Farming ChitChat Ploughs On To Five

Kovu · 17-04-2015 08:23PM

Reggie. wrote: »

#kinkykovu

You'll regret that some day!

Seems to be a big enough crash on the Drumlish road, was walking back from the shed earlier & heard the screech of brakes. Tailback is rather long now. Hope everyone is ok. That's the second crash on that road recently.

sea12 · 17-04-2015 08:24PM

Congrats Muckit on the good news.

Reggie. · 17-04-2015 09:02PM

Kovu wrote: »

You'll regret that some day!

Seems to be a big enough crash on the Drumlish road, was walking back from the shed earlier & heard the screech of brakes. Tailback is rather long now. Hope everyone is ok. That's the second crash on that road recently.

Jaysus that seems to be a bad spot alright

Mad4simmental · 17-04-2015 09:11PM

Congrats Muckit, we went for our first scan yesterday & it was jumping around like a mad thing :-)

Reggie. · 17-04-2015 09:13PM

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Congrats Muckit, we went for our first scan yesterday & it was jumping around like a mad thing :-)

Mad by name and mad by nature

Bullocks · 17-04-2015 09:21PM

Kovu wrote: »

Yes I do

Oh lots of people thought the same thing ! I got a pregnancy test thing hopped off my head one time and we were both thinking we were careful !!

Kovu · 17-04-2015 09:27PM

Bullocks wrote: »

Oh lots of people thought the same thing ! I got a pregnancy test thing hopped off my head one time and we were both thinking we were careful !!

Ah but sure I'm a nun. Immaculate conception rates aren't the greatest.

Bullocks · 17-04-2015 09:29PM

Kovu wrote: »

Ah but sure I'm a nun. Immaculate conception rates aren't the greatest.

There are two immaculate conceptions in my village alone , in fact one of the nuns threw out a second one there a few months ago . She was never ever in the company of a man supposedly! !!

Genghis Cant · 17-04-2015 09:35PM

Congratulations Muckit. I'm not a religious man ( in fact I'm the opposite!) but to my way of thinking this is how we live forever! Another generation of Muckit!

Reggie. · 17-04-2015 09:37PM

Bullocks wrote: »

There are two immaculate conceptions in my village alone , in fact one of the nuns threw out a second one there a few months ago . She was never ever in the company of a man supposedly! !!

Sure

Blue Magic · 17-04-2015 09:38PM

I've a general question to Dairy Farmers. I often here farmers ask each other about a bull & they say "What's he out of"? And they quote CF something or other...

What does these codes identify? Breeds?

Reggie. · 17-04-2015 09:39PM

Blue Magic wrote: »

I've a general question to Dairy Farmers. I often here farmers ask each other about a bull & they say "What's he out of"? And they quote CF something or other...

What does these codes identify? Breeds?

Different bulls themselves

Blue Magic · 17-04-2015 09:43PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Different bulls themselves

Different breeds of bulls ya?

Blackgrass · 17-04-2015 09:50PM

Bullocks wrote: »

Oh lots of people thought the same thing ! I got a pregnancy test thing hopped off my head one time and we were both thinking we were careful !!

+1!!!

Mad4simmental · 17-04-2015 09:51PM

Blue Magic wrote: »

Different breeds of bulls ya?

Each bull will have a individual code,

Blackgrass · 17-04-2015 09:51PM

Blue Magic wrote: »

Different breeds of bulls ya?

Same breed different bulls/bloodlines

Base price · 17-04-2015 09:54PM

Blue Magic wrote: »

Different breeds of bulls ya?

Here is a typical bull ai catalogue. Each bull has his own individual code which identifies only him.
http://www.progressivegenetics.ie/

CloughCasey1 · 17-04-2015 10:07PM

I was in a small village doing a job for a customer and we were having a chat about farming. Farm in the Duagh side of Abbeyfeale. They were saying that it is impossible to fatten cattle im the ground around there. Never heard that before our side of the country. Wonder is it true???

Reggie. · 17-04-2015 10:08PM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

I was in a small village doing a job for a customer and we were having a chat about farming. Farm in the Duagh side of Abbeyfeale. They were saying that it is impossible to fatten cattle im the ground around there. Never heard that before our side of the country. Wonder is it true???

Think every parish has an area that claims to be like that

I said · 17-04-2015 10:11PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Think every parish has an area that claims to be like that

Yeah only good for heifers is the saying if no good for steers

Genghis Cant · 17-04-2015 10:11PM

Blue Magic wrote: »

I've a general question to Dairy Farmers. I often here farmers ask each other about a bull & they say "What's he out of"? And they quote CF something or other...

What does these codes identify? Breeds?

CF is excuse my french Charolais Francais.
So breed, bloodline and with full code you have the specific bull.
Eg. CF52 was a Charolais bull called Doonally New.

Bullocks · 17-04-2015 10:11PM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

I was in a small village doing a job for a customer and we were having a chat about farming. Farm in the Duagh side of Abbeyfeale. They were saying that it is impossible to fatten cattle im the ground around there. Never heard that before our side of the country. Wonder is it true???

There would be big differences in land , one of our outfarms always puts more condition on cattle than the other bits of bad land we have and takes about the same for fertiliser. You would hear lads on about land being hungry aswell but I'd say a detailed soil sample and plenty of the right minerals would sort out alot of the difference

CloughCasey1 · 17-04-2015 10:13PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Think every parish has an area that claims to be like that

Looked like good dry land running down to the feale river.many the lad would kill for that sorta ground!!

Reggie. · 17-04-2015 10:14PM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Looked like good dry land running down to the feale river.many the lad would kill for that sorta ground!!

Could be a tactic to give the land a bad name for the future perhaps

Blackgrass · 17-04-2015 10:21PM

Bullocks wrote: »

There would be big differences in land , one of our outfarms always puts more condition on cattle than the other bits of bad land we have and takes about the same for fertiliser. You would hear lads on about land being hungry aswell but I'd say a detailed soil sample and plenty of the right minerals would sort out alot of the difference

Soil varies alot!
Any bit of dirt is able to be 'fixed' you'll just run out of money first :pac:

Mac Taylor · 17-04-2015 10:25PM

Muckit, congrats to you and Mrs Muckit on the new arrival.

Bullocks · 17-04-2015 10:26PM

Blackgrass wrote: »

Soil varies alot!
Any bit of dirt is able to be 'fixed' you'll just run out of money first :pac:

I meant to mention money after the minerals alright , it wouldn't be the worst way to lose money in farming. Surely a long term benefit .....

Buford T. Justice XIX · 18-04-2015 07:34AM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

I was in a small village doing a job for a customer and we were having a chat about farming. Farm in the Duagh side of Abbeyfeale. They were saying that it is impossible to fatten cattle im the ground around there. Never heard that before our side of the country. Wonder is it true???

Land there is very heavy mostly so big cattle would have to be housed early. They mostly produce weanlings for sale with very few fattened.

eeeee · 18-04-2015 08:44AM

Contracts muckit, good work

Enjoy every minute

_Brian · 18-04-2015 08:55AM

Bullocks wrote: »

There would be big differences in land , one of our outfarms always puts more condition on cattle than the other bits of bad land we have and takes about the same for fertiliser. You would hear lads on about land being hungry aswell but I'd say a detailed soil sample and plenty of the right minerals would sort out alot of the difference

I agree but it can just be the composition of the soil in an area.
Were low in selineum and high in Iron.
The high iron blocks any copper absorption so it needs constant supplementation.

We've seen quite a difference since we started supplementing.

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