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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #4622
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    whelan1 wrote: »
    thought my 2 lads would be going to school in nappies, they had no desire at all to be potty trained, then it just clicked with them, the girl was trained by the time she was 2.... dont know if i said this on here before but a few years ago the youngest lad put 2 hens into my little ones dolls house, i didnt know they where there, 2 hens had a great sleep in the house and around 5am i could here noises downstairs , thought we where being robbed, sent oh down and the 2 hens where happy as larry in the dolls house, ya couldnt be up to kids

    well over 20 years ago at this stage..

    o/h went shopping and had the 2 eldest in the back seat , noticed there was a bit of whispering and giggling going on but didn't query it,

    opened the boot to get the bags and a pet lamb hopped out and scurried off around the car park


  • #4623
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    thought my 2 lads would be going to school in nappies, they had no desire at all to be potty trained, then it just clicked with them, the girl was trained by the time she was 2.... dont know if i said this on here before but a few years ago the youngest lad put 2 hens into my little ones dolls house, i didnt know they where there, 2 hens had a great sleep in the house and around 5am i could here noises downstairs , thought we where being robbed, sent oh down and the 2 hens where happy as larry in the dolls house, ya couldnt be up to kids

    When I was six, I was lifting turt (albeit badly) on the bog and saw frogs for the first time. Smuggled home two in the pockets of my jeans and kept them in my wardrobe. :rolleyes:
    Promptly forgot about them and 2 months later I was crying as mammy cremated their mummified corpses in the fire. There are many more stories.....I wasn't a very good child.


  • #4624
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    then you have the frightening moments, youngest lad went missing about a year ago, i was sure he was in the bottom of a slurry tank- although all are secure, loads of people looking for him and he was hiding in the car, fooker wouldnt answer us when we where calling him.... brother went missing years ago , my mam was wading through our quarry , she though he had been drowned , fecker had fallen asleep in a field and came home as if nothing was wrong he was 5


  • #4625
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Well I have just been given the run around by my two all day, worse than any football match, I'd swear they wake up in the morning realise daddy is on his own and look at each other and decide party time,
    I'd swear they don't get away with half as much with their mother,


  • #4626
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    I dunno is it me or the journal that made a mess of things but i filled out their fodder budget sheet and it turned out as a 21% deficit even though ill have half the stock i had last winter but ill have roughly the same amount of bales and i put in a shorter winter cos they will be sold in the spring, 18 yearlings btw if anyone wants to work it out


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  • #4627
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,901 ✭✭✭mf240


    hugo29 wrote: »
    I was out cutting lawn with youngest lad, oldest lad went in and turned on telly, came in and he had managed to find a channel called "god tv" I never knew there was such a channel,

    he probably flicked over from babestation when he heard ya coming.:D


  • #4628
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Trying to mind the boys here, one lad sat in the sand pit full of water while the other one attacked the flower bed with a shovel, jayus such crack, I suppose I better try to fix the flower bed before their mother gets home,

    Had the twins in the tractor spreading fertiliser all day, thats why i was spreading fertiliser all day. :-)


  • #4629
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    that has been known to happen in this house too:D


  • #4630
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Heading to the beach for a last dip. Holidays not quite over.


  • #4631
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Heading to the beach for a last dip. Holidays not quite over.
    ye nice evening, just had another barbecue..... was watching crows fighting over leftovers, hate crows


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  • #4632
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    on crows, my aunt was down today and she said you have a load of pheasants in the yard, i had to disapoint her and tell her they where crows


  • #4633
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    when i was younger i went to a vintage run and found a lad selling piglets. i snuck them into the boot of the car without the old ones seeing. it was half way home before their was any noise (suppose they presumed the smell was off us) anyways they nearly shot me when i got home. i done something similar with an old lad up the road who gave me 16 kid buck goats (he told me he was going to kill them), i had them hid in an old shed for 2 days before my parents found them. dad loaded them into a trailer and dropped them in the front door of your boys house. It was great craic being young.


  • #4634
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Is part time farming an Irish thing only. I know they have smallholders in the UK. (amazing what comes to mind when you are topping for a few hours!!!!!)


  • #4635
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    If you're not in BTAP would you think of going in next time it's open? I find STAP good for meeting other farmers and making better connections with people I already knew, but wasn't nosey enough to know what they were at so to speak :pac:

    Im not pushed on those meetings , sure its nothing you wont hear about here anyhow :-)


  • #4636
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    moy83 wrote: »
    Im not pushed on those meetings , sure its nothing you wont hear about here anyhow :-)

    That wasn't quite the gist of my post :D


  • #4637
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Is part time farming an Irish thing only. I know they have smallholders in the UK. (amazing what comes to mind when you are topping for a few hours!!!!!)

    funny, my son asked me the same thing today. I think it is? Why?


  • #4638
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    There are part timers in the USA as well. Herself had an international student from Kansas staying a couple of years ago, his Dad was a part time farmer there, sounded a lot tougher going than here.


  • #4639
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    kowtow wrote: »
    funny, my son asked me the same thing today. I think it is? Why?
    On Monday mornings at work, the first conversation is what you did for the weekend. I usual stay quite as most would not have a clue as to what I was on about. It just got me thinking was this an Irish thing. I must admit I've never heard of a pt French farmer.


  • #4640
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    That wasn't quite the gist of my post :D

    I know it wasnt , the meetings might be a good way of mingling for some people but they are not for me . Im an odd fcuker like that


  • #4641
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    I must admit I've never heard of a pt French farmer.

    Are not all french farmers part time. lazy sods harly harvest the grain in July as its their month off.


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  • #4642
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    spent half the evening patching bales. young nephew thought it would be great crack to go around poking them with an electric fence stake!!:rolleyes:


  • #4643
    J DEERE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭J DEERE


    Muckit wrote: »
    spent half the evening patching bales. young nephew thought it would be great crack to go around poking them with an electric fence stake!!:rolleyes:

    Wonder if he'd find pulling a purofort boot out of his hole as much craic!!


  • #4644
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Muckit wrote: »
    spent half the evening patching bales. young nephew thought it would be great crack to go around poking them with an electric fence stake!!:rolleyes:

    thats breeding for you


  • #4645
    grizzlyadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 116 ✭✭grizzlyadams


    td5man wrote: »
    Had the twins in the tractor spreading fertiliser all day, thats why i was spreading fertiliser all day. :-)

    Had our twins in tractor all day also , spreading slurry with Daddy , @ 5yrs , girls while their two older brothers were at home


  • #4646
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Had my 2 year old girl with me all day in the tractor. Topping and spreading fertiliser. Mother lost the rag about it. (She's from Bray) she has no idea about farming. ..... I minded the little girl for the day and had a great day with and got the head ate off me for it...... ****ing townies


  • #4647
    Chisler2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭Chisler2


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Is part time farming an Irish thing only. I know they have smallholders in the UK. (amazing what comes to mind when you are topping for a few hours!!!!!)

    Interesting question! I was chatting with a neighbouring farmer in Mayo a few weeks ago and he enthusiastically agreed that what he did (40 acres of poor-to-middling grade land) was "a life-style choice" about "being his own boss" and "enjoying life". I am 'smallholding' (11 acres) in Mayo and live the remaining time in the Iowa mid-west of the USA. Our 86-year-old next-door neighbour has a "smallholding" of 300+ acres of corn and soy-bean (a "Heritage" farm with over 100 years ownership by the same family). Apart from doing the accounts and sanctioning the decisions taken by his two managers he has worked as an architect all his life and visits the farm half-a-dozen times throughout the growing season. This situation is becoming more and more rare in the USA as farmland is increasingly being bought out by the multinationals.

    Brings up the question "What is a part-time farmer?" I think France is a very different case insofar as they never (and will never!) give up their agrarian base (so therefore are safe from whatever happens in Euroland). Kaboom.


  • #4648
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    In Holland it wouldn't be uncommon for a dairy farmer with 70 cows milked by robot to have another job.


  • #4649
    Milton09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭Milton09


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Had my 2 year old girl with me all day in the tractor. Topping and spreading fertiliser. Mother lost the rag about it. (She's from Bray) she has no idea about farming. ..... I minded the little girl for the day and had a great day with and got the head ate off me for it...... ****ing townies

    What kind of seat did you use? I'll have to do the same with my fella soon but he wouldnt be able to sit on the passenger seat.


  • #4650
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Had my 2 year old girl with me all day in the tractor. Topping and spreading fertiliser. Mother lost the rag about it. (She's from Bray) she has no idea about farming. ..... I minded the little girl for the day and had a great day with and got the head ate off me for it...... ****ing townies

    I got the same off my wife yesterday aswell , my father brought the two year old with him cutting silage for an hour . She nearly had a panic attack when she went to collect him . She does have a point about how easy an accident can happen but its hard to leave them inside when they can hear the tractors going past all the time .


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  • #4651
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Milton09 wrote: »
    What kind of seat did you use? I'll have to do the same with my fella soon but he wouldnt be able to sit on the passenger seat.

    I have an old iso-fix base bolted to the tractor, just in the place where an ordinary buddy seat should go. Its rough looking but solid. The actual seat clicks into the base.


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