Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

Kovu · 15-04-2016 01:37PM

Send him an invoice for the stakes and labour :P

Is he an approachable chap? We have three bulls around us on the outfarm and usually at least one breaks in every year. A stone wall and barbed wire would be perfectly adequate fencing for cows but bulls just seem to plough on through anything and everything. Perhaps ye could come to some agreement with a mains fence if theres one you could tap off?

I'd be questioning how quiet he reckons the bull is when he was butting him with the jeep instead of manually driving him on......

whelan2 · 15-04-2016 01:43PM

I know you shouldn't have too but for peace of mind run a top notch fence on the boundary. Had to do it here as neighbour thought pallets were adequate to keep his stock in

CloughCasey1 · 15-04-2016 02:30PM

Kovu wrote: »

Send him an invoice for the stakes and labour :P

Is he an approachable chap? We have three bulls around us on the outfarm and usually at least one breaks in every year. A stone wall and barbed wire would be perfectly adequate fencing for cows but bulls just seem to plough on through anything and everything. Perhaps ye could come to some agreement with a mains fence if theres one you could tap off?

I'd be questioning how quiet he reckons the bull is when he was butting him with the jeep instead of manually driving him on......

He hasn't a strand of wire on his land. Plenty of timber pallets baling twine and whitethorn branches to fill gaps . same fella used to knock another neighbours walls when he reckoned sheep were hungry! No talking to the same fella.

CloughCasey1 · 15-04-2016 02:33PM

whelan2 wrote: »

I know you shouldn't have too but for peace of mind run a top notch fence on the boundary. Had to do it here as neighbour thought pallets were adequate to keep his stock in

I've it done along one field which is particularly bad and he completely stopped rising any stones once I did that.

ganmo · 15-04-2016 02:45PM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

I've it done along one field which is particularly bad and he completely stopped rising any stones once I did that.

rising any stones?

in the past sheep would break into us, gathered them up and put them in a pen by the road behind a locked gate so whoever owned them would have to call to get them.

saying that our sheep did break out a bit but we'd get them back quick enough

CloughCasey1 · 15-04-2016 02:50PM

ganmo wrote: »

rising any stones?

in the past sheep would break into us, gathered them up and put them in a pen by the road behind a locked gate so whoever owned them would have to call to get them.

saying that our sheep did break out a bit but we'd get them back quick enough

Building dry stone walls Ganmo. Welcome to the wild whest! I've only remembered cattle breaking out once here. If they do they won't go out the same spot again.

ganmo · 15-04-2016 03:31PM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Building dry stone walls Ganmo. Welcome to the wild whest! I've only remembered cattle breaking out once here. If they do they won't go out the same spot again.

With sheep you have to fence where they're breaking out last cause once you block that they'll go looking for the next gap/hole

gazahayes · 15-04-2016 06:06PM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

He hasn't a strand of wire on his land. Plenty of timber pallets baling twine and whitethorn branches to fill gaps . same fella used to knock another neighbours walls when he reckoned sheep were hungry! No talking to the same fella.

One of these would slow him down
http://www.castrator.com

Farrell · 15-04-2016 07:58PM

Sent a lame bull to the factory this week, got a cheque & a letter to sign about flat rate farmer.
Does anyone know on this? I've never killed anything before

ganmo · 15-04-2016 08:04PM

Farrell wrote: »

Sent a lame bull to the factory this week, got a cheque & a letter to sign about flat rate farmer.
Does anyone know on this? I've never killed anything before

To do with vat?

Grueller · 15-04-2016 08:46PM

Uncle had a neighbour with sheep and no fence. In turn the uncle never had grass. This was back before flock registers and all that. After years of fighting with the neighbour he loaded 25 hoggets one night and drove to the curragh and let them out. Never had intruders after.

ganmo · 15-04-2016 08:53PM

Grueller wrote: »

Uncle had a neighbour with sheep and no fence. In turn the uncle never had grass. This was back before flock registers and all that. After years of fighting with the neighbour he loaded 25 hoggets one night and drove to the curragh and let them out. Never had intruders after.

When I was a chap I'd see the odd pen of sheep being sold in the mart for a pound where the neighbour was fed up and loaded the intruders into the mart

Kovu · 15-04-2016 08:59PM

ganmo wrote: »

When I was a chap.....

When did you become a ganmo-ella?

ganmo · 15-04-2016 09:01PM

Kovu wrote: »

When did you become a ganmo-ella?

A ladeen if you'd like

Kovu · 15-04-2016 09:12PM

ganmo wrote: »

A ladeen if you'd like

You and bullocks may go out to pasture together so!

Farrell · 15-04-2016 09:16PM

ganmo wrote: »

To do with vat?

Actually is.
What's the reason, as I didn't have to do this for the mart

ganmo · 15-04-2016 09:20PM

Kovu wrote: »

You and bullocks may go out to pasture together so!

ganmo · 15-04-2016 09:22PM

Farrell wrote: »

Actually is.
What's the reason, as I didn't have to do this for the mart

You probably did the first time.
It's to say you're not vat registered so they don't have to deduct 4% vat or somethin like that

davidk1394 · 15-04-2016 09:28PM

Sold a 5 teat feeder for calves and 2 pet ewe lambs to a fella from Laois. Few pound for the deposit on the wrapper !!

CloughCasey1 · 15-04-2016 10:33PM

gazahayes wrote: »

One of these would slow him down
http://www.castrator.com

For the man or the beast?

I said · 15-04-2016 11:39PM

A neighbour never bothered with fencing until this year anything that fell my side I loaded with front loader and pushed it back his side.

have2flushtwice · 16-04-2016 12:43PM

We have good neighbours (and one total cnut) around us.
Fences are middling on one side.
The odd animal breaks in; they arrive and load the beast and gone.
everyone happy.

whelan2 · 16-04-2016 06:34PM

:eek: http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2016/0416/782287-shocking-71-point-deficit-in-minor-championship/

Genghis Cant · 16-04-2016 08:07PM

whelan2 wrote: »

:eek: http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2016/0416/782287-shocking-71-point-deficit-in-minor-championship/

Did you see the craic with the scoreboard. The tally for goals only goes up to 10. So they had to improvise and use the Kilkenny part of the board.
Anyway. No young lad deserves a hiding like that. The final whistle must've be a relief.

whelan2 · 16-04-2016 08:15PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Did you see the craic with the scoreboard. The tally for goals only goes up to 10. So they had to improvise and use the Kilkenny part of the board.
Anyway. No young lad deserves a hiding like that. The final whistle must've be a relief.

Poor goalie.

Genghis Cant · 16-04-2016 08:38PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Poor goalie.

Of a cold day at least he was kept busy. The wx goalie must have froze :-)

Kovu · 16-04-2016 09:15PM

Odd-Ear is a good accessory to scratch a butt :pac:

Shannon757 · 16-04-2016 10:17PM

How is this 2011?
https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/case-7220-pro/11357012

Base price · 16-04-2016 11:49PM

Kovu wrote: »

Odd-Ear is a good accessory to scratch a butt :pac:

Believe it or not this is the first time I have ever saw live footage from a calving camera.
When I kept sucklers I used to check them before heading to bed, get up in the middle of the night, put on the working clothes/boots/hat etc and either walk or drive to the yard (weather dependent) to check on them while avoiding stepping on the rats that unfortunately coexisted with the cows

Modern technology is wonderful and I would have loved if it was around in those days so I could have kept snug & warm in the bed

Kovu · 17-04-2016 12:11AM

Base price wrote: »

Believe it or not this is the first time I have ever saw live footage from a calving camera.
When I kept sucklers I used to check them before heading to bed, get up in the middle of the night, put on the working clothes/boots/hat etc and either walk or drive to the yard (weather dependent) to check on them while avoiding stepping on the rats that unfortunately coexisted with the cows
Modern technology is wonderful and I would have loved if it was around in those days so I could have kept snug & warm in the bed

I feel your pain

Especially if on trip one the cow was just getting sick to calve, trip two she had a water bag, trip three she had two feet and trip four was where you went down and she still had two feet so you had to help out!

It's actually much clearer than above, dunno where the flicker was coming from when recording. It's the red whitehead I'm watching, she's 2 1/2 weeks over to a big blue, last year she had a massive whitehead ch bull and I was lucky she had no trouble.
Wish I'd moved the pitchfork though (it is the fork, not the graip):D :pac:

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