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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #6692
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭naughto


    Bizzum wrote: »
    I tried to take one of their temps but when I went to stick in the termometer she lost all reason:D
    did you take the temp like you would with a cow or a human?


  • #6693
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    naughto wrote: »
    did you take the temp like you would with a cow or a human?

    Well I went to lift the tail and it went downhill from there:eek:


  • #6694
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Well I went to lift the tail and it went downhill from there:eek:

    Whose tail?


  • #6695
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    freedominacup wrote: »
    And then you'll have to deal with Kovu. We'll know what you're made of after that.:D:D

    Kovu is in a temper and is a bit battered this evening.
    De horning last calf of my neighbours and it was the wildest outfit I've ever seen. Cow went into the crush and calf after her. Then the cown decided to reverse and went down on the calf and then after that I put a noose on the cal'f head to keep him in and let the mad b*tch out and got a right clatter of a kick in the arm from the cow. Then we get the calf in the headlock gate and he turns upside down and mammy comes running so a quick retreat was in order.
    Let him out and tried to run them back up the crush and got him this time and shut her away in the shed while he was being done.
    I swear to god, that man will be found trampled some day. Or me.


  • #6696
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Whose tail?

    Ok Ok ........... It was all lies. Hands up, ya got me.


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  • #6697
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Got 320.

    Don't know what that means, max you could get when I did it was 32. There was 5 points for an A in an honours subject and 7 points for an A in honours maths.

    Are you happy? That's all that counts


  • #6698
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    Username John wrote: »
    Hi Sea,

    I am located close enough to this crowd, who do the testing
    http://www.animalhealthlabs.ie/

    There are a few other labs that do it - you could see if one of these labs is close to you, and if they would email you the results direct?

    What I did was take some samples off the lambs - to do this, I normally go see them as early as I can in the morning, and walk around and get the lambs up, wait for them to do their business, and then take a small sample from it.
    How many samples I get depends on how patient I am, what the weather is like, and how long it takes ;)
    But I try to get samples from 6 - 10 lambs. I also try to make sure the samples I take are all around the same size...

    Put it into test-tube type container (they wont accept freezer-type bags in the lab, due to Health and Safety) :(, and drop it into the lab above.
    They email me the results, usually that evening.

    This is what I do - I cant say if its right or wrong, others may have a better way of doing it.

    The cost is around 25euro (maybe 20+VAT) I cant remember now...
    Maybe its a bit expensive, as I am not sure if there much to it - but I cant do it, so I have to pay ;)
    But if you put it against the cost of lambs going backwards (which I know mine have over the past week or so), its not so bad.

    Thanks john. That's great info. One last thing where do u get the test tubes to send?


  • #6699
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    sea12 wrote: »
    Thanks john. That's great info. One last thing where do u get the test tubes to send?

    Any kinda small container will do the job I imagine, you could ask your vet for a few containers - am sure they would give you a few.
    I got mine in the lab when I dropped in a sample the last time.

    Edit : I think I used a small jam jar type container before, but as I was dropping it in and not posting it, this was ok. If you were posting it, I guess you'd have to be more careful.


  • #6700
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    Username John wrote: »
    Any kinda small container will do the job I imagine, you could ask your vet for a few containers - am sure they would give you a few.
    I got mine in the lab when I dropped in a sample the last time.

    Cheers. Will do that on Friday so.


  • #6701
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Andy Carroll wrote: »
    The women!
    Some women and plenty innuendo to be had here :D


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  • #6702
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Spent the last two hours loading 15 cows, chased them out of two lawns, and a good bit up the road no damage done anyway so cant complain the hope the hardship will be worth it tomorrow


  • #6703
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    simx wrote: »
    Spent the last two hours loading 15 cows, chased them out of two lawns, and a good bit up the road no damage done anyway so cant complain the hope the hardship will be worth it tomorrow

    Are they off to the mart or what simx ?


  • #6704
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    simx wrote: »
    Spent the last two hours loading 15 cows, chased them out of two lawns, and a good bit up the road no damage done anyway so cant complain the hope the hardship will be worth it tomorrow

    Let us know how you get on, ive a few to go in the next 2-3 weeks as well so it would be good to hear how you get on!:D


  • #6705
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    MTC forecasting a warm spell developing from next Tuesday. Fingers crossed he's right ;)


  • #6706
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just do it wrote: »
    MTC forecasting a warm spell developing from next Tuesday. Fingers crossed he's right ;)
    coolio, cutting my whole cropp and some of my 3rd cut then


  • #6707
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    just do it wrote: »
    Don't know what that means, max you could get when I did it was 32. There was 5 points for an A in an honours subject and 7 points for an A in honours maths.

    Are you happy? That's all that counts

    Aaaah ya happy enough with it!


  • #6708
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    just do it wrote: »
    MTC forecasting a warm spell developing from next Tuesday. Fingers crossed he's right ;)

    I need more rain :[


  • #6709
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    jersey101 wrote: »
    I need more rain :[

    Where are you farming? The Sahara ?
    More rain now will just serve to bring on an early wintering.


  • #6710
    martin.covan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭martin.covan


    jersey101 wrote: »
    I need more rain :[

    ditto,parts of the East still parched.We'll get some later today.
    Though its hard to believe,Suns splitting the stones in sw Wicklow this morning.


  • #6711
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Some Fine looking suckler heifers;
    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/incalf-simmental-heifers/5475072


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  • #6712
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    bbam wrote: »
    Where are you farming? The Sahara ?
    More rain now will just serve to bring on an early wintering.

    south wexford, grass is growing but very slow, a soft days rain would do nicely :D


  • #6713
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Hate to say it but the land around here is as dry as I can remember grass has slowed down that has never happened here. Most of the moisture has being diverted around us. Got a shower last night but the ground was dry this morning.


  • #6714
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Some Fine looking suckler heifers;
    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/incalf-simmental-heifers/5475072

    What are they worth ? I have three good blue heifers that are around the same stamp as those for selling at the minute . Think is it worth putting them on donedeal or just head to the mart with them


  • #6715
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    jersey101 wrote: »
    south wexford, grass is growing but very slow, a soft days rain would do nicely :D

    Can we have that over the grass fields and not over the tillage fields :D;)


  • #6716
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    i've spraying to do and won't get at it until Friday week so rain can fcuk off back to Spain.


  • #6717
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    serious rain here:mad:, slurry day :)


  • #6718
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    not much going on in the comic today.


  • #6719
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,456 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Some Fine looking suckler heifers;
    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/incalf-simmental-heifers/5475072


    hmm 30 non-registered heifers put in calf by t-rex? seems fishy to me


  • #6720
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    hmm 30 non-registered heifers put into calf by t-rex? seems fishy to me

    I though t-rex, got a belt of a meteorite, a few million years ago:eek:


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  • #6721
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,899 ✭✭✭mf240


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    hmm 30 non-registered heifers put in calf by t-rex? seems fishy to me

    Hate when they won't give Price unless you go look at them.
    What's the point in wasting a day going to look at them if he's looking for stupid money when u get there.


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