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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #8132
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,547 ✭✭✭tanko


    If you had put the camera on the other wall you'd be able to see the cows posterior and the fork wouldn't be in the way;)


  • #8133
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    tanko wrote: »
    If you had put the camera on the other wall you'd be able to see the cows posterior and the fork wouldn't be in the way;)

    Ah but the two calving pens are left and right of the camera so I can turn the cow out, twist the camera and go back to bed :)


  • #8134
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Kovu wrote: »
    I feel your pain :D

    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 called a fork, not a graip):D :pac:

    Fixed that for ya :-)


  • #8135
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Fixed that for ya :-)

    Listen here now.....it's a graip!


  • #8136
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Kovu wrote: »
    I feel your pain :D 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:
    Mmm, doubt many on here have trod on a big fat rat in the middle of the night whilst checking cows calving.
    A pure hateful screech :mad:


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  • #8137
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Base price wrote: »
    Mmm, doubt many on here have trod on a big fat rat in the middle of the night whilst checking cows calving.
    A pure hateful screech :mad:

    Ewwww no! I'd have screeched the place down and would quite possibly still be yelling if it happened me.


  • #8138
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Kovu wrote: »
    Ewwww no! I'd have screeched the place down and would quite possibly still be yelling if it happened me.
    I'd have screeched the place down and therefore banished every rat from Leitrim :rolleyes: and driven the feckers across the neighbouring borders :D


  • #8139
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Base price wrote: »
    I'd have screeched the place down and therefore banished every rat from Leitrim :rolleyes: and driven the feckers across the neighbouring borders :D

    You can't prove anything :D Stepping on slugs on a dark wet night is bad enough. ...I can just imagine rats. Bleugh!!


  • #8140
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Kovu wrote: »
    You can't prove anything :D Stepping on slugs on a dark wet night is bad enough. ...I can just imagine rats. Bleugh!!
    Have done the slug thing in my bare feet:eek:


  • #8141
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Have done the slug thing in my bare feet:eek:

    Aah! That soft pressure followed by a pop and you know well what you just did.


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  • #8142
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Kovu wrote: »
    Aah! That soft pressure followed by a pop and you know well what you just did.
    Trying to hold in a shout as it will wake the whole house. They are normally on our kitchen floor at this time of year


  • #8143
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Found one behind the bin our kitchen yesterday, still can't fathom how he got in. Sealed everywhere I could find around presses and pipes last winter.
    Fired the fecker out the window anyway, it'll be next harvest by the time he makes his way around the house again :D


  • #8144
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Kovu wrote: »
    Found one behind the bin our kitchen yesterday, still can't fathom how he got in. Sealed everywhere I could find around presses and pipes last winter.
    Fired the fecker out the window anyway, it'll be next harvest by the time he makes his way around the house again :D
    There was one on the kitchen table here a few weeks ago :eek:


  • #8145
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Fairly nippy this morning in east galway. Sun might be shining, doesn't mean its warm!


  • #8146
    cute geoge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭cute geoge


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

    Oub70Jw.gif

    Is this camera connected up with your phone ,that is A1 picture .
    Can you tell us what type of a camera you have


  • #8147
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    cute geoge wrote: »
    Is this camera connected up with your phone ,that is A1 picture .
    Can you tell us what type of a camera you have

    It's a cowcam, it can be connected up to the phone but I only use it on the laptop or tv for the moment. It'd be the same image quality on the phone though. There's also a small handheld monitor that comes with it that is perfect for my technophobe father.


  • #8148
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Base price wrote: »
    Mmm, doubt many on here have trod on a big fat rat in the middle of the night whilst checking cows calving.
    A pure hateful screech :mad:
    I have bagged ration stored under PVC covers i bought on DoneDeal earlier in the year. I was going to get a bag from the back of the pallet and stuck my hand back to catch the bag and pull it out from under a bag of creep feed. I pulled and felt something slither between my hand and the bag and saw the cover bulge.

    I let out the biggest screech and he let out the biggest screech and I jumped back and this big hoor of a rat followed my hand out and ran off down the yard.

    I take the covers off now before I take a bag out:o


  • #8149
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Nice and warm now!


  • #8150
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Is the Kingston thread gone?


  • #8151
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Is the Kingston thread gone?
    Looks like both (original closed one) are gone. Probably for the better.


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  • #8152
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    I've just put up a forum announcement on the main page, please read. The situation is still unsettled so keep in touch.

    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



  • #8153
    TPF2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭TPF2012


    greysides wrote:
    I've just put up a forum announcement on the main page, please read. The situation is still unsettled so keep in touch.


    Excuse my ignorance but where is the main page?


  • #8154
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    TPF2012 wrote: »
    Excuse my ignorance but where is the main page?
    Click on "Farming and Forestry". Underneath the sub forums you will see the announcement.


  • #8155
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Here it is-

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=845


  • #8156
    TPF2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭TPF2012


    Thanks. The announcement doesn't appear on the phone beneath the sub forums.


  • #8157
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    greysides wrote: »
    I've just put up a forum announcement on the main page, please read. The situation is still unsettled so keep in touch.


    Updated announcement is out. In short, thread is back and follow the Boards advice 'Don't be a dick'.:)

    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



  • #8158
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Kilkenny getting a right battle today. Cracking match


  • #8159
    Dozer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    did a 10km run today.....fecked now must be getting old ah well


  • #8160
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,746 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    ganmo wrote: »
    Kilkenny getting a right battle today. Cracking match
    Hon the Banner!
    Good win, but I never saw Cody spitting in his hands.:rolleyes:


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  • #8161
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    There is a grey crow attacking my kitchen window all morning. Sun is right on it so can't see how it would be attacking a reflection :confused:
    Next time I am releasing the cats :pac:


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