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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #7592
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    whelan2 wrote: »
    they robbed my thread :eek: http://www.farmersjournal.ie/the-great-debate-is-it-a-fork-is-it-a-sprong-no-its-a-grape-203817/
    Kovu wrote: »
    This is why I warn ye to watch what you say here, boards.ie is a good place to pick up topical pieces like that.


    And at least they got the correct answer. :D:D
    Well thankfully it's been finally put to bed - it a grape, always was and always will be a grape :)
    Although the pic in Whelan's link is a three pointed fork which is not a grape. A grape has four points.
    Therefore the debate IMO still rages on :D


  • #7593
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    was the voting only on snapchat?

    Yeah


  • #7594
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Base price wrote: »
    Well thankfully it's been finally put to bed - it a grape, always was and always will be a grape :)
    Although the pic in Whelan's link is a three pointed fork which is not a grape. A grape has four points.
    Therefore the debate IMO still rages on :D

    Oh trust you :rolleyes:


  • #7595
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Yeah they had a vote on it. I call foul tho
    whelan2 wrote: »
    was the voting only on snapchat?
    Reggie. wrote: »
    Yeah
    Well IMO the result of the poll doesn't hold and is not reflective of the "true" agricultural population. Most farmers that I know don't have a computer/ internet and wouldn't know what snapchat was if it bit them in the neither regions!!


  • #7596
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    One of my planned replacement bfx lm managed to catch her back hoof on the slats yesterday. Had to get the vet to amputate. She'll survive but will have to be fattened. Oh the joys of farming.:mad:


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  • #7597
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    If it's only one cleat removed... you'd be surprised how well she might manage. I did one many years ago and advised not to put her in-calf as I didn't think she do well on slats. She did go to the factory but about three years later, after three good lactations, because she didn't go in-calf, nothing related to the claw amputation.

    She'll be very tender on the stump until it heals, takes a while.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #7598
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    I'd take her off he slats for now but next year her foot will be bigger.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #7599
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    greysides wrote: »
    If it's only one cleat removed... you'd be surprised how well she might manage. I did one many years ago and advised not to put her in-calf as I didn't think she do well on slats. She did go to the factory but about three years later, after three good lactations, because she didn't go in-calf, nothing related to the claw amputation.

    She'll be very tender on the stump until it heals, takes a while.

    Thanks greysides. We'll see how she gets on over the next few months.


  • #7600
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    greysides wrote: »
    I'd take her off he slats for now but next year her foot will be bigger.

    Have her in a straw bedded shed for the moment, once she finishes the injections will let her out.


  • #7601
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Great day for it :D


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  • #7602
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    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    One of my planned replacement bfx lm managed to catch her back hoof on the slats yesterday. Had to get the vet to amputate. She'll survive but will have to be fattened. Oh the joys of farming.:mad:
    Not so bad on their hind legs as they can still operate and graze.
    Had a super pbr blonde bull that got a re-accruing infection in his nearside cleat. Unfortunately he ended up in the dead lorry.


  • #7603
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Great day for it :D

    How long since you've washed the tractor?


  • #7604
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    How long since you've washed the tractor?

    A month now


  • #7605
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Reggie. wrote: »
    A month now

    Wow.


  • #7606
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    Wow.

    Badly due a wash actually


  • #7607
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Great day for it :D

    18-6-12+S ??


  • #7608
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    18-6-12+S ??

    God bless your eyes. 18 6 12 and 10 10 20


  • #7609
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    You just gotta laugh :D Not a Kerry cow, I suppose. Latest is he's back home.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/michael-healyrae-in-hospital-after-attack-by-a-cow-34557721.html


  • #7610
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Got my first tick this morning. Grrrrrrrrr.


  • #7611
    orm0nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,393 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    Kovu wrote: »
    Got my first tick this morning. Grrrrrrrrr.

    might need a shot of Imizol


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  • #7612
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    orm0nd wrote: »
    might need a shot of Imizol

    I was thinking more along the lines of teacher + copy book :confused:


  • #7613
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    orm0nd wrote: »
    might need a shot of Imizol

    Ha! I'm always plagued with them for some reason. Wonder if it's a sign of a good summer that they're out so early. Maybe it's just the mild winter :confused:


  • #7614
    CHOPS01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 797 ✭✭✭CHOPS01


    Kovu wrote: »
    Ha! I'm always plagued with them for some reason. Wonder if it's a sign of a good summer that they're out so early. Maybe it's just the mild winter :confused:

    Neighbour had an outwintered calved heifer turn up with red water on New Years day.
    Vet told him a lot of it around this winter because it was so mild without any real frost to kill the tick.


  • #7615
    Parishlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Kovu wrote: »
    Got my first tick this morning. Grrrrrrrrr.

    Would call a tick a 'sciortán' around here. Aren't they supposed to carry Lyme disease or something like that..?


  • #7616
    orm0nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,393 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    Kovu wrote: »
    Ha! I'm always plagued with them for some reason. Wonder if it's a sign of a good summer that they're out so early. Maybe it's just the mild winter :confused:


    I'm predicing a good summer, the crows are building very high in the trees,

    no fools them rooks


  • #7617
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Parishlad wrote: »
    Would call a tick a 'sciortán' around here. Aren't they supposed to carry Lyme disease or something like that..?


    I have another term for them too, rhymes with runts...

    Yea they do carry it but haven't heard of it in these parts anyhow. Only some ticks carry it and even then if you pluck the tick quickly enough you lower the risk of contracting it.


  • #7618
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,493 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Got soil sample results back which grand except they didn't tell me which field was which dispite me marking each bag carefully. 9 fields done and it's pure useless to me.:mad:


  • #7619
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    is anybody else finding the pop ups on boards a nightmare on an iphone? Im definitely posting less because of them


  • #7620
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Poor ol Michael Healy Rae. Attacked by a cow.
    Those Shinner cows are wicked yokes :-)


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  • #7621
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Got soil sample results back which grand except they didn't tell me which field was which dispite me marking each bag carefully. 9 fields done and it's pure useless to me.:mad:

    What lab was it?

    Did you ring em to complain? Surely they can't be still charging you for that?

    I sent in 6 samples there to FBA week before last - results due Friday... I hope I don't have the same problem...


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