Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

tanko

Yeah, big changes in temperature can cause Pnuemonia alrite. What age are they?
I see weather forecasters are predicting very cold northerly winds for this weekend after very warm weather on Thursday. They're talking about wintery showers, possibly some snow. Strange weather at the moment.

Parishlad

tanko wrote: »

Yeah, big changes in temperature can cause Pnuemonia alrite. What age are they?
I see weather forecasters are predicting very cold northerly winds for this weekend after very warm weather on Thursday. They're talking about wintery showers, possibly some snow. Strange weather at the moment.

They are Feb and March born so they are strong enough but obviously got a chill. They seem to be doing okay now though. Both up and sucking this morning.

_Brian

huntinghill wrote: »

Thinking of mixing white and black silage wrap to try deter crows. Has anyone any experience? Have heard stories that it might effect the quality but not sure. Or should I just paint them?

We used green wrap first time here this year and think it’s not as good quality as black wrap.
Wouldn’t be using anything but black wrap here going forward.

Paint on top of bales seems very successful

Lady Haywire

Boards seems to have speeded up again thank fook. Was pretty much unusable for me over the weekend.

emaherx

_Brian wrote: »

We used green wrap first time here this year and think it’s not as good quality as black wrap.
Wouldn’t be using anything but black wrap here going forward.

Paint on top of bales seems very successful

I've never painted the bales and have no issues. Think I'd do more damage climbing all over them to paint.

ganmo

emaherx wrote: »

I've never painted the bales and have no issues. Think I'd do more damage climbing all over them to paint.

We paint left over bales so we know which ones to use up first
Teagasc did look into green vs black for crow damage and found no difference

_Brian

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Boards seems to have speeded up again thank fook. Was pretty much unusable for me over the weekend.

Same

I says

_Brian wrote: »

We used green wrap first time here this year and think it’s not as good quality as black wrap.
Wouldn’t be using anything but black wrap here going forward.

Paint on top of bales seems very successful

Always paint eyes on the bales it does work

whelan2

Parishlad wrote: »

Have had two calves with pneumonia over the weekend. Vet reckons it’s the weather. Very warm days and chilly nights. Both seem to be responding to whatever the vet gave them so fingers crossed.

Lost one yesterday. Was a bad fr bull calf I left on a cow that hurt her leg at calving. He was going fine until yesterday. He went downhill very quick

Grueller

emaherx wrote: »

I've never painted the bales and have no issues. Think I'd do more damage climbing all over them to paint.

Depends where you are. On the home farm here I never look at the bales. They are never painted or even covered. On the out farm when I am drawing the bales home I have to bring the gun in the cab of the tractor to shoot a couple of crows and hang them. If not the bales will be destroyed by the time I get back for the second load. I have actually gone back to wrapping in the yard for that very reason.

Water John

Are there tress around the outside yard?
Neighbour here was fed up of the crows cawing in the tree as he was mending something. Went down to the shed, brought up the chainsaw and knocked the tree.

forgottenhills

Water John wrote: »

Are there tress around the outside yard?
Neighbour here was fed up of the crows cawing in the tree as he was mending something. Went down to the shed, brought up the chainsaw and knocked the tree.

Somebody was having a bad day...

straight

Water John wrote: »

Are there tress around the outside yard?
Neighbour here was fed up of the crows cawing in the tree as he was mending something. Went down to the shed, brought up the chainsaw and knocked the tree.

Crows would drive you to it alright. I like my trees though. I intend planting a few old irish oak, horse chestnut and sycamore around the place. Give the place some character.

Water John

Great to see Dave McBryan winning Mastermind. One of the family friendly with him, very nice guy.
Anyone who likes a quiz, good fun for a family. Pat and Colm stream a quiz every Tuesday night for a charity. 50 or 60 questions with four answer options. One can watch and see how good you do without signing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469y9JQnybc

A few here might get irritated at the Cork accents.

MeTheMan

Get some grease and a glove. Rub a small bit over the top of the bales. Once a bird gets grease on there feet they won't land on a bale again. We done this years and years ago and have no problems with birds since.

carrollsno1

MeTheMan wrote: »

Get some grease and a glove. Rub a small bit over the top of the bales. Once a bird gets grease on there feet they won't land on a bale again. We done this years and years ago and have no problems with birds since.

Has anyone ever rubbed grease on calf throughs for the same reason?

Lady Haywire

Calves would probably end up covered in it! ^^

Top service as usual from Rathcormac Gun club for the GLAS WBC seeds, ordered their special mix yesterday and it's just arrived!!
Also went for an extra wildflower mix to put through it & to spread around a bit of my 'garden'* here.



I do not have a garden, I have a wilderness.

whelan2

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Has anyone ever rubbed grease on calf throughs for the same reason?

Use calf nuts instead of coarse ration.

Tileman

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Calves would probably end up covered in it! ^^

Top service as usual from Rathcormac Gun club for the GLAS WBC seeds, ordered their special mix yesterday and it's just arrived!!
Also went for an extra wildflower mix to put through it & to spread around a bit of my 'garden'* here.

Yea john is a lovely fella. Always a great service.

I love the wild flower spread through out the crop. I normally add a bag or 2 of it aswell. Didn’t this year though and will miss the colours

jimini0

Gettin a lad to spray silage field. Plenty of docks and other weeds. He is goin to spray his own fields with a mixture of doxstar and Mortone.
I didn't think you could mix them?

Bullocks

jimini0 wrote: »

Gettin a lad to spray silage field. Plenty of docks and other weeds. He is goin to spray his own fields with a mixture of doxstar and Mortone.
I didn't think you could mix them?

Don't know if you can of not but I would sooner get rid of the rushes first with the mortone. Around here if they are in a field they usually dominate over the other weeds. I think mortone will hit the docks a bit aswell but mightn't be a great spray to kill well.
Maybe a sticking agent might be the better thing if you were going to mix anything with it

jimini0

Bullocks wrote: »

Don't know if you can of not but I would sooner get rid of the rushes first with the mortone. Around here if they are in a field they usually dominate over the other weeds. I think mortone will hit the docks a bit aswell but mightn't be a great spray to kill well.
Maybe a sticking agent might be the better thing if you were going to mix anything with it

This is the one and only field I don't have rushes in. So won't have to target those.

Birdnuts

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Calves would probably end up covered in it! ^^

Top service as usual from Rathcormac Gun club for the GLAS WBC seeds, ordered their special mix yesterday and it's just arrived!!
Also went for an extra wildflower mix to put through it & to spread around a bit of my 'garden'* here.



I do not have a garden, I have a wilderness.

If all those folks living in new built one offs in the countryside with vast sterile lawns did the same, it would make a huge contribution to stemming the decline in our native pollinators!!

Water John

LAs are looking at going more that way in relation to their public spaces and parks. Dublin is looking a only mowing once a year and planting and encouraging wider diversity of plants and flowers. The trend over time will be away from manicured lawns.
Threw a bag of those annual flowers into the WBC mix last year, really lovely.
Including more this year, about one kg per acre.

Birdnuts

Water John wrote: »

LAs are looking at going more that way in relation to their public spaces and parks. Dublin is looking a only mowing once a year and planting and encouraging wider diversity of plants and flowers. The trend over time will be away from manicured lawns.
Threw a bag of those annual flowers into the WBC mix last year, really lovely.
Including more this year, about one kg per acre.

Yeah, Dublin CC is well ahead of the pack on this. I have a friend I visit out near Dun Laoghire and the local parks are a riot of natural colour, bumble bees etc. Wish the NRA would adopt a similar approach alone main roads/motorways as theres a signficant potential acerage of good habitat for wild flowers 1 meter back from the verges

Nekarsulm

Birdnuts wrote: »

If all those folks living in new built one offs in the countryside with vast sterile lawns did the same, it would make a huge contribution to stemming the decline in our native pollinators!!

For some reason Euro Giant store in Cavan town has remained open during the "lock down".
I suppose it's too much to expect people do go without pubs AND cheap tat at the same time..
But, they do sell large boxes of "bee friendly" wild flower mixture for 3.99.
Bought two, because the Council remodelled the road verges along our land, and sowed grass seed on them, I'm going to get a bit of colour and variety going.

Water John

Nekar, you'll start a whole underground rewilding movement, like the graffitti artists.

Lady Haywire

Water John wrote: »

Nekar, you'll start a whole underground rewilding movement, like the graffitti artists.

YARN BOMBING! But with flowers

Genghis Cant

Water John wrote: »

Nekar, you'll start a whole underground rewilding movement, like the graffitti artists.

I saw something about lads going around planting here there and everywhere in cities.
Guerrilla gardening they were calling it!

Nekarsulm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

YARN BOMBING! But with flowers

How did they get the knitting around the tree trunks?