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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #7352
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    hugo29 wrote: »
    should i bring the Jack

    Bring the jack, a big guy named jack, and a burdizzo


  • #7353
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    i was the highest bidder on 30(ish) acres that where for sale adjoining my land almost 5 years ago, it was an executors sale and the family fell out so it was never sold. I thank my lucky stars every day that i didnt get it as 2009 and last year would have been very hard to meet the repayments. Auctioneer rang me today that the for sale signs are going up again tomorrow:eek:


  • #7354
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Go on biddy, you know you want it :D


  • #7355
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    i was the highest bidder on 30(ish) acres that where for sale adjoining my land almost 5 years ago, it was an executors sale and the family fell out so it was never sold. I thank my lucky stars every day that i didnt get it as 2009 and last year would have been very hard to meet the repayments. Auctioneer rang me today that the for sale signs are going up again tomorrow:eek:

    What was it making back then.

    Much interest then and will there be now.

    Have you been putting money in the piggybank since:o

    Is it goodish land and will you make money from day one.


    SFP??


  • #7356
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    tbh i cant remember, 5 acres of it would be crap the rest has had tillage in it for a few years, would make a nice block of my land as it has frontage onto a laneway- slight possibility of selling a site- there where 3 lots and there was 1 bidder for each. Our lot being the biggest lot. it is going by private treaty now was auction the last time....


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  • #7357
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    tbh i cant remember, 5 acres of it would be crap the rest has had tillage in it for a few years, would make a nice block of my land as it has frontage onto a laneway- slight possibility of selling a site- there where 3 lots and there was 1 bidder for each. Our lot being the biggest lot. it is going by private treaty now was auction the last time....

    Hard to see it being any cheaper than then if anything last prices have strenghtened in the last 12 months. Have you 300k handy.

    Yerra you dairy farmers are rolling in lolly.

    Forget about site value it a bonus if it happens down the line or you get a site for one of the kids.

    Tell hubby he want to start working harder.


    I know what it is like to be chomping at the bit.


  • #7358
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Is it just me, or are the evening starting to get longer finally? Spring is on its way :P

    Must be for u guys because I turned the light on on the bike this morning for the first time in a while, wasn't as warm either but she's turning into a grand day now


  • #7359
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Must be for u guys because I turned the light on on the bike this morning for the first time in a while, wasn't as warm either but she's turning into a grand day now

    What time is that at, 4/5am? Actually out of interest, what time do yas start the AM milking at the back end, or start of the lactation, is it crazy early and pitch dark? Once I'm going by 8am here at the sec I'm happy, usually at the breakfast for 9, or shortly after at though, only 45 in the parlour!


  • #7360
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Very strange thing to be asking but I watched one of those 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" things last night
    It was about veal. Are there many people who rear veal (if any) in Ireland?
    I've never eaten it, (by choice) but i've seen it on a menu here and there.


  • #7361
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Very strange thing to be asking but I watched one of those 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" things last night
    It was about veal. Are there many people who rear veal (if any) in Ireland?
    I've never eaten it, (by choice) but i've seen it on a menu here and there.

    I love a good cut of it, hard to get it in Ireland, very few if any at veal at the moment, couple of guys up north I think. Would you like a bit of suckling pig?


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  • #7362
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Timmaay wrote: »
    What time is that at, 4/5am? Actually out of interest, what time do yas start the AM milking at the back end, or start of the lactation, is it crazy early and pitch dark? Once I'm going by 8am here at the sec I'm happy, usually at the breakfast for 9, or shortly after at though, only 45 in the parlour!

    Leave the house at 5:15 roughly cups on for 5:45. It must be said I've it fair handy here, most lads I know would be out by 4:30 or earlier. During calving we were starting about 5:30 to due to a new parlour, staff a bit unsure and cow flow not magic. But normally id aim to be finished up by half eight or so and just work back from that. During calving it would be as black as your boot some days but ya get used to doing stuff in the dark. Used to be able to shift irrigators and feed out silage in the dark with no lights on the tractor, wouldn't be sending everyone to do it though, would be a few gate posts missing!


  • #7363
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Very strange thing to be asking but I watched one of those 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" things last night
    It was about veal. Are there many people who rear veal (if any) in Ireland?
    I've never eaten it, (by choice) but i've seen it on a menu here and there.

    Yep 150 head atm


  • #7364
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    bob charles wrote: »
    I love a good cut of it, hard to get it in Ireland, very few if any at veal at the moment, couple of guys up north I think. Would you like a bit of suckling pig?

    I'm debating whether or not to get a bonham this year and get slaughtered via a butcher friend of mine.


  • #7365
    Rho b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Rho b


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Very strange thing to be asking but I watched one of those 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" things last night
    It was about veal. Are there many people who rear veal (if any) in Ireland?
    I've never eaten it, (by choice) but i've seen it on a menu here and there.
    Farmer Pudsley put up this tread about dairy calves and there is a bit of discussion about rose veal. Not much of it going on now as there was a few years ago.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057119145


  • #7366
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I'm debating whether or not to get a bonham this year and get slaughtered via a butcher friend of mine.
    are you not gone to canada?


  • #7367
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    are you not gone to canada?

    Waiting on the VISA to open for application.


  • #7368
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Waiting on the VISA to open for application.

    Harbouring a wildlife criminal, frequenting the inside of more than one Garda car, not to mention the fist fight, we'll keep it under wraps ;)


  • #7369
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Harbouring a wildlife criminal, frequenting the inside of more than one Garda car, not to mention the fist fight, we'll keep it under wraps ;)

    I have never been arrested,...


  • #7370
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I have never been arrested,...

    You've just been practising :D


  • #7371
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    ETTG


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  • #7372
    mayota
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mayota


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    ETTG

    You remembered:D


  • #7373
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    mayota wrote: »
    You remembered:D

    I did :o for a change :D


  • #7374
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    went to the blood donors tonight. First time in a good while. Frig me, they seem to be using a much bigger needle than I remembed. Have put calcium in a cow with smaller.


  • #7375
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    went to the blood donors tonight. First time in a good while. Frig me, they seem to be using a much bigger needle than I remembed. Have put calcium in a cow with smaller.

    Last time I gave blood, and it's a fair while ago, I wore a white shirt. Dunno where yer one done her training but I came out looking like a M.A.S.H. surgeon, she had to have a few stabs at it, so to speak :D


  • #7376
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Very strange thing to be asking but I watched one of those 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" things last night
    It was about veal. Are there many people who rear veal (if any) in Ireland?
    I've never eaten it, (by choice) but i've seen it on a menu here and there.

    Yep


  • #7377
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Last time I gave blood, and it's a fair while ago, I wore a white shirt. Dunno where yer one done her training but I came out looking like a M.A.S.H. surgeon, she had to have a few stabs at it, so to speak :D

    Thats the mountainy skin for you , any wonder you were out in a tee shirt the last day !


  • #7378
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    went to the blood donors tonight. First time in a good while. Frig me, they seem to be using a much bigger needle than I remembed. Have put calcium in a cow with smaller.

    Can't give blood myself


  • #7379
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    i was the highest bidder on 30(ish) acres that where for sale adjoining my land almost 5 years ago, it was an executors sale and the family fell out so it was never sold. I thank my lucky stars every day that i didnt get it as 2009 and last year would have been very hard to meet the repayments. Auctioneer rang me today that the for sale signs are going up again tomorrow:eek:

    What would the repayments be on €400k?


  • #7380
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    went to the blood donors tonight. First time in a good while. Frig me, they seem to be using a much bigger needle than I remembed. Have put calcium in a cow with smaller.
    my dad has a rare blood type and they ring him regularly to give blood, he is getting older now and doesnt give it as often but he gives it more times than is reccommended


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  • #7381
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Can't give blood myself

    Same as that , I had meningitis and glandular fever but im not sure which of them they dont take blood off you after because of it . I wouldnt be fit for it anyhow because I'm a wus where needles are concerned !


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