Farming Chit Chat

blue5000

Just saw this over on motors, stealing a trailer

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/trailers/4492696

Keep it locked

just do it

blue5000 wrote: »

Just saw this over on motors, stealing a trailer

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/trailers/4492696

Keep it locked

Jeez, how much evidence do they need! Hopefully on foot of this they perform some surveillance on the q.t.

mf240

They dont care you might as well ring a nursing home to report it stolen.

nashmach

just do it wrote: »

Jeez, how much evidence do they need! Hopefully on foot of this they perform some surveillance on the q.t.

Especially with the logo on the side!

Getting ridiculous this is :mad:

bob charles

nashmach wrote: »

Especially with the logo on the side!

Getting ridiculous this is :mad:

anyone recognize the logo, mr magoo here cant

leg wax

simx wrote: »

You going to new ross with them

carnew:)

simx

leg wax wrote: »

carnew:)

Never there what would numbers/quality be like there?

leg wax

simx wrote: »

Never there what would numbers/quality be like there?

quality would be up there with any top marts no many frs or dairy stock.numbers for this sale other years are around 900-1100 cattle.

Juniorhurler

leg wax wrote: »

quality would be up there with any top marts no many frs or dairy stock.numbers for this sale other years are around 900-1100 cattle.

I have saw up to 1400 cattle here at spring sales meeting grass.

wesleysniper38

mf240 wrote: »

They dont care you might as well ring a nursing home to report it stolen.

unbelievable. If thats true I would have more regard for the thief than I would for the Guard who provided such a lame excuse to avoid doing his/her job.

pakalasa

wesleysniper38 wrote: »

unbelievable. If thats true I would have more regard for the thief than I would for the Guard who provided such a lame excuse to avoid doing his/her job.

I'd take that Donedeal add with a pinch of salt. I see there are trailer locks for sale on Donedeal today, also in Dublin. Or am I just being cynical?

reilig

pakalasa wrote: »

I'd take that Donedeal add with a pinch of salt. I see there are trailer locks for sale on Donedeal today, also in Dublin. Or am I just being cynical?

+1.

The 4x4 in the pics is too unique not to be identifiable.
Also, if the guards get a vehicle reg, they will act on it!!

hoseman

just do it wrote: »

Sure he's no need to borrow it then .

Let us know how you get on

Used the hook drench first time to-day,giving a vitamin drench,When you get something like this,you say to yourself"How did I manage without it".Very happy with it.

st1979

hoseman wrote: »

Used the hook drench first time to-day,giving a vitamin drench,When you get something like this,you say to yourself"How did I manage without it".Very happy with it.

I was the same. Real handy with a locking barrier feed rail but your hand gets no rest. With all the pumping of the gun

1chippy

reilig wrote: »

+1.

The 4x4 in the pics is too unique not to be identifiable.
Also, if the guards get a vehicle reg, they will act on it!!

The guards will act on it, but there is damn all they can do. i found half of my trailer which had been stolen, for sale on donedeal. they had taken the body off and put it on a different chasis. The guards came with me to look at it, but the lad who was selling it got a garage to say that they had done all the modifications and welding that made my chasis unique. it was just coincidental that they had welded the exact same pieces in the exact same places as i had and that the mudguard brackets that i had gotten made were identical and the spurious reflectors and lights were the same.
Thieves have got to be the lowest form of scum out there.

wesleysniper38

pakalasa wrote: »

I'd take that Donedeal add with a pinch of salt. I see there are trailer locks for sale on Donedeal today, also in Dublin. Or am I just being cynical?

Mmm...:rolleyes:...when you put it that way or maybe you've just been hangin around too long with Jim Corr.

Bodacious

I bought a nice breeding weanling heifer privately today blue Grey BB X Lm.. 2 Purchases in a week That's my dealing done now for a while !

hoseman

st1979 wrote: »

I was the same. Real handy with a locking barrier feed rail but your hand gets no rest. With all the pumping of the gun

Same here,have arithsis in the hands,still better then catching heads

1chippy

Bodacious wrote: »

I bought a nice breeding weanling heifer privately today blue Grey BB X Lm.. 2 Purchases in a week That's my dealing done now for a while !

How are lads getting on with blues for breeding? i just took a limo heifer out the side door of a reasonable sized first calver. we have 3 blues here and had 2 caesarians. both would be good r grading at best but both very narow pelvis,s.
I bought a couple of limo heifers out of blue cows and the few heifers i had from my own and might chance them on as cows instead.

Bodacious

1chippy wrote: »

How are lads getting on with blues for breeding? i just took a limo heifer out the side door of a reasonable sized first calver. we have 3 blues here and had 2 caesarians. both would be good r grading at best but both very narow pelvis,s.
I bought a couple of limo heifers out of blue cows and the few heifers i had from my own and might chance them on as cows instead.

Blue on BBX cow or muscley BB type cow X CH is the problem. that been said a neighbour of mine has a Sim X BB cow breeding back to the likes of FHZ (BB) and she churning out show calves year on year.

Ive only 2 blues and they will be crossed to lim only, one claved to OZS lim, good shapey calf , lady i bought today is out of a good big wide 50% BB cow with milk and AI Lim (not sure of code yet - will find out from AI Man records) either way she 25% BB and 50% lim

awaywithyou

Great day on the farm yest... we finally became a clear herd again having been restricted due to TB for the last 18 months....

johnpawl

Have a very big aaxfr cow, was thinking of chancing bb bull stq on her. I wonder would a heifer calf from that bull and cow be any good for breeding? Also what quality weaning bulls would you get from that type of cross.

Bodacious

johnpawl wrote: »

Have a very big aaxfr cow, was thinking of chancing bb bull stq on her. I wonder would a heifer calf from that bull and cow be any good for breeding? Also what quality weaning bulls would you get from that type of cross.

Hi JP,

If the FR brings a bit of height and milk to the cross then it could be a nice all round breeding animal... ive seen alot of aa x bb and they very stumpy and hard sold but as you say the fr x should be the difference

TEAT SQUEEZER

jaysis its quiet around here tonite...i hate waiting for a cow to calf this time of night.. and theres feck all on the telly... that michael douglas wants to bump off the missus... he`s so wooden he could club her to death with himself...

leg wax

good morning:D:D ,,,,,,,,, jesus who turned out the lights,its always bright when i get up:D:D, calves did not know what was going on when i apeared in the shed a while ago ,you could nearly here them mutter where the fook is the lad going at this hour,say nothing hes fillin the creep phew:):).

Juniorhurler

You're like a child waiting for santy legs. All excited about letting those weanlings under David Quinns hammer. Not able to sleep, up at about 3 in the morning to check.

pakalasa

leg wax wrote: »

..,say nothing hes fillin the creep phew:):).

Adding a bit of cheap weight? I've done it myself on sale day.

blue5000

Anyone manage to shift a bit of slurry today? I'm going to try a few loads later on, will be driving in straight off a roadway to avoid gaps though.

td5man

blue5000 wrote: »

Anyone manage to shift a bit of slurry today? I'm going to try a few loads later on, will be driving in straight off a roadway to avoid gaps though.

Spreding on stubble ground yesterday it was soft enough.
Theres a chance of frost next week not that i spread on frozen ground.

moy83

blue5000 wrote: »

Anyone manage to shift a bit of slurry today? I'm going to try a few loads later on, will be driving in straight off a roadway to avoid gaps though.

Put out a few loads before lunch just to keep it a foot or so below the slats for another while but its still soft around here (nothing new there:D ) I see M.T. Cranium is predicting a possibility of hardy weather next week so Ill chance another few then if we get it

bob charles

moy83 wrote: »

Put out a few loads before lunch just to keep it a foot or so below the slats for another while but its still soft around here (nothing new there:D ) I see M.T. Cranium is predicting a possibility of hardy weather next week so Ill chance another few then if we get it

2 of the cattle tanks are full up to slats and just taking a load and putting into another tank, third tank is 10" from top but all slurry is now being drawn to that tank so will be full in under a week. What I have found over the last few weeks is that it takes 100 beef cattle to make a thousand gallons of ****e per day.

blue5000

At least we beat wales, slurry now, thanks for replies

pakalasa

Lovely day here. Real feel of spring in the air. Notice that the young whitethorns are starting to shoot.

vanderbadger

pakalasa wrote: »

Adding a bit of cheap weight? I've done it myself on sale day.

never bother giving them meal on day of sale, only ends up on floor of trailer

Dupont

Absolutely lovely day here. Plenty of heat if in the sun. A real spring day. But judging from mt cranium forecast the calm before the storm.

moy83

bob charles wrote: »

2 of the cattle tanks are full up to slats and just taking a load and putting into another tank, third tank is 10" from top but all slurry is now being drawn to that tank so will be full in under a week. What I have found over the last few weeks is that it takes 100 beef cattle to make a thousand gallons of ****e per day.

Its great to have the extra storage but its a pain in the a$$ sucking it up and letting it into another tank , knowing that you will have to agitate it all again and waste more diesel .
We got 500 squids of diesel this week and I nearly cried into the tank when I saw how little it filled it up :mad:

Richk2012

Any of you Dairy lads calving Belgian Blues from british fresians .
And if so what sort of money are you getting/expecting for the heifer calves??

1chippy

Richk2012 wrote: »

Any of you Dairy lads calving Belgian Blues from british fresians .
And if so what sort of money are you getting/expecting for the heifer calves??

most of the lads on here would hopefully have the common sense not to pay what other lads are but the cheapest i seen sold so far is 350.

1chippy

well legs how did they go?

whelan1

so who's on calving duty tonight? just watched a heifer calving, off to bed now, shouldnt be anymore til tomorrow, good night:)

case 5150

whelan1 wrote: »

so who's on calving duty tonight? just watched a heifer calving, off to bed now, shouldnt be anymore til tomorrow, good night:)

i am on as well, had 1 calved a hr ago brute of a partneise bull calve out of a 4th calver holestin

TEAT SQUEEZER

i`m doin the red eye shift for a second night... got a couple of hours kip earlier,got up to see one and have another to wait for now ... ah the joys of it all .......

im getting biggish calves for some reason . 62 dmd silage wasnt exactly drivin body condition on the cows but the calves seem to have got their share anyhow...

mf240

TEAT SQUEEZER wrote: »

i`m doin the red eye shift for a second night... got a couple of hours kip earlier,got up to see one and have another to wait for now ... ah the joys of it all .......

im getting biggish calves for some reason . 62 dmd silage wasnt exactly drivin body condition on the cows but the calves seem to have got their share anyhow...

Just in from the shed had a fr bull.

Was a foot down so got it up then gave her a hand.

Milked her by hand and fed him.

Won't have anymore for a couple of days.

td5man

TEAT SQUEEZER wrote: »

i`m doin the red eye shift for a second night... got a couple of hours kip earlier,got up to see one and have another to wait for now ... ah the joys of it all .......

im getting biggish calves for some reason . 62 dmd silage wasnt exactly drivin body condition on the cows but the calves seem to have got their share anyhow...

Had a friesan heifer calf last night you'd think she was three weeks old and the cows are getting a mix of two and three year old silage of average quality.

leg wax

1chippy wrote: »

well legs how did they go?

very bad sale no tlt at it,i brought down 9 and got 9000 euro ,i was going to bring them home but need the space for the springers, not a happy chappy here i can tell you, out of pocket at least 2 grand.:(:(

whelan1

td5man wrote: »

Had a friesan heifer calf last night you'd think she was three weeks old and the cows are getting a mix of two and three year old silage of average quality.

what bull she out of?

1chippy

leg wax wrote: »

very bad sale no tlt at it,i brought down 9 and got 9000 euro ,i was going to bring them home but need the space for the springers, not a happy chappy here i can tell you, out of pocket at least 2 grand.:(:(

sorry to hear that, they were good stock. Was it the parts that lads didnt go for or what?
are you out 2k on what they should have made or on money spent. sorry if its a stupid q.

reilig

leg wax wrote: »

very bad sale no tlt at it,i brought down 9 and got 9000 euro ,i was going to bring them home but need the space for the springers, not a happy chappy here i can tell you, out of pocket at least 2 grand.:(:(

Jasus,

I was in Carrigallen yesterday and I thought that prices were very good. What breeds and weights did you sell?

Marooned75

Any suggestions for fertiliser to use on ground that is been used to outwinter a few bullocks,that would bring it back to speed fairly quickly its got pasture sward and 18-6-12 over the years.

pakalasa

leg wax wrote: »

very bad sale no tlt at it,i brought down 9 and got 9000 euro ,i was going to bring them home but need the space for the springers, not a happy chappy here i can tell you, out of pocket at least 2 grand.:(:(

To be honest, I was expecting you'd say that. I saw them on that Donedeal video and I thought they were well back on your normal guality. What did you do different?