Farming Chit Chat II

just do it · 10-07-2013 12:28PM

Scrotal size is a good indicator of whether a young bull is mature enough for the job. With this hot weather you'll have no difficulty seeing his jewels

bob charles · 10-07-2013 12:32PM

just do it wrote: »

Scrotal size is a good indicator of whether a young bull is mature enough for the job. With this hot weather you'll have no difficulty seeing his jewels

I was looking at bulls in feeding and I was commenting to myself that they never really do well until there 'jewels' drop which they have in the past few weeks. dont know whether its the feeding or the heat so

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 12:46PM

reilig wrote: »

Have a problem with our Ch bull. All cows gone to him in the last month have repeated. He's following them, and rising on them, but 3 weeks after they are on again. Everything has to get AI now - luckily we have only got about 15 left to go, but it's going to have a major impact on calving interval.

are you going to get him fertility tested? plenty of ads on donedeal for this

pakalasa · 10-07-2013 12:50PM

bob charles wrote: »

I was looking at bulls in feeding and I was commenting to myself that they never really do well until there 'jewels' drop which they have in the past few weeks. dont know whether its the feeding or the heat so

Occurs during hot weather but only in 'mature' bulls.

During hot weather,these muscles relax,peritting the scrotum to stetch and the spermatic cord to lengthen.Thus,the testes swing down away from the body These muscles do not rsepond to changes in temperature until near the age of puberty.They must be sensitized by testosterone to respond to changing ambient temperature.

Paragraph 3-2.1
http://nongae.gsnu.ac.kr/~cspark/teaching/chap3.html

Google is great !!

mf240 · 10-07-2013 01:00PM

Neighbour has an oldish bull. His balls are nearly dragging the ground.

The bull not the neighbour.

just do it · 10-07-2013 01:22PM

bob charles wrote: »

I was looking at bulls in feeding and I was commenting to myself that they never really do well until there 'jewels' drop which they have in the past few weeks. dont know whether its the feeding or the heat so

I suppose both help bring on puberty

Muckit · 10-07-2013 01:22PM

just do it wrote: »

With this hot weather you'll have no difficulty seeing his jewels

Some heat....Me own are knockin off me ankles

just do it · 10-07-2013 01:23PM

Muckit wrote: »

Some heat....Me own are knockin off me ankles

I never took you to be such a short fella

hugo29 · 10-07-2013 01:49PM

Muckit wrote: »

Some heat....Me own are knockin off me ankles

try emptying them more often,

bob charles · 10-07-2013 02:12PM

hugo29 wrote: »

try emptying them more often,

kids, less of the prepubescent talk, :rolleyes:

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 02:41PM

jeeny mac, now i will be staring at the bulls balls when i am bringing in the cows

bob charles · 10-07-2013 02:43PM

whelan1 wrote: »

jeeny mac, now i will be staring at the bulls balls when i am bringing in the cows

Dont be getting jealous now, its a tough old job keeping all those girls happy

hugo29 · 10-07-2013 02:44PM

whelan1 wrote: »

jeeny mac, now i will be staring at the bulls balls when i am bringing in the cows

no, i wont say it,

hugo29 · 10-07-2013 02:45PM

bob charles wrote: »

Dont be getting jealous now, its a tough old job keeping all those girls happy

just as well they cant talk:D

td5man · 10-07-2013 02:48PM

Get the lifeboats ready theres going to be 5mm of rain over three days next wed-fri :-)

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 02:49PM

I'll believe that when i see it. Long range forecasting is never very accurate

kevthegaff · 10-07-2013 06:26PM

have the silage thank god, id say i threw more tyresX2 what the other 3 lads did(lazy sods) , having a cider and heading collecting some small bales of hay:D:D

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 06:42PM

the crows are gone.....:D:D:D:D:D

1chippy · 10-07-2013 06:46PM

Have the same problem as ou reilig. i decided im going to cut my losses and anything thats not in calf will be shipped out. As for the crows whelan our place looks like something you would see on a horror film i have them hanging everywhere.

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 06:48PM

first evening having a barbecue with no crows around

Conmaicne Mara · 10-07-2013 06:54PM

whelan1 wrote: »

first evening having a barbecue with no crows around

Nextdoor (tourists) are having a barbeque, damn them, have the window open and no barbeque lol.

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 06:56PM

2 lads with silage trailers arrived into my yard to draw in silage, heres me on the laptop and my pyjamas on drinking cider:eek::eek: they where supposed to go to neighbouring farmer of same name

delaval · 10-07-2013 07:08PM

whelan1 wrote: »

2 lads with silage trailers arrived into my yard to draw in silage, heres me on the laptop and my pyjamas on drinking cider:eek::eek: they where supposed to go to neighbouring farmer of same name

Pj's in day light I didn't know you were farming in Finglas!!

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 07:10PM

delaval wrote: »

Pj's in day light I didn't know you were farming in Finglas!!

could have been worse i mightnt have had any on!

delaval · 10-07-2013 07:21PM

What a day
Cows in and milked early, baler man rang that he was on way to bale out farm

Digger arrived at 8 and I got him organised. Leisurely breakfast with news paper and off to Doscussion group, handy well organised day it so I thought!!!

On way to farm baler man calls that for some reason he wouldn't be able to bring in. I said I'd do after noon. Called local young lad to drive tractor and trailer said we'd go after I got cows in for milker. Just as cows were in milker rang that he couldn't come as had a family emergency and would I milk

Now the pressure was on to milk and drive 30k to bring in bales. I met my neighbour and was telling him my tale. Low and behold his son arrived 15 mins later and drove loader. A good turn!!

Now I'm at another neighbour's house stuffing my face with beer and burgers, home and hosed. No sign of the young lads. It's great to have good neighbours.

kowtow · 10-07-2013 07:29PM

whelan1 wrote: »

2 lads with silage trailers arrived into my yard to draw in silage, heres me on the laptop and my pyjamas on drinking cider:eek::eek: they where supposed to go to neighbouring farmer of same name

whelan2?

whelan1 · 10-07-2013 07:33PM

ah thats not the name i go by... feck it now another secret out:cool:

hoseman · 10-07-2013 07:38PM

whelan1 wrote: »

could have been worse i mightnt have had any on!

Maybe they wanted to see if there was any truth in the rumour,Two arrived,had to have a bet on between them.

delaval · 10-07-2013 07:39PM

Heading to a Wake now. These never end well!!!!!

Conmaicne Mara · 10-07-2013 07:44PM

delaval wrote: »

Heading to a Wake now. These never end well!!!!!

My uncle was being waked, local "mad cat" lady waltzed in, had a good look inside the coffin, says "Doesn't he look well, has he lost weight?" to the grieving family. Got ran by one of his daughters fairly quick!

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