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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #1202
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Same bastard of a ram broke out again, out of the shed this time, busted door and all. In again now, with hurdles tied high up over his pen. I'll bring a different kind of stick with me if he escapes again, a boom stick.


  • #1203
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Got the weight band i ordered to day. Put it on heifers that were8 weeks old. The cross breed was 75 kgs JE 69 kgs and the FR 80kgs. They'll be on milk for another 2 weeks so they should grow a bit more


  • #1204
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    The farm fixer bbc1 7.30.

    Don't know much about it.... could be sh"t..


  • #1205
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Muckit wrote: »
    The farm fixer bbc1 7.30.

    Don't know much about it.... could be sh"t..

    Watched it last week, fella from some one of those Apprentice shows giving farmers tips on their businesses, wasn't great tbh.


  • #1206
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Ah sick how can anyone eat meat that rare


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  • #1207
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Muckit wrote: »
    The farm fixer bbc1 7.30.

    Don't know much about it.... could be sh"t..

    Thought it was about someone physically fixing a farm o_O
    I got a surprise when i watched it on youtube :-(


  • #1208
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    quadboy wrote: »
    Ah sick how can anyone eat meat that rare

    men with hair on their chest can eat it raw, like myself. I know women that can do it too.

    you can taste the tenderness before you buy it


  • #1209
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    quadboy wrote: »
    Ah sick how can anyone eat meat that rare

    I'd only eat meat (beef) rare. Ruined otherwise.
    Give it a try quadboy, could be the making of ya!


  • #1210
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Ah g'way the sight alone of it wud empty my stomach, chicken is king anyway and i dont care what crap is in chicken


  • #1211
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Quadboy you spend a night with the type of women Bob would be with and I guarantee you the only thing that'll keep you going all night is raw beef


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  • #1212
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Gordon-Ramsay-Angry-Kitchen-RAW-COW-EATS-SALAD.jpg


  • #1213
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Last week they had a guy with a mobile petting zoo, a fella with a big old estate house, and an auctioneer I think, maybe the auctioneer was on another show I can't remember.


  • #1214
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    keep going wrote: »
    We were at one yesterday too and they are brilliant even some boys never grow up but mind you could do alot worse.its after lighting a bit of a fire in the young lads and must admit their dad is smouldering abit too so we must build abit of a layout.we have afew sheds but we need a few ditchs to make fields and roads but might have to do a bit rearranging of furniture .I hope it encourage s them to mind their gear and learn abit about building
    Have a look at the farmtoysforum or hollylovestoys


  • #1215
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Gordon-Ramsay-Angry-Kitchen-RAW-COW-EATS-SALAD.jpg

    You mean ' The meat is so ****in raw it's eating the ****in salad'


  • #1216
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    What exactly is the "normal" temperature of cattle. Would you be concerned by 39.0 deg? Or would it have to be higher to get you anyway concerned


  • #1217
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    What exactly is the "normal" temperature of cattle. Would you be concerned by 39.0 deg? Or would it have to be higher to get you anyway concerned

    101.4 f


  • #1218
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    delaval wrote: »
    101.4 f

    I was gonna say 101 and a half F . :-)

    39*C is 102.2*F which I would regard as a normal enough.
    I'm not a vet though.


  • #1219
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    delaval wrote: »
    101.4 f

    Ah, your old school Delaval. 101.4 is 38.5 deg C AFAIK. If an animal is 102.5 f, would you be concerned.


  • #1220
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    I was away the weekend there and dad was onto me today that one the twins has white scour.. got tablets from vet but didn't give it to them as they both seem to have a whitish grey scour but jumping around the place and sucking the life out of the foster cow.. she was bulling Saturday does anyone believe that the hormones in milk at oestrus can scour them a bit, my girlfriend reckons foals get scour regular when dam is in oestrus?!

    I got them to eat a bit of dry hay and will monitor them


  • #1221
    J DEERE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭J DEERE


    delaval wrote: »
    Stay focused, completely unnecessary will not give 1 extra litre. Do cows for lice costs pence

    Is that you Jack Kennedy??


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  • #1222
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Bodacious wrote: »
    I was away the weekend there and dad was onto me today that one the twins has white scour.. got tablets from vet but didn't give it to them as they both seem to have a whitish grey scour but jumping around the place and sucking the life out of the foster cow.. she was bulling Saturday does anyone believe that the hormones in milk at oestrus can scour them a bit, my girlfriend reckons foals get scour regular when dam is in oestrus?!

    I got them to eat a bit of dry hay and will monitor them

    There's a PhD in it for someone!

    I don't know at a hormonal level, but certainly it is a stressful time for the calf, and also the feed routine can be thrown out of kilter. Sounds plausible to me!


  • #1223
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Ah, your old school Delaval. 101.4 is 38.5 deg C AFAIK. If an animal is 102.5 f, would you be concerned.

    You were concerned enough to take the temp so a shot is needed. I rarely take a temp but treat based on what I see


  • #1224
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    delaval wrote: »
    You were concerned enough to take the temp so a shot is needed. I rarely take a temp but treat based on what I see

    An old farmer I knew, now dead, said one time that he never had a sick calf till he bought a thermometer.


  • #1225
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    I have that white/grey scour running through the autum calves this year. one got fairly shook with it


  • #1226
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    I have that white/grey scour running through the autum calves this year. one got fairly shook with it
    bimastat and lectade. Had a few sucklers with it earlier in the year


  • #1227
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    bimastat and lectade. Had a few sucklers with it earlier in the year

    Kaolin powder added to the bimasat is great to help bind the scour.
    Half mug for a calf and a full mug for a weanling.


  • #1228
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    whelan1 wrote: »
    bimastat and lectade. Had a few sucklers with it earlier in the year

    thats the route I took.

    the bad lad needed a shot and heat lamp. thought I'd lose him. flying now


  • #1229
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    just off the phone from Dept, the sound of delph in the background has me hungry


  • #1230
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    Bodacious wrote: »
    does anyone believe that the hormones in milk at oestrus can scour them a bit, my girlfriend reckons foals get scour regular when dam is in oestrus?!
    Yes it does. I had a cow in for AI one time and the AI guy told me that. He was laughing at how often he sees guys dosing calves for scour when he arrives into the yard. The hormonal change in the cow causes it.


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  • #1231
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    was looking at a vtech kiddigo camera on amazon there, thought i was getting a great deal at £39.99, the postage was £214:eek::eek:


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