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What kind of money are those type heifers making at the minute bob ? I have a few that i was going to keep for bulling but half thinking of not keeping them now at all

Timmaay wrote: »

Yeh, hasn't been grazed sense last Sept/Oct. In terms of the tank, maybe the bottom is afew inches under the top of the trough, not really a big problem, I just tip up the tank to get all but the last few litres out. Holds about 1000L, had to make 3 trips today with it. The cows did run dry in the early afternoon, as I was off the farm for afew hours. I don't send them over there at night, too far and I'd have to be up at 3am drawing water :P. I thought about using the slurry tanker, but would be a massive job to try get it clean enough?

Don't mind them timmaay. They're like my ould lad, finding fault with everything.

bob charles wrote: »

eleven hundred ish, average around the 500kg mark

Would that be a good price for both buyer and seller?

Has Spring sprung????

Tipp Man wrote: »

Is that a blue cow in the middle of that photo?

She used to be black and white but she was left out in the rain too long:pac:

Richk2012 wrote: »

Great grass for them ....
I wont see that green colour for another 3 weeks id say .
Is the brown one a jersy ???

Yes Jex we have about 60% xbred

munkus wrote: »

For some of ye lads who live outside of the West. These odd shaped objects called stones have littered our land for centenaries and have to be arranged in organised piles (walls). Sometimes they fall.


Step 1: Horror

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Step 2: Acceptance and clearout

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Step 3: Off to Pub.

Good job...the wild goats are forever knocking the walls around here:mad:

delaval wrote: »

Brilliant job. We don't have round here TG. I often wondered would the stone not be more valuable as a road way and use electric fence as a fence......,,,.,or have I asked a dumb question??

Interesting question. That is a boundary wall on our farm that was built around 1840. I think the Landlord, Gregory in Coole, Gort, commissioned for much of this in the south Galway area. The original sections that are still standing have phenomenal stonework, it's like they cut the stone.

As to the question of roadways, there's so much of the stone around that over years of ploughing them up and reclaiming land you could pave most farms with it. Well built walls are probably a better barrier than a fence in any case. You'd also have to get it crushed to be suitable for roadways.

The clearout stage is a great job . Im usually lazy and tell myself that it will be grand to start about a foot up on top and you know how that ends up . Start all over again starting properly this time