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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #6782
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,831 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Brings a smile on a pissy wet day.
    https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/video-calving-difference/


  • #6783
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


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  • #6784
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Picked these wee girls up today.. Kids named them Milly & Molly. Just need to grow now..

    12647130_1737070109839360_9172321303785769788_n.jpg?oh=769648fe973f845bae122442f22af5f3&oe=57690B2C


  • #6785
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Mmmmmm premature ham. :D


  • #6786
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Kovu wrote: »
    Mmmmmm premature ham. :D

    I know... I keep imagining one in a sandwich with some mustard and with her wee feet sticking out at the edges, does that make me a bad person :o


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  • #6787
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    _Brian wrote: »
    Picked these wee girls up today.. Kids named them Milly & Molly. Just need to grow now..

    12647130_1737070109839360_9172321303785769788_n.jpg?oh=769648fe973f845bae122442f22af5f3&oe=57690B2C
    My favourite farm animal - I love keeping pigs (non intensive). Unfortunately OH is not as keen :(


  • #6788
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    _Brian wrote: »
    Picked these wee girls up today.. Kids named them Milly & Molly. Just need to grow now..

    12647130_1737070109839360_9172321303785769788_n.jpg?oh=769648fe973f845bae122442f22af5f3&oe=57690B2C

    What kinda breeding is in them Brian ?


  • #6789
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    _Brian wrote: »
    I know... I keep imagining one in a sandwich with some mustard and with her wee feet sticking out at the edges, does that make me a bad person :o

    Nope! I think it's a trait all farmers learn, sentimentality is removed from certain situations because meat is yum :D

    Had the vet out the other day on an off duty call and he handled a heifer that hadn't come in heat but was almost 2 years (was one we thought could have absorbed a twin)
    Nothing wrong that he could feel but said the handling could bring her into heat. Well wasn't she rising the next day on anything that'd stand for her! It was either good timing or the vet has super dooper heifer skills :D


  • #6790
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Bullocks wrote: »
    What kinda breeding is in them Brian ?


    Gloucester Old Spot & Great White Cross..


  • #6791
    RightTurnClyde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭RightTurnClyde


    _Brian wrote: »
    Picked these wee girls up today.. Kids named them Milly & Molly. Just need to grow now..

    12647130_1737070109839360_9172321303785769788_n.jpg?oh=769648fe973f845bae122442f22af5f3&oe=57690B2C

    Nice one. Mad to do this for the kids. On the to do list


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  • #6792
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Are they easy to get killed?


  • #6793
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    ganmo wrote: »
    Are they easy to get killed?
    Most small abattoirs cater for pigs. You do need a pig herd number if you want to rear them. Easily got if you have a BTE or Flock number.
    Last pair I got killed cost me a flat fee of €15, thereafter €15 per pig but you had to have a registered pig number - that was for quartered carcasses.
    Best pork I ever ate was at a barbecue party for a ex colleague who originally came from the Philippines. Suckling pork is soo delish :D


  • #6794
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    ganmo wrote: »
    Are they easy to get killed?

    Yea.
    Few options around depending
    If you want just pork or cured bacon, curing adds expense but worth it.

    All liscemced.


  • #6795
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    _Brian wrote: »
    Gloucester Old Spot & Great White Cross..
    Think you mean Large White ;)


  • #6796
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Wouldn't be Landrace instead of Large White, with those ears?


  • #6797
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,423 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Wouldn't be Landrace instead of Large White, with those ears?

    Could well be. That's what the lady said. Id say they're from crosses on both side.


  • #6798
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    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Wouldn't be Landrace instead of Large White, with those ears?
    GOS have floppy ears (as do Landrace) but a cross with Large Whites (pointy ears) can result with floppy eared offspring.
    I've reared bonhams out of our GOS sows by our only native Irish pig breed Irish Grazers (Tamworths) which are pointy eared and the bonhams were floppy eared.
    Can't post the pics of them at the moment but will post when I can.
    Feckin internet :mad:


  • #6799
    einn32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭einn32


    Does anyone do the butchering themselves? Do you need a licence?


  • #6800
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    einn32 wrote: »
    Does anyone do the butchering themselves? Do you need a licence?
    You can bring animals for your own personal consumption to an approved Dept slaughter facility. Once the animal has been slaughtered and passed by a Dept Vet then you are good to go.


  • #6801
    einn32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭einn32


    Base price wrote: »
    You can bring animals for your own personal consumption to an approved Dept slaughter facility. Once the animal has been slaughtered and passed by a Dept Vet then you are good to go.

    You can't slaughter at home yourself?


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  • #6802
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    einn32 wrote: »
    You can't slaughter at home yourself?
    No


  • #6803
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,702 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kovu wrote: »
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    That's only because I haven't been around my darling ;)


  • #6804
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Reggie. wrote: »
    That's only because I haven't been around my darling ;)

    I was getting worried about you until I seen you were alive on Twitter! :p


  • #6805
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,702 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kovu wrote: »
    I was getting worried about you until I seen you were alive on Twitter! :p

    Was busy shopping as you seen :)


  • #6806
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    Kovu wrote: »
    I was getting worried about you until I seen you were alive on Twitter! :p
    Good to see you back Regina :)


  • #6807
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,702 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Base price wrote: »
    Good to see you back Regina :)

    Mmmm I noticed my feminine side was coming out in earlier posts #bitches


  • #6808
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Mmmm I noticed my feminine side was coming out in earlier posts #bitches

    Heh hehmm, where's my baler hah?


  • #6809
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Mmmm I noticed my feminine side was coming out in earlier posts #bitches
    :D


  • #6810
    IH784man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭IH784man


    Anyone know I what the average amount you'll pay for a hedgecutter to trim a field around 2 acres?


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  • #6811
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    IH784man wrote: »
    Anyone know I what the average amount you'll pay for a hedgecutter to trim a field around 2 acres?

    Generally 40-45 an hour.


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