis


    reilig wrote: »
    He's not working cause I never let him work :)
    He's just not good enough of quality for breeding so I'm being realistic with him.

    Same as you Reilig i'm off loading my ERE bull and another 12mth pedigree old pedigree good bulls but both 1 star so not the full package.Along with the fact we want to lighten the stock load. Headin to carnaross tomorrow with these 2 and 4 other commercial bulls and 4 bb x heifers so hopefully trade is good!!!!


  • #1700
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    whelan1 wrote: »
    think the younder lad is beyond bimastat coming both ways:mad: cant wait to get out of the house to milk

    Must have rumen fluke. Don't spare the Zanil!! Twill clean him out once and for all!


  • #1701
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Good luck tomorrow tisme


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  • #1702
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    Must have rumen fluke. Don't spare the Zanil!! Twill clean him out once and for all!
    they are well improved now, eldest lad announced at 8pm that he has a test on the rivers and mountains of ireland tomorrow:eek:, he knew since friday and was off today..... plenty of time over the weekend to do it:mad::mad:anyways spent an hour with him and he knows them now


  • #1703
    matTNT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 351 ✭✭matTNT


    We're holding out for this. It will be over soon. May 6th, brilliant sunshine!!!!

    http://www.accuweather.com/en/ie/cork/207697/may-weather/207697?monyr=5/1/2013


  • #1704
    Henwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Henwin


    matTNT wrote: »
    We're holding out for this. It will be over soon. May 6th, brilliant sunshine!!!!

    http://www.accuweather.com/en/ie/cork/207697/may-weather/207697?monyr=5/1/2013


    wohoooooo:) better be rite !!!


  • #1705
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Henwin wrote: »
    wohoooooo:) better be rite !!!
    I don't care if it's right or wrong but it's a bit of poitive news:):):)


  • #1706
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    whelan1 wrote: »
    did the cow you where waiting on that was way over her time calve?

    Hi whelan, yeah she smashed all my previous long gestation records, good lump of a red lim bull with a white belly.. quality calf on 299 days:confused:.

    both cows today mother and daughter had 2 white LGL bull calves, ai'd the same day, both kept and calved the same day to the same sire:D


  • #1707
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Off to Finland now, I'll try to bring the bad weather with me.....or bring the good weather home. Along with 20kg of silage in cargo.

    (Or Finnish women for some farm help!!):P


  • #1708
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Off to Finland now, I'll try to bring the bad weather with me.....or bring the good weather home. Along with 20kg of silage in cargo.

    (Or Finnish women for some farm help!!):P

    bring the weather, silage and women in that order :p


  • #1709
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    simx wrote: »
    bring the weather, silage and women in that order :p

    If a nice Finish girl landed on your lap, you wouldnt be long forgetting about the weather and silage


  • #1710
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    bob charles wrote: »
    If a nice Finish girl landed on your lap, you wouldnt be long forgetting about the weather and silage

    by god she`d want to be a nice one to make ya forget about them things at this stage :p , she might be handy for working the push off rake when silage is due, now id like to see that :D


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  • #1711
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    simx wrote: »
    by god she`d want to be a nice one to make ya forget about them things at this stage :p , she might be handy for working the push off rake when silage is due, now id like to see that :D

    She be Perfect for a help at the dehorning :D


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