What's the weather like in your area 2

The Rabbi

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Young bog in other words? That's fit in with the land where the three lost to it were on.

Just put the cats out and brrrr, tis colder than a witches tit out there!

Never had the pleasure,but I'll take your word on it.

Frosty windows on the car here tonight.

Base price

Floki wrote: »

Anaerobic - no oxygen compacted waterlogged generally rushy soil. I don't think the bacteria lasts too long when exposed to oxygen.

The main out farm is on the side of a North/West facing hill. There are no rushes or water logged areas but there are a couple of rough acres of whins and furze that are wildlife habitats. The natural terrain allows that the rainfall/water runs off into the streams. OH and his Parents have used this out farm to over Winter stock over the years without any problems. The only difference is that this year, our neighbour farmer recently rented out some of his land to a lad who brought in lambs/hoggets to graze it.
No offense to feckin white vermin but they don't have any respect for barbed wire or electric fences.

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

It was sunny today albeit with a biting cold wind.
We spent from early morning blackleg vaccinating the main herd. We lost 3 nine/ten month olds bulls (2 WH and a FR) within two days (last week) on the dry outfarm :mad: We've moved that bunch home and vaccinated them on Thursday.
We've never ever had a problem with blackleg here or on the two outfarms. Our Vet asked if we did any drainage or construction work on the outfarm that would disturb the soil - we haven't.

Would they all have been bought in from the same herd? Lose an odd one on outfarm every few years and we vaccinate .

_Brian

Hard white frost, looks nice but cold.

whelan2

_Brian wrote: »

Hard white frost, looks nice but cold.

Aye took a good while to defrost the windscreen of the jeep

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Aye took a good while to defrost the windscreen of the jeep

Heater broke aswell

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Heater broke aswell

Ws talking about cow jeep

davidk1394

Smashing morning down here. Sun is out and the frost is just gone

Limestone Cowboy

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Never inject for it here either yet a chap down the road lost 3 to it in a week a few years back, he'd never injected for it either as he never had it before.

Blackleg is a funny kind of thing, you never had it on your land and when it strikes you'll be very lucky to get away with losing just one. Lost three weanlings in the space of a week about ten years ago with it, lesson learned.

Limestone Cowboy

whelan2 wrote: »

Would they all have been bought in from the same herd? Lose an odd one on outfarm every few years and we vaccinate .

Do you reuse the old bottles of vaccine Whelan? I think if it's been opened for a few days it's gone. I try to use it all the day I open it.

tanko

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Blackleg is a funny kind of thing, you never had it on your land and when it strikes you'll be very lucky to get away with losing just one. Lost three weanlings in the space of a week about ten years ago with it, lesson learned.

Have you any idea what might have caused that, was there any digging going on around the place before they got it?

Limestone Cowboy

tanko wrote: »

Have you any idea what might have caused that, was there any digging going on around the place before they got it?

No there was no rooting done, it was a frosty week around this time of year I think. Some sickener to see apparently healthy cattle the day before capsized when you go herding. Started doing them then before I weaned them for a few years but lost another calf in June with it so everything gets done now when they are being dehorned.

whelan2

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Do you reuse the old bottles of vaccine Whelan? I think if it's been opened for a few days it's gone. I try to use it all the day I open it.

ye and for years we only gave them 1 shot, they now get 2. An old neighbour here reckoned if you vaccinated for blackleg they'd never get redwater

Floki

Gone cold and wet here.
Miserable sort of weather.

Lots of weather enthusiasts getting excited about the prospect of a cold winter.

George Sunsnow

Rains just stopped here
Had a power cut during milking reminding me of how black dark it is at evening milking now
Hooked up the Genny to finish,it’s back now
I’d say a lot of ESB lines are one more storm short of trouble after their Ophelia weakening
That’s 2 power cuts here since that storm both during milking :eek:

Dickie10

a lot of rain coming friday night, dry for week after though

whelan2

Raining

CloughCasey1

whelan2 wrote: »

Raining

Non stop since 3pm yest

Reggie.

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Non stop since 3pm yest

Yeah. Wasn't heavy here but constant. Right drop fell last night all the same

Bass Reeves

Places must be very wet. Have everything housed except weanlings and intend to house 12 of ( the 24) them in the next few days. Slow to house them when it is wet. However grass is growing so will have good covers in February. Land is hardly grazable at present. It is time to hunker down for a while anyway.

whelan2

Cold enough morning this morning, cows still out by day

George Sunsnow

whelan2 wrote: »

Cold enough morning this morning, cows still out by day

Lidl have ski gear this week,I got a fleece for a tenner and a wooly cap with a thermal lining for €4.99
They’re working wonders today

Rained all day here yesterday
All cattle in now except cows
Target in for them still the first week of December ,though they do have access to yard ,cubicles and silage at night
I’ve had to go out for them most mornings

whelan2

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Lidl have ski gear this week,I got a fleece for a tenner and a wooly cap with a thermal lining for €4.99
They’re working wonders today

Rained all day here yesterday
All cattle in now except cows
Target in for them still the first week of December ,though they do have access to yard ,cubicles and silage at night
I’ve had to go out for them most mornings

Eldest lad gone to Adamstown in wexford for the leinster cross country race today. I assume the land will be heavy enough down there if it rained yesterday? He has plenty of practice running in the fields here.

George Sunsnow

whelan2 wrote: »

Eldest lad gone to Adamstown in wexford for the leinster cross country race today. I assume the land will be heavy enough down there if it rained yesterday? He has plenty of practice running in the fields here.

Seemingly Wexford town got hardly any
Rain band stayed north of enniscorthy most of the time so Adamstown May have escaped

Floki

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Seemingly Wexford town got hardly any
Rain band stayed north of enniscorthy most of the time so Adamstown May have escaped

I wouldn't be a million miles from Adamstown and we got a good bit of rain last night and it rained again an hour ago.
Land is in slop around here anyway.

whelan2

Floki wrote: »

I wouldn't be a million miles from Adamstown and we got a good bit of rain last night and it rained again an hour ago.
Land is in slop around here anyway.

Go and cheer him on will ya

Floki

whelan2 wrote: »

Go and cheer him on will ya

I'm dying with man flu.
Barely able to milk the cows this morning.

George Sunsnow

Yeah, I was talking to someone on the phone yesterday in Wexford (barntown area)and they could hear the rain on the roof up with me and were surprised
The radar loop had the main rain band cut off somewhere over mid wexford
Wexford town is only 30 miles south of me so a few miles either way made a difference
Wall to wall sun here today and great drying in a cutting northeasterly

Floki

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Yeah, I was talking to someone on the phone yesterday in Wexford (barntown area)and they could hear the rain on the roof up with me and were surprised
The radar loop had the main rain band cut off somewhere over mid wexford
Wexford town is only 30 miles south of me so a few miles either way made a difference
Wall to wall sun here today and great drying in a cutting northeasterly

It never rains from Oylegate down to wexford town. The same from east of enniscorthy to the coast. Then clonroche to taghmon wouldn't be too bad either.

If you're near the mountains or near the south coast it can be very damp.

davidk1394

Good drying day here

CloughCasey1

davidk1394 wrote: »

Good drying day here

Same here in the whest. Could do with a few days if this. Nice burst of growth in last few days also.☺

Reggie.

davidk1394 wrote: »

Good drying day here

Badly needed

foxy farmer

Nice dry sunny day here.Harvester buzzing at grass nearby. Passed baler and wrapper working earlier and there's a familiar agricultural "odour" in the air as well.

Reggie.

foxy farmer wrote: »

Nice dry sunny day here.Harvester buzzing at grass nearby. Passed baler and wrapper working earlier and there's a familiar agricultural "odour" in the air as well.

Silage still. Jaysus

foxy farmer

Reggie. wrote: »

Silage still. Jaysus

Yep just a mop up job. I think they tried baling some on Thursday but it was too wet and Fusion was failing to wrap them due to the weight. First and second cut long finished.

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Silage still. Jaysus

Went to ardee yesterday. It's about 5miles away. I passed fields that had been baled in the last few days. Another field with about 40 round wheaten bales, which are still were they landed out of the baler a few months ago. Then the real sickner 2big fields about 40 acres with bales that were made ages ago with cattle eating the bales.... There's probably over 100 bales in the fields @ €25 / bale.

davidk1394

Reggie. wrote: »

Badly needed

Got a heap of washing done

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Went to ardee yesterday. It's about 5miles away. I passed fields that had been baled in the last few days. Another field with about 40 round wheaten bales, which are still were they landed out of the baler a few months ago. Then the real sickner 2big fields about 40 acres with bales that were made ages ago with cattle eating the bales.... There's probably over 100 bales in the fields @ €25 / bale.

Makes no sense that

CloughCasey1

Final cut on lawn today and bed of mower cleaned.

whelan2

Floki wrote: »

I wouldn't be a million miles from Adamstown and we got a good bit of rain last night and it rained again an hour ago.
Land is in slop around here anyway.

Was very mucky, he lost his spikes going through a gap, ran on in his socks, his team came third and are through to the all Irelands next month in Waterford.

davidk1394

Wet aul morning here in Dublin

whelan2

davidk1394 wrote: »

Wet aul morning here in Dublin

11 degrees here now. Some change from yesterday morning

whelan2

Bitter cold out this morning

George Sunsnow

Low of almost -3 overnight
Currently -1.3 here in south wicklow
Very frosty

_Brian

Drab alternate drizzle/rain. Just horrible.

patsy_mccabe

No choice but had to spend the last few hours out in the rain. Absolutely drinched to the skin.
Hot shower never so welcome.

leg wax

whelan2 wrote: »

Was very mucky, he lost his spikes going through a gap, ran on in his socks, his team came third and are through to the all Irelands next month in Waterford.

will be watching them over the ditch so if in wit

foxy farmer

1.00 am and there's rain pelting off the bedroom window.

Mooooo

Some serious rain falling

Reggie.

Dublin city is at a stand still