Farming Chit Chat sallies Fourth

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ETTG is on earlier tonight at 7pm.

lakill Farm

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Biddy is farming boards poster girl:D:D:D (pun intended)

Id like to see that poster

biddy2013

anyone ever use this ? http://photos2.donedeal.ie/dairycattle/kill-ringworm-and-warts-in-days/Full/24727841.jpeg its for ringworm in cattle

feartuath

Sitting in Ennis mart waiting to sell,4 more pens to go,here since 12:45
It's a long waste of a day

GrandSoftDay

feartuath wrote: »

Sitting in Ennis mart waiting to sell,4 more pens to go,here since 12:45
It's a long waste of a day

I can relate to that, spent many's a day in your shoes down there!!

Henwin

biddy2013 wrote: »

anyone ever use this ? http://photos2.donedeal.ie/dairycattle/kill-ringworm-and-warts-in-days/Full/24727841.jpeg its for ringworm in cattle

No but im on the lookout for something for ringworm.how much is tat stuff and where can you get it?
mite try sulpher or iodine.

f140

February is a month I hate. is the month tanks are full and cant be spread. no grass growing. too wet to put cattle out. you wonder to yourself how long will what silage you have at this point last. days are still short.

biddy2013

f140 wrote: »

February is a month I hate. is the month tanks are full and cant be spread. no grass growing. too wet to put cattle out. you wonder to yourself how long will what silage you have at this point last.

Yes but there is only 8 days left in February

dzer2

Any one know what round bales of silage are making

f140

dzer2 wrote: »

Any one know what round bales of silage are making

€20 if payed for in the yard

biddy2013

forgot about ear to the ground:cool:

Conmaicne Mara

biddy2013 wrote: »

forgot about ear to the ground:cool:

Me too, wouldn't mind but I thought of it at 6.50, then went looking at fencing tools online and that, as they say, was that :rolleyes:

biddy2013

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Me too, wouldn't mind but I thought of it at 6.50, then went looking at fencing tools online and that, as they say, was that :rolleyes:

brought kids to apache pizza, great deals there, 5 of us all full for 35 euro

longgonesilver

Will you be able to watch ETTG on RTE+1 on Saorview?

Conmaicne Mara

biddy2013 wrote: »

brought kids to apache pizza, great deals there, 5 of us all full for 35 euro

I'd be hungry reading that except I'm stuffed on french toast, gas ran out just as I was done cooking, timing

biddy2013

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

I'd be hungry reading that except I'm stuffed on french toast, gas ran out just as I was done cooking, timing

student special of 9inch pizza , chips and a can of mineral for 5 euro.

Nekarsulm

biddy2013 wrote: »

student special of 9inch pizza , chips and a can of mineral for 5 euro.

Not so bad, if you can still pass as a schoolgirl!!!:D

Greengrass1

biddy2013 wrote: »

brought kids to apache pizza, great deals there, 5 of us all full for 35 euro

Ah your making me hungry now.
Have nothing since one
Only finished up now

reilig

biddy2013 wrote: »

anyone ever use this ? http://photos2.donedeal.ie/dairycattle/kill-ringworm-and-warts-in-days/Full/24727841.jpeg its for ringworm in cattle

I bought a jar of that at a show a couple of months back as we often get a weinling with ringworm. Low and behold, I was housing a bull 2 weeks ago and noticed a big track of ringworm down from his eye and under his neck. I put it on and today it is almost gone.

Eur 6 for a jar is what he charged me.

Greengrass1

Dissussion group meeting today, hosted by AHI in members yard.
Was a brilliant meeting I thought. Made us all remember the basices about mastitis and milking routine and pre milking routine again. as we started off the season again.
The groups SCC average is 220 and our advisor gave us the challenge of reducing it to <180 by year end. Good task I thought.
One main point that stuck in my mind was that the new belview plant is only going to produce baby formula and thus can only be made from sub 200scc milk as it is a high value product so glanbia are going to be supplying this plant with milk from suppliers that is consistently below 200scc and the rest will be put into cheese.
So if your neighbour isbei g collected by a different lorry ye know why.
It was also said that on April 1st the SCC limit is being brought down to 325k and will be 300k next year.
Our SCC has started to rise to 180 at the moment so gave me a kick in the asz to be more particular in the parlour with teat spraying especially.

Are ye all up for the challenge to supply sub 200scc milk?

Gillespy

300k is going to up the ante for most farmers.

Give us a run down on was said in terms of the do's and don'ts.

Greengrass1

Gillespy wrote: »

300k is going to up the ante for most farmers.

Give us a run down on was said in terms of the do's and don'ts.

They said every farmer should be doing a sensitivety test so you know exactly what bugs you are dealing with and you can work from there.
Showed us how to take a proper sensitivity test from a cow.
They said the majority of herds in Ireland have staph aurus in mild forms. If a cows SCC is fluctuating up and down 100k this month 500k next month then it is mist likely a staph aurus.
Showed us where the different bugs react and live in the cows udder.
Every farmer should wear gloves, when you put on a pair of gloves milking you are sterile compared to dirty hands that are full of cracks and crevasses with bacteria.
The local vet was there and he did a bit on treating mastitis.
Very worthwhile meeting, every group should do it.
Was a change from the usual grass and cost management

Timmaay

Sub200 ha, last few weeks mine has been between 350 and 500 ugh! On top of it now, have any of the high scc milking last. Still pressing on and letting as much of the milk into the tank tho, it certainly pays to put it in the tank and take the small scc fine. In fairness our year average was 250ish last yr, down from 350ish the previous years, sub200 would be a reasonable target for this year.

Genghis Cant

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Are ye all up for the challenge to supply sub 200scc milk?

I've a soft horn thinking about it.

Greengrass1

Timmaay wrote: »

Sub200 ha, last few weeks mine has been between 350 and 500 ugh! On top of it now, have any of the high scc milking last. Still pressing on and letting as much of the milk into the tank tho, it certainly pays to put it in the tank and take the small scc fine. In fairness our year average was 250ish last yr, down from 350ish the previous years, sub200 would be a reasonable target for this year.

Very hard to get it low alright. A lot if things affect it_, environment, dry cow therapy, pre and post milking. Milking machine and miking hygiene.
I want to try get it below 160 all year.
A lot of SCC in Ireland is cows not sprayingvteats properly they said today

biddy2013

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Very hard to get it low alright. A lot if things affect it_, environment, dry cow therapy, pre and post milking. Milking machine and miking hygiene.
I want to try get it below 160 all year.
A lot of SCC in Ireland is cows not sprayingvteats properly they said today

yup that is a big factor. did they show ye how its done properly

Greengrass1

biddy2013 wrote: »

yup that is a big factor. did they show ye how its done properly

Ye. 15ml per cow. And make sure the back of teats get a good dousing. Takes time to put 15ml on a cow. Think he said you should be using 1.5l per 100 cows per milking spraying after milking

Timmaay

Yeh our pit is too bloody shallow, so almost impossible to see the teats without bending right down. Combine that with my dads poor back/hip, and 1/2 the time he doesn't put nearly enough dip on the teats at all. I've seen one or two relief milkers utterly flat to the boards and barely getting any dip on the teats either (and how they are in such a rush in my tiny 6unit parlour I don't know), anyways needless to say we didn't get them back again milking!

hugo29

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I've a soft horn thinking about it.

Ud want to get that seen too, before it goes hard on ya

Genghis Cant

hugo29 wrote: »

Ud want to get that seen too, before it goes hard on ya

Too late . All this talk of hot frothy milk, and it the Spring time now, the sap is rising.
I'd need to be careful or I'd hurt myself;)

Greengrass1

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Too late . All this talk of hot frothy milk, and it the Spring time now, the sap is rising.
I'd need to be careful or I'd hurt myself;)

You may get one of them polish wives.
Very good workers i hear

Genghis Cant

Greengrass1 wrote: »

You may get one of them polish wives.
Very good workers i hear

Would ya quit. Hard enough to keep the one half right :-/

naughto

Going on a stag tomorrow to Manchester Jesus it I'll be some craicover 30 of us going

Greengrass1

naughto wrote: »

Going on a stag tomorrow to Manchester Jesus it I'll be some craicover 30 of us going

What ever ye do don't shout abuse at the air hostesses if your drunk on the plane going:D they may look hot but by god they have tempers:D:D

Bodacious

I took a walk of my cows there with the dog , nothing near calving just more so to stretch the legs... Rose a duck or a drake in middle of pond in field (not a great sign.. It's usually dry) Calves tucked up by dry spot by west facing wall .. Happy out .. One heifer not sucked, roaring her head off.. Calf gone.. Got worried... Smart calf he had only let himself into shed and was flat out in his old corner on straw.. Completely oblivious .. Just opened the electric fence and let heifer into him for the night .. Didn't want to put him out after finding such a cosy spot

Farmer Pudsey

Bodacious wrote: »

I took a walk of my cows there with the dog , nothing near calving just more so to stretch the legs... Rose a duck or a drake in middle of pond in field (not a great sign.. It's usually dry) Calves tucked up by dry spot by west facing wall .. Happy out .. One heifer not sucked, roaring her head off.. Calf gone.. Got worried... Smart calf he had only let himself into shed and was flat out in his old corner on straw.. Completely oblivious .. Just opened the electric fence and let heifer into him for the night .. Didn't want to put him out after finding such a cosy spot

That is one fooker there is no fear of.

TEAT SQUEEZER

pulled a giant angus bull calf a short while ago ...its rare I get to the last few inches on the calving jack:eek:...he belongs in some weanling sale in perth not inside my dairy cow...I too belong in perth (the other one) and maybe I should have stayed in it when i was there...:D

reilig

There was a debate here a few months ago about health insurance. Those with it couldn't live without it. Those without it couldn't see its need. The consensus among those that didn't have it was that in 2 years time James Reilly would be providing Free universal health care for everyone.

Any people actually believed it.

I half believed it myself for a while.

Typical spoofing from FG. Make everyone believe that they will get something for nothing and then try to hide the fact that they have to pay for it.

If you don't pay up they'll take it from your wages!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/draft-report-requires-everyone-to-have-standard-health-insurance-623213.html

dzer2

reilig wrote: »

There was a debate here a few months ago about health insurance. Those with it couldn't live without it. Those without it couldn't see its need. The consensus among those that didn't have it was that in 2 years time James Reilly would be providing Free universal health care for everyone.

Any people actually believed it.

I half believed it myself for a while.

Typical spoofing from FG. Make everyone believe that they will get something for nothing and then try to hide the fact that they have to pay for it.

If you don't pay up they'll take it from your wages!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/draft-report-requires-everyone-to-have-standard-health-insurance-623213.html

I can see this coming in but the most basic package would onloy get you through the door of the hospital and like enything in this country the top will cream it.

Timmaay

dzer2 wrote: »

I can see this coming in but the most basic package would onloy get you through the door of the hospital and like enything in this country the top will cream it.

What the hell is the difference between this and likes of the universe social charge? Its just another stealth tax basically?

biddy2013

does anyone have a link to the 94b form from dept of ag, registered a bull calf as a heifer

bbam

Timmaay wrote: »

What the hell is the difference between this and likes of the universe social charge? Its just another stealth tax basically?

There's nothing stealth about it, its direct taxation plain and simple. But worse its double taxation !!
If they were to take a few hundered extra in tax is one thing, but to then take it from net income is another tax on already taxed income.

And it seems community rating for the additional cover is being eliminated... So those who actually need extra cover will be screwed over to get it from the health care companies.. People over 60 or those with pre-existing conditions (like myself) will be priced out of additional cover as we'll actually use it !!

Minister Reilly has no idea what he's up to... I'd question his medical/health abilities - how else could one explain his looking like a cock of hay with a beard, I'd also question his business accumin as he's being chased by the banks for failed investments in nursing homes..

The country is being run by scam artists !! Possibly a worse shower than the last, not that I thought that was possible..

I'll be continuing to spoil my vote in the general elections for a considerable time going forward... we don't have a party fit to lead the country who isnt pandering to the whims of parties with vested interests.

Conmaicne Mara

Was out for a few hours repairing storm damaged fences. Found a use for the broken ones as stays and tie backs for other stakes.

Reggie.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Was out for a few hours repairing storm damaged fences. Found a use for the broken ones as stays and tie backs for other stakes.

ah the brain was working there

Conmaicne Mara

Reggie. wrote: »

ah the brain was working there

Recycling

Reggie.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Recycling

hippy :P

Conmaicne Mara

Reggie. wrote: »

hippy :P

Ah I'll run over a puppy or burn some old car tires later to even it out :cool:

Reggie.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Ah I'll run over a puppy or burn some old car tires later to even it out :cool:

leave the puppy out of it you

Greengrass1

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Ah I'll run over a puppy or burn some old car tires later to even it out :cool:

Ye can have a few jex bulls if ye want yo take it on something

Conmaicne Mara

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ye can have a few jex bulls if ye want yo take it on something

Fella near here had a saying, if you want to do someone long term harm, leave him a farm. Think that curse status could be upgraded if it was filled with jex bulls first