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Livestock/General Farming photo thread ***READ MOD NOTE IN POST #1***

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  • #5732
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    quadboy wrote: »
    Heard of a fella with a serious rat problem and was using the blue blocks the rats kept taking them. one day cleaning out the shed he found all the blocks in a heap

    Glue them to a block of wood:D


  • #5733
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭red bull


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Glue them to a block of wood:D

    Break them up, then they will have to eat them otherwise they will hoard them


  • #5734
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    red bull wrote: »
    Break them up, then they will have to eat them otherwise they will hoard them

    Yea we used to do that too, until the birds started eating it:(


  • #5735
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭red bull


    To, all the banner men/ women on here, you were nearly robbed today. Good luck next day


  • #5736
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭red bull


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Yea we used to do that too, until the birds started eating it:(

    I put the broken up ones in a tube, I find the tubes left after round bale rap very good


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  • #5737
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    red bull wrote: »
    Break them up, then they will have to eat them otherwise they will hoard them

    I found a spot yesterday where they were hoarding the grain type.


  • #5738
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I found a spot yesterday where they were hoarding the grain type.

    Never heard of that happening


  • #5739
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    Never heard of that happening

    Neither had I but then I saw it. The reason for using the grain is supposed to be to prevent hoarding:confused:.


  • #5740
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    They will hoard it if they're given too much of it. Leave them a week after bait has run out, it'll do them in.


  • #5741
    Ronan 2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Ronan 2013


    I do ground the blocks down to dust and then <modsnip> in it. <modsnip> so won't notice and if poison don't work the <modsnip>


    [MOD]

    Really?

    Really?

    Come on FFS, the farming community get enough grief from the more strident sections of the animal rights/welfare sector without handing them this sort of ammunition to fire at us!

    Silly content snipped.

    [/MOD]


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  • #5742
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    eire23 wrote: »
    Any finnished pictures just do it? How many runs did the contractor to with the power harrow and did it break up the sods well?

    2 runs with the power harrow and it turned out well. I rolled it before broadcasting the seed to firm up the seed bed. No photos yet but don't worry, you won't have to wait long.

    (I think I posted some more photos after that one?)


  • #5743
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    just do it wrote: »
    2 runs with the power harrow and it turned out well. I rolled it before broadcasting the seed to firm up the seed bed. No photos yet but don't worry, you won't have to wait long.

    (I think I posted some more photos after that one?)

    did you harrow the whole lot in the end or try the chain harrow as well


  • #5744
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    did you harrow the whole lot in the end or try the chain harrow as well

    9 acres disc and power harrow, 1 acre chain harrow only.


  • #5745
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    stanflt wrote: »
    last of the grassland sprayed today- thank f**k

    72o5.jpg
    y137.jpg

    meant to ask stan, what do you spray with and how long do you wait before grazing,


  • #5746
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Reseeded ground 10 days later. Green patches suffered a bit of roundup deficiency :rolleyes: Ground on left was power harrowed. Ground on right was chain harrowed only. I'll try to post every week or two from same spot.

    5yt0.jpg


  • #5747
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    just do it wrote: »
    Reseeded ground 10 days later. Green patches suffered a bit of roundup deficiency :rolleyes: Ground on left was power harrowed. Ground on right was chain harrowed only. I'll try to post every week or two from same spot.

    5yt0.jpg

    Looks like bad weather coming in there over the hill


  • #5748
    renandstimpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭renandstimpy


    6qli.jpg
    2zem.jpg
    8re0.jpg
    Dead happy with myself today bought these 35 esb poles cut to 7ft with diameters averaging 10 inches with some up to 14 . had some work out :o loading and unloading trailer by hand . should keep me busy for a while:)


  • #5749
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    renandstimpy wrote: »
    6qli.jpg
    2zem.jpg
    8re0.jpg
    Dead happy with myself today bought these 35 esb poles cut to 7ft with diameters averaging 10 inches with some up to 14 . had some work out :o loading and unloading trailer by hand . should keep me busy for a while:)

    Nice, put a few points on them and drive them home


  • #5750
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Great load of posts there. Will ya point em with the saw before you drive them?


  • #5751
    renandstimpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭renandstimpy


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Great load of posts there. Will ya point em with the saw before you drive them?

    ya ill give them a petitcure for sure even at that ill have to pick a wet day to drive some of them :D the bull can puck them all he wants then he wont break them .


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  • #5752
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    I'm just jealous after seeing your great golden stacks in the barn!! Ours are yellow! What are yours of?


  • #5753
    renandstimpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭renandstimpy


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I'm just jealous after seeing your great golden stacks in the barn!! Ours are yellow! What are yours of?

    Thats the hay that we got earlier in the year it was curry green when it went in (but well saved ) just the outside weathered . Its still green when you open bale and never heated thank god .. think there is a picture somewhere back further on this thread when we put it in there.


  • #5754
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    I left mine down too long and it's like straw I'm afraid


  • #5755
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I'm just jealous after seeing your great golden stacks in the barn!! Ours are yellow! What are yours of?

    May I giggle and asked who stacked them:p


  • #5756
    renandstimpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭renandstimpy


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    May I giggle and asked who stacked them:p

    Ya can :o but to be fair the ould lad was taking bales from the middle to feed foals we had weaned and they fell so i was lacking a small bit of interest stacking them the second time .. hands up:D:D


  • #5757
    renandstimpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭renandstimpy


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    I left mine down too long and it's like straw I'm afraid

    we've had more of them years than i care to remember and to be honest it was just luck with us with the weather .. its a bit like doing the lotto.


  • #5758
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    renandstimpy wrote: »
    we've had more of them years than i care to remember and to be honest it was just luck with us with the weather .. its a bit like doing the lotto.

    Yeah nothing like, I'll leave it down another day just to make sure:rolleyes:


  • #5759
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    red bull wrote: »
    Break them up, then they will have to eat them otherwise they will hoard them

    Nail them to a board is far better, they can store the grains too :mad:


  • #5760
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    I left mine down too long and it's like straw I'm afraid
    was driving by a field yesterday and the hay bales are left where they where baled, could never understand the idea of baling in great weather and leaving the bales out for months:confused:


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  • #5761
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    was driving by a field yesterday and the hay bales are left where they where baled, could never understand the idea of baling in great weather and leaving the bales out for months:confused:

    Asked my father that and he said that a friend of his did it and bar one damp swarth of it round the outside the rest was good:confused:


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