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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #212
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    For some unknown reason the name of Cathal O'Shannon (formerly of R.T.E and Irish Times) came into my mind. Two memories of him I have are
    1. An interview with Muhammad Ali
    2. Interviewing a near 100 year old lady from, I think, the Aran Islands. He compliments her by saying "you have reached this great age with good health and without ever being bedridden". "Oh I indeed I have", she tells him, "several times - and once in a canoe" :D
    Don't known if it screened but remember him telling the story anyway


  • #213
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    IH784man wrote: »
    It's not so bad once you get at it

    Not too bad noe. But its sheep wire we're putting up. Not as simple as the normal strands


  • #214
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    The thoughts of going fencing now !

    At it myself. Not quite the experience I was planning on as the sensitive area if the trousers has ripped wide open on me and the wind insists on blowing around like a vortex in that spot :rolleyes: fecking freezing


  • #215
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    The cool air is good for the fertility Reggie :D

    Was working with Dad myself, must be the day for fencing everywhere. He's not the best at hammering though so he was quickly removed from hammering duties and was demoted to crowbar status.


  • #216
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    I got excused from fencing. Got a phone call off a neighbour to cut out a small bit of silage. I took my time so i wouldn't be going fencing for the evening. Im now enjoying a mug of tea in the kitchen


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  • #217
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    I got excused from fencing. Got a phone call off a neighbour to cut out a small bit of silage. I took my time so i wouldn't be going fencing for the evening. Im now enjoying a mug of tea in the kitchen

    Great plan. You'll have to go fence in the rain now sometime


  • #218
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Haha crap i never thought of that :'-)


  • #219
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kovu wrote: »
    The cool air is good for the fertility Reggie :D

    Was working with Dad myself, must be the day for fencing everywhere. He's not the best at hammering though so he was quickly removed from hammering duties and was demoted to crowbar status.

    That may be true but I'm proven sire so far. No more proof needed


  • #220
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    That may be true but I'm proven sire so far. No more proof needed

    Ah Reggie anyone can get lucky once.

    You need to have multiples to prove pedigree and reliabliity:D:D


  • #221
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Ah Reggie anyone can get lucky once.

    You need to have multiples to prove pedigree and reliabliity:D:D

    In different environments ;)


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  • #222
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,342 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    I got excused from fencing. Got a phone call off a neighbour to cut out a small bit of silage. I took my time so i wouldn't be going fencing for the evening. Im now enjoying a mug of tea in the kitchen
    ye must have had good weather compared to here?


  • #223
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Ah Reggie anyone can get lucky once.

    You need to have multiples to prove pedigree and reliabliity:D:D

    Just cos you didn't have the sense to stop. Your not supposed to wait till its like pushing a wet rope ya know ;)


  • #224
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ganmo wrote: »
    In different environments ;)

    You keep your freakish exploits to yourself ya pup :)


  • #225
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Vet was telling me he can't even get a bit of peace when he goes back home for tea....




    He had to put down two of his mothers cows in the herd test :pac:


  • #226
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kovu wrote: »
    Vet was telling me he can't even get a bit of peace when he goes back home for tea....




    He had to put down two of his mothers cows in the herd test :pac:

    Seems to be alot of reactors this year


  • #227
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Seems to be alot of reactors this year

    It's unbelievable round here this year. One man had only five or six cows and ALL went down! :eek:


  • #228
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,376 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Kovu wrote: »
    It's unbelievable round here this year. One man had only five or six cows and ALL went down! :eek:

    It was like that round here for years.. folks round us got a real battering, we lost a few at one stage.. Then one neighbor stopped dealing in cattle and it quickly cleared up.. My dad used to say he was building up herds of auld screws and then making them go down - I'm not sure if thats even possible. But there would be dead cows in his fields all the time, more than one wouldn't have been unusual..
    But since he stopped dealing its been good round here..


  • #229
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    _Brian wrote: »
    It was like that round here for years.. folks round us got a real battering, we lost a few at one stage.. Then one neighbor stopped dealing in cattle and it quickly cleared up.. My dad used to say he was building up herds of auld screws and then making them go down - I'm not sure if thats even possible. But there would be dead cows in his fields all the time, more than one wouldn't have been unusual..
    But since he stopped dealing its been good round here..

    Bloke a few miles from here was done for injecting cattle with slurry so it is done. We've a fair idea of why it arrived in the area but what can ye do, no use pointing fingers.


  • #230
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    whelan2 wrote: »
    ye must have had good weather compared to here?

    It was sunny here yesterday and today. Saw a few balers moving out. Better get our 1 ready aswell


  • #231
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    It was sunny here yesterday and today. Saw a few balers moving out. Better get our 1 ready aswell

    Oh she's about to start......can ya smell the grass yet?????? GREEN FEVER :D


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  • #232
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Things are not good here . The wife is after putting on Big Brother and I'm on tablets so can't go for porter ! The farmers journal isn't worth reading either .


  • #233
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Oh she's about to start......can ya smell the grass yet?????? GREEN FEVER :D

    Get this chemistry exam done Thursday. Then its out the gap. im expecting to pick the new purchase that evening :-) ooh the excitement to start burning diesel and long nights :P


  • #234
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭visatorro


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Things are not good here . The wife is after putting on Big Brother and I'm on tablets so can't go for porter ! The farmers journal isn't worth reading either .

    same here. thought that ****e was finished. I could have gone for a pint, a friend rang me earlier on. I said no ill stay and help mammy with babies . just got giving out to . cant feckin win!!


  • #235
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Things are not good here . The wife is after putting on Big Brother and I'm on tablets so can't go for porter ! The farmers journal isn't worth reading either .

    The finale of gold rush is on


  • #236
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Get this chemistry exam done Thursday. Then its out the gap. im expecting to pick the new purchase that evening :-) ooh the excitement to start burning diesel and long nights :P

    Still waiting on a delivery here too...Bloody dealers


  • #237
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Still waiting on a delivery here too...Bloody dealers

    I thought he was referring to the evenings festivities after finishing exams


  • #238
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ganmo wrote: »
    I thought he was referring to the evenings festivities after finishing exams

    Mmmm thought he meant a machine myself


  • #239
    KatW4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭KatW4


    Reggie. wrote:
    The finale of gold rush is on


    Any my god was it boring!!!!!


  • #240
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Reggie. wrote: »
    The finale of gold rush is on

    She fell asleep so I'm watching that now


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  • #241
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,678 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    KatW4 wrote: »
    Any my god was it boring!!!!!

    Only started. Watch it tomorrow


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