Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

wrangler

whelan2 wrote: »

There's a place across the road from me listoke distillery making and selling hand sanitizer if anyone needs some

OH raided the sheep medicine for ours, we can't get sanitizer any anywhere.
It's a mixture of
830ml methylated spirit
147m glycerine
15ml diluted sorgene (diluted at 100 parts water to one of sorgene)
Make it up to 1 litre with boiled water

Lime Tree Farm

Esel wrote: »

Could it be the salt?

Pre-calver minerals, I like that comment.

Could be the salt, that is if it is magnesium chloride, which another poster said eases muscle ache.

I would normally rinse Carrigeen moss. It says on the packet to rinse before using, which I didn't, there is 4.4 g of salt for every 10 g of Kombu in the packet.

Lime Tree Farm

wrangler wrote: »

OH raided the sheep medicine for ours, we can't get sanitizer any anywhere.
It's a mixture of
830ml methylated spirit
147m glycerine
15ml diluted sorgene (diluted at 100 parts water to one of sorgene)
Make it up to 1 litre with boiled water

Same here, except, I poured Isopropyl alcohol, into the wet wipes along with a generous splash of scented Detol(fresh cotton breeze).

Lime Tree Farm

Gillespy wrote: »

I must chance it. At least 3 by the time I get to sleep. Last night it was after 5. Up a few hours later. At a time when my immune system needs to be near 100%, it's not good. Cut out all coffee and crappy food etc.

It's not night terrors you're getting? I'm expecting them nearly every night as I used get them a lot. They are a terrifying experience.

I haven't read it, but Dr Michael Mosley said he also suffered from insomnia. Free postage with the Book Depository.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Fast-Asleep-Dr-Michael-Mosley/9781780724201?redirected=true&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=Base1&utm_source=IE&utm_content=Fast-Asleep&selectCurrency=EUR&w=AFFPAU968FBS1YA8VCCM&pdg=pla-293946777986:cmp-9463711619:adg-98687126840:crv-420380901788:pos-:dev-c&gclid=CjwKCAjwsMzzBRACEiwAx4lLG8uufqbUqbuqEJNFVkpb4jWgw-y5qoJ6ubTDDQpb5cS4yB032TwtKRoCe4EQAvD_BwE

Bullocks

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Same here, except, I poured Isopropyl alcohol, into the wet wipes along with a generous splash of scented Detol(fresh cotton breeze).

Is anyone else's paws getting reddened from all these wipes and alcohol gel? I have sensitive skin and find them gels are harsh so I'm sticking with soap and water and disposal gloves

kollegeknight

Bullocks wrote: »

Is anyone else's paws getting reddened from all these wipes and alcohol gel? I have sensitive skin and find them gels are harsh so I'm sticking with soap and water and disposal gloves

The HSE advice also says about the importance of moisturising.

_Brian

These stay at home dad days are strange.

3 days in and I’m onto vegetarian curry for dinner, it was nearly a vegan dish but I’m adding some cream just to keep my sanity.

gk5000

wrangler wrote: »

OH raided the sheep medicine for ours, we can't get sanitizer any anywhere.
It's a mixture of
830ml methylated spirit
147m glycerine
15ml diluted sorgene (diluted at 100 parts water to one of sorgene)
Make it up to 1 litre with boiled water

Just reading up on this.
Old fashioned meths has methanol in it which is very bad, poisonous to drink and even absorbed though skin, whereas some versions use other stuff to make the ethanol unpallatible.

How do you know which version you got?

wrangler

gk5000 wrote: »

Just reading up on this.
Old fashioned meths has methanol in it which is very bad, poisonous to drink and even absorbed though skin, whereas some versions use other stuff to make the ethanol unpallatible.

How do you know which version you got?

At the moment here it's all we have, I'm using soap and water at home and have sanitiser in jeep/car. Thanks for the info.
Alcohol at that strenght isn't great for you either

Lady Haywire

Is it just in cities that everyone is gone completely loolah? Carrick on Shannon today had the market on (gloves & hand sanitiser mandatory at the gate & point to things on stalls instead of handing every single fcuking tomato on the tray) and LIDL pleasantly quiet, bar a lack of bottled water & bog roll :rolleyes: And security on the door, what's up with that??
Free parking all over the town too, i'm guessing to prevent contagious infection from the buttons on the machine. Though it's only 20c for the first half hour so it's not exactly a fortune :pac:
Popped into a Polska shop for some smoked meat & sausage & a bit low stocked & I was only customer so yay, social distancing!

_Brian

Was in Tesco today and it was kinda business as usual.

No limit on number of people in store. No security or anything.

People standing round chatting about the weather.

Lady behind me in the till practically climbing into my basket she was so close.

Checkout girl apologised for sanitising her hands between customers.

Stock looked fine.

whelan2

Daughter was saying people actually came into the shop and where handling bread rolls etc. Like wtf.

Base price

191 new cases today.

ganmo

Base price wrote: »

191 new cases today.

Yikes that's a big rise!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Base price wrote: »

191 new cases today.

And the article below has a breakdown by county as well, though Laois, Monaghan and Leitrim have 0 cases and are showing as less than 5.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/covid-19-claims-third-victim-as-191-new-cases-adds-to-youngish-profile-of-infected-in-ireland-988996.html

I says

Base price wrote: »

191 new cases today.

More testing being done. If you’re over 70 and have underlying health conditions it’s a very scary time.
How many people have it and don’t even know it.

MeTheMan

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

And the article below has a breakdown by county as well, though Laois, Monaghan and Leitrim have 0 cases and are showing as less than 5.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/covid-19-claims-third-victim-as-191-new-cases-adds-to-youngish-profile-of-infected-in-ireland-988996.html

They said Monaghan is the only county that has no cases now.

roosterman71

Anecdotal reports of pubs opening too on the quiet for "regulars".
And there were loads of booze buses from Dublin that headed up beyond the border on Paddies day too

Buford T. Justice XIX

A scathing review of the British response to the crisis so far.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/18/coronavirus-uk-expert-advice-wrong?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true

Buford T. Justice XIX

roosterman71 wrote: »

Anecdotal reports of pubs opening too on the quiet for "regulars".
And there were loads of booze buses from Dublin that headed up beyond the border on Paddies day too

And the other side, farmers in Galway organising shopping for those unable to go to collect it themselves.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/galway-farmers-lead-covid-19-volunteers-helping-the-housebound-534166

blue5000

Cabin fever starting to set in here today, took half an hour to take two pics of the young lad's homework and email it to the teacher. Ripped a back tyre off the tractor today, good job I didn't get round to buying a new set this winter.

Birdnuts

Good artical below about how issues like tropical deforestation and the illegal trade in wildlife play a big role in such outbreaks

http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/conservation-time-coronavirus-message-ceo

CloughCasey1

On a lighter note
Is this you Patsy?
Breakfast Bar stool attached to a bicycle rack with jerry can and funnel attached.
Turn off for Bunratty today.

patsy_mccabe

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

On a lighter note
Is this you Patsy?
Breakfast Bar stool attached to a bicycle rack with jerry can and funnel attached.
Turn off for Bunratty today.

Ya, that's me off to self-isolate. Plan is to fill the jerry can with beer and funnel it into me. The breakfast stool was a mistake. I thought it was a regular bar stool.

Water John

The UK are listing farmers and farm workers as 'key workers' in the economy, during Covid 19. A step from unskilled, which is what they were listed.

_Brian

Water John wrote: »

The UK are listing farmers and farm workers as 'key workers' in the economy, during Covid 19. A step from unskilled, which is what they were listed.

It doesn’t mean they are skilled or unskilled.

In this current crisis highly skilled people can be of low importance and some unskilled workers will be the key to beating it.

Basic farm workers like fruit pickers are unskilled, the U.K. are crying out for them.
Working machinery or milking cows would likely be classified as semi skilled.

Without looking up the definitions it’s worked out on the amount of qualification and training time required to perform the tasks at hand.

Key personnel in this crisis will include many shelf stackers, cleaners, drivers, farm workers etc. Unskilled isn’t a put down, it’s just an industry description of a position in relation to the cost of deploying a worker.

jimini0

Where can I find gestation lengthy for bulls? Icbf seems to have changed. I'm looking for lm2010 and lm2014

Hard Knocks

jimini0 wrote: »

Where can I find gestation lengthy for bulls? Icbf seems to have changed. I'm looking for lm2010 and lm2014

Found that too sadly :-(
Even for calves recorded in calving difficulty
If you go to prev evaluation, down the bottom there’s some info

Lime Tree Farm

"Big LifeFix", Repeat, RTE 1, on now.

https://www.shannonside.ie/news/local/roscommon/roscommon-big-life-fix/

Mortelaro

Glanbia stores
New procedures

Call and collect only from Monday

https://www.glanbiaconnect.com/news/new-call-and-collect-service-at-branch-network