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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #8792
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    bob charles wrote: »
    is it sugar beet? Im on about 10kgs day per head and the cattle go straight onto it in TMR. If feeding seperate suppose start with 4 or 5kgs

    Yes sugar beet, I'm sorry tmr?


  • #8793
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    simx wrote: »
    Yes sugar beet, I'm sorry tmr?

    total mixed ration, aka diet feeding


  • #8794
    DMAXMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭DMAXMAN


    bob charles wrote: »
    is it sugar beet? Im on about 10kgs day per head and the cattle go straight onto it in TMR. If feeding seperate suppose start with 4 or 5kgs
    definitely no more than 5 kgs per head/day to start. be sure they are all eating too as very easy to sicken cattle with it, can even kill them. once started you can increase them a little every two or three days until you reach the level you want


  • #8795
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    bob charles wrote: »
    total mixed ration, aka diet feeding

    Oh right I'm with ya now, will be feeding seperate so I'll start with 4kg I suppose, load coming tomorrow, like a child before Christmas, just something new coming ha


  • #8796
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    decided to go to the gym with the OH to do my training and afterwards decided to try out the jacuzzi....... half an hour later i felt like a boiled spud :D


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  • #8797
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Reggie. wrote: »
    decided to go to the gym with the OH to do my training and afterwards decided to try out the jacuzzi....... half an hour later i fed like a boiled spud :D

    Stick a fork in him, he's done :pac:


  • #8798
    feartuath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭feartuath


    Just down from putting the kids to bed and reading story about cat and fiddle and the cow who jumped over the moon

    Was she a limousin and what bull was she out of ?


  • #8799
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Stick a fork in him, he's done :pac:
    took some effort to get out of the damn thing :o


  • #8800
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Cow was out of a Friesian dam (probably by Primsland Playboy) and a Limo bull.


  • #8801
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    feartuath wrote: »
    Just down from putting the kids to bed and reading story about cat and fiddle and the cow who jumped over the moon

    Was she a limousin and what bull was she out of ?

    There was money out of beef in them days. Beef wasn't as high since.:D


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  • #8802
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Was someone looking for a lock of these a while back http://www.donedeal.ie/farmproduce-for-sale/calf-hutches/6331444


  • #8803
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Was someone looking for a lock of these a while back http://www.donedeal.ie/farmproduce-for-sale/calf-hutches/6331444

    It was me cheers


  • #8804
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Not here two hours and I'm ran out of the place because lightning hit next door:eek:

    Who needs sleep anyway!


  • #8805
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Not here two hours and I'm ran out of the place because lightning hit next door:eek:

    Who needs sleep anyway!

    Lightning? Sure that only stray voltage. Your cell count will go up now


  • #8806
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Not here two hours and I'm ran out of the place because lightning hit next door:eek:

    Who needs sleep anyway!


    If we hear of a "Midlands Witch Trial" we Will know its you,....:)

    your not travelling with that earless cat , I hope?


  • #8807
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Not here two hours and I'm ran out of the place because lightning hit next door:eek:

    Who needs sleep anyway!

    You can be brought no where


  • #8808
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    If we hear of a "Midlands Witch Trial" we Will know its you,....:)

    your not travelling with that earless cat , I hope?

    Good lord no, stretching an ear myself at the moment so that's enough. I'm away now anyway. If any of ye see a reddish haired lass at the ring say hello!:D


  • #8809
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,145 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Came home from a weekend in Limerick to find the first calf of the season. a nice APZ heifer. We had our suspicions that the cow wasnt in calf at all she looked so light but she put on a late spring and popped out a fair sized calf


  • #8810
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Was someone looking for a lock of these a while back http://www.donedeal.ie/farmproduce-for-sale/calf-hutches/6331444

    Would it be wise to buy that sort of thing second hand. Calves can pick up any disease quick and ye don't know what the previous owners calf's got


  • #8811
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Would it be wise to buy that sort of thing second hand. Calves can pick up any disease quick and ye don't know what the previous owners calf's got

    If you went around with that taught through life, you would never have a missus :o


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  • #8812
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Got a car insurance renewal letter there on Friday, €590 ! For a fella like me never had a claim or an accident, ha! Just after getting a policy with another company for €390.


  • #8813
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Pulled out 15 fr bullock weanlings this morning. 3 are a bit small but we're going to throw a bit of barley at them for two weeks and see what they are like and then mart them.
    Is it early yet for lads to buy weanlings for grass or will I be in at the right time.
    Two of them are near stores, there last autumn bullocks


  • #8814
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Pulled out 15 fr bullock weanlings this morning. 3 are a bit small but we're going to throw a bit of barley at them for two weeks and see what they are like and then mart them.
    Is it early yet for lads to buy weanlings for grass or will I be in at the right time.
    Two of them are near stores, there last autumn bullocks

    Bit early I reckon, what weight ya think they are?


  • #8815
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    simx wrote: »
    Bit early I reckon, what weight ya think they are?

    I'd say the two bigger lads are 370/380 and the weanlings around 300, lot are Feb born. And the other 3 are 240 possibly there march born ones and had no silage or hay or straw when they were on milk


  • #8816
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Got a car insurance renewal letter there on Friday, €590 ! For a fella like me never had a claim or an accident, ha! Just after getting a policy with another company for €390.

    Who with for the €390. Just had a quote of €570 from the company I was with and a full NCB and all. Reckon it will be got much better elsewhere.


  • #8817
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    1300 here :0 guess that's the type of car too. Never known any different though


  • #8818
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Juniorhurler wrote: »
    Who with for the €390. Just had a quote of €570 from the company I was with and a full NCB and all. Reckon it will be got much better elsewhere.

    Got one from insuremyvan.ie for 360 last week for the jeep . I dont know if the do cars but id say they would be worth a shout


  • #8819
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Juniorhurler wrote: »
    Who with for the €390. Just had a quote of €570 from the company I was with and a full NCB and all. Reckon it will be got much better elsewhere.

    AXA, I put herself on the policy too which brought it down a lot. Anyone you get a quote from tell them you got another cheaper elsewhere, chance your arm basically!

    AA is another to get a quote from. Forget liberty, bloody dear.


  • #8820
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    1300 here :0 guess that's the type of car too. Never known any different though

    The dump valve in your car should give you a reduction in insurance, because all its probably doing is dropping the boost pressure and losing ya power :p.

    Duno what my insurance is 5/600ish, but i priced up an s2000 (250bhp, and fairly light) last yr, only 800, i really got to pickup one at some stage!


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  • #8821
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Timmaay wrote: »
    The dump valve in your car should give you a reduction in insurance, because all its probably doing is dropping the boost pressure and losing ya power :p.

    Duno what my insurance is 5/600ish, but i priced up an s2000 (250bhp, and fairly light) last yr, only 800, i really got to pickup one at some stage!
    You've been watching too much fast and furious :p.
    I've an 08 seat Leon, two sisters are insured, but never let them drive it unless they bust the sump on it. Two of them only have provisionals so pushing the price up a good but


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