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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #6992
    Durrus Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭Durrus Boy


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Anyone going using sexed semen on beef breeds this year ???
    They have BB STQ sexed straws available ...
    Not sure of price though???

    Had my Dovea rep in the other day dropping off a few straws and asked him about sexed semen for MBP. 40 yoyo's a pop and more than likely a lower conception rate - seems to have been some horror stories in the dairy sexed semen trial.
    Too saucy for my pocket!!!!!


  • #6993
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    anyone notice a serious amount of rabbits and hares around?


  • #6994
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    :Dhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=679344398760773&set=a.204892989539252.57864.158731764155375&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf


  • #6995
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,034 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whelan1 wrote: »
    anyone notice a serious amount of rabbits and hares around?

    End of the summer breeding season = peak population. By the end of the winter there won't be half those numbers.


  • #6996
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    a "lady" up the road dumped her pet rabbits on our land earlier in the summer a white one and a black one, the white one was hit by a car last week but the black lad has made new friends and its gas to watch him, amazed how a domesticated animal can survive in the wild. Same lady dumped her roosters outside our gate and then goes on about animal cruelty:mad: we know she did it as her son told us:o


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  • #6997
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    O mac whelan had a farm e I e I ooooo


  • #6998
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    I was quoted 150 plus the vat for a tank. But this is only with single reinforcement steel. It might cost 2000 extra for proper double row and floor reinforcement. That's a total of around €19000 for a 100 foot tank. Is is the going rate? I know a lad who is cheaper but a pure cowboy, so he's a big no no. Thanks in advance


  • #6999
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Muckit wrote: »
    O mac whelan had a farm e I e I ooooo

    Ole mcd****** :-!


  • #7000
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    whelan1 wrote: »
    anyone notice a serious amount of rabbits and hares around?


    any body notice lots of frogs about?

    hadnt seen one in about 3 years and say 5 in a week. great to see them back!


  • #7001
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    I was quoted 150 plus the vat for a tank. But this is only with single reinforcement steel. It might cost 2000 extra for proper double row and floor reinforcement. That's a total of around €19000 for a 100 foot tank. Is is the going rate? I know a lad who is cheaper but a pure cowboy, so he's a big no no. Thanks in advance

    do it right with the steel and get and engineer to oversee sign off on its construction. will cost a few bob now but could be very cheap in the long run


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  • #7002
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    I know we work long hours but this poor lad was really done over!

    http://t.gu.com/o7lwa


  • #7003
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    any body notice lots of frogs about?

    hadnt seen one in about 3 years and say 5 in a week. great to see them back!

    They probably drowned the last two years!!


  • #7004
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    any body notice lots of frogs about?

    hadnt seen one in about 3 years and say 5 in a week. great to see them back!

    We're over run with f'n rabbits but what I did notice this year was a big increase in the number of bees and ladybirds around the place, good to see more of them.


  • #7005
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    freedominacup wrote: »
    We're over run with f'n rabbits but what I did notice this year was a big increase in the number of bees and ladybirds around the place, good to see more of them.

    yes lots of bees and ladybirds, rabbits not so bad, and yes frogs are back

    few fcuking wasps starting to appear too


  • #7006
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    now that you say it I have seen more ladybirds too. Cant say I've seen more bees though


  • #7007
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,034 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    now that you say it I have seen more ladybirds too.

    Big swarms reported from Wicklow/Wexford in the last few days. A phenonmenon often associated with good summers. A thread in Nature and Birding on this very topic ATM.


  • #7008
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    now that you say it I have seen more ladybirds too. Cant say I've seen more bees though

    Yes I thought bees were scarce this year. So scarce in fact that horticulturalists had to get in hives of bumblebees for pollination. Noticed a lot of rabbit s and Hare s alright


  • #7009
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Muckit wrote: »
    Yes I thought bees were scarce this year. So scarce in fact that horticulturalists had to get in hives of bumblebees for pollination. Noticed a lot of rabbit s and Hare s alright

    Plenty of bees around now. However, pollination was required in spring. We had one of the coldest springs on record, so there weren't many bees about at that time. Certain types of fruit trees are lacking in crops this year because they were poorly pollinated. Plum trees around us have barely any crop.


  • #7010
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Muckit wrote: »
    Yes I thought bees were scarce this year. So scarce in fact that horticulturalists had to get in hives of bumblebees for pollination. Noticed a lot of rabbit s and Hare s alright

    plenty of bees here, so much my 2 year old spends his time trying to kick them


  • #7011
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    what fert are people going with on second cut silage ground to drive aftergrass, was thinking of 27-2.5-5

    as matter of interest, where do most of you use second cut bales, pre or post calving


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  • #7012
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    hugo29 wrote: »
    what fert are people going with on second cut silage ground to drive aftergrass, was thinking of 27-2.5-5

    as matter of interest, where do most of you use second cut bales, pre or post calving

    No slurry so I went with a bag of 10-10-20/acre. It's not going to 'drive it on', but it'I hopefully keep fertility in the soil.

    If I had the stock it'd be 1.5-2 bags of 18-6-12. Two cuts takes a lot out of the ground I'd imagine, don't think they'd b enough in cut sward without slurry.


  • #7013
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    ^^^Sorry pasture sward, not cut sward you were talking about. definitely not good enough I would think :rolleyes: ^^^


  • #7014
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Muckit wrote: »
    No slurry so I went with a bag of 10-10-20/acre. It's not going to 'drive it on', but it'I hopefully keep fertility in the soil.

    If I had the stock it'd be 1.5-2 bags of 18-6-12. Two cuts takes a lot out of the ground I'd imagine, don't think they'd b enough in cut sward without slurry.

    yea agree, 2 cuts is severe on p and k levels, might just go with 1.5 bags of 18-6-12, i think freedom mentioned 27-2.5-5 previously


  • #7015
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    hugo29 wrote: »
    yea agree, 2 cuts is severe on p and k levels, might just go with 1.5 bags of 18-6-12, i think freedom mentioned 27-2.5-5 previously

    Don't mind those dairy lads, they've plenty of slurry and dairy washings to be throwing out!


  • #7016
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Next year aswell, I plan to go out early with 0-7-30 and spread Urea then later for the silage. We did this in the past and a much better crop of silage. The P&K needs time to work unlike the N, which works straight away.
    Of course, I got lazy and just spread it together as 27-2.5-10 or 18-6-12.


  • #7017
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    hugo29 wrote: »
    yea agree, 2 cuts is severe on p and k levels, might just go with 1.5 bags of 18-6-12, i think freedom mentioned 27-2.5-5 previously

    Taking my name in vain again hugo? I was thinking about getting a pallet of 18-6-12 for some second cut after arable and a few paddocks that haven't seen much pig slurry this year. 1.5 bags/acre i'd say.


  • #7018
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    bob charles wrote: »
    do it right with the steel and get and engineer to oversee sign off on its construction. will cost a few bob now but could be very cheap in the long run

    With extra steel and slats on, it's coming in near 25k, that's with the VAT. Am I being rode?


  • #7019
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Next year aswell, I plan to go out early with 0-7-30 and spread Urea then later for the silage. We did this in the past and a much better crop of silage. The P&K needs time to work unlike the N, which works straight away.
    Of course, I got lazy and just spread it together as 27-2.5-10 or 18-6-12.

    Kinda the same as me. I mixed a 1 bag of 10 10 20 and 1/2 bag of can to the acre. Makes it about 23 10 20 and the grass is flying:D


  • #7020
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just spent an hour getting the ballvalve out of one of those stupid jfc drinkers on the outfarm... plenty off fooks out of me... theres no room to work on them, did the same job on a concrete drinker yesterday in 10 minutes.. took pipe off and had drinker on its side


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  • #7021
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    God your some woman to horse over a concrete trough! :eek:


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