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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #6002
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    I am in a male voice choir, got a call at 9 pm we were singing at a 60th party at 9.15 ! Grub and a band and a free bar , home now with 2 cans and at least a bottle of white in me , good night !


  • #6003
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    1chippy wrote: »
    sitting up watching a cow to calve. blue cow carrying to cvv. i just checked the calving difficulty and not too impressed. it could be an intresting night.

    Any stir yet?


  • #6004
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    wonder what odds for a munster double to day in semple stadium ?


  • #6005
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Any stir yet?
    No stir yet, id swear she was laughing at me this morning when i went in with a sleepy head on me. she looks far too relaxed at the moment and the auld man is on the day sshift.


  • #6006
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    1chippy wrote: »
    No stir yet, id swear she was laughing at me this morning when i went in with a sleepy head on me. she looks far too relaxed at the moment and the auld man is on the day sshift.

    Nights like that would nearly make you give up watching cows to calf . Wreckex the following day for nothing .
    I try to leave it at twelve at night and six in the morning . Hope for the best for the in between hours


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  • #6007
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    how would you know if an animal had been struck by lightening? apart from they are dead


  • #6008
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    moy83 wrote: »
    Nights like that would nearly make you give up watching cows to calf . Wreckex the following day for nothing .
    I try to leave it at twelve at night and six in the morning . Hope for the best for the in between hours

    I cant afford to take any chances,, i lost a spring calf this year because i slept throught the alarm and i said it wouldnt happen again.


  • #6009
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    moy83 wrote: »
    Nights like that would nearly make you give up watching cows to calf . Wreckex the following day for nothing .
    I try to leave it at twelve at night and six in the morning . Hope for the best for the in between hours

    Calving camera?


  • #6010
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Calving camera?
    I am ripping apart the pens i done up a few years back and doing a new lauout so i wont spend the money on cameras until i have the penning right and cameras pointed in the right direction. dont get me wrong id love to have them now but the last few years has been fairly draining on the finances and every penny is a prisoner these days.


  • #6011
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    1chippy wrote: »
    I am ripping apart the pens i done up a few years back and doing a new lauout so i wont spend the money on cameras until i have the penning right and cameras pointed in the right direction. dont get me wrong id love to have them now but the last few years has been fairly draining on the finances and every penny is a prisoner these days.

    I know that feeling, moving house next month and waving bye-bye to 99% of the farm plans I had for this year.


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  • #6012
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    how would you know if an animal had been struck by lightening? apart from they are dead

    Singe marks, burnt hair.


  • #6013
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    how would you know if an animal had been struck by lightening? apart from they are dead

    Same as above and they're usually on the back or legs. If electricity enter it needs an exit point on the animal. Also if you do a PM the blood won't clot near as quickly as it would if death was due to other causes.

    Did you have one struck or is it the suckler you thought had tetany?


  • #6014
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Same as above and they're usually on the back or legs. If electricity enter it needs an exit point on the animal. Also if you do a PM the blood won't clot near as quickly as it would if death was due to other causes.

    Did you have one struck or is it the suckler you thought had tetany?
    its the suckler that was dead yesterday, knackery wont be around til tomorrow, she massive, swollen up really big, never saw anything like it


  • #6015
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    jomoloney wrote: »
    wonder what odds for a munster double to day in semple stadium ?
    With Paddypower;

    Galway - 4/5
    Clare - 5/4
    Draw - 10/1

    Kilkenny - 2/7
    Cork - 10/3
    Draw - 12/1

    So Munster double would be - 50/12 or around 4/1.


  • #6016
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    its the suckler that was dead yesterday, knackery wont be around til tomorrow, she massive, swollen up really big, never saw anything like it

    Could be the heat reacting with her gut if she had eaten a feed of grass just before popping her clogs. Or I could be just speculating through my cake hole:D


  • #6017
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hope she doesnt explode......:eek:


  • #6018
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Was loading a few cows and calves this morning, auld lad was closing the gate on the trailer and a calf let the back legs go. Auld lad ended up sitting on his arse ten feet back from it with his forehead split open and a bit dizzy for a few minutes. The joys of Sunday work.


  • #6019
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Was loading a few cows and calves this morning, auld lad was closing the gate on the trailer and a calf let the back legs go. Auld lad ended up sitting on his arse ten feet back from it with his forehead split open and a bit dizzy for a few minutes. The joys of Sunday work.
    neighbour in hospital with gallstones, lad in ward beside him was attaked by a bull and another neighbour arrived in after being attacked by a heifer that went crazy- heifer died the next day, must have took something in the head:eek:


  • #6020
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    hope she doesnt explode......:eek:

    ic8n.jpg

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    :D:D:D:D


  • #6021
    gazahayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭gazahayes


    whelan1 wrote: »
    hope she doesnt explode......:eek:

    Shouldn't explode anyway if you touch off it it'll probably let out gas from either end just stay well away when they're loading it it'll stink. We've often had a skip full of dead sows for about 5 days its rotten!


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  • #6022
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    Did anyone ever buy a chainsaw from ALDI? 100E at the moment for a small one, which is what I need. Just wondering if they are crap. Thanks in advance


  • #6023
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Did anyone ever buy a chainsaw from ALDI? 100E at the moment for a small one, which is what I need. Just wondering if they are crap. Thanks in advance
    They are crap as any €100 saw but they have a 2 year warranty and if you aren't cutting huge trees wouldn't it do.

    Wife got me a hard wall mixer for mixing milk replacer as I was always complaining:rolleyes:. €50 great yoke have it for 4 years now and going strong


  • #6024
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Save the money and put it towards a stihl. , you will be guaranteed it will be still working when you wont.


  • #6025
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    pakalasa wrote: »
    With Paddypower;

    Galway - 4/5
    Clare - 5/4
    Draw - 10/1

    Kilkenny - 2/7
    Cork - 10/3
    Draw - 12/1

    So Munster double would be - 50/12 or around 4/1.

    No bother getting a milker around here for the All Ireland Ha, ha


  • #6026
    huey1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭huey1975


    pakalasa wrote: »
    With Paddypower;

    Galway - 4/5
    Clare - 5/4
    Draw - 10/1

    Kilkenny - 2/7
    Cork - 10/3
    Draw - 12/1

    So Munster double would be - 50/12 or around 4/1.


    At those odds the Cork Clare double works out at about 8/1
    If you have the double €1 on Cork means you have €4.33 going onto Clare at 5/4 so you will be getting back more than €9 which is just over 8/1
    But hopefully Galway will ruin the bet for you


  • #6027
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    huey1975 wrote: »
    At those odds the Cork Clare double works out at about 8/1
    If you have the double €1 on Cork means you have €4.33 going onto Clare at 5/4 so you will be getting back more than €9 which is just over 8/1
    But hopefully Galway will ruin the bet for you
    Yep, you're right. :D


  • #6028
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    1chippy wrote: »
    Save the money and put it towards a stihl. , you will be guaranteed it will be still working when you wont.

    That's what I was thinking.


  • #6029
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    gazahayes wrote: »
    Shouldn't explode anyway if you touch off it it'll probably let out gas from either end just stay well away when they're loading it it'll stink. We've often had a skip full of dead sows for about 5 days its rotten!


    I saw a poor ba****d reloading well rotted sows into a skip on Fri. I don't know how they ended up on the ground unless they fell out when previous skip was being loaded. Talk about mess. He was using a teleporter for most of it but still.:eek::eek:


  • #6030
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭Figerty


    Good link to a useful book from Teagasc on cross compliance. I often wondered what full compliance involved

    http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2013/1896/Teagasc_Cross_Compliance_Workbook.pdf


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  • #6031
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Awful disheartening to drive through the countryside and still see bales of hay in meadows with nearly a foot of grass growing around them - changed from green or yellow to rusty brown. There's nothing to be gained from it and the quality is just reducing with every thunder shower that they get. After last years fodder crisis I thought people would be trying to have everything home and dry rather than losing the few outer inches to mould.


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