Farming Chit Chat sallies Fourth

_Brian

Lightning blew the router yesterday evening.. Rang Eircom at half eight and logged the fault, she said someone would be out Friday, I asked was there anything she could do as we run a small on-line business so she said she would see what could be done..
Engineer landed before ten thismorning and installed new Router..

In fairness Eircom get a bit of bashing but I thought it was great service..

moy83

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I dunno. Not many stone walls in our end of Offaly :-)
I'll have to take yer word for it. Is there an Irish term for these holes I wonder?

Pol san mballa ? Sorry about my irish spelling and lack of fada's . Con might be able to do a spell check on it for me

Muckit

moy83 wrote: »

Style ?

A stile is what we'd call where we'd cross over a fence. Some fancy ones into woods etc would have timber steps

moy83

Muckit wrote: »

A stile is what we'd call where we'd cross over a fence. Some fancy ones into woods etc would have timber steps

The fisheries have a few of them put in our place alright .

Oldtree

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Lads, anyone know the holes you see built into stone walls. Like a creep gate! What are they called?

heard them called wickets here.

Genghis Cant

Thanks lads. Phones about to die. Then back to no internet land for a few more days!

Charliebull

To cut or not to cut, that is the question

Enjoy the break freedom,

Greengrass1

Charliebull wrote: »

To cut or not to cut, that is the question

Enjoy the break freedom,

We cut 15 acres today. Cutting another 12 on Saturday I'd say

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

We cut 15 acres today. Cutting another 12 on Saturday I'd say

How the hell have you any grass left

darragh_haven

Reggie. wrote: »

How the hell have you any grass left

Acres in Wexford must be the size of a tennis court. .....

Kovu

darragh_haven wrote: »

Acres in Wexford must be the size of a tennis court. .....

Ok darragh, one last time.

These fields we have here are small… but the ones out there in Wexford are far away. Small… far away…

Base price

We have had a few problems with scours in weanlings on grass in the last week. First one I noticed was last Wed and there was a pull on him as well. Brought him in and his temp was 104. Phoned the vet and got an injection for him resiflor to deal with the pneumonia. Next day there was 2 others in the same batch and 2 others in another batch all with a smelly watery scour but they didn't have a pull or high themp.
I took dung samples and vet tested for 5 of the nasties, e coli, rotavirus, crypto, coronavirus and another one. Negative to all.
I brought the rest of the dung samples to a lab and got them tested for Cocci and stomach worms - negative to all.
I put them back on the teat feeder on Friday with electrolytes one feed, then kaolin powder with sulphamathezine powder (N0.2) next feed electrolytes and natural yogurt for the last feed.
They also got sulphamet injections for 4 days. They are slowly improving but still not right. They have hay ad-lib and today I am slowly introducing nuts back to their diet.
Has anyone had similar problems.
They are all bought in stock as calves (from 10 days to 2 weeks old) and reared here. They would all be 3+ months old. Dosed and coppered 2 to 3 weeks ago.

Conmaicne Mara

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Lads, anyone know the holes you see built into stone walls. Like a creep gate! What are they called?

Could be a "counting hole", is it big enough for sheep to go through?

A cow called Daisy

Just home from helping neighbour bring in round bales. Getting about 12 acres mowed tomorrow. Hope he returns the favour. About 40 acres to do in total. Will be seeing bales in my dreams after that.

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

We have had a few problems with scours in weanlings on grass in the last week. First one I noticed was last Wed and there was a pull on him as well. Brought him in and his temp was 104. Phoned the vet and got an injection for him resiflor to deal with the pneumonia. Next day there was 2 others in the same batch and 2 others in another batch all with a smelly watery scour but they didn't have a pull or high themp.
I took dung samples and vet tested for 5 of the nasties, e coli, rotavirus, crypto, coronavirus and another one. Negative to all.
I brought the rest of the dung samples to a lab and got them tested for Cocci and stomach worms - negative to all.
I put them back on the teat feeder on Friday with electrolytes one feed, then kaolin powder with sulphamathezine powder (N0.2) next feed electrolytes and natural yogurt for the last feed.
They also got sulphamet injections for 4 days. They are slowly improving but still not right. They have hay ad-lib and today I am slowly introducing nuts back to their diet.
Has anyone had similar problems.
They are all bought in stock as calves (from 10 days to 2 weeks old) and reared here. They would all be 3+ months old. Dosed and coppered 2 to 3 weeks ago.

whats the water like where they are? Our weanlngs need alot of looking after this year, mainly with lameness, had 1 scour and a couple of pneumonia too:cool:

Reggie.

darragh_haven wrote: »

Acres in Wexford must be the size of a tennis court. .....

Either that or he's breaking into the neighbours fields

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

whats the water like where they are? Our weanlngs need alot of looking after this year, mainly with lameness, had 1 scour and a couple of pneumonia too:cool:

Yeah what the hell is he story with the lameness this year

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

whats the water like where they are? Our weanlngs need alot of looking after this year, mainly with lameness, had 1 scour and a couple of pneumonia too:cool:

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah what the hell is he story with the lameness this year

Water is mains. With all the rain they could have been drinking from pools collected on the ground. Had a problem with stomach worms 2 years ago for the same reason that is why we got the samples tested for worm counts.
No problems with lameness.

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

Water is mains. With all the rain they could have been drinking from pools collected on the ground. Had a problem with stomach worms 2 years ago for the same reason that is why we got the samples tested for worm counts.
No problems with lameness.

have they been done with bovicox, i changed from vecoxan and find bovicox great. Alot of extra work looking after them

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah what the hell is he story with the lameness this year

have 1 in i have been injecting for 8 days:eek: tried pen/strep first , shes now on tylan and betamox and is coming on nicely

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

have they been done with bovicox, i changed from vecoxan and find bovicox great. Alot of extra work looking after them

Yep, do them when they arrive here and use bovicox too. Did them again when I saw them scouring.

simx

whelan2 wrote: »

have 1 in i have been injecting for 8 days:eek: tried pen/strep first , shes now on tylan and betamox and is coming on nicely

Usually go for tetroxy LA if possible first for lameness, find it good

Kovu

Have one b*llocks of a cow here allowing 3 calves to suck her. Wouldn't be thew best milker in the world either. Although she's in heat today and only calved the second week of May so it's not doing her any harm!:eek:

GY A1

the turf is fierce wet atfer all these heavy showers the last few days,
needs a bit of drying :pac:

GrandSoftDay

Watching a little shrew running around the Kitchen here now wondering how im going to catch the fecker! Very annoying.

Kovu

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Watching a little shrew running around the Kitchen here now wondering how im going to catch the fecker! Very annoying.

From experience with the cats, I've used cling film stretched across the kitchen and he'll run into it and it will give and catch him.

Lovely timid little things, can die of fright too so don't chase after him like a lunatic!

moy83

.Kovu. wrote: »

Have one b*llocks of a cow here allowing 3 calves to suck her. Wouldn't be thew best milker in the world either. Although she's in heat today and only calved the second week of May so it's not doing her any harm!:eek:

So long as her own calf is getting as much as she needs I wouldn't worry to much about the cow . We have a few clowns of cows here that let anything suck , they have loads of milk but the odd time their calf looses out on what it should be getting if a bigger weanling is too greedy

Kovu

moy83 wrote: »

So long as her own calf is getting as much as she needs I wouldn't worry to much about the cow . We have a few clowns of cows here that let anything suck , they have loads of milk but the odd time their calf looses out on what it should be getting if a bigger weanling is too greedy

Seems to be getting enough from her. Hilarious thing is that she had twins before and abandoned one. :rolleyes:

moy83

.Kovu. wrote: »

Seems to be getting enough from her. Hilarious thing is that she had twins before and abandoned one. :rolleyes:

The female mind is a tricky one :-)

Reggie.

Herd test done...... clear for another year, OH YEAH

Kovu

moy83 wrote: »

The female mind is a tricky one :-)

Don't I feckin' know it:D

whelan2

moy83 wrote: »

The female mind is a tricky one :-)

not near as tricky as the male one:D

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

not near as tricky as the male one:D

Says you

whelan2

its that time of year again , started powerwashing:D, giving milking parlour a run down and then off to slatted sheds. Amazing how dirty the milking parlour was

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

not near as tricky as the male one:D

Ah Ha !!
Recognition that we DO have our own mind !!

I said

whelan2 wrote: »

its that time of year again , started powerwashing:D, giving milking parlour a run down and then off to slatted sheds. Amazing how dirty the milking parlour was

If we ever meet I'll know ya barbecue in one hand power washer in the other lol

Charliebull

_Brian wrote: »

Ah Ha !!
Recognition that we DO have our own mind !!

good lad brian

i was about to say we never get to use them;)

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

its that time of year again , started powerwashing:D, giving milking parlour a run down and then off to slatted sheds. Amazing how dirty the milking parlour was

See ya in about a week.

Parishlad

whelan2 wrote: »

its that time of year again , started powerwashing:D, giving milking parlour a run down and then off to slatted sheds. Amazing how dirty the milking parlour was

Tackling the slatted shed here also....have all the heavy stuff cleared out from calving pens, creep area, around edges of slatted pens etc. Powerwasher coming out this evening or some time tonight and will tackle it bit by bit.

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

See ya in about a week.

ha! will probably still be powerwashing in september:o

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

ha! will probably still be powerwashing in september:o

Just in time for them to come back in

Reggie.

Aha new toy has arrived

Kovu

Reggie. wrote: »

Aha new toy has arrived

Please elaborate. I am very comfused:eek:

simx

.Kovu. wrote: »

Have one b*llocks of a cow here allowing 3 calves to suck her. Wouldn't be thew best milker in the world either. Although she's in heat today and only calved the second week of May so it's not doing her any harm!:eek:

See a 500kg bullock sucking the daylights out of a cow yesterday, he may be getting a bit of nose jewellery

Reggie.

.Kovu. wrote: »

Please elaborate. I am very comfused:eek:

New silage rake (new to me)

naughto

throw up a pic there reggie

Muckit

Just heard that lad few miles from here lost 6 or 7 cattle earlier during the week. They were sheltering under a tree that got hit by lightning.

darragh_haven

How much round-up per litre of water do you use when knapsack spraying

Reggie.

Here ya are

Reggie.

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