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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #4562
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    reilig wrote: »
    Wilting was a waste of time this time around. It was all wet. We had to wait for the contractor. Baleing when you want is the advantage of having your own baler!

    Well, phuk it for a game of soldiers. It's seriously sickening and disheartning, to have to make fodder in such conditions.
    Just to throw a bit of positivity on your situation, I got the mother of all bad weather last year when we baled.
    Crop old and lying when we cut, because of waiting for good weather which didn't come. Cut day after a deluge, because we had to. Baled next day. No wilt. Sky opened half hour after baler arrived. Ploughed field to kingdom come. Put no little soil in some of the bales. MF390 4WD, struggled to carry bales uphill:mad: For weeks after stacking, black foul smelling effluent, running out of the bales. Was afraid to open them, come winter to be honest.

    But surprise, surprise, they actually preserved quite good. Phuk all feed value, but kept them chewing:rolleyes:
    Had to back up heavily with meals and minerals.


  • #4563
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    moy83 wrote: »
    If contractors are that thin on the ground where you are buying a baler might stack up alright .
    I assume you make a few hundrer bales a year , around here one contractor has offered to agitate the slurry for free and spread it at cost just to get the baling from a few lads that would have a decent amounts for baling !

    All the same for under 10 k I would think you would get a good enough baler for your own use

    It's complicated. Contractor is a relation. We wrap for him in exchange for him baleing. He bales for 5 or 6 people. When we booked him last weekend, this whole week was promised dry so we thought we wouldn't have a bother. When we went looking for him to bale early (on wednesday afternoon), he had a lot of work ahead of him. It's just the way it worked out.


  • #4564
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    reilig wrote: »
    It's complicated. Contractor is a relation. We wrap for him in exchange for him baleing. He bales for 5 or 6 people. When we booked him last weekend, this whole week was promised dry so we thought we wouldn't have a bother. When we went looking for him to bale early (on wednesday afternoon), he had a lot of work ahead of him. It's just the way it worked out.

    We are in a similar situation here with relations . Last year was peachy for us beacause we went first in the last week of may and got smashing weather . But this year our stuff wasnt ready until now and they have theirs cut and we are left with this rain but sure thats the beauty of the irish climate


  • #4565
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    went to count this morning and going up the road a belt broke and now no fan belt x2, air con or servo belts. Only changed the fan belts 800km ago.

    Always always something .

    Dad is coming to do it sunday and also to replace a weaping hydralic pipe on tractor. :rolleyes:


  • #4566
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/stolen-cattle/5257750


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  • #4567
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    I have a dry cow that needs washing out, whats the procedure. thinking luke warm water with dettol pumped into womb, this okay? anything else. she is passing lining of the womb when urinating, maybe thrown a calf in the last few weeks or something. So give her a shot of estrumate to get her to cycle, and shot of celtiofur as antibiotic


  • #4568
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    seen a decent looking barbecue in aldi for €65, anyone bought it

    fcuking place mobbed on lunchtime friday, suppose they stock lots of irish made stuff:D


  • #4569
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    hugo29 wrote: »
    seen a decent looking barbecue in aldi for €65, anyone bought it

    fcuking place mobbed on lunchtime friday, suppose they stock lots of irish made stuff:D

    have they the price reduced already, probably dont want to hold them over till our next summer


  • #4570
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    is it a gas one, we have a gas one and its a great job


  • #4571
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    is it a gas one, we have a gas one and its a great job

    yep Gas one with dual plates, looks ok to me, fcuk it, it will look good in the rain beside me outdoor table and chairs


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  • #4572
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    bob charles wrote: »
    I have a dry cow that needs washing out, whats the procedure. thinking luke warm water with dettol pumped into womb, this okay? anything else. she is passing lining of the womb when urinating, maybe thrown a calf in the last few weeks or something. So give her a shot of estrumate to get her to cycle, and shot of celtiofur as antibiotic

    I use an old stomach tube/bag that leaks. I would use lukewarm water and lugols iodine, I've used very dilute dettol too as a rince out before the iodine. I'd insert a pessary to finish the job.


  • #4573
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Bizzum wrote: »
    I use an old stomach tube/bag that leaks. I would use lukewarm water and lugols iodine, I've used very dilute dettol too as a rince out before the iodine. I'd insert a pessary to finish the job.
    make sure to use a very small bit of iodine as it can irritate them internally otherwise


  • #4574
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    whelan1 wrote: »
    make sure to use a very small bit of iodine as it can irritate them internally otherwise

    The Lugols iodine is a dilute solution, 5% iodine or less.
    The iodine you would have for dipping a navel or the like would indeed be too strong. It is an irritant.


  • #4575
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    got a text on my way home today for excess water in the milk:mad::mad: .516 will i be deucted for this... to say i am annoyed is an understatement, we only ever get these texts at this time of year- also the fact i was away is annoying me too


  • #4576
    hoseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭hoseman


    Interesting program on bbc 2 to night at 9"Wild With Shepherdess" with Kate Humble


  • #4577
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    Is this farming section the most used on boards? Other than after hours which is populated by drunken fools:cool:


  • #4578
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭dar31


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got a text on my way home today for excess water in the milk:mad::mad: .516 will i be deucted for this... to say i am annoyed is an understatement, we only ever get these texts at this time of year- also the fact i was away is annoying me too

    got one today as well .8, think they just send them out in bactchs


  • #4579
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    dar31 wrote: »
    got one today as well .8, think they just send them out in bactchs
    ITS always this time of year though. why?


  • #4580
    tim04750
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭tim04750


    Got a text meself today telling me I had just won 1 million euro and a 5 series bmw, just need to send them me bank details :rolleyes:
    Goodbye cowsh1te ???


  • #4581
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    whelan1 wrote: »
    ITS always this time of year though. why?

    My conspiracy theory would be its because its june, and any fine will be the largest they can hit you with all year!


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  • #4582
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Timmaay wrote: »
    My conspiracy theory would be its because its june, and any fine will be the largest they can hit you with all year!

    Come on Timmay there was water in the milk. An accident that can easily happen. The biggest penalty is the dilution of the solids. Milk on the floor is better than water in the tank. You hardly think any co-op would dedicate resources to fining people for something that didn't exist.


  • #4583
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    delaval wrote: »
    Come on Timmay there was water in the milk. An accident that can easily happen. The biggest penalty is the dilution of the solids. Milk on the floor is better than water in the tank. You hardly think any co-op would dedicate resources to fining people for something that didn't exist.
    heres the thing though my solids went up for this collection:rolleyes: also this time last year i got the same text, nothing changed in the wash routine , our plant is drained at every milking as if there was going to be frost , all jars and clips left open til next milking and pipes drained out... last of milk that comes through before washing goes to calves


  • #4584
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    gas pipeline people where out the other day to look at the way they had left my land, they said it is the worst they have seen and is a disgrace, they are starting work in the next week or two to fix it up


  • #4585
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,910 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    whelan1 wrote: »
    ITS always this time of year though. why?

    must be the aftergrass, flowing through the cows:D

    Can you appeal it? Sooner you dairy guys get independent testing the better.

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



  • #4586
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    blue5000 wrote: »
    must be the aftergrass, flowing through the cows:D

    Can you appeal it? Sooner you dairy guys get independent testing the better.
    It would be just another cost added to the system.
    All you need to do is take a split sample and test it at an independant lab. We have done once or twice and found no differsnce


  • #4587
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=300565433376944&set=a.300565426710278.54502.300549863378501&type=1&ref=nf


  • #4588
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    dharn wrote: »
    Is this farming section the most used on boards? Other than after hours which is populated by drunken fools:cool:

    Doubt it very much, I know Motors and Galway City are quite busy and I'd suspect there's a few other candidates too.


  • #4589
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    there was land across the road that was planted in march, i asked them would they have any interest in selling it as it was planted. anyways the lad that was renting it, sound lad must have heard something different, cos hes fairly cold with me. dont think i done anything wrong?


  • #4590
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    there was land across the road that was planted in march, i asked them would they have any interest in selling it as it was planted. anyways the lad that was renting it, sound lad must have heard something different, cos hes fairly cold with me. dont think i done anything wrong?

    Ask him up front, best way to approach a problem go right to the source.


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  • #4591
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    i might, jes done nothing wrong. bloody people twist stuff i reckon.


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