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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #2042
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Got my application form yesterday. Deadline is 15th May 2013, same as Single Payment.
    Is it essentially the same as the Suckler Scheme, but with less money? :(


  • #2043
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Got my application form yesterday. Deadline is 15th May 2013, same as Single Payment.
    Is it essentially the same as the Suckler Scheme, but with less money? :(

    Got that today here, have yet to read the booklet. I'm not sure I want to depress myself this early.....


  • #2044
    Askim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭Askim


    kfk wrote: »
    It can be hard sometimes to read cattle signals but it was obvious she was going to charge them! I thought it was funny when your man took cover behind the quad. He is lucky he didn't come out of there with some broken bones and end up in the hospital telling the doctor she attacked them out of the blue!

    lucky they had a video camera with them. Must be the new way to deal with wild animals !!!!

    did they just " happen" to have it on .
    Not worth the risk to have a vid on the net.
    A


  • #2045
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    whelan1 wrote: »
    if i owned them they would be gone:o every year i am listening to "this year i will reduce my numbers.....

    Is it particular angus blood lines? I'm constantly toying with switching over to Angus but this would be a major turn off for me. How about the first cross BFRxAA? They seem to be a good cow and cross well with CH.


  • #2046
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    maybe its just me but i would trust them at all after calving


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  • #2047
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    bought 4 ton of silage this morning off a friend, feck all growth still. meself and a lad were saying 6 weeks ago itl be grand once may comes, all cattle and calves out, and cutting back on the meal. its the opposite still:eek::eek:


  • #2048
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    just do it wrote: »
    Is it particular angus blood lines? I'm constantly toying with switching over to Angus but this would be a major turn off for me. How about the first cross BFRxAA? They seem to be a good cow and cross well with CH.

    i have an angusxbb and she is as quiet as a mouse, even after calving, she is pushing on a bit, but was always quiet


  • #2049
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    It's one of the characteristics I look at when selecting AI bulls. However I wonder how reliable such a subjective trait is on ICBF.


  • #2050
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    May day and all cattle still in here and will be for another week or more


  • #2051
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Muckit wrote: »
    May day and all cattle still in here and will be for another week or more
    reckon it has to be the costliest year to dat since i started, but im only at it 5 years, im off to estonia this weekend, gona get lamped the first day!:D:D


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  • #2052
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    reckon it has to be the costliest year to dat since i started, but im only at it 5 years, im off to estonia this weekend, gona get lamped the first day!:D:D

    Enjoy yourself ya lucky h**r! :P I'I prob have as much spent and only going to a wedding up in Mayo!


  • #2053
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    see an ad on dd for wrapped barley straw, why would you wrap it? would it not heat and go mouldy????


  • #2054
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Muckit wrote: »
    Enjoy yourself ya lucky h**r! :P I'I prob have as much spent and only going to a wedding up in Mayo!
    i have one of them in belmullet in december, a cheap weekend abroad is as cheap! first time ill have left the farm since december


  • #2055
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Muckit wrote: »
    Enjoy yourself ya lucky h**r! :P I'I prob have as much spent and only going to a wedding up in Mayo!

    watch yerself in mayo you could get lamped there too and not in a good way:D where in mayo the wedding muckit


  • #2056
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    i have one of them in belmullet in december, a cheap weekend abroad is as cheap! first time ill have left the farm since december

    if its in the broadhaven its a great spot for wedding, just dont argue with the natives, their like seals "cuddly and good crack just dont poke them" was at a wedding there few months back,


  • #2057
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    fantastic day here , said 18 degrees on clock in car:)


  • #2058
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    hugo29 wrote: »
    watch yerself in mayo you could get lamped there too and not in a good way:D where in mayo the wedding muckit

    Up the very top, up past Killala, then down around the far side in Enniscrone for the afters


  • #2059
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Muckit wrote: »
    Up the very top, up past Killala, then down around the far side in Enniscrone for the afters

    Diamond coast hotel then, going to a wedding there me self the following week, not that far from me


  • #2060
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Diamond coast hotel then....
    No Ocean sands I think...


  • #2061
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    whelan1 wrote: »
    fantastic day here , said 18 degrees on clock in car:)

    Mine said that over a month ago.

    Then it went into free fall when I drove a few hundred yards and settled at 9!

    I'm still not over the disappointment !


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  • #2062
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    see an ad on dd for wrapped barley straw, why would you wrap it? would it not heat and go mouldy????

    No. It's actually an ok job for keeping straw stored outside dry. Single wrap usually so not very airtight.


  • #2063
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Bord Bia inspection in 30 mins. Totally forgot, should be interesting.
    Considering we have not slaughtered an animal in 4 years not too concerned. However like any test one likes to win.


  • #2064
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    whelan1 wrote: »
    see an ad on dd for wrapped barley straw, why would you wrap it? would it not heat and go mouldy????

    Wrapped 70 bales of barley straw in October with 2 layers of wrap just for outside storage. Fed out the last bale this week and it was 100%. I know that some people wrapped straw that was baled up wet last year. I was offered some and advisor told me that it would keep perfect. I didn't chance it though.


  • #2065
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    delaval wrote: »
    Bord Bia inspection in 30 mins. Totally forgot, should be interesting.
    Considering we have not slaughtered an animal in 4 years not too concerned. However like any test one likes to win.

    Have your farm safety statement ready.


  • #2066
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Have your farm safety statement ready.
    As the add says 'in a file in the filing cabinet'


  • #2067
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    delaval wrote: »
    Bord Bia inspection in 30 mins. Totally forgot, should be interesting.
    Considering we have not slaughtered an animal in 4 years not too concerned. However like any test one likes to win.
    dont do it, its just money for the boys, was told the other night it only applies for animals under 30 months, bord bia are a joke after the horsemeat fiasco


  • #2068
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    triticale/lupin mix sown, he will ring roll it later and spray with pre emergence spray tonight... 3 weeks earlier than last year:)


  • #2069
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    triticale/lupin mix sown, he will ring roll it later and spray with pre emergence spray tonight... 3 weeks earlier than last year:)

    would you give mullinahone a shout for me there, i left a voice message with them 2 days ago and still no reply, do they speak a different language down there in tipperary:D


  • #2070
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    see the first loads of imported hay are starting to arrive into local co ops, anyone avail of anything similar, its pass the bale around here at the moment, i got 6 off me neighbour and gave 2 to another neighbour who is badly stuck, lads going in all directions looking for anything

    see lads who let cattle out a couple weeks ago are now in a bad way,


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  • #2071
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    went on a long walk to monitor grass growth, and noticed the oak are well out before the ash, order your sun cream !!


    ps growth is "okish" on dry sheltered fields

    cold low lying and up land exposed are very poor :(


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