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Farming Chit Chat sallies Fourth

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  • #2372
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Try the X21R if it's power you're after. :-) It's overkill really, I've used one and they're a bit over the top. I have an M7R and would highly recommend it.

    I don't think the neighbours would appreciate me shining me big torch round 2km away!! How do you find the rechargeable? Was just gonna go for normal


  • #2373
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    C0N0R wrote: »
    How do you find the rechargeable? Was just gonna go for normal

    Rechargeable is great, comes supplied with a magnetic lamp holder come charger that can be mounted on the dash of a jeep or the like. The lamp is always there when you need it and charged. It's a great job.


  • #2374
    exercise is the antidote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭exercise is the antidote


    Have a calf here didn't drink yesterday, drank 1lt today. Is very scoury. Is it ok to give electrolytes with some kaolin powder mixed in now??


  • #2375
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,655 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    Have a calf here didn't drink yesterday, drank 1lt today. Is very scoury. Is it ok to give electrolytes with some kaolin powder mixed in now??

    I'd give it


  • #2376
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,195 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    Have a calf here didn't drink yesterday, drank 1lt today. Is very scoury. Is it ok to give electrolytes with some kaolin powder mixed in now??
    calf needs rehydrating if scour is bad, plenty of fluids asap


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  • #2377
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    Have a calf here didn't drink yesterday, drank 1lt today. Is very scoury. Is it ok to give electrolytes with some kaolin powder mixed in now??

    Get onto it ASAP.
    Not sure about mixing the kaolin with the electrolytes.
    Electrolytes best gven 20 minutes before anything else.

    You could mix the kaolin with natural youghert or milk.

    A calf with scour needs 2l electrolyte twice daily at least.
    Plus regular feeds if he'll take them.


  • #2378
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Father was very confused this morning when all the cattle in the middle pen of the shed had swapped with all the cattle in the lower pen. Don't think he realised what day it was for a while :D:P


  • #2379
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,655 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Father was very confused this morning when all the cattle in the middle pen of the shed had swapped with all the cattle in the lower pen. Don't think he realised what day it was for a while :D:P

    Little to be doing :D


  • #2380
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Little to be doing :D

    Lol, it's his birthday too so he's the one with little to be doing today.


  • #2381
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,655 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    You would nearly think I was dairying :D


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  • #2382
    Zr105
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Zr105


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Father was very confused this morning when all the cattle in the middle pen of the shed had swapped with all the cattle in the lower pen. Don't think he realised what day it was for a while :D:P

    Now that is pure evil geniusness!! I like it!


  • #2383
    case 956
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭case 956


    all the bulling heifers got booster bvd nd lepto nd copper bolus, all cows bvd and lepto and copper, fathers cows bvd and lepto nd coppered and last 8 of father calves dehorned and all his calves back legged, amazing wat you get through when sun shining


  • #2384
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Father was very confused this morning when all the cattle in the middle pen of the shed had swapped with all the cattle in the lower pen. Don't think he realised what day it was for a while :D:P

    Happens here every year after the herd test! :D


  • #2385
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,195 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    was coming back from outfarm around dinner time, i was in the jeep. I have to go through a busy enough crossroAds in the village. As i approached it there was a young lad of about 3 standing in the middle of the road, there was no one with him. He was just standing there, i stopped, there where cars on the road. I was getting out of the jeep to go to him when a woman came out of a housing estate a bit down the road looking for him, he is not her child she was minding him:eek::eek: he is a lucky lad he wasnt killed. hE had crossed the road and walked a good bit to get to where he ended up


  • #2386
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan2 wrote: »
    was coming back from outfarm around dinner time, i was in the jeep. I have to go through a busy enough crossroAds in the village. As i approached it there was a young lad of about 3 standing in the middle of the road, there was no one with him. He was just standing there, i stopped, there where cars on the road. I was getting out of the jeep to go to him when a woman came out of a housing estate a bit down the road looking for him, he is not her child she was minding him:eek::eek: he is a lucky lad he wasnt killed. hE had crossed the road and walked a good bit to get to where he ended up

    Right woman at the right time.


  • #2387
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Read a good quote earlier this morning:

    "The ambitious man wants to better himself, the greedy man just wants to impoverish others"

    Nice quote but unfortunately the begrudgers can't tell them apart


  • #2388
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Nothing I hate more than missing strips in the field when its sprayed off. Really annoys me. Missed 4 lengths in the field about 4ft wide.
    His do the rest manage when spraying off?


  • #2389
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Nothing I hate more than missing strips in the field when its sprayed off. Really annoys me. Missed 4 lengths in the field about 4ft wide.
    His do the rest manage when spraying off?

    Can you get some kind of foam marker for the end of the boom on open side and just keep working off that?


  • #2390
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Can you get some kind of foam marker for the end of the boom on open side and just keep working off that?

    Where would I get one of them?
    Worse thing is all the neighbours will see it ha


  • #2391
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Where would I get one of them?
    Worse thing is all the neighbours will see it ha

    You sound like my auld lad!! Guesswork is the answer for me though, often got lost in a maze of rushes too .


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  • #2392
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Went up to "tuck in" my youngest 4. Noticed a picture drawn on the wall, asked did she do it she said " yes Daddy, couldn't find any paper" ha


  • #2393
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Did the wooden spoon find her a**e?


  • #2394
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    You sound like my auld lad!! Guesswork is the answer for me though, often got lost in a maze of rushes too .

    I'm the complete opposite to my oul lad.he doesn't give a **** any more. I like to do it as best I can.

    If I go over too far I won't have enough spray for the rest of the field and if I stay out too far I have excess spray.
    Ye can't win


  • #2395
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Went up to "tuck in" my youngest 4. Noticed a picture drawn on the wall, asked did she do it she said " yes Daddy, couldn't find any paper" ha

    If I did that when I was a chap I would have been lifted out of the bed by the ear to clean it off ha


  • #2396
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,989 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Muckit wrote: »
    Did the wooden spoon find her a**e?

    Ah come on whats walls for it wont be long til she is gone and all you will have is the picture on the wall. Too many people want a house to be a palace not a home


  • #2397
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    I'm the complete opposite to my oul lad.he doesn't give a **** any more. I like to do it as best I can.

    If I go over too far I won't have enough spray for the rest of the field and if I stay out too far I have excess spray.
    Ye can't win

    Yep, the same spreading fertilizer, too close or too far.
    You'll have the GPS yet


  • #2398
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    Got fert out on silage ground today land drier than I thought still another few days like this will make some difference


  • #2399
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,453 ✭✭✭naughto


    whelan2 wrote: »
    was coming back from outfarm around dinner time, i was in the jeep. I have to go through a busy enough crossroAds in the village. As i approached it there was a young lad of about 3 standing in the middle of the road, there was no one with him. He was just standing there, i stopped, there where cars on the road. I was getting out of the jeep to go to him when a woman came out of a housing estate a bit down the road looking for him, he is not her child she was minding him:eek::eek: he is a lucky lad he wasnt killed. hE had crossed the road and walked a good bit to get to where he ended up
    do u no the mother of the child id be having a word with her if you do and get her to sack the minder thats providing that its not a famaily member that was sapose to be looking after the child,if it was they would want to be f1ucked out of it


  • #2400
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Where would I get one of them?
    Worse thing is all the neighbours will see it ha

    Just googled it, seems a bit more expensive than I thought! Here is a home made one though.

    http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/174455-foam-marker-sprayers.html


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  • #2401
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    I'm the complete opposite to my oul lad.he doesn't give a **** any more. I like to do it as best I can.

    If I go over too far I won't have enough spray for the rest of the field and if I stay out too far I have excess spray.
    Ye can't win

    Sure no one wants to leave a streak!! There's a local man with a wagtail spreader and the bridle has been brokien off the spout with a few years. It's gas to look into his fields because he only hits half the ground with the manure. I told him what was wrong and that it was a cheap fix but he didn't seem to care.


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