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L1985

Oh dear god-how could you manage with animals like that? One slip and you'd be seriously injured! Best thing I ever did was cull the wilder stock and keep the quieter ones. Makes life so much easier!!

Water John

A bad one would come looking for you, not run away. hard to keep all of a suckler herd docile.

Odelay

Base price wrote: »

Have a look at this video from the same farm and it gives one an idea of what you are dealing with when tagging/dosing weanlings. I think Patsy posted it before and there was concern for the young lad in the grey overalls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnuNKufjzn0

There must be 20 lads involved there. Absolutely shocking stuff. That belongs in the dark ages. On the first video I thought of shaking a bag would help, but not in the manner they used it.

Christ, with the lot of them there, could they not have bought a head lock and built a crush instead of that carry on? Not fair on man or beast.

Birdnuts

foxy farmer wrote: »

Lads out in the Azores bringing in a few cattle and giving them a pour on for worms. Seem to be well clued into the job. Plenty help around.
Rounding them up reminds me of the shenanigans here 30 40yrs ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1u7XpIlu1g

What breed are they?? - look like Kerry type

Keep Sluicing

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Lads, Muckit is going to have to be banned, there's no other solution :pac:

Mukit was my no.1 for the last 3 or 4 years.... but you, sheriff, are my new no.1, sorry muckit, down to no.2

whelan2

Young lad was saying a few valentines lines earlier.
Are you Google? As you're all I'm looking for...
Are you from tennessee?, As you're the only 10 I see.
Did it hurt when you fell from heaven coz you look like an angel..

Say my name

Birdnuts wrote: »

What breed are they?? - look like Kerry type

It's that fighting bull type breed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourada_%C3%A0_corda

They have bullfights with horse and riders too.

patsy_mccabe

L1985 wrote: »

Oh dear god-how could you manage with animals like that? One slip and you'd be seriously injured! Best thing I ever did was cull the wilder stock and keep the quieter ones. Makes life so much easier!!

They are fighting bulls, bred to be agressive. A cattle crush wouldn't go astray though.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

Mukit was my no.1 for the last 3 or 4 years.... but you, sheriff, are my new no.1, sorry muckit, down to no.2

It's worse you're improving

Nekarsulm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

They are fighting bulls, bred to be agressive. A cattle crush wouldn't go astray though.

I wonder if they have any Ramblers Association or "Right to Roam" type protesters over there?

gozunda

Say my name wrote: »

Bejaysus Muckit is on mine as well.

It's like that so? Right then ... :pac:

Reggie.

gozunda wrote: »

It's like that so? Right then ... :pac:

We are all like married couples here

whelan2

What do they base it on?

gozunda

whelan2 wrote: »

What do they base it on?

Must be based on who you thank. But tbh I dont remember using the thanks button that much and some cases not at all lol!

emaherx

gozunda wrote: »

Must be based on who you thank. But tbh I dont remember using the thanks button that much and some cases not at all lol!

Oh really? You've been slapping it around! And Muckit! FFS

Lady Haywire

Muckit is a durty sluh!!

gozunda

emaherx wrote: »

Oh really? You've been slapping it around! And Muckit! FFS
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=473172&stc=1&d=1550181301

Nah- you're just wildly popular! As I said I dont remember being so generous:D

Birdnuts

Say my name wrote: »

It's that fighting bull type breed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourada_%C3%A0_corda

They have bullfights with horse and riders too.

The Kerry Cow is actually closely related to them

gozunda

Birdnuts wrote: »

The Kerry Cow is actually closely related to them

I've met Kerry cows in the past and they were fairly laid back temperament wise imo.

What are Kerry bulls like?

Grueller

Water John wrote: »

A bad one would come looking for you, not run away. hard to keep all of a suckler herd docile.

Slaney meats do it for me

Bullocks

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

They are fighting bulls, bred to be agressive. A cattle crush wouldn't go astray though.

I thought I saw small blue crush at the start , maybe they want to handle them that way to train them to be excited with people when let through the doors to the bullring .
Same way alot of lads dosed around here when I was young

patsy_mccabe

Bullocks wrote: »

I thought I saw small blue crush at the start , maybe they want to handle them that way to train them to be excited with people when let through the doors to the bullring .
Same way alot of lads dosed around here when I was young

Ya that makes sense. Train them to charge.
In the old days when I was very young, I remember using rings here that we put on cattle's legs in a loose shed. We'd let out the young animal then and pull a rope tru the rings. That would knock him to the ground where he'd be tied up for castration or polling, or both. The good old days eh.

Bullocks

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Ya that makes sense. Train them to charge.
In the old days when I was very young, I remember using rings here that we put on cattle's legs in a loose shed. We'd let out the young animal then and pull a rope tru the rings. That would knock him to the ground where he'd be tied up for castration or polling, or both. The good old days eh.

Oh ya great times but I wouldn't swop them for a good crush and a bottle of pour on haha. I remember the nerves heading into a little stone shed with a couple of weanlins in there to be caught and drenched with a glass bottle, the worst part for a young lad like me was holding the bottle of stuff with a warning not to drop it at all costs cos we didn't have another bottle if it broke.
We had a good set up at home always but lads were always asking the old boy to dose/skull/squeeze their few, I think mostly cos he would bring his own dose and not take money!

Buford T. Justice XIX

The price of posting BVD samples is going up again at the end of the month to E2.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/bvd-postage-costs-rising-to-2-this-month-441319


Do you ever get the feeling that you're being rode?:mad:

whelan2

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

The price of posting BVD samples is going up again at the end of the month to E2.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/bvd-postage-costs-rising-to-2-this-month-441319


Do you ever get the feeling that you're being rode?:mad:

How long more is left in the scheme. Only bought 10 x €1.80 stamps yesterday. I suppose it will be easier to put 2 x €1 stamps on

Bass Reeves

gozunda wrote: »

I've met Kerry cows in the past and they were fairly laid back temperament wise imo.

What are Kerry bulls like?

Usually the quite the cow the more wicket the bull. The bulls mobility is an issue as well. With the exception of He and SH most traditional breeds bulls are wicket enough. The Jersey cow would lick you to death but the bulls are wicked but on top of that there mobility is a real issue. I say Kerry bulls would be the same.

kk.man

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Usually the quite the cow the more wicket the bull. The bulls mobility is an issue as well. With the exception of He and SH most traditional breeds bulls are wicket enough. The Jersey cow would lick you to death but the bulls are wicked but on top of that there mobility is a real issue. I say Kerry bulls would be the same.

Any bull with a milk strain was always wicked.

patsy_mccabe

kk.man wrote: »

Any bull with a milk strain was always wicked.

Nothing to do with milk, it's the fact that they are hand reared. The same bull reared under a cow would be dead quiet. Google Temple Grandin - she might explain it better.

Bullocks

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Usually the quite the cow the more wicket the bull. The bulls mobility is an issue as well. With the exception of He and SH most traditional breeds bulls are wicket enough. The Jersey cow would lick you to death but the bulls are wicked but on top of that there mobility is a real issue. I say Kerry bulls would be the same.

We had only 2 Jersey cows here that would absolutely kill you after calving and weren't very trustworthy any other time either, one of them was called Johnny after a short old man down the road that was always cranky haha

whelan2

So dept vets came to dna some of my cows who's calves I sold were stolen. I was expecting them to blood them but it was just a tag like the genomic tag. Handy job

Lady Haywire

Man died there in kesh after being attacked by a bull a few days ago:( RIP.

gozunda

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Man died there in kesh after being attacked by a bull a few days ago:( RIP.

I'll never forget a neighbour here who was attacked by a bull in the 90s. The bull had been quiet but unexpectedly attacked the man then in his eighties. He was in a bad way for a long time and dont think ever fully recovered. You cant be to careful around them tbh. Another bull was diagnosed with a brain abscess which resulted in it trying to take out anyone and anything within a 100 yards. That one had to be pts in the yard.

emaherx

Lost car/Jeep/tractor/yard keys earlier while tagging calves. Found them with kids toy metal detector

whelan2

Had a sales person in a red land cruiser 171 ke reg today. He drove in by the house and straight down the yard. I came out and was waiting for him when he came back up from his viewing. Is the boss man around.... I said he's away. Going on about feed troughs for calves. Showing me cheques from local farmers who bought from him also said he wasn't getting out of the jeep as the prick of a dog was there....

Water John

Asking for the 'boss man' really ruled out any business.

whelan2

Water John wrote: »

Asking for the 'boss man' really ruled out any business.

Driving down the yard pissed me off big time

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Driving down the yard pissed me off big time

We're the cheques genuine I wonder

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

We're the cheques genuine I wonder

He had a load of sterling notes and cheques from 2 local farmers. I would know them. But I wasn't doing any business with him

Genghis Cant

whelan2 wrote: »

He had a load of sterling notes and cheques from 2 local farmers. I would know them. But I wasn't doing any business with him

Pity the boss man wasn't there. He might have done business 😀

whelan2

I was waiting on department vet, so thought it might have been him. Just goes to show the value of a good dog

148multi

whelan2 wrote: »

I was waiting on department vet, so thought it might have been him. Just goes to show the value of a good dog

Even a prick of a dog 😂😂😂

Water John

Had you the dog out to greet the Dept vet?

whelan2

Water John wrote: »

Had you the dog out to greet the Dept vet?

Yup. She's a pet but barks at everything that comes into the yard, then introduces a ball or whatever she's playing with at the moment for them to throw but they don't know that

visatorro

whelan2 wrote: »

Had a sales person in a red land cruiser 171 ke reg today. He drove in by the house and straight down the yard. I came out and was waiting for him when he came back up from his viewing. Is the boss man around.... I said he's away. Going on about feed troughs for calves. Showing me cheques from local farmers who bought from him also said he wasn't getting out of the jeep as the prick of a dog was there....

Had none in this while thank God. They must have realised that there is nothing worth taking here!

patsy_mccabe

whelan2 wrote: »

Had a sales person in a red land cruiser 171 ke reg today. He drove in by the house and straight down the yard. I came out and was waiting for him when he came back up from his viewing. Is the boss man around.... I said he's away at the shooting range.....

For the next time.

grassroot1

whelan2 wrote: »

Driving down the yard pissed me off big time

When I was on placement for my green cert the farm I worked on was up a long lane so you could see the "visitors" coming. The family dog was a doberman the craic was to give the ethnic minority 2 mins to get out of the hiace and let out the dog.
You could smell them before you would see them when you walked over to the yard.

Say my name

I hear Reggie was in Portloaise on Wednesday morning.

Buford T. Justice XIX

I had a lamb and ewe get meningitis about 2 weeks ago and went straight in with Alamycin and B1. The lamb was a triplet ewe lamb and needed lifting and holding her mouth and bottle for about 10 minutes to feed but she recovered fairly quickly, a pet now but OK. The ewe was still down after 10 days and I was wondering if she should be put down to stop her suffering and was going to get the vet to do it today as he was coming out for a cow anyway.


Anyway, I gave a quick check of the sheep and there she was standing, leaning against the single pens and moving forward on her own.


Today is a good day:)

kollegeknight

OH working- swimming lessons @10- ballet at 11:15 and the small lad is contrary. Have a cow softening too but she might be a few days yet.

Reggie.

Say my name wrote: »

I hear Reggie was in Portloaise on Wednesday morning.

Was I?