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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #2582
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    bob charles wrote: »
    erra im so used of things going pear shaped I take no notice, currently have a solenoid playing up on the gearbox and when the oil heats up, it sticks and causes all sort of error codes. Seat back and a half hours rest and off we go again. :D:D
    calm and collective


  • #2583
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jersey101 wrote: »
    **** day here too. Turns out im missing a maiden heifer. Not good
    did the vet tell ya that or did you find out yourself?


  • #2584
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    whelan1 wrote: »
    did the vet tell ya that or did you find out yourself?

    vet, feel ashamed i never noriced myself :(


  • #2585
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jersey101 wrote: »
    vet, feel ashamed i never noriced myself :(
    is she really mssing or an error on the cmms?


  • #2586
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    whelan1 wrote: »
    is she really mssing or an error on the cmms?

    really missing. And i havent a clue what happened her. Farm is well fenced and all.


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  • #2587
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Ha, had the very same problem in our test last April, except it was a 6month old fr bullock. Searched around for him, but couldnt bloody find him. The group he had been in had escaped out along the cliff face afew weeks early, so we assumed he must have fell over. Told all this to a fairly disinterested girl in the ag/food department, who knocked him off the system no problem for me!

    Anyways only there afew weeks ago, I came across a brand new set of tags, same number of the bullock! So it turned out afterwards that he must have died as a calf, been taken by the local knackery but never knocked off the system, and we had been searching for a phantom bullock ha!


  • #2588
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jersey101 wrote: »
    really missing. And i havent a clue what happened her. Farm is well fenced and all.
    would someone have taken her?


  • #2589
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    whelan1 wrote: »
    would someone have taken her?

    only explanation i can think of. Looked trough all knackery dockets and nothing. Its fair sickening


  • #2590
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Ha, had the very same problem in our test last April, except it was a 6month old fr bullock. Searched around for him, but couldnt bloody find him. The group he had been in had escaped out along the cliff face afew weeks early, so we assumed he must have fell over. Told all this to a fairly disinterested girl in the ag/food department, who knocked him off the system no problem for me!

    Anyways only there afew weeks ago, I came across a brand new set of tags, same number of the bullock! So it turned out afterwards that he must have died as a calf, been taken by the local knackery but never knocked off the system, and we had been searching for a phantom bullock ha!
    i dont understand why would you have the tags if the knackery took him, would they not have knocked him off system:confused:


  • #2591
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jersey101 wrote: »
    only explanation i can think of. Looked trough all knackery dockets and nothing. Its fair sickening
    have you any records of her like weighing or dosing etc


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  • #2592
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Whats bugging me is she would have been tested last year as a weanling and we lost no heifers this year. So where can she have gone


  • #2593
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    whelan1 wrote: »
    have you any records of her like weighing or dosing etc

    nope nothing like that. I only put down what groups i dose like calves or maiden heifers etc


  • #2594
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    jersey101 wrote: »
    Whats bugging me is she would have been tested last year as a weanling and we lost no heifers this year. So where can she have gone
    cattle didnt break out this year at all


  • #2595
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    And ****ty morning here also, was letting the cows out to one of the silage paddocks, they go through a field to a laneway in the 2nd yard, which has a gate out to the main road, I somehow managed to leave the gate wide open before letting the cows out, all bloody 60 or so of them walked right out on the road, and set off down it, before I spotted them! Drove after them, thinking "OH FU£K OH FU%K OH FU&K", I had no way of getting in front of them at all. Afew cars around as well, definitely an accident waiting to happen!! Anyways by pure luck, my dad was checking the cattle in the adjoining outfarm, 1/2mile down the road, and had left the gate open, and the cows decided to turn in there! Disaster over, plenty of choice words from my dad also!


  • #2596
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    cattle didnt break out this year at all

    nope. Electric wire all around and barbed wire inside of that.


  • #2597
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i dont understand why would you have the tags if the knackery took him, would they not have knocked him off system:confused:

    I'm thinking my dad registered him after the knackery took him, by mistake or something. He might even have just registered an extra calf, that never existed!


  • #2598
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    Timmaay wrote: »
    And ****ty morning here also, was letting the cows out to one of the silage paddocks, they go through a field to a laneway in the 2nd yard, which has a gate out to the main road, I somehow managed to leave the gate wide open before letting the cows out, all bloody 60 or so of them walked right out on the road, and set off down it, before I spotted them! Drove after them, thinking "OH FU£K OH FU%K OH FU&K", I had no way of getting in front of them at all. Afew cars around as well, definitely an accident waiting to happen!! Anyways by pure luck, my dad was checking the cattle in the adjoining outfarm, 1/2mile down the road, and had left the gate open, and the cows decided to turn in there! Disaster over, plenty of choice words from my dad also!
    very lucky there lad


  • #2599
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    jersey101 wrote: »
    nope. Electric wire all around and barbed wire inside of that.
    someone hardly took just the one


  • #2600
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    jersey101 wrote: »
    nope nothing like that. I only put down what groups i dose like calves or maiden heifers etc

    No AI record? Or did she run with the bull?


  • #2601
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    someone hardly took just the one
    you'd never know


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  • #2602
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Timmaay wrote: »
    No AI record? Or did she run with the bull?

    she'd be due for AI next month. Same as her comrades :(


  • #2603
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    jersey101 wrote: »
    she'd be due for AI next month. Same as her comrades :(
    all gates locked?


  • #2604
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    someone hardly took just the one

    ye never know. Heard stories of neighbours loosing stock.


  • #2605
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Timmaay wrote: »
    And ****ty morning here also, was letting the cows out to one of the silage paddocks, they go through a field to a laneway in the 2nd yard, which has a gate out to the main road, I somehow managed to leave the gate wide open before letting the cows out, all bloody 60 or so of them walked right out on the road, and set off down it, before I spotted them! Drove after them, thinking "OH FU£K OH FU%K OH FU&K", I had no way of getting in front of them at all. Afew cars around as well, definitely an accident waiting to happen!! Anyways by pure luck, my dad was checking the cattle in the adjoining outfarm, 1/2mile down the road, and had left the gate open, and the cows decided to turn in there! Disaster over, plenty of choice words from my dad also!
    years ago when my da would scrape out the sheds he would leave cows in the yard, he didnt close gate and they went down the lane and up to local crossroads,they turned round and all ran home, he only noticed they where gone when they where all coming back up the lane


  • #2606
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jersey101 wrote: »
    ye never know. Heard stories of neighbours loosing stock.
    will you ring dept to let them know?


  • #2607
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    all gates locked?

    ye a maze of gates here in the yard. Main road gate would be locked 9 times out of 10


  • #2608
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    jersey101 wrote: »
    ye never know. Heard stories of neighbours loosing stock.
    not saying it wouldnt happen but unusual to take the one if there was a few in the field unless the idea was to keep it under wraps hoping the missing animal wasnt noticed straight away


  • #2609
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    whelan1 wrote: »
    will you ring dept to let them know?

    vet told me to see if i can find her or find out what happened.and if not we'll sort it out on thursday when he comes back to check the stock


  • #2610
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    jersey101 wrote: »
    ye a maze of gates here in the yard. Main road gate would be locked 9 times out of 10
    and you never noticed any locks out of position or gates left in a strange way or anything


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  • #2611
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    and you never noticed any locks out of position or gates left in a strange way or anything
    ah now. we are not all in the army ya know:D


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