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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #2702
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    What do you want then,you have said about both systems here yet don't seem to be happy with either,As I said its a pain and somebody has to suffer so what proposals would you make that can keep all sides happy.

    maybe bob could just turn up in my yard, pay me top dollar and take the calves away, :D


  • #2703
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    What do you want then,you have said about both systems here yet don't seem to be happy with either,As I said its a pain and somebody has to suffer so what proposals would you make that can keep all sides happy.

    Calm down, :D

    I mentioned a phone booking system which works well in Connacht Gold Marts and a lot of other marts around the country. Nobody suffers at all with it!

    The mart that i was referring to in my original post has a phone booking system, but they reserve the first 250 numbers for "special people".


  • #2704
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    reilig wrote: »
    Calm down, :D

    I mentioned a phone booking system which works well in Connacht Gold Marts and a lot of other marts around the country. Nobody suffers at all with it!

    Would ya not have sold the weanlings there so save yourself a lot of bother?


  • #2705
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Would ya not have sold the weanlings there so save yourself a lot of bother?

    Its 100 miles away. I preferred to keep my custom local, but I have learned from that now!


  • #2706
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    reilig wrote: »
    Its 100 miles away. I preferred to keep my custom local, but I have learned from that now!

    100 miles any wonder ye need a 1000 a weanling to cover transport lol


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  • #2707
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    Its 100 miles away. I preferred to keep my custom local, but I have learned from that now!

    is it a 100 mile round trip to ballymote for you reilig, jayus

    hear dowra is good trade at moment

    manorhamilton too last week, but u would want to be brave to chance manor


  • #2708
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    100 miles any wonder ye need a 1000 a weanling to cover transport lol

    Read the post. They weren't my cattle, they were for a relative. Nearest mart is 5 miles from me. I have 4 marts within 15 miles - all have phone booking.


  • #2709
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    Well that's that then you just have to grin and bear it,if you have to sell in that mart.


  • #2710
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Yet another day stuck at the mart in Ennis and I gave to go again Thursday, getting a small bit burnt out from marts the last few weeks!!


    just home, dropped 2 loads of weanlings , a lad asked me if I hang around to see if he could pick up a few runners, told him he better buy halter trained ones and buy a rope,

    I'v e seen enough of ennis for a while,


  • #2711
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Well that's that then you just have to grin and bear it,if you have to sell in that mart.

    Not really. I have them booked into another mart (over the phone). That's the good thing about not living in a communist society - we can choose where to sell and buy! ;)


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  • #2712
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    reilig wrote: »
    Not really. I have them booked into another mart (over the phone). That's the good thing about not living in a communist society - we can choose where to sell and buy! ;)

    As I said if you had to sell in that mart which you did nt fair play can't understand why the rant about the mart in the first place if ya sold them some place else.


  • #2713
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    As I said if you had to sell in that mart which you did nt fair play can't understand why the rant about the mart in the first place if ya sold them some place else.

    Didn't sell them anywhere yet - as I said.
    Selling them next week.
    The "rant" was about the fact that the mart made it impossible for me to get numbers.

    For this reason I have chosen to bring them to another mart.
    in fact, i didn't see it as a rant at all - I described the situation that existed and actually asked the question if other people had similar experience.

    Should I not suggest that you were the person ranting about how I should put up or shut up. :eek:

    In fact I offered an alternative solution of telephone booking which is run in a fair and organised manner as can be seen in Connacht Gold Marts across teh west and North West! :D:D


  • #2714
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    reilig wrote: »
    Didn't sell them anywhere yet - as I said.
    Selling them next week.
    The "rant" was about the fact that the mart made it impossible for me to get numbers.

    For this reason I have chosen to bring them to another mart.
    in fact, i didn't see it as a rant at all - I described the situation that existed and actually asked the question if other people had similar experience.

    Should I not suggest that you were the person ranting about how I should put up or shut up. :eek:

    In fact I offered an alternative solution of telephone booking which is run in a fair and organised manner as can be seen in Connacht Gold Marts across teh west and North West! :D:D

    The telephone booking is really good alright. I remember queuing for the mart when I was young with dad. We had a rickety 165 with feck all cab and if you weren't in the queue by 3.00 am you probably wouldn't sell. Castlerea mart uses the draw system and its a pain in comparison. At least when you have booked over the phone a few days in advance you know if its worth going or not.


  • #2715
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    reilig wrote: »
    Didn't sell them anywhere yet - as I said.
    Selling them next week.
    The "rant" was about the fact that the mart made it impossible for me to get numbers.

    For this reason I have chosen to bring them to another mart.
    in fact, i didn't see it as a rant at all - I described the situation that existed and actually asked the question if other people had similar experience.

    Should I not suggest that you were the person ranting about how I should put up or shut up. :eek:

    In fact I offered an alternative solution of telephone booking which is run in a fair and organised manner as can be seen in Connacht Gold Marts across teh west and North West! :D:D

    Next week your selling did you get a low number with that system?The marts I use is one has first come basis the other book in and draw for numbers no probs with either.You followed your own advice and took them and sell them at a place that suits you if ya did that in the first place you'd have saved yourself a lot of bother.


  • #2716
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    jomoloney wrote: »
    just home, dropped 2 loads of weanlings , a lad asked me if I hang around to see if he could pick up a few runners, told him he better buy halter trained ones and buy a rope,

    I'v e seen enough of ennis for a while,

    Will be doing a drop and run Thursday hopefully and have to go to kilfenora the following Monday for ourselves. Someone will surely ring to go to Ennis next Tuesday again aswell. The runners seem to be back 50-60 quid in the last fortnight.


  • #2717
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Anyone ever use that phisolith lime? We used it two years ago and thought it was brilliant stuff. Salesman in the yard here today said now was the time of the year to spread it, thinking of getting it. Anyone else any experience with it?


  • #2718
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    kovu must be on the missing list again


  • #2719
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    The runners seem to be back 50-60 quid in the last fortnight.

    What runners were they? Nike or addidas? :D

    What's a runner again? We don't use that term around here. I'm guessing they are what we would call a yearling or a light store or a 'slip' of a heifer?


  • #2720
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    kovu must be on the missing list again

    ???


  • #2721
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan1 wrote: »
    kovu must be on the missing list again

    I thought Reilig was aswel, but I see he has emerged from the ashes :) Too busy housing cows and getting weanlings ready for sale the last few weeks I'd say


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  • #2722
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Muckit wrote: »
    I thought Reilig was aswel, but I see he has emerged from the ashes :) Too busy housing cows and getting weanlings ready for sale the last few weeks I'd say

    Together ? ;-)


  • #2723
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Muckit wrote: »
    What runners were they? Nike or addidas? :D

    What's a runner again? We don't use that term around here. I'm guessing they are what we would call a yearling or a light store or a 'slip' of a heifer?

    Round me a runner would be a calf straight off a cow.


  • #2724
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Round me a runner would be a calf straight off a cow.
    in the mart today the cattle that where in the crush before mine where pure crazy, do they still have to be weaned before selling, even in the ring they where mental, none of the lads would stand in the ring with them


  • #2725
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Round me a runner would be a calf straight off a cow.


    that scenario could apply to most weanlings, my view of a runner would be an animal thats between a strong calf and a weanling


  • #2726
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Round me a runner would be a calf straight off a cow.

    Same as muckit, never heard that term used before,


  • #2727
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Having to go out again, feeding takes a bit getting used too


  • #2728
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    simx wrote: »
    that scenario could apply to most weanlings, my view of a runner would be an animal thats between a strong calf and a weanling

    Most weanlings would have been runners. I suppose the term runner came from the fact that a calf was "running" on its dam. If we wanted to be absolutey correct about it, the moment a calf is weaned it is no longer a runner, but becomes a weanling.


  • #2729
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    I had weanlings in Ennis today. There at 9.30 and had to wait 30 mins to get tru queu. Fellas were driving in and just skipping the queu and unloading, maddening.
    Ennis operate a system for weanling bulls, where you can ring in and book them from 8 days before. Draw then for the first 35 lots. Today it was pen 14 first. Then back down to pen 1 and then on from pen 15 again. I had pen 19 so in at 1.30. Trade middling, I thought, but I was selling.:)
    I had all mine well weaned and on meal. You'd wonder is it worth it all. Saw loads going through that were off the cow that morning and selling well. You'd have to wonder.


  • #2730
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Muckit wrote: »
    What runners were they? Nike or addidas? :D

    What's a runner again? We don't use that term around here. I'm guessing they are what we would call a yearling or a light store or a 'slip' of a heifer?

    A light calf or unweaned weanling :rolleyes: you don't have to enter cattle for the runner ring in Ennis and a lot of lads are letting their weanlings in there now. They don't record the weights in there though.


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  • #2731
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    onyerbikepat wrote: »
    I had weanlings in Ennis today. There at 9.30 and had to wait 30 mins to get tru queu. Fellas were driving in and just skipping the queu and unloading, maddening.
    Ennis operate a system for weanling bulls, where you can ring in and book them from 8 days before. Draw then for the first 35 lots. Today it was pen 14 first. Then back down to pen 1 and then on from pen 15 again. I had pen 19 so in at 1.30. Trade middling, I thought, but I was selling.:)
    I had all mine well weaned and on meal. You'd wonder is it worth it all. Saw loads going through that were off the cow that morning and selling well. You'd have to wonder.

    Middling it was!! Only good price I saw was a neighbour getting 800 for 2 White Charolais bulls that wer around 260kg, they were born in April and wouldn't know what a nut was. Got 520 for a 190kg lim bull born the end of July, plainish calf so I was happy enough. He was a bit flighty and I didn't want to be stuck with him for the winter, his mother is for the hook too!


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