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exercise is the antidote · 23-03-2014 08:05PM

Lambing live: farming Families on bbc 2 now for anyone interested.

dzer2 · 23-03-2014 08:05PM

Lambing live on BBC2 now great programme

Greengrass1 · 23-03-2014 08:09PM

jaymla627 wrote: »

Vaccinate for ibr/phuemonia at 10 days, massive ibr outbreak last year 65 out of 70 calves went down with pneumonia should of got shares in the vets with what i spent on zactran...

Ye herd here is being vaccinated for ibr here.
Hate the way the ibr vaccine only lasts for a few hours once its opened.
More compact calving this year so bigger problems

gozunda · 23-03-2014 08:21PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Will the spray travel into the tree from the suckers?

Brushwood killer is normally a selective herbicide (weed killer) for dicotyledons (trees and bushes) and which does not effect grass type plants. For application the herbicide would be sprayed on stems and leaves of broadleafed plants (eg ivy) which would absorb the spray and kill the plant. Trees would also be sensitive to the herbicide. And lime trees especially because of the suckering and spraying on stems, buds etc.

Be very very careful with such old trees. I would use other methods to control ivy.

Greengrass1 · 23-03-2014 08:27PM

gozunda wrote: »

Brushwood killer is normally a selective herbicide (weed killer) for dicotyledons (trees and bushes) and which does not effect grass type plants. For application the herbicide would be sprayed on stems and leaves of plants (eg ivy) which would absorb the spray and kill the plant. Trees would also be sensitive to the herbicide. And lime trees especially because of the suckering and spraying on stems, buds etc.

Be very very careful with such old trees. I would use other methods to control ivy.

Ye I don't think I'll be spraying them any way.
Mother would hang me if I damaged them

Odelay · 23-03-2014 08:37PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ye I don't think I'll be spraying them any way.
Mother would hang me if I damaged them

Should anything......happen to them, dont cut them up for firewood, Lime is a fantastic wood for carving, incredibly easy to work, my jaw dropped the first time I used it.

Greengrass1 · 23-03-2014 08:44PM

Odelay wrote: »

Should anything......happen to them, dont cut them up for firewood, Lime is a fantastic wood for carving, incredibly easy to work, my jaw dropped the first time I used it.

Have a trunk here of one that died but I'd say its gone to rotten now.
Friend in school used some to make a clock and it was beautiful wood when turned. Very hard to get though from what I could remember

moy83 · 23-03-2014 09:10PM

dzer2 wrote: »

Lambing live on BBC2 now great programme

Missed it , is there a repeat anytime do you know ?

vcshqkf9rpzgoe · 23-03-2014 09:30PM

Lambing live great show, even though the presenter called the sheep a herd instead of a flock!

dzer2 · 23-03-2014 09:40PM

moy83 wrote: »

Missed it , is there a repeat anytime do you know ?

It was only a recap of the last few yrs and an introduction to this yrs. It should be on the bbc player tomorrow if you cant get it pm me and I will give info in how to get it.

moy83 · 23-03-2014 09:42PM

dzer2 wrote: »

It was only a recap of the last few yrs and an introduction to this yrs. It should be on the bbc player tomorrow if you cant get it pm me and I will give info in how to get it.

Sound thanks , ill look at it on bbc player tomorrow night

Conmaicne Mara · 23-03-2014 10:17PM

Just watching Lambing Live now, Christ it's hard to listen to the foot & mouth piece.

rancher · 23-03-2014 10:40PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Just watching Lambing Live now, Christ it's hard to listen to the foot & mouth piece.

Years of breeding gone, How did they ever get the new flock ''hefted''.....think that's the word they used for training sheep to one area in the hill

Conmaicne Mara · 23-03-2014 10:58PM

rancher wrote: »

Years of breeding gone, How did they ever get the new flock ''hefted''.....think that's the word they used for training sheep to one area in the hill

That's a good question and one I intend to do some asking around about. All the flocks on the hills may not have been depopulated, depending on the time of year and the dispersal of the holdings around the hill. It may have been possible to start a nucleus restocking flock from neighbours flock, then gradually buy/breed up numbers. I've stopped sheep wandering on hills but never hefted a new area with sheep that didn't already have some link to it.

hugo29 · 23-03-2014 11:40PM

Cow mad a bulling on slats, bull in same pen ignoring her, that's all I need, a gay bull,

moy83 · 23-03-2014 11:43PM

hugo29 wrote: »

Cow mad a bulling on slats, bull in same pen ignoring her, that's all I need, a gay bull,

Its sunday night , he might have enough of it done all weekend

Genghis Cant · 23-03-2014 11:47PM

hugo29 wrote: »

Cow mad a bulling on slats, bull in same pen ignoring her, that's all I need, a gay bull,

It's like the parable of the young bull and the old bull. He knows full well he can have her at his leisure.

Kovu · 23-03-2014 11:52PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

It's like the parable of the young bull and the old bull. He knows full well he can have her at his leisure.

Aye, he's probably looking at hugo thinking "why the fcuk is he watching me. That's all I need, an owner with a bull fetish"

C0N0R · 24-03-2014 12:01AM

hugo29 wrote: »

Cow mad a bulling on slats, bull in same pen ignoring her, that's all I need, a gay bull,

She must have blown him out last weekend and he ain't keen on getting rejected again!

Muckit · 24-03-2014 12:10AM

Ah the oul performance anxiety. Get in outta dat shed hugho and let the lad do the business. Oh and turn the lights out on the way in!!

larrymiller · 24-03-2014 12:31AM

So lads any grants going???

Genghis Cant · 24-03-2014 12:35AM

larrymiller wrote: »

So lads any grants going???

Yeah, Supposed to be a new romantic ambience grant to help bulls like Hugos. It covers certain lighting and scented candles I'm reliably informed :^)

A cow called Daisy · 24-03-2014 07:01AM

George Lee, the new ag. correspondent for RTE meant to be on Sean O'Rourke program this morning between 10 and 12. If anyone hears it let us know what he says. Doubt there be much said about farming.

Conmaicne Mara · 24-03-2014 07:04AM

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

George Lee, the new ag. correspondent for RTE meant to be on Sean O'Rourke program this morning between 10 and 12. If anyone hears it let us know what he says. Doubt there be much said about farming.

It'll be all agri food industry & numbers I bet.

moy83 · 24-03-2014 07:26AM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

It'll be all agri food industry & numbers I bet.

I wonder will he have a story about helping out on any farm when he was a child and loving it ? Just to let us know that he isnt a complete novice like

hugo29 · 24-03-2014 11:04AM

bunch a fcuking smart arses on here

ah but thats why i luv ye:D

Kovu · 24-03-2014 11:13AM

Anyone know the rough price for sexed semen?

Genghis Cant · 24-03-2014 11:29AM

.Kovu. wrote: »

Anyone know the rough price for sexed semen?

The new Dovea catalog has some for a tenner extra.

Kovu · 24-03-2014 11:30AM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

The new Dovea catalog has some for a tenner extra.

That's the one I'm looking at, the Sim that has a 90% female sexed semen. Really? Just a tenner extra?

Genghis Cant · 24-03-2014 11:51AM

.Kovu. wrote: »

That's the one I'm looking at, the Sim that has a 90% female sexed semen. Really? Just a tenner extra?

I saw it somewhere alright. The powerful genetics site has some too for a tenner extra.
I suppose you have to take lower conception rates into account too.

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