Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Bullocks · 13-08-2019 10:13am

Say my name wrote: »

Grueller wrote: »

There was me thinking that it was my dashing good looks and witty personality that attracted that message.

No they were targeting the ones who looked like they are good for a few quid.

I never got any myself..

I'm meeting my one at the weekend, she really seems to like me....

Say my name · 13-08-2019 10:19am

Bullocks wrote: »

I'm meeting my one at the weekend, she really seems to like me....

See if she'll consider working for the beef plan movement. I'd say Larry & co have lovely websites.

whelan2 · 13-08-2019 10:21am

See a body has been found in the search for the missing 15 year old girl in Malaysia. So many holiday tragedies recently. Rest in peace

Buford T. Justice XIX · 13-08-2019 10:50am

whelan2 wrote: »

How do you report the private message?

You'll have to open the PM and DON'T CLICK INTO THE LINKS!!

And, at the top right corner of the message, you'll see a red triangle like on a normal post for reporting. Click into that and give your reason for reporting.

ganmo · 13-08-2019 10:53am

Muckit wrote: »

She had lovely........... eyes, yeah eyes

She had eyes?? :P

Water John · 13-08-2019 11:04am

Here is an infographic that I got over on the Brexit thread. It's really good at showing the food imports and exports between the UK and other EU countries.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/aug/13/how-a-no-deal-brexit-threatens-your-weekly-food-shop

Note on the last box 'what about everything else' you can check any food item.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 13-08-2019 11:21am

I was talking to the Knackery lorry driver this morning after he came to collect two weanlings that died from Blackleg. He was after coming from a farm with 5 deaths and was at a farm yesterday with 25 weanlings dead so it seems to be a common enough problem. It might be worthwhile to give that booster shot to those younger cattle this year.

We never had a case here before but the cracking of the ground last year may have brought up spores and there is now a risk where there wasn't before.

blue5000 · 13-08-2019 12:09pm

Big bulls that are being banded would need vaccine shots as well before the operation.

148multi · 13-08-2019 12:20pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Mine was called Sara

I seen her first, ðŸ˜‰

Genghis Cant · 13-08-2019 1:04pm

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/12/beef-banned-university-bid-fight-climate-change/amp/

Debate on Newstalk earlier. I've never heard such peddling of misinformation.

patsy_mccabe · 13-08-2019 1:09pm

Genghis Cant wrote: »

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/12/beef-banned-university-bid-fight-climate-change/amp/

Debate on Newstalk earlier. I've never heard such peddling of misinformation.

Virtue Signalling at it's worst.

greysides · 13-08-2019 1:38pm

blue5000 wrote: »

Big bulls that are being banded would need vaccine shots as well before the operation.

Clostridial. Tetanus and Blackleg.

patsy_mccabe · 13-08-2019 1:48pm

Just got an e-mail message about a PM but no PM. She wants to send me pics of her weanling heifers........Oh hang on, read that wrong. Jeez.:(

davidk1394 · 13-08-2019 1:59pm

I have pair of muckmaster wellies. Have them about 3 years. Their starting to leave in water. I want to replace them with the same type of welly. I remember talking to a stand at the Dairy open day in Punchestown there in 2018, their based in cork but I can’t for the life of me remember their name or find their name. Can anyone help me out ? They sell clothing and other stuff for farms

Hard Knocks · 13-08-2019 5:18pm

What time does sales start in Drumshambo on a Friday?
Thinking of showing a few heifers

Water John · 13-08-2019 6:01pm

Agirdirect or wellies.ie David. Wouldn't want your toes getting cold if you go back on the picket line.

Base price · 13-08-2019 6:14pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

I have pair of muckmaster wellies. Have them about 3 years. Their starting to leave in water. I want to replace them with the same type of welly. I remember talking to a stand at the Dairy open day in Punchestown there in 2018, their based in cork but I can’t for the life of me remember their name or find their name. Can anyone help me out ? They sell clothing and other stuff for farms

Agridirect sell them and delivery is free - https://www.agridirect.ie/product/the-muck-boot-muckmaster-hi

Base price · 13-08-2019 9:28pm

Hard Knocks wrote: »

What time does sales start in Drumshambo on a Friday?
Thinking of showing a few heifers

According to their FB page 7pm for dry cows/cows and calves -

Drumshanbo Mart PLC

Lady Haywire · 13-08-2019 10:00pm

Yes it's 7. Can be a good Mart for heifers/cows.

Got my winter fuel home today

Hard Knocks · 13-08-2019 10:04pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yes it's 7. Can be a good Mart for heifers/cows.

Got my winter fuel home today

Do you prebook or just arrive?

Reggie. · 13-08-2019 10:08pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yes it's 7. Can be a good Mart for heifers/cows.

Got my winter fuel home today

Is the turf holding up the shed

Lady Haywire · 13-08-2019 10:17pm

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Do you prebook or just arrive?

Can't tell you....never sold in it. Think that's Eoins Mobile there if you want to ring tomorrow & see.

Lady Haywire · 13-08-2019 10:18pm

Reggie. wrote: »

Is the turf holding up the shed

Probably. Means nobody can steal my turf without me knowing though, win win!

davidk1394 · 14-08-2019 8:44am

Base price wrote: »

Agridirect sell them and delivery is free - https://www.agridirect.ie/product/the-muck-boot-muckmaster-hi

Thanks Base

orm0nd · 14-08-2019 11:32am

2 quad bikes stolen fairly locally over the last week or 10 days

Both have now been recovered mainly due to cctv, social media coverage, & alert neighbours.

patsy_mccabe · 14-08-2019 11:39am

orm0nd wrote: »

2 quad bikes stolen fairly locally over the last week or 10 days

Both have now been recovered mainly due to cctv, social media coverage, & alert neighbours.

Any idea who stole them?

orm0nd · 14-08-2019 12:22pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Any idea who stole them?

maybe

proving is a different matter though, reg plate not clear on cctv

Reggie. · 14-08-2019 12:29pm

orm0nd wrote: »

2 quad bikes stolen fairly locally over the last week or 10 days

Both have now been recovered mainly due to cctv, social media coverage, & alert neighbours.

They are close to me too..........must watch myself. Orm0nd is about

Say my name · 14-08-2019 1:12pm

The Perennial question of which is better for the environment: grassfed beef or grainfed beef?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/13/746576239/is-grass-fed-beef-really-better-for-the-planet-heres-the-science

A grassfed farm did a carbon measurement and it worked out their farm was carbon negative for beef and just about negative for the whole farm based on machinery usage.
However it's not a simple system as the multiple retailers are leading the price of grassfed beef down as more becomes available.
The article is from the U.S. and on the U.S. farming systems.

Most tillage farmers are carbon positive based on soil damage and non soil carbon sequestration with carbon depletion, but like the cattle farmers there are some carbon negative operators.
Interesting questions and answers none the less that you won't hear about the Joe Duffy show.

grassroot1 · 14-08-2019 2:34pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yes it's 7. Can be a good Mart for heifers/cows.

Got my winter fuel home today

oh the bloody farmers releasing all that carbon!!!

wrangler · 14-08-2019 4:45pm

orm0nd wrote: »

2 quad bikes stolen fairly locally over the last week or 10 days

Both have now been recovered mainly due to cctv, social media coverage, & alert neighbours.

John Fagan (Farming Indo) had his quad taken last night too

Lady Haywire · 14-08-2019 6:47pm

What would cause cows to cough sporadically? They'll stand four square, head stretched out & cough for maybe 30 seconds, mightn't see them at it again for days. Also seen them coughing lying down. Varying in age from 12yrs to 3yrs so not a young stock problem. Was going to treat for lungworm but thought I'd double check here first!

No snots or anything on them so doesn't seem viral. Just never seen them at it before.

Albert Johnson · 14-08-2019 6:50pm

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yes it's 7. Can be a good Mart for heifers/cows.

Got my winter fuel home today

Do you prebook or just arrive?

All stock prebooked although tomorrow would still be soon enough seeing as it's an off peak time of year. When the stock level's increase in a month or 2 then you'd want to be booking early in the week. The heifer trade was good enough last week, a few men looking for heifers suitable to bull in the back end. There was a special entry of replacement type heifers and they were met with good demand.

trixi2011 · 14-08-2019 7:05pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

What would cause cows to cough sporadically? They'll stand four square, head stretched out & cough for maybe 30 seconds, mightn't see them at it again for days. Also seen them coughing lying down. Varying in age from 12yrs to 3yrs so not a young stock problem. Was going to treat for lungworm but thought I'd double check here first!

No snots or anything on them so doesn't seem viral. Just never seen them at it before.

Definitely sounds like lungworm seems to be a higher burden this year for some reason would cover them with a cheap pour on for peace of mind

Lady Haywire · 14-08-2019 7:19pm

trixi2011 wrote: »

Definitely sounds like lungworm seems to be a higher burden this year for some reason would cover them with a cheap pour on for peace of mind

Yes, looked up symptoms there & seems very like it. Will pick the up something in the vets tomorrow, that time of year to arrange herd test again

CHOPS01 · 14-08-2019 8:00pm

trixi2011 wrote: »

Definitely sounds like lungworm seems to be a higher burden this year for some reason would cover them with a cheap pour on for peace of mind

Have bullocks coming up on 30 months coughing like fcuk. Thriving well so leaving well enough alone. Hard to listen to them coughing though.

Hard Knocks · 15-08-2019 8:47am

Was on a farm walk recently & saw a fitting for a slurry pipe above the tank.
I think it’s for adding water / slurry

Has anyone got this?

Lady Haywire · 15-08-2019 10:04am

One of my emails this morning was Centre Parcs looking for a Santa from the start of November :pac::D

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-08-2019 10:05am

Lady Haywire wrote: »

One of my emails this morning was Centre Parcs looking for a Santa from the start of November :pac::D

Only 4 months to Santa:eek:

Lady Haywire · 15-08-2019 10:09am

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Only 4 months to Santa:eek:

Hope you've been good!! Be very strange here, be in a different house for Christmas than for the last 31 years.

Bullocks · 15-08-2019 11:01am

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Only 4 months to Santa:eek:

Hope you've been good!! Be very strange here, be in a different house for Christmas than for the last 31 years.

We will be in a new one aswell , be our third and possibly last move

Muckit · 15-08-2019 11:05am

CHOPS01 wrote: »

Have bullocks coming up on 30 months coughing like fcuk. Thriving well so leaving well enough alone. Hard to listen to them coughing though.

You are spending too much time out admiring them!!:D Go in and watch a bit a telly, kick a ball or do a bit of gardening!

whelan2 · 15-08-2019 11:54am

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Only 4 months to Santa:eek:

19 weeks I think

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-08-2019 12:14pm

whelan2 wrote: »

19 weeks I think

Might be time to start looking at a few fixtures for later in the year. I might wait till the CL fixtures are out first, though

whelan2 · 15-08-2019 12:31pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Might be time to start looking at a few fixtures for later in the year. I might wait till the CL fixtures are out first, though

Getting harder to get tickets this year.

kollegeknight · 15-08-2019 12:34pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Only 4 months to Santa:eek:

Only 7 days until back to school. :’(

whelan2 · 15-08-2019 12:36pm

kollegeknight wrote: »

Only 7 days until back to school. :’(

Ugh

roosterman71 · 15-08-2019 12:58pm

Brown Thomas opened their Christmas shops today

enricoh · 15-08-2019 1:12pm

orm0nd wrote: »

2 quad bikes stolen fairly locally over the last week or 10 days

Both have now been recovered mainly due to cctv, social media coverage, & alert neighbours.

Get a sim card tracker device, the two Polish scumbags below were part of a gang that stole loads of quads. They were only caught when a farmer whose quad was stolen fitted the tracker to his new one. Iirc the tracker cost a tenner, not a bad investment! Someone more technical than I might post a good one off ebay

https://amp.independent.ie/business/farming/agri-business/farmers-fury-after-40-quad-bikes-stolen-by-organised-gangs-36124643.html
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.independent.ie/business/farming/news/rural-crime/two-charged-following-probe-into-stolen-farm-machinery-36429377.html&ved=2ahUKEwjs6e-u64TkAhUDShUIHR0iBDsQFjAAegQICBAC&usg=AOvVaw3-HrLC7XCeGG64m_NlAppC&cshid=1565870869526

Lady Haywire · 15-08-2019 2:04pm

Came upon this little chappie when taking the last load off the bog today. Ye all know the story about licking the first mankeeper you see on the belly to get the cure of the burn. So I did that of course.
Dad then told me that I'd need to lick the belly of every single one I see after, in order to keep the cure. Of course I scoffed at him, gone 30 years before this without seeing one!!

Seen four more under the last heaps of turf. May have rabies now :pac:

Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

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