Farming Chit Chat III

Username John · 02-11-2013 01:06PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

In the hospital now with mrs sharp.

Hope all is ok Sharp?

Conmaicne Mara · 02-11-2013 01:09PM

Username John wrote: »

Bad ould week here...

Full time job is gone

So joining the ranks of people searching for work. And not that confident of getting something close to home... Could well be off to the big smoke in the new year... :mad:

Fcuk fcuk fcuk....

Hopefully something will turn up soon John.

td5man · 02-11-2013 01:11PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

In the hospital now with mrs sharp.

Hope all is ok.

whelan1 · 02-11-2013 01:11PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

In the hospital now with mrs sharp.

when is she due?

Sharpshooter82 · 02-11-2013 01:14PM

td5man wrote: »

Hope all is ok.

Came home from duty and she was bent over with pain at times so in she went

whelan1 · 02-11-2013 01:15PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Came home from duty and she was bent over with pain at times so in she went

hope all ok, shes in the best place

moy83 · 02-11-2013 01:27PM

Username John wrote: »

Bad ould week here...

Full time job is gone

So joining the ranks of people searching for work. And not that confident of getting something close to home... Could well be off to the big smoke in the new year... :mad:

Fcuk fcuk fcuk....

Hope something better comes out of it for you John . I know its a crap time but at least with a farm you will be able to keep busy around there . I often wonder how people in town dont crack up when they are out of work

Timmaay · 02-11-2013 01:28PM

Another cow off to the knackery, she calved last wk out in the field fine (gave us a nice PBM heifer calf at least!), I put her in the calving shed afterwards, and was going to bring her in to be milked that evening, when she couldnt get up, back legs were gone on her. Still not up a week later to balls to that.

And my dad managed to only put the handbrake 1/2 on on the tractor thismorning, on a slope in the yard. It rolled forward about 20ft, with the sheargrab wide open, straight for the diesel tank (which is close on full), front wheel hit a 9inch block sitting infront of the tank and stopped the tractor, with the sheargrab ended up 2inches from punching a hole in the diesel tank! Close!

fastrac · 02-11-2013 01:31PM

VERY CLOSE

whelan1 · 02-11-2013 01:40PM

Tim did Ye lift her?

jersey101 · 02-11-2013 02:20PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Another cow off to the knackery, she calved last wk out in the field fine (gave us a nice PBM heifer calf at least!), I put her in the calving shed afterwards, and was going to bring her in to be milked that evening, when she couldnt get up, back legs were gone on her. Still not up a week later to balls to that.

And my dad managed to only put the handbrake 1/2 on on the tractor thismorning, on a slope in the yard. It rolled forward about 20ft, with the sheargrab wide open, straight for the diesel tank (which is close on full), front wheel hit a 9inch block sitting infront of the tank and stopped the tractor, with the sheargrab ended up 2inches from punching a hole in the diesel tank! Close!

know how ye feel tim we list near 20 cows 7 year ago between culling and knackery due to a mastitis oit break that went into there system. Two years after we lost half the calves with salmonella

Timmaay · 02-11-2013 02:29PM

whelan1 wrote: »

Tim did Ye lift her?

Yeh, no proper attempt to put weight on the legs. Could be a trapped nerve etc in the back. Gave her afew shots of a painkiller but didn't help. Just one of them things. Lost 6cows so far this year, her, and another one with ecoli masititis we could have done nothing about, the other 4 were older cows, had been dry along time, never should have bloody kept them, but when your under pressure without enough replacements etc this is what happens! I've 3 ladies gone dry in the past month or so, who are long term lame, and due to calf down in the spring. I can't help but feel I should have flogged them on also. Too much lameness here also, I'll be putting out the footbath every 2wks over the winter.

NewBeefFarmer · 02-11-2013 02:46PM

was at mart today for a look,

saw a lad at the shutes with his cattle, he was back combing every one of them.

never seen this before. . . is it common?

TITANIUM. · 02-11-2013 02:51PM

NewBeefFarmer wrote: »

was at mart today for a look,

saw a lad at the shutes with his cattle, he was back combing every one of them.

never seen this before. . . is it common?

There's a lad down our way that always has the curry combs out. Ud sware he was showing them.
Wonder if its the same fella.

NewBeefFarmer · 02-11-2013 02:56PM

TITANIUM. wrote: »

There's a lad down our way that always has the curry combs out. Ud sware he was showing them.
Wonder if its the same fella.

reminded me of rubbing a 1992 car seat cover in the opposite direction,

thought, is that what im up against. . . . .

next ull have a farmer at the pin with a bucket and suds. .

simx · 02-11-2013 02:57PM

NewBeefFarmer wrote: »

was at mart today for a look,

saw a lad at the shutes with his cattle, he was back combing every one of them.

never seen this before. . . is it common?

only ever seen one lad do this and hes a dealer, and when he buys he pulls off the sticker with comb to try not leave a patch thats noticable

onyerbikepat · 02-11-2013 03:18PM

NewBeefFarmer wrote: »

was at mart today for a look,

saw a lad at the shutes with his cattle, he was back combing every one of them.

never seen this before. . . is it common?

I always try and clean the sh1te of the weanlings behinds with a curry, when I am selling them. Well if you serlling a car, you'd wash it first wouldn't ya.

Sharpshooter82 · 02-11-2013 03:53PM

whelan1 wrote: »

when is she due?

Last week of feb or first week march

Sharpshooter82 · 02-11-2013 03:56PM

td5man wrote: »

Hope all is ok.

All good:) ,easiest way to explain is baby and mammy not getting on for a while. Doc told her to relax for the evening so I'm gonna throw my hat at that day and surrender to the couch for the evening to hell and lit the fire

naughto · 02-11-2013 03:56PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Came home from duty and she was bent over with pain at times so in she went

or fella is home a week today was all going fine untill last night where he had awfull bad wind he roared for hours.got the infocal in to him it settled him but hes still not right today.we have the dr brown bottles that we are going to start using but he is so used to the teat that they gave him in the hospital its near impossible to get him to take it.
the lack of sleep is a killer as well,thank god we have here mother in law and sister in every day to gives a hand

whelan1 · 02-11-2013 03:58PM

naughto wrote: »

or fella is home a week today was all going fine untill last night where he had awfull bad wind he roared for hours.got the infocal in to him it settled him but hes still not right today.we have the dr brown bottles that we are going to start using but he is so used to the teat that they gave him in the hospital its near impossible to get him to take it.
the lack of sleep is a killer as well,thank god we have here mother in law and sister in every day to gives a hand

yup its not easy, the infacol is great, also great to get a breather for a while to clear your head

td5man · 02-11-2013 04:05PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

All good:) ,easiest way to explain is baby and mammy not getting on for a while. Doc told her to relax for the evening so I'm gonna throw my hat at that day and surrender to the couch for the evening to hell and lit the fire

Ah the joys of it, it isn't what you expected.
When you've been through it 5 or 6 times you'll be well used to it

td5man · 02-11-2013 04:12PM

whelan1 wrote: »

yup its not easy, the infacol is great, also great to get a breather for a while to clear your head

Infacol wasn't much good here, tried everything child eventually grew out of it.

moy83 · 02-11-2013 04:54PM

td5man wrote: »

Infacol wasn't much good here, tried everything child eventually grew out of it.

Same here , we were over in Wales and got stuff called gripe water . It worked a treat compared to the Infacol

td5man · 02-11-2013 05:00PM

A farmer wanted to have his hens serviced, so he went to the market looking for a cockerel. He was hoping he could get a special cockerel-one that would service all of his many hens. When he told this to the market vendor, the vendor replied: "I have just the rooster for you. Henry here is the horniest cockerel you will ever see!"
So the farmer took Henry back to the farm. Before setting him loo...se in the hen house, though, he gave Henry a little pep talk: "Henry," he said, "I'm counting on you to do your stuff." And without a word, Henry strutted into the henhouse.
Henry was as fast as he was furious, mounting each hen like a thunderbolt. There was much squawking and many feathers flying, till Henry had finished having his way with each hen. But, Henry didn't stop there. Henry went into the barn and mounted all of the horses, one by one, and still at the same frantic pace. Then he went to the pig house, where he did the same. The farmer, watching all of this with disbelief cried out, "Stop, Henry!! You'll kill yourself!!"
But Henry continued, seeking out each farm animal in the same manner.
Well, the next morning, the farmer looked out and saw Henry lying there on his lawn. His legs were up in the air, his eyes rolled back, and his long tongue hanging out. A buzzard was already circling above Henry. The farmer walked up to Henry saying, "Oh you poor thing, look what you did, you've gone and killed yourself. I warned you little buddy."
"Shhhhhhh," Henry whispered, "The buzzard's getting closer."

mahoney_j · 02-11-2013 05:01PM

Off to round up the cows ,milking early then off to Munster match followed by obe or 2 sociable .havnt been out since 2 o clock,real winters day here cold wet and miserable.hard to leave a red hot stove and watching England v Australia .

TITANIUM. · 02-11-2013 05:34PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

I expected that off bob
One of the lads on duty last night went down with a pain in his calf muscle, pulled muscle or something. Two hours later it got worse. We smelled a rat so called the medical corp and they sent out an ambulance. Went to hospital and there was a blood clot moving up his leg. He's fine now waiting on an operation but it came out of no where.

Fair play to ye another lad wud have left him off. I take it your in the army so. Do u find it hard to juggle the farm with work?
It's not like a 9 to 5 sure. And your probably sent away a fair bit aswell?

TITANIUM. · 02-11-2013 05:40PM

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

I expected that off bob
One of the lads on duty last night went down with a pain in his calf muscle, pulled muscle or something. Two hours later it got worse. We smelled a rat so called the medical corp and they sent out an ambulance. Went to hospital and there was a blood clot moving up his leg. He's fine now waiting on an operation but it came out of no where.

I take it your in the army so. Do you find it hard to juggle the farm with work? It's not like have a 9 to 5 sure. And your probably sent away a fair bit aswell?

Conmaicne Mara · 02-11-2013 05:54PM

TITANIUM. wrote: »

I take it your in the army so. Do you find it hard to juggle the farm with work? It's not like have a 9 to 5 sure. And your probably sent away a fair bit aswell?

He calls in the Air Corps to lift any down cow.

Sharpshooter82 · 02-11-2013 05:59PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

He calls in the Air Corps to lift any down cow.

and the artillery to take out any foxes or badgers

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