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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #1412
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,900 ✭✭✭mf240


    nashmach wrote: »

    On funerals, if you don't go to your neighbours and friends who will go yours

    If you go to someone's funeral they still won't go to yours.


  • #1413
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    mf240 wrote: »
    If you go to someone's funeral they still won't go to yours.
    A slogan for an undertakers ~ For us to live you must die :D


  • #1414
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    Ah the property tax form arrived today service is very prompt when money is to be collected.


  • #1415
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    moy83 wrote: »
    A slogan for an undertakers ~ For us to live you must die :D

    Book your box early, customers dying to get into ours :D


  • #1416
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Saw a nice little trailer on DD, €550, emailed about it and it more than doubled the price :confused:


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  • #1417
    KatyMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    Will put up a couple of pics of the crush when we have the bars and gates all up!


  • #1418
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    KatyMac wrote: »
    Just got my new crush concreted in - hope it doesn't rain!

    Should be well gone off by now, I'd say there is some serious rain on the way tonight


  • #1419
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Saw a nice little trailer on DD, €550, emailed about it and it more than doubled the price :confused:

    You have the Golden touch! Could you email about some of my lambs please!:D


  • #1420
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,448 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    was down the local gettin a few.....the story doin the rounds was a local lad had 47 cows gone down with tb, blamin bought in maize from england that glanbia brought-in during the spring some dose for that chap....


  • #1421
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    was down the local gettin a few.....the story doin the rounds was a local lad had 47 cows gone down with tb, blamin bought in maize from england that glanbia brought-in during the spring some dose for that chap....

    That's what's known as reaching. Almost certainly badgers unless someone is doing something silly with waste from a meat factory/processor.


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  • #1422
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,448 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    freedominacup wrote: »
    That's what's known as reaching. Almost certainly badgers unless someone is doing something silly with waste from a meat factory/processor.

    To be fair its totally plausable that badgers contaiminated the maize in england before it was brought-in....the thing is the area we are in is realatively tb free 40 plus cows going down like that is unheard of.....


  • #1423
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    iverjohnston wrote: »
    You have the Golden touch! Could you email about some of my lambs please!:D

    no problem, I'll pm you my Paypal address for the sweetner :D


  • #1424
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    freedominacup wrote: »
    That's what's known as reaching. Almost certainly badgers unless someone is doing something silly with waste from a meat factory/processor.

    And if there was, there would be more than one farm affected......a lot of farms got that maize.
    There's a lot of bad TB outbreaks at the moment. Could it be that the national herd is so clean now that when they do come in contact
    with an infected badger they succumb easily. Their immunity must be non existent


  • #1425
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    was down the local gettin a few.....the story doin the rounds was a local lad had 47 cows gone down with tb, blamin bought in maize from england that glanbia brought-in during the spring some dose for that chap....

    So the ould enemy's maize is infecting our cattle. I don't know if its possible perhaps so but highly unlikely

    Confirms what we all know about pub talk


  • #1426
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    moy83 wrote: »
    A slogan for an undertakers ~ For us to live you must die :D

    or ~ I'll be the last man to let you down :D


  • #1427
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    To be fair its totally plausable that badgers contaiminated the maize in england before it was brought-in....the thing is the area we are in is realatively tb free 40 plus cows going down like that is unheard of.....

    A neighbour lost 20 cows to TB a few years back. They went on a week's holidays and left young lad in charge of feeding cows. The first morning he found a badger dead close to the barrier. He was afraid to touch it and he left it there till the old man came home. Every second cow in the pens was positive for TB over the next couple of months.


  • #1428
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    A neighbour lost 20 cows to TB a few years back. They went on a week's holidays and left young lad in charge of feeding cows. The first morning he found a badger dead close to the barrier. He was afraid to touch it and he left it there till the old man came home. Every second cow in the pens was positive for TB over the next couple of months.

    fook, dear holiday


  • #1429
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    reilig wrote: »
    A neighbour lost 20 cows to TB a few years back. They went on a week's holidays and left young lad in charge of feeding cows. The first morning he found a badger dead close to the barrier. He was afraid to touch it and he left it there till the old man came home. Every second cow in the pens was positive for TB over the next couple of months.

    Jeez! I'm driving to Galway, regularly these past few weeks. About ten days ago, I saw a truck in front of me, hit and kill a badger, within 20 meters of the entrance to a large farm yard.
    I have passed by numerous times since, including last night. The carcass is still there. Been hit again by a car or two, and basically mashed all over the road:confused:
    Can't believe how careless, the farmer is, with this situation. I would have the thing, buried deep, and covered with lime, long ago.


  • #1430
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    Jeez! I'm driving to Galway, regularly these past few weeks. About ten days ago, I saw a truck in front of me, hit and kill a badger, within 20 meters of the entrance to a large farm yard.
    I have passed by numerous times since, including last night. The carcass is still there. Been hit again by a car or two, and basically mashed all over the road:confused:
    Can't believe how careless, the farmer is, with this situation. I would have the thing, buried deep, and covered with lime, long ago.

    I'd say that the chances are that he was healthy. He wouldn't be on the road and scavenging for food if he had tb. Badger cullers around here a few years ago said that the badgers that they found killed on roads rarely had tb when tested.


  • #1431
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    met a fellow boardsie last night, adne, IT genius, going helping me set up a calving camera in the shed, for a boardie discount of course;)


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  • #1432
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,900 ✭✭✭mf240


    delaval wrote: »
    So the ould enemy's maize is infecting our cattle. I don't know if its possible perhaps so but highly unlikely

    Confirms what we all know about pub talk

    Couldn't agree more.


  • #1433
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    hugo29 wrote: »
    met a fellow boardsie last night, adne, IT genius, going helping me set up a calving camera in the shed, for a boardie discount of course;)

    I met one yesterday who sorted me with contraband pyrotechnics

    Super smuggler!!!!!


  • #1434
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    I was charged at by an angry badger before, I leapt behind a cow and she battered him for me:D
    Just put all my piercings back in, ouchie.


  • #1435
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    delaval wrote: »
    I met one yesterday who sorted me with contraband pyrotechnics

    Super smuggler!!!!!

    do people still use the wavin pipe for launch or have we moved on since the late 80s:D


  • #1436
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    visiting the danish cousins couple of years ago at this time and the fireworks are a serious willy waving excerise between the guys over there, like Beirut over there this weekend


  • #1437
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I was charged at by an angry badger before, I leapt behind a cow and she battered him for me:D
    Just put all my piercings back in, ouchie.

    Does that mean you are not working near me anymore


  • #1438
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    cull cows fairly dear yesterday in ennis for good ones, saw a massive black cow approx 800kg make €1850 euro


  • #1439
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    Does that mean you are not working near me anymore

    It may do:cool:


  • #1440
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    It may do:cool:

    I Should have been a detective


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  • #1441
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    I Should have been a detective

    Or a power washer saleswoman.


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