worst investment you ever made

The Tree of Liberty

Racehorses and Greyhounds, a sure fire way to burn money and when you get that elusive "good one" it usually ends up injured.

kevthegaff

whelan1 wrote: »

ragworth posioning....didnt get it here

what are the signs of ragworth poisoning?

whelan1

kevthegaff wrote: »

what are the signs of ragworth poisoning?

death:D no seriously, no apetite, collic, wasting away....wouldnt even eat calfcrunch

kevthegaff

whelan1 wrote: »

death:D no seriously, no apetite, collic, wasting away....wouldnt even eat calfcrunch

na i had a cow 3 weeks ago starting to waste away, black watery dung-thought it might be ragworth poisoning(but me sister whos a vet reckoned it was a burst absyss. Luckily i had her in the factory before she got too bad

whelan1

no if anything these where constipated, didnt know what it was til the first one died and then it was too late to save the others

td5man

whelan1 wrote: »

no if anything these where constipated, didnt know what it was til the first one died and then it was too late to save the others

What can you do to save them?

kevthegaff

My worst investment was a jersey bull calf for 15 euros in the mart:-(

Black Smoke

td5man wrote: »

What can you do to save them?

Bring them to the mart:D

bob charles

every maiden heifer that I buy that turns up in calf, or guaranteed heifers bought that turn up as having had a calf at a later date

whelan1

td5man wrote: »

What can you do to save them?

not sure but its the liver that gets damaged and they can ultimately die, if i had known that was what they had i would have factoried them rather than having to pay the knacker

5live

Black Smoke wrote: »

But would he be any good, on the end of the calving jack, I wonder:rolleyes:

Which end?:D

bbam

Cheap Tools.
Never a good invesent. Let you down just when your up against it with a breakdown.
I was with a fella once, he was lying under a trailer trying to get a hub off. It was up on a cheap bottle jack he bought out of the back of a van for €30 !
Madness

bogman_bass

my first car. A megane van. caused me nothing but heartache!
second worst was a pedigree parthenaise heifer that went stone mad at calving an lost the calf

Insp. Harry Callahan

A commerical landrover discovery, the new model tdv6#worst machine ever to come about the place, spent a forture on repairs,glad to get the brute moved on

Farmer Pudsey

bbam wrote: »

Cheap Tools.
Never a good invesent. Let you down just when your up against it with a breakdown.
I was with a fella once, he was lying under a trailer trying to get a hub off. It was up on a cheap bottle jack he bought out of the back of a van for €30 !
Madness

It did not matter wheather the bottle jack was expensive or cheap you never go under anything only supported by a jack

just do it

One of these:


Talking about this with a lad today and he agreed. He'd a cow that got into one, dragged it into a river with the electric fence belting current through it. That was some tragic accident:(

My one doesn't get used. With paddocks it's too much hassle moving it all the time.

Juniorhurler

just do it wrote: »

One of these:


Talking about this with a lad today and he agreed. He'd a cow that got into one, dragged it into a river with the electric fence belting current through it. That was some tragic accident:(

My one doesn't get used. With paddocks it's too much hassle moving it all the time.

Thats mad. We have 2 that we made ourselves here. We think that they are the mutts nuts and wouldn't be without them and we use a paddock system of sorts. One is lifted on the three point linkage and the other is picked up on the loader by a hook on top to move it.

Black Smoke

just do it wrote: »

One of these:


Talking about this with a lad today and he agreed. He'd a cow that got into one, dragged it into a river with the electric fence belting current through it. That was some tragic accident:(

My one doesn't get used. With paddocks it's too much hassle moving it all the time.

I had a cow go into one this year. It was fukcn mad. Turned inside, tried to go out, got stuck half way. Took off with it around tha field at top speed. The bull joined in the racket, running around after her, bellowing like crazy.
She eventually got near enough to the yard and stopped long enough for me to get a rope around it and tied it to an esb pole.
Several extension leads and an angle grinder later, I had her cut out of it!!
She was none the worse for wear though! Unlike myself -:)

redzerologhlen

just do it wrote: »

One of these:


Talking about this with a lad today and he agreed. He'd a cow that got into one, dragged it into a river with the electric fence belting current through it. That was some tragic accident:(

My one doesn't get used. With paddocks it's too much hassle moving it all the time.

I only bought one a few weeks ago

Dont be daft

Black Smoke wrote: »

I had a cow go into one this year. It was fukcn mad. Turned inside, tried to go out, got stuck half way. Took off with it around tha field at top speed. The bull joined in the racket, running around after her, bellowing like crazy.
She eventually got near enough to the yard and stopped long enough for me to get a rope around it and tied it to an esb pole.
Several extension leads and an angle grinder later, I had her cut out of it!!
She was none the worse for wear though! Unlike myself -:)

Sorry lad but I'm in stitches picturing that.
Its probably the way you told it but that is hilarious. Like something out of Faulty Towers.:D

just do it

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I only bought one a few weeks ago

Pity, I've have sold you my little used one! Depends on the system. I now creep feed mine in the shed. Having said all that, my system is still evolving!

whelan1

Black Smoke wrote: »

I had a cow go into one this year. It was fukcn mad. Turned inside, tried to go out, got stuck half way. Took off with it around tha field at top speed. The bull joined in the racket, running around after her, bellowing like crazy.
She eventually got near enough to the yard and stopped long enough for me to get a rope around it and tied it to an esb pole.
Several extension leads and an angle grinder later, I had her cut out of it!!
She was none the worse for wear though! Unlike myself -:)

always have a hacksaw in the jeep for such eventualities, never know when ya need it:)

pakalasa

I had a yearling heifer get stuck in a homemade creep gate. She pulled her ribcage through and got stuck then. Hacksawed the bar, got her out and welded it back up again.

whelan1

pakalasa wrote: »

I had a yearling heifer get stuck in a homemade creep gate. She pulled her ribcage through and got stuck then. Hacksawed the bar, got her out and welded it back up again.

had a weanling got stuck at the hips in a round feeder cut her out and she got stuck in the otherside of it:rolleyes: plenty of colourful language that day

blue5000

pakalasa wrote: »

I had a yearling heifer get stuck in a homemade creep gate. She pulled her ribcage through and got stuck then. Hacksawed the bar, got her out and welded it back up again.

If you have the help available a shovel or spade each side of the ribcage and shove her back can save cutting them out;)

bbam

Black Smoke wrote: »

I had a cow go into one this year. It was fukcn mad. Turned inside, tried to go out, got stuck half way. Took off with it around tha field at top speed. The bull joined in the racket, running around after her, bellowing like crazy.
She eventually got near enough to the yard and stopped long enough for me to get a rope around it and tied it to an esb pole.
Several extension leads and an angle grinder later, I had her cut out of it!!
She was none the worse for wear though! Unlike myself -:)

i thought mad sh1t like that just happened at our house :rolleyes:

bbam

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

It did not matter wheather the bottle jack was expensive or cheap you never go under anything only supported by a jack

indeed..
We have some sections cut from railway sleepers..
Neighbour of ours was found a few years ago under his car where the jack had given way and crushed him to death.. poor fella was there for what they reckon was half a day..

Kovu

A draught mare which got colic and died five months after I bought and trained her, then two weeks later a weanling I'd bought for showing died.

Most recently, a bengal cat which has become nocturnal and sleeps all day in my bed and wakes me up at 2 am by pouncing on my face so he can be let out to catch me some murder presents from the fields.
(Buut I do love the daft b@stard):o

On the other hand, best investment was laser eye surgery! Soooo much handier than glasses or contacts.

Muckit

pakalasa wrote: »

I had a yearling heifer get stuck in a homemade creep gate. She pulled her ribcage through and got stuck then. Hacksawed the bar, got her out and welded it back up again.

Just wondering Pak were the bars like rollers or were they welded solid? I wonder if they rolled would it help a tight one squeeze through? Don't use creeps or creep gates so not a glue myself.

Muckit

blue5000 wrote: »

If you have the help available a shovel or spade each side of the ribcage and shove her back can save cutting them out;)

Or plenty of ash plant!!!

Bizzum

I bought a PB Charolais incalf heifer years ago from a well known herd through the society sale. Quiet as a lamb till I had her a day or so..........Then she was a looper. Equally as bad was the fact that I bought her on her breeding, and price rather than her quality.
I suppose she taught me a valuable lesson!

Juniorhurler

whelan1 wrote: »

had a weanling got stuck at the hips in a round feeder cut her out and she got stuck in the otherside of it:rolleyes: plenty of colourful language that day

This made me laugh

whelan1

Juniorhurler wrote: »

This made me laugh

believe you me laughter was the last thing on my mind

Muckit

Bizzum wrote: »

I bought a PB Charolais incalf heifer years ago from a well known herd through the society sale. Quiet as a lamb till I had her a day or so..........Then she was a looper. Equally as bad was the fact that I bought her on her breeding, and price rather than her quality.
I suppose she taught me a valuable lesson!

Much the same story, only the one I bought wasn't in calf. She was loop the loop too. I reckon she was doped for the sale. Had serious problems trying to get her in calf, then in the end she lost the calf. Because she was a nut, she got the one way ticket to the factory. Paid €3,200 for her. €1,400 was the factory cheque over a year later Sometimes you just have to put it down to experience and move on. At least she didn't hurt anyone TG.

vanderbadger

Muckit wrote: »

Much the same story, only the one I bought wasn't in calf. She was loop the loop too. I reckon she was doped for the sale. Had serious problems trying to get her in calf, then in the end she lost the calf. Because she was a nut, she got the one way ticket to the factory. Paid €3,200 for her. €1,400 was the factory cheque over a year later Sometimes you just have to put it down to experience and move on. At least she didn't hurt anyone TG.

jeez there are some lousy fcukers going to sell an animal like that.. especially a pure bred

Black Smoke

Muckit wrote: »

Much the same story, only the one I bought wasn't in calf. She was loop the loop too. I reckon she was doped for the sale. Had serious problems trying to get her in calf, then in the end she lost the calf. Because she was a nut, she got the one way ticket to the factory. Paid €3,200 for her. €1,400 was the factory cheque over a year later Sometimes you just have to put it down to experience and move on. At least she didn't hurt anyone TG.

Surely you would have a case to make to the society!! I wouldn't take a situation like that lying down.
Animals simply do not behave quietly at a sale, and then go mental a day later!

Muckit

You could be right black smoke. I just didn't fancy the hassle at the time to be honest. More fool me perhaps. Like Bizzum though, I won't be just looking at figures out a catologue anymore. Temperment means as much as throwing a good calf!

Anything cracked here ped or commercial gets the factory, I wouldn't have it on my conscience.

just do it

whelan1 wrote: »

pakalasa wrote: »

I had a yearling heifer get stuck in a homemade creep gate. She pulled her ribcage through and got stuck then. Hacksawed the bar, got her out and welded it back up again.

had a weanling got stuck at the hips in a round feeder cut her out and she got stuck in the otherside of it:rolleyes: plenty of colourful language that day

Sorry whealan but I had to laugh at that!

just do it

Muckit wrote: »

You could be right black smoke. I just didn't fancy the hassle at the time to be honest. More fool me perhaps. Like Bizzum though, I won't be just looking at figures out a catologue anymore. Temperment means as much as throwing a good calf!

Anything cracked here ped or commercial gets the factory, I wouldn't have it on my conscience.

Same policy here Muckit, to the factory. I'd hate to see some honest sort buy her at the mart.

pakalasa

Muckit wrote: »

Just wondering Pak were the bars like rollers or were they welded solid? I wonder if they rolled would it help a tight one squeeze through? Don't use creeps or creep gates so not a glue myself.

It was an old gate from the front of the house, so bars were solid. If it was the proper creep gate, then bars would be removable so no problem.

Bizzum

Muckit wrote: »

Much the same story, only the one I bought wasn't in calf. She was loop the loop too. I reckon she was doped for the sale.

I have little doubt that my lady was slipped a mickey finn. I'm starting to wonder now did they come from the same herd.

Bizzum

Anybody ever catch a heifer behind the ribcage in the semi auto crush gate? It can be a tricky game to get em out.

kevthegaff

im after buyin a dump trailer hopefully it wont appear on this thread in a couple of years

Figerty

Bizzum wrote: »

Anybody ever catch a heifer behind the ribcage in the semi auto crush gate? It can be a tricky game to get em out.

No, but I put the cattle in a few weeks ago due to the weather and was giving them a few nuts...I arrived in the shed to find an 18month old heifer stuck half way out the calf creep gate.. She gave me a look as if.... 'What are you going to do about it' and stood there.
I had to get the fecking hacksaw out out in a hurry to cut the top rail and free her.

simx

Bizzum wrote: »

Anybody ever catch a heifer behind the ribcage in the semi auto crush gate? It can be a tricky game to get em out.

yes,if they are mad its great craic:D

1chippy

we had one a couple of months back catch in a feeding gate. she ended up dragging the gate off somehow. it me the old man and a friend to catch her and gate. knock her to the ground then cut out two bars with the consaw. she is an absolute tramp and one off two which will be going for the hook next year. of course both would make nice breeders.