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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #4202
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    My 12 year old just called out to me from the kitchen

    "Daddy, can you get porn without a subscription?"

    Luckily I waited for him to repeat the question.

    What he actually said was "can you get pour-on without a prescription..."

    Good boy.


  • #4203
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    that's an "Ask your Father" question, if ever I heard one!


  • #4204
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Fellas need to take the chance at grass now, no point leaving it and not being able to go at it for 10 days or more due to bad weather

    For god's sake, will ye relax! :D:D:D

    Who are you to tell anyone that they need to cut their meadows?

    I put fertilizer on 15 acres last week and it's 3 inches high - should I cut it this evening?


  • #4205
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    a few days rain makes people very tetchy, it will be all nicey nicey now with a few good days


  • #4206
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    whelan1 wrote: »
    a few days rain makes people very tetchy, it will be all nicey nicey now with a few good days

    PST








    pre silage tension :eek:


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  • #4207
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    iverjohnston wrote: »
    that's an "Ask your Father" question, if ever I heard one!

    it is and how the hell would you answer that one,:D

    no son but here is my details:o


  • #4208
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just let off a bit of pst steam there a minute ago, arrived up to yard after cutting weeds, to find it takes 2 people to fill the tractor tank with diesel:eek::eek::eek: ffs when the cats away the mice will play


  • #4209
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    I find it funny when people on here say they are farming wet land, then had desperate weather last week and are off cutting silage today.

    Do you people have any idea what wet land actually is. My wet land which is 15miles away from my yard wont be travellable for a couple of dry weeks now again along with all the land around it.

    allot of you guys with this so called wet land would starve if you actually had wet land


  • #4210
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bob charles wrote: »
    I find it funny when people on here say they are farming wet land, then had desperate weather last week and are off cutting silage today.

    Do you people have any idea what wet land actually is. My wet land which is 15miles away from my yard wont be travellable for a couple of dry weeks now again along with all the land around it.

    allot of you guys with this so called wet land would starve if you actually had wet land
    cutting off cutable paddocks, there are paddocks you cant even walk through, as i said before you work with what you have, this means i know what paddocks i can mow and only cut off them, rest get topped when weather allows, topping a 9 acre field today and we will roll it later as it was so badly damaged last year


  • #4211
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    bob charles wrote: »
    I find it funny when people on here say they are farming wet land, then had desperate weather last week and are off cutting silage today.

    Do you people have any idea what wet land actually is. My wet land which is 15miles away from my yard wont be travellable for a couple of dry weeks now again along with all the land around it.

    allot of you guys with this so called wet land would starve if you actually had wet land

    I'm literally in that boat!

    Next door neighbour did 2 rounds of a meadow last night with the mower and left big deep tracks. It'll never be dry enough to bale before the promised rain on friday. He was working up the country for the last few days and saw all the silage cut and thought to himself that it was getting too late for his own.

    First meadows + paddocks will be fit to cut at the end of next week and if the weather isn't wit us, they'll keep for 2 weeks. What about it?

    People are going on here about there being no excuses not to have silage done at this stage. For some of us, the land was too wet to spread fertilizer early on this year and many of those that got it out wasted it because early growth was chocked with frost. These aren't excuses for us - we still wouldn't be doing any silage till after next week no matter what the lead up was!

    It's easy to brag and slag when you're winning!
    Farmers know their own land and their meadows. We live on an island with major daily differences in weather - North, South, East and West. !


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  • #4212
    Viewtodiefor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Viewtodiefor


    Lads have a calf with a half droopey ear where he was tagged. Looks very sore at the tag and drooping from here must have nipped sumthing when tagging. Anyone have sum ideas? Will I cut tag out inject etc etc?


  • #4213
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    It's thin enough, and we wont get to the hill.

    But we're mowing...

    9073804745_d3913a3ddc_z.jpg


  • #4214
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    reilig wrote: »
    I'm literally in that boat!

    Next door neighbour did 2 rounds of a meadow last night with the mower and left big deep tracks. It'll never be dry enough to bale before the promised rain on friday. He was working up the country for the last few days and saw all the silage cut and thought to himself that it was getting too late for his own.

    First meadows + paddocks will be fit to cut at the end of next week and if the weather isn't wit us, they'll keep for 2 weeks. What about it?

    People are going on here about there being no excuses not to have silage done at this stage. For some of us, the land was too wet to spread fertilizer early on this year and many of those that got it out wasted it because early growth was chocked with frost. These aren't excuses for us - we still wouldn't be doing any silage till after next week no matter what the lead up was!

    It's easy to brag and slag when you're winning!
    Farmers know their own land and their meadows. We live on an island with major daily differences in weather - North, South, East and West. !

    whatever happens for now its too early to be in the salvage mode. I would be holding off if land is going to be rutted a problem that takes years to rectify. A little less willie waving from those that are able to get on and work aswell wouldnt go astray for those who are fighting the weather for the last 18months.


  • #4215
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    was cutting a meadow this morning, got to the last little strip and see a brown bird, presume pheasant? and 6 or 7 babies running in front of the mower, they kept turning back into the grass, had to get out several times and try and hunt them off, hope they all made it


  • #4216
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    was cutting a meadow this morning, got to the last little strip and see a brown bird, presume pheasant? and 6 or 7 babies running in front of the mower, they kept turning back into the grass, had to get out several times and try and hunt them off, hope they all made it

    Did they look like this?

    hen_pheasant_with_chicks__stoney_law__catton_4412.jpg

    Did the hen and the chicks run in the same direction? Often, I have seen the hen run one way, and the she sends the chicks the other...

    Bit late for chicks now I would have thought?

    Oh - and welcome back Vander... hope you had a nice time... :D


  • #4217
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Or maybe even the Corncrake...
    Corncrake_John_Brittain-628x356.jpg


  • #4218
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Or maybe even the Corncrake...

    Are they still around?


  • #4219
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Username John wrote: »
    Are they still around?

    There was one in a hay meadow here last year. Not been heard this year though.


  • #4220
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    There was one in a hay meadow here last year. Not been heard this year though.

    Oh - I didn't know that, I thought they were gone everywhere.


  • #4221
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    was cutting a meadow this morning, got to the last little strip and see a brown bird, presume pheasant? and 6 or 7 babies running in front of the mower, they kept turning back into the grass, had to get out several times and try and hunt them off, hope they all made it

    I was wondering if you were still alive after the honeymoon :D


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  • #4222
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Will a john deere mower and fusion 2 go through a 9 foot gap


  • #4223
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Username John wrote: »
    Oh - I didn't know that, I thought they were gone everywhere.

    No, they're very very slowly on the incline again. This is why we're supposed to cut meadows from the inside out, to allow nature to escape. What was their downfall however was the start of 2-3 cuttings of silage;this meant they couldn't rear young at all. They would love our land, we never cut until 1-2nd week of July as we only take one cut.

    Just reading 'Vet Among The Pigeons' by Gillian Hick here, I'm just after 3 chapters and have been giggling away to myself for most of it. Def a good read!


  • #4224
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    quadboy wrote: »
    Will a john deere mower and fusion 2 go through a 9 foot gap

    An 8 foot mower will...a 10 foot mower wont ;) Dont know for sure about the fusion but there wont be an inch to spare if it will and thats with a straight run at it, if your turning in from a road forget about it.

    Edit to say I just googeled the dimensions of a fusion and it aint gonna fit.


  • #4225
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bob charles wrote: »
    I find it funny when people on here say they are farming wet land, then had desperate weather last week and are off cutting silage today.

    Do you people have any idea what wet land actually is. My wet land which is 15miles away from my yard wont be travellable for a couple of dry weeks now again along with all the land around it.

    allot of you guys with this so called wet land would starve if you actually had wet land
    Maybe they have both wet and dry, and in that case which do you think they reserve for silage?;)


  • #4226
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    a load of dept guys at the mart today, every trailer had to be washed leaving the mart, any animals with 1 tag where sent home......


  • #4227
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Viewtodiefor wrote: »
    Lads have a calf with a half droopey ear where he was tagged. Looks very sore at the tag and drooping from here must have nipped sumthing when tagging. Anyone have sum ideas? Will I cut tag out inject etc etc?
    cut out tag, inject and bathe with salt and water


  • #4228
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    whelan1 wrote: »
    cut out tag, inject and bathe with salt and water

    and spray with iodine


  • #4229
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    reilig wrote: »
    and spray with iodine
    might be no harm to put some stockholm tar on it too


  • #4230
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    An 8 foot mower will...a 10 foot mower wont ;) Dont know for sure about the fusion but there wont be an inch to spare if it will and thats with a straight run at it, if your turning in from a road forget about it.

    Edit to say I just googeled the dimensions of a fusion and it aint gonna fit.

    The right job would be to take away a 12 foot stone wall where a machine went in years ago and put a gate there, 12 foot wide btw not 12 foot high


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  • #4231
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    I find it funny when people on here say they are farming wet land, then had desperate weather last week and are off cutting silage today.

    Do you people have any idea what wet land actually is. My wet land which is 15miles away from my yard wont be travellable for a couple of dry weeks now again along with all the land around it.

    allot of you guys with this so called wet land would starve if you actually had wet land

    "Starve if you actually had wet land"
    Big statement Bob!!!


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