Farming Chit Chat sallies Fourth

biddy2013

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Wondering how is your cow getting on now

gone to cow heaven, she couldnt eat, along with a smashing fr heifer calf that dislocated her shoulder in the calf pen:cool:

Conmaicne Mara

Can't work this twitter thing at all, going to have to give and take lessons or something :pac:

biddy2013

eco eye on now

GrandSoftDay

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Can't work this twitter thing at all, going to have to give and take lessons or something :pac:

Patqfarmer or lakill farm will set you straight. Still figuring it out myself.

Conmaicne Mara

biddy2013 wrote: »

eco eye on now

Anything worth watching on it, was doing homework with the kids.

biddy2013

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Anything worth watching on it, was doing homework with the kids.

antibiotic resistance, was interesting enough, better than ettg anyday, am warming a bit to duncan

Reggie.

biddy2013 wrote: »

antibiotic resistance, was interesting enough, better than ettg anyday, am warming a bit to duncan

Steady biddy.....
yeah local vet says to me the other day that antibiotic resistance is becoming a problem

Conmaicne Mara

I will watch it on player so.

Greengrass1

Wrecked. Calving cows looking after sick calves and healthy ones along with putting up fences and milk recording makes a busy day. Along with the aunties coming to say happy birthday didn't help either.
Milk recording adds a lot if time to milking when ye haven't got a proper routine going

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Wrecked. Calving cows looking after sick calves and healthy ones along with putting up fences and milk recording makes a busy day. Along with the aunties coming to say happy birthday didn't help either.
Milk recording adds a lot if time to milking when ye haven't got a proper routine going

(hope i read this right but)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREENY

biddy2013

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Wrecked. Calving cows looking after sick calves and healthy ones along with putting up fences and milk recording makes a busy day. Along with the aunties coming to say happy birthday didn't help either.
Milk recording adds a lot if time to milking when ye haven't got a proper routine going

we where milk recording here too, 5-10 minutes extra is the norm here

Greengrass1

biddy2013 wrote: »

we where milk recording here too, 5-10 minutes extra is the norm here

Second time doing it and I made a muck off it at the start. I had a heap of water in Meters and had to get a hold of the lad that does them to try fix it.

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

(hope i read this right but)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREENY

It will end up like Facebook here in a while ha

Kovu

Dehorned calves today and blooded two cows for the mart. One of them is still lame for the last 3 months. Annoyance as she was mud fat this time last year.

Cooking venison too at the moment, Skippy all gone :pac:

Oh and happy birthday Green!

tanko

.Kovu. wrote: »

Dehorned calves today and blooded two cows for the mart. One of them is still lame for the last 3 months. Annoyance as she was mud fat this time last year.

Cooking venison too at the moment, Skippy all gone :pac:

Oh and happy birthday Green!

Didn't know you were into roadkill. I suppose you'll be having badger tomorrow night:D

Kovu

tanko wrote: »

Didn't know you were into roadkill. I suppose you'll be having badger tomorrow night:D

I eat the oddest meats, not the best advert for beef farming!:eek:

Genghis Cant

.Kovu. wrote: »

I eat the oddest meats, not the best advert for beef farming!:eek:

Lidl had a great range, hare, wild boar, venison steaks and diced, guinea foul, quail, pheasant, hog roast.
The diced venison in particular makes a great pie.

Kovu

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Lidl had a great range, hare, wild boar, venison steaks and diced, guinea foul, quail, pheasant, hog roast.
The diced venison in particular makes a great pie.

Had them all except the hare, then again it's coming near to the time when I will be getting leverets brought as presents to the door:o:pac:

Bear remains the weirdest one though. I don't know how I will top that!

Genghis Cant

.Kovu. wrote: »

Had them all except the hare, then again it's coming near to the time when I will be getting leverets brought as presents to the door:o:pac:

Bear remains the weirdest one though. I don't know how I will top that!

****ing cats. I dread them for that carry on.

Kovu

Genghis Cant wrote: »

****ing cats. I dread them for that carry on.

Yes but we never have a rat or mouse around the place! And he's a cheap way of heating my bed:pac:

Muckit

GC is the meat in lidl you mentioned frozen or in fridge? Must keep an eye out. Eating a lot of fish and usually get my red meat from local butcher.

Did make some lovely tandoori chicken thighs after marinating them in natural yoghurt, cumin and gara masala. Now they were finger lickin good!

Tis nice to have something tasty for the lunch when everyone else is eating sambos or beans and waffles

Greengrass1

Good debate on primetime

Genghis Cant

Muckit wrote: »

GC is the meat in lidl you mentioned frozen or in fridge? Must keep an eye out. Eating a lot of fish and usually get my red meat from local butcher.

Did make some lovely tandoori chicken thighs after marinating them in natural yoghurt, cumin and gara masala. Now they were finger lickin good!

Tis nice to have something tasty for the lunch when everyone else is eating sambos or beans and waffles

Frozen. Some of it was wild too. I see on the box there that the Hare is Argentinian, shot may be present. The Venison,I remember was wild according to the pack too. I forget where it came from. I've a leg of Wild Boar there too from USA. Deluxe is the brand on it.

Conmaicne Mara

Genghis Cant wrote: »

shot may be present

Dentist on speed dial :eek: Place here is over run with hares.

naughto

GY A1

good one LOL
and not far off either

Muckit

Genghis Cant wrote: »

....Wild Boar there too from USA. Deluxe is the brand on it.

Had wild boar pasta in Italy a few years back. Now that was seriously tasty. More like beef than pork

Genghis Cant

Muckit wrote: »

Had wild boar pasta in Italy a few years back. Now that was seriously tasty. More like beef than pork

Yeah, I'd have never guessed it was pig.

Genghis Cant

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Dentist on speed dial :eek: Place here is over run with hares.

Was a nice few about but them traveling lurcher men has them hounded. The wagons are circling on them boys too.

Kovu

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Was a nice few about but them traveling lurcher men has them hounded. The wagons are circling on them boys too.

Place is full of them here. Are you allowed to shoot them? Never thought about it before tbh.

Bodacious

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Was a nice few about but them traveling lurcher men has them hounded. The wagons are circling on them boys too.

The F**kers always eat the earth wire on electric fencers on me!

Spotted 2 tonight. I read story on here about fox eating vulva out of downer heifer .. Brought shotgun and a mate with me tonight to hold torch but no sign of my bold fox :-) too windy

Genghis Cant

.Kovu. wrote: »

Place is full of them here. Are you allowed to shoot them? Never thought about it before tbh.

Season Sept 26th to Feb 28th. I shot one years ago when I was a young lad and never again. They're big animals when you're up close to them.

Kovu

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Season Sept 26th to Feb 28th. I shot one years ago when I was a young lad and never again. They're big animals when you're up close to them.

I have 3 days so Why never again for you?
Now where's that shotgun......

Conmaicne Mara

Bodacious wrote: »

The F**kers always eat the earth wire on electric fencers on me!

Spotted 2 tonight. I read story on here about fox eating vulva out of downer heifer .. Brought shotgun and a mate with me tonight to hold torch but no sign of my bold fox :-) too windy

Windy night is the best (and the moon is good now too), particularly with a shotgun as you can get closer faster without being as fearful of making noise like on a quiet, or God forbid, frosty night.

Would leave the mate at home though, I hold light in left hand, rest shotgun fore end on left forearm, works beaut.

Genghis Cant

.Kovu. wrote: »

I have 3 days so Why never again for you?
Now where's that shotgun......

I suppose I didn't realise at the time how uniquely Irish they are. They have a very special place in the Irish landscape and psyche.

Bodacious

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Windy night is the best (and the moon is good now too), particularly with a shotgun as you can get closer faster without being as fearful of making noise like on a quiet, or God forbid, frosty night.

Would leave the mate at home though, I hold light in left hand, rest shotgun fore end on left forearm, works beaut.

he came to door of shed to take a cleaning of a cow one night with me in shed.. too close for comfort now me thinks

A cow called Daisy

.Kovu. wrote: »

Bear remains the weirdest one though. I don't know how I will top that![.QUOTO

Was wondering, as i am prone to do, if the bear meat was grizzly?:D

Kovu

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Was wondering, as i am prone to do, if the bear meat was grizzly?:D

It was bearable.

Greengrass1

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I suppose I didn't realise at the time how uniquely Irish they are. They have a very special place in the Irish landscape and psyche.

Love to see the hares here beautiful animal. I would strangle anyone who killed them on me.
Only have two though

Nekarsulm

Shot one once myself, years ago. The way they scream like a child is unsettling. Found a leverett a long time ago abandoned, and fed him with a 10ml syringe till he was enough to eat solids. He grew to a great size, but would never be anything but a wild animal.He escaped one day when i opened the hutch ,and ever since, when i see one on the land I wonder if its a descendant.a

biddy2013

many a fright i got when walking in the fields and a hare would jump out from somewhere, they can do some speed

GrandSoftDay

Not a day goes by that I don't see a hare here, place is full of them and I would stumble across a fox or a badger most weeks too. I actually nearly drove over a rabbit with the quad a few days ago, haven't seen one around in a long time.

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Love to see the hares here beautiful animal. I would strangle anyone who killed them on me.
Only have two though

I agree, there is something special seeing a few hares rambling about the place.
They say too that if you got hares you wont see too many rabbits in their area

I said

Ran over a cat last night on way home poor bast##d never seen a bit of him.

Greengrass1

ZETOR_IS_BETTER wrote: »

I agree, there is something special seeing a few hares rambling about the place.
They say too that if you got hares you wont see too many rabbits in their area

I remember a few years ago I down the the silage field and these two hares were running up the field and they actually came up my way and ran around me. Was something that would only happen yo ye once.
My dog is a Labrador crossed with a Japanese Akita. Used to be well able to get up on them and turn them before he turned two. He's 5 now and a bug fat lump and can't even catch a baby rabbit. He has killed two squirrels in his time and lots of rabbits

Reggie.

Bodacious wrote: »

he came to door of shed to take a cleaning of a cow one night with me in shed.. too close for comfort now me thinks

Came out from the shed one day at midday and a fox was sitting in the middle of the yard looking at me. Threw the yard brush at him......missed the fox but broke the head off the brush :rolleyes:

biddy2013

heading out now to powerwash:D last calving pen , all the rest have been cleaned, powerwashed and disenfected in the last week or so, they where all done before calving started too

Reggie.

biddy2013 wrote: »

heading out now to powerwash:D last calving pen , all the rest have been cleaned, powerwashed and disenfected in the last week or so, they where all done before calving started too

Go biddy :D

Kovu

I said wrote: »

Ran over a cat last night on way home poor bast##d never seen a bit of him.

:eek::eek::eek:

Interesting thread over on AH, would you put an animal out of its misery if it was badly injured and not going to survive?

Only thing I hit was a fox when getting home from Carnaross one night round 2am. Car right behind me so couldn't even stop to see if I killed him or what:(

moy83

.Kovu. wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:

Interesting thread over on AH, would you put an animal out of its misery if it was badly injured and not going to survive?

Only thing I hit was a fox when getting home from Carnaross one night round 2am. Car right behind me so couldn't even stop to see if I killed him or what:(

I think its only right to put something out its misery , alot worse to leave them suffering .
Ive never hit any animals with the car . But I did shear a telecom pole !