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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #32
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    just do it wrote: »
    I know what you've been reading ;-)

    learnt it in college today


  • #33
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    quadboy wrote: »
    learnt it in college today

    I read it as part of the Allbreach soil test/ marketing ploy ;)

    How's the course going?


  • #34
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    just do it wrote: »
    I read it as part of the Allbreach soil test/ marketing ploy ;)

    How's the course going?

    Its grand when were outside doing stuff but 3 hours inside today talking about soil takes it out of ya, 2 weeks off starting monday doing work experience


  • #35
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    td5man wrote: »
    Hope this well be farming chit chat and not sh*t chat its gone down hill lately ;-)

    We'll if my name is to it, it's a cert to be seedy


  • #36
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    quadboy wrote: »
    And shooter's name on it, the hure

    How that happened when I was no where near a computer I don't know but when your good your good


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  • #37
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    if you buy in an animal and she was tb tested in previous herd in march do i have to tb test her and blood or just blood to sell in mart? bought in july... or is she ok to go to factory as is?


  • #38
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    We'll if my name is to it, it's a cert to be seedy
    ladies lounge sharpshooter ;):D:D


  • #39
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    another question what is belly grass?


  • #40
    FT7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭FT7


    whelan1 wrote: »
    another question what is belly grass?


    42. What is 'bellygrass' and what restrictions apply to its use?

    'Belly grass' is the lay term used for stomach contents removed from cattle and sheep after slaughter. It is classified as Category 2 material, the same as manure. It can be landspread provided DAFF does not deem the product to pose a risk to animal or human health. It can be spread on any type of land provided that a 21-day grazing restriction is upheld for all animals (60 days in the case of pigs). The slaughter plant should maintain a register of the details of where this product is sent, quantities etc. The farmer who owns the land on which it is spread should also keep records of where, when and quantities spread.


  • #41
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    FT7 wrote: »
    42. What is 'bellygrass' and what restrictions apply to its use?

    'Belly grass' is the lay term used for stomach contents removed from cattle and sheep after slaughter. It is classified as Category 2 material, the same as manure. It can be landspread provided DAFF does not deem the product to pose a risk to animal or human health. It can be spread on any type of land provided that a 21-day grazing restriction is upheld for all animals (60 days in the case of pigs). The slaughter plant should maintain a register of the details of where this product is sent, quantities etc. The farmer who owns the land on which it is spread should also keep records of where, when and quantities spread.
    thanks, a lad was asking me today what it was i thought it was bloat:D then he said he was being paid to wash out a shed that had stored it


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  • #42
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    whelan1 wrote: »
    thanks, a lad was asking me today what it was i thought it was bloat:D then he said he was being paid to wash out a shed that had stored it

    I was talking to a farmer today in N.I. that gets between 12 and 20 ton of belly a day! We just completed a job for him and the smell on site on a hot day could be stomach churning


  • #43
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    Still waiting on the Ryanair plane here. Got bored so stole the iPhone off the kitchen commander


  • #44
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    I was talking to a farmer today in N.I. that gets between 12 and 20 ton of belly a day! We just completed a job for him and the smell on site on a hot day could be stomach churning
    this lad had it in a shed beside his house, could ya imagine the smell:eek:


  • #45
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    whelan1 wrote: »
    this lad had it in a shed beside his house, could ya imagine the smell:eek:

    Esp with the hot weather we had this year


  • #46
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    Esp with the hot weather we had this year
    yup and his wife is a real queen:D:D:D:D:D:D:D


  • #47
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    whelan1 wrote: »
    yup and his wife is a real queen:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    I think they are known as wagons down these parts


  • #48
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    jersey101 wrote: »
    The joys of farming. Father went off hedge trimming today and came back half hour later with a broken side link in hand /

    I was wondering what bone is that??!! Then copped you were talking about a tractor part


  • #49
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    could ya imagine the flies :eek:


  • #50
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    could ya imagine the flies :eek:

    Could ya imagine the disease risk. They were stored outdoors near me 20 years ago and there were several TB outbreaks in the locality at the time.


  • #51
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    Still waiting on the Ryanair plane here. Got bored so stole the iPhone off the kitchen commander

    Where you off to? I'm sure there's enough fuel on board so don't be frettin :-)


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  • #52
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    whelan1 wrote: »
    could ya imagine the flies :eek:

    The Irish base in kosovo was next to a working chicken farm and they piled the manure next on of the fences. Now in the summer you wanna see the flies on the few white block buildings we had in the base


  • #53
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    Muckit wrote: »
    Where you off to? I'm sure there's enough fuel on board so don't be frettin :-)

    Just. A short hop to England. Dorset to be precise. I'll hand the pilot a twenty to top her up just to make sure.


  • #54
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    The Irish base in kosovo was next to a working chicken farm and they piled the manure next on of the fences. Now in the summer you wanna see the flies on the few white block buildings we had in the base

    Ah haaa now I understand the username :-) u wouldn't happen to be born in 82???!!!


  • #55
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Muckit wrote: »
    Ah haaa now I understand the username :-) u wouldn't happen to be born in 82???!!!

    I heard its because he has shot 82 people :eek:


  • #56
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    I heard its because he has shot 82 people :eek:

    And that was before he joined the army :-)


  • #57
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Any of the lads farming in SAC's see how handy the mussel farmers got a derogation to destroy SAC's off the coast for mussel seed. Hard to think of any agri activity that would even come close to the level of destruction they are being allowed to do. Makes the analogy about the deep sea trawling and harvesting wheat using high level bombers seem quaint.


  • #58
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Any of the lads farming in SAC's see how handy the mussel farmers got a derogation to destroy SAC's off the coast for mussel seed. Hard to think of any agri activity that would even come close to the level of destruction they are being allowed to do. Makes the analogy about the deep sea trawling and harvesting wheat using high level bombers seem quaint.

    Think all the Connacht coastline is now either an SAC or proposed SAC.

    Oh I better shut up now, can feel another rant coming on, tis too feckin late for it :D


  • #59
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Think all the Connacht coastline is now either an SAC or proposed SAC.

    Oh I better shut up now, can feel another rant coming on, tis too feckin late for it :D

    This was east coast. They're using dredgers which are destroying the sea bed for all other sealife and will take years to recover all with the ministers blessing.


  • #60
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    freedominacup wrote: »
    This was east coast. They're using dredgers which are destroying the sea bed for all other sealife and will take years to recover all with the ministers blessing.

    I wonder if I applied to improve my SAC commonage, give it a dose of lime, drain it, seed it, would I get a positive answer :D


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  • #61
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    I wonder if I applied to improve my SAC commonage, give it a dose of lime, drain it, seed it, would I get a positive answer :D

    Its worth talking to a park ranger ( I think thats who deals these inquiries ) you never know !


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