Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

ganmo · 30-04-2016 11:01PM

Farrell wrote: »

Maybe stick up a no trespassing sign & the next time you come take a pic.
Like you I'm a great guy for hindsight & disappointment in reaching to this type

take pics of their faces and car reg's
makes them behave very quickly

Lady lou · 30-04-2016 11:20PM

whelan2 wrote: »

after carrying a bucket of water the whole way out to her this morning she headbutted it over any way we gave her a chance

Carried a bucket of water a fair distance one day to a down cow. Put it just in reach for her to drink. She attempted to get up, fell back down and crushed the bucket without getting a sip. I was raging to say the least.

bogman_bass · 01-05-2016 09:28AM

Anybody know where to get a diaphragm for s lister pasture pump?

MickeyShtyles · 01-05-2016 11:11AM

bogman_bass wrote: »

Anybody know where to get a diaphragm for s lister pasture pump?

Ebay is yer best bet. http://m.ebay.ie/itm/Membrane-for-Pasture-pump-Lister-L3-Auto-Potions-Potions-replacement-diaphragm-/281345000930

Limestone Cowboy · 01-05-2016 01:23PM

I think I may retire from football lads. Got a fair belt into the shoulder/collarbone at training yesterday and I'm crippled today. Had to get the girlfriend to pull a calf this morning cause I wasn't able. Got an x-ray done and it's not broken but tis fair sore. Following on from a concussion 2 months ago to a fractured and dislocated finger last week

longgonesilver · 01-05-2016 03:26PM

If that's practice, what are matches like?

Base price · 01-05-2016 03:48PM

Did anyone go to the Truck Run in Longford today. I didn't get to go myself choosing to go to bed instead (sinus). OH went and he phoned to say that there are more trucks this year than last. All for good causes -Autism Ireland and Longford Hospice. Organised voluntarily by two Longford haulage companies - Hall Transport and Cadam Transport with a hooley in Creegans Pub, Bunlahy tonight.

gazahayes · 01-05-2016 03:58PM

Base price wrote: »

Did anyone go to the Truck Run in Longford today. I didn't get to go myself choosing to go to bed instead (sinus). OH went and he phoned to say that there are more trucks this year than last. All for good causes -Autism Ireland and Longford Hospice. Organised voluntarily by two Longford haulage companies - Hall Transport and Cadam Transport with a hooley in Creegans Pub, Bunlahy tonight.

One on in moneygall at the Obama plaza today aswell for the BumbuLance

Farrell · 01-05-2016 04:09PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

I think I may retire from football lads. Got a fair belt into the shoulder/collarbone at training yesterday and I'm crippled today. Had to get the girlfriend to pull a calf this morning cause I wasn't able. Got an x-ray done and it's not broken but tis fair sore. Following on from a concussion 2 months ago to a fractured and dislocated finger last week

Didn't think the over 40's are starting yet
ðŸ˜
Joking aside, was there years ago.
Think you may not of being prepared for the hit, sadly nothing you can do, you'll be suffering it for awhile.
Chin up & make sure you hurt them more than they hurt you

Farrell · 01-05-2016 07:06PM

Was out for a drive, there's a bit of ground with sheep & a few cattle, OH noticed all at full pace, then we seen 2 guys with guns crossing a hedge.
Good thing the farmer is away, but it'd be bad to come back to all your stock on the road where the broke a fence

Kovu · 01-05-2016 08:03PM

It has taken me 27 years but I've finally seen a cuckoo. :pac:

whelan2 · 01-05-2016 08:08PM

Kovu wrote: »

It has taken me 27 years but I've finally seen a cuckoo. :pac:

so you were 13 when you last saw one

Bullocks · 01-05-2016 08:12PM

whelan2 wrote: »

so you were 13 when you last saw one

Iwas thinking she must have spent a few years in the rushes aswell !

Kovu · 01-05-2016 08:18PM

Haha

Lots of rushes this year to hide a sprog behind anyway!

pedigree 6 · 01-05-2016 08:47PM

Kovu wrote: »

It has taken me 27 years but I've finally seen a cuckoo. :pac:

In april come she will,
In may she sings all day,
In june she changes her tune,
In july she prepares to fly,
In august go she must.

Base price · 01-05-2016 08:57PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

In april come she will,
In may she sings all day,
In june she changes her tune,
In july she prepares to fly,
In august go she must.

I always thought that the male cuckoo was the only one of the sexes to sing

MickeyShtyles · 01-05-2016 09:04PM

Cut down a few trees last Oct-Nov. I had nowhere safe to put them apart from a locked shed, lashed them in anyway. They've dried up nicely anyway.

pedigree 6 · 01-05-2016 09:11PM

Base price wrote: »

I always thought that the male cuckoo was the only one of the sexes to sing

You're right and when I mentioned to my father about the cuckoo he told me this rhyme.
I had to look up the rhyme after on the net and they say he instead of she.

Genghis Cant · 01-05-2016 09:29PM

Kovu wrote: »

It has taken me 27 years but I've finally seen a cuckoo. :pac:

They're a bit like pigeon with a bit of bird of prey thrown in. I heard one here this day last week.

On a semi related subject, the young lad found a newt in the bog today. I told him the story about them being called mancreepers or mankeepers!

Base price · 01-05-2016 09:31PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

You're right and when I mentioned to my father about the cuckoo he told me this rhyme.
I had to look up the rhyme after on the net and they say he instead of she.

I haven't heard the cuckoo sing in NCD since I was a child but always hear him ad nauseum when footing turf in our bog in Longford :cool:
Having said that I would ring his neck if I got my hands on him as I detest repeated sounds in the same pitch.

Kovu · 01-05-2016 09:46PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

They're a bit like pigeon with a bit of bird of prey thrown in. I heard one here this day last week.

On a semi related subject, the young lad found a newt in the bog today. I told him the story about them being called mancreepers or mankeepers!

That's pretty spot on alright! I was weeding the veg rows and heard a fluttering like a pigeon makes when taking off in a big ash next to me. Looked up and there he went cuckooing all the way, quite like a sparrowhawk but a stockier body and a haphazard flight, not as elegant a flyer as a bird of prey iykwim.

Have most of my veg in now, cauliflower, carrots, onions, chard, sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, kale, beetroot, purple sprouting broccoli and the spuds are being staggered with different ripening times so planting is ongoing.

Mac Taylor · 01-05-2016 11:47PM

Bought a few calves and just noticed on ICBF that the sire of one of them is wrong. Anyone know how I go about getting the sire corrected. The sire should be zag but the bull is down as fad, which I believe is Holstein bull and this calf is no holstein thanks. Mac

ganmo · 01-05-2016 11:51PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIlrjg6W-Tc

MickeyShtyles · 02-05-2016 12:58AM

Kovu wrote: »

That's pretty spot on alright! I was weeding the veg rows and heard a fluttering like a pigeon makes when taking off in a big ash next to me. Looked up and there he went cuckooing all the way, quite like a sparrowhawk but a stockier body and a haphazard flight, not as elegant a flyer as a bird of prey iykwim.

Have most of my veg in now, cauliflower, carrots, onions, chard, sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, kale, beetroot, purple sprouting broccoli and the spuds are being staggered with different ripening times so planting is ongoing.

Ya got yer sprays/fert sorted?

whelan2 · 02-05-2016 04:48AM

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Bought a few calves and just noticed on ICBF that the sire of one of them is wrong. Anyone know how I go about getting the sire corrected. The sire should be zag but the bull is down as fad, which I believe is Holstein bull and this calf is no holstein thanks. Mac

form er94b

Suckler · 02-05-2016 07:31AM

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/new-app-allows-farmers-bid-anonymously-at-marts

No more getting the nod in for a bid

Mac Taylor · 02-05-2016 09:42AM

whelan2 wrote: »

form er94b

Thanks whelan

Farrell · 02-05-2016 09:48AM

Suckler wrote: »

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/new-app-allows-farmers-bid-anonymously-at-marts

No more getting the nod in for a bid

Does this mean mart days could be over,
Now go take notes, go home & bid while doing your chores

Kovu · 02-05-2016 09:53AM

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Ya got yer sprays/fert sorted?

The only spray that might be used is the one for potato blight, everything else is done organic where possible. Stupid carrot fly plagued us a couple of years ago so now we plant onions around them.
Fert is already rotavated into the ground, all the straw bedding from the calving pens is piled up in a corner of the field to rot, along with a few buckets of horse dung I get from a neighbour.

MickeyShtyles · 02-05-2016 10:03AM

Kovu wrote: »

The only spray that might be used is the one for potato blight, everything else is done organic where possible. Stupid carrot fly plagued us a couple of years ago so now we plant onions around them.
Fert is already rotavated into the ground, all the straw bedding from the calving pens is piled up in a corner of the field to rot, along with a few buckets of horse dung I get from a neighbour.

Small bitta can 4wks after each planting for cauli's, kale, sprouts, cabbage, broccoli.

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