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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #5462
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    simx wrote: »
    getting bales delivered and stacked today for 14e/bale, good quality

    God that's grass altogether


  • #5463
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,900 ✭✭✭mf240


    Muckit wrote: »
    God that's grass altogether

    Are they the brown rush or the greener soft rush?


  • #5464
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    mf240 wrote: »
    Are they the brown rush or the greener soft rush?

    There's balers going up and down fields these days, where a snipe wouldn't land for the past 15 years.
    Great chance for lads to clean up rubbish and waste ground.
    It's especially good, when somebody is generous enough to pay you for the stuff.:eek:


  • #5465
    Midlandsman80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Midlandsman80


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Have you a link to the awenet pelvis evaluation?

    Had a few bb x fr here over the years (VDC sire I think) I always put them in calf to angus. Their angus x daughters need to be watched at calving. Every other angus x cow on the farm will calve to a blonde by themselves. I'd suggest an easy calving angus, it's a lovely cross with a blue

    Hi Blue,
    See link below, not sure how its measured and maybe its just not something that's being passed on too daughters. I am fairly sure I will give the two blue heifers I have AI angus, maybe CYI Conelisland Legend. Have a nice CH heifer from a big whitehead cow that might get the same.

    http://www.awenet.be/netbbg/commun/corps/fiche_tx_bbb.php?awe=1&langue=de&noan=13325726


  • #5466
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭dzer2


    I clean up 8 acres here in the last week and baled it up lad took it and gave me 10 euro a bale for it. Said he had a victim for it.


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  • #5467
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    There's balers going up and down fields these days, where a snipe wouldn't land for the past 15 years.
    Great chance for lads to clean up rubbish and waste ground.
    It's especially good, when somebody is generous enough to pay you for the stuff.:eek:

    €9 a bale for "dry" rushes on DD.
    Thought I'd never see the day when rushes were a crop.


  • #5468
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Spend the last 2hrs searching the house for the carkeys! No spare key for it either! Utter effort of this ha!


  • #5469
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Spend the last 2hrs searching the house for the carkeys! No spare key for it either! Utter effort of this ha!

    Did you check the car


  • #5470
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Spend the last 2hrs searching the house for the carkeys! No spare key for it either! Utter effort of this ha!

    Check where ever you might have been sitting down or getting changed, could have fallen out of your pocket.


  • #5471
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    hugo29 wrote: »
    lad who owns 15 acres beside me as an out farm is selling bales of silage off it this year.

    its first time silage has ever been cut off it, and there would have been a lot of rush (which was sprayed).

    €30 a pop, seems awful extreme bearing mind quality wont be great, they are handy location wise,

    Rushes in bales are only a pain in the ****. Me thinks money would be better spent on meal.


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  • #5472
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Thought i lost the quad key a few months ago went up and down the field looking for it and no spare key, checked my jacket and trouser pockets turned out it was inside in my hoodie pocket, iv taken down the number on the key now


  • #5473
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭naughto


    farm0.jpg


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    fort.jpg


  • #5474
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Midlandsman80 wrote: »
    . Have a nice CH heifer from a big whitehead cow that might get the same.
    ]

    A handy calved BA is a lovely cross on a Charolais heifer.


  • #5475
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Was at the weanling sake in Ennis yesterday for a while. Prices were s**t.


  • #5476
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    just do it wrote: »
    Was at the weanling sake in Ennis yesterday for a while. Prices were s**t.

    yep tough going :(


  • #5477
    Dozer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    heard that about the weanling prices alright,

    Is it worth trying to make more fodder with the good spell and keep some of the weanlings over the winter.

    If meal is to be cheaper is it worth chancing it?

    Sold all bar one last year but this year think I might hold onto the heifers if I could get another 40 bales or so.


  • #5478
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    naughto wrote: »
    farm0.jpg


    BREAKING NEWS! Beef Prices Rising.....


  • #5479
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    BREAKING NEWS! Beef Prices Rising.....

    Followed by a crashing fall


  • #5480
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Dozer1 wrote: »
    heard that about the weanling prices alright,

    Is it worth trying to make more fodder with the good spell and keep some of the weanlings over the winter.

    If meal is to be cheaper is it worth chancing it?

    Sold all bar one last year but this year think I might hold onto the heifers if I could get another 40 bales or so.
    yes it looks like irish cattle are coming back to earth,i was at new ross weanling sale monday night,a small enough turn out but a lot of lads were leaving not happy, plain cattle back and hard to sell,a lot of bulls making 700-800 ,if you had quality it sold ,blues and lim bulls made up to 1400, the lims were the best i have ever seen,blue heifers made up to 1200.


  • #5481
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    leg wax wrote: »
    yes it looks like irish cattle are coming back to earth,i was at new ross weanling sale monday night,a small enough turn out but a lot of lads were leaving not happy, plain cattle back and hard to sell,a lot of bulls making 700-800 ,if you had quality it sold ,blues and lim bulls made up to 1400, the lims were the best i have ever seen,blue heifers made up to 1200.

    they must be serious blues to make that leg wax, heard quality limo are flying this year


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  • #5482
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    leg wax wrote: »
    yes it looks like irish cattle are coming back to earth,i was at new ross weanling sale monday night,a small enough turn out but a lot of lads were leaving not happy, plain cattle back and hard to sell,a lot of bulls making 700-800 ,if you had quality it sold ,blues and lim bulls made up to 1400, the lims were the best i have ever seen,blue heifers made up to 1200.

    do you think weanlings make more money over your side of the country wax? ive never seen weanling come near those prices in ennis and you would see some real smashers but then again i dont be at the marts too often.


  • #5483
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    hugo29 wrote: »
    ya what:eek:, 14 euro a bale, where are ya located, sounds great value

    Lad down the road sold them to me, I know the fields they came out of and they weren't gone over time, I bought a few loads of "good" bales this spring so am only buying a few off this lad as I know the story, hopefully I wont need anymore


  • #5484
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/aberdeen-angus-bull/4977143# would you put in a picture of an animal with no tags?


  • #5485
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Nope .
    I had a cow that lost both tags there a few weeks ago . She was the weirdest looking cow you ever saw without her earings . Its amazing what you get used to seeing


  • #5486
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    whelan1 wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/aberdeen-angus-bull/4977143# would you put in a picture of an animal with no tags?
    A sure way to get a surprise visit from the Dept.
    I have a cow that lost the back of both her tags about a year ago. They're still there, never fell out, but I ordered 2 new replacments for her this year. Never like ordering 2 of the same together.


  • #5487
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    just do it wrote: »
    Was at the weanling sake in Ennis yesterday for a while. Prices were s**t.
    No grass everywhere. Wait till the rains come and fodder pressure off, prices will rise agin.


  • #5488
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    pakalasa wrote: »
    A sure way to get a surprise visit from the Dept.
    I have a cow that lost the back of both her tags about a year ago. They're still there, never fell out, but I ordered 2 new replacments for her this year. Never like ordering 2 of the same together.

    Dead right there. I have one b*tch of cow, who loses tags like crazy. One every year on average. I'm dutiful enough in reordering and replacing same.

    This year, she duly lost both over the winter, in the shed.
    I ordered two for her, and one for another cow.

    I got myself an inspection for my trouble:eek:

    Inspector showed me a document listing reasons for selection for inspection.
    That was number 1.
    He also mentioned in passing, that ordering replacement tags for 10% or more animals, in the herd will pretty much cause the computer to flag you for inspection.
    Dammed if you do, and dammed if you don't:mad:


  • #5489
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    hugo29 wrote: »
    they must be serious blues to make that leg wax, heard quality limo are flying this year
    top notch blues by ai bulls ,edj ,club, kyr.
    vanderbadger wrote: »
    do you think weanlings make more money over your side of the country wax? ive never seen weanling come near those prices in ennis and you would see some real smashers but then again i dont be at the marts too often.
    2 shippers not talking to each other helps:D:D as i said before big diff between marts,need to follow these lads for the fun:p:p
    pakalasa wrote: »
    No grass everywhere. Wait till the rains come and fodder pressure off, prices will rise agin.
    cant see that a big rise is on the cards,to many bills to still be paid from last winter,light 1st cuts ,and even lighter 2 nd cuts on the cards.weanlings that can be fed out side this country will be a lot better off going thru the ring money wise, but i have been wrong plenty of times before:rolleyes::o


  • #5490
    jay gatsby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭jay gatsby


    The bidding in Tullow mart on High quality stuff can be insane sometimes. Have seen an animal jump from circa 700 to 1000 in one bid when a certain buyer was feeling grumpy/happy/competitive? Dunno what caused it but when the bidding gets hot there it really is enjoyable to watch.

    Not when you're trying to buy a few of course. I presume these are the shippers or type of buyers Legwax means?


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  • #5491
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    whelan1 wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/aberdeen-angus-bull/4977143# would you put in a picture of an animal with no tags?

    another thick cxnt from my neck of the woods.

    its hardly a certain airplane ceo?:D. kidding he runs an amazing place.


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