No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Ya that's exactly what it feels like, I'm bounding 26 different herds and there's nearly always someone locked up aswell as being in a high incidence area. Sold a good few weanlings this year I'd normally run on just incase I got caught up myself. Really hard to plan ahead now when you have to test every 6 months.

Went up to Rory Bests farm to look at Angus cattle this evening , very nice man. Great set up

The Ginger Whiger

Anyone on here using the radio fence wireless dog collars?

A neighbour of mine has one, he reckons it’s a super job.

Are shock collars legal in Ireland?

In responses to queries from TheJournal.ie, the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine – which oversees animal welfare legislation – highlighted that “the use of electrical or other such equipment which can apply a sustained electric current or impulse directly to a live animal” is banned.4 Feb 2018

Great job LC.

Did you buy hi low bulbs for the headlights or buy the complete headlight?

The animal only gets one or two shocks before it learns, same as farm electric fences, the dog gets a warning from the colllar before it shocks so it's not cruel.

A neighbour pleaded to me lately that they had an electric collar for their dog and it couldn't be there dog. I told them the dog had to be wearing the collar for it to work.

Anyway when i finally caught him and put him in the livestock trailer it turned out to theirs.

It's probably illegal if its a sustained shock

Sister has it. Great job. Dog never strays.

A neighbour here had the collar in her hand and was talking to my mother, she walked closer to my mother and got the shock herself

Worded it wrong. Included rooster for his love of people trying to make enviro credits a thing to fund ngo's and non for profits.

D'Arcy.

He is essentially being jailed and treated like a criminal for refusing to use the pronoun "They" for a transgender pupil. It's a crazy world we live in. Whatever happened to free speech? There has never being a case in English Common Law anywhere in the past, where anyone has ever being compelled or forced to use certain language......never

And you think the Nazi's were bad.

Sorry Patsy but that’s 100% wrong and it’s hard to believe after all the publicity about it that there’s anyone out there without a hidden agenda that’s idiotic enough to think or believe what you’ve just said.

He was jailed for being in contempt of a court order, the same as anyone else who doesn’t obey a court order should be jailed. The reasons for the court order are irrelevant to the reason why he is jailed. Obey the court order and he won’t be locked up.

It has nothing to do with free speech and the language that should be used to someone comparing the court order to being worse than the nazi’s wouldn’t be allowed on this forum so I won’t use it. Funnily enough would that mean boards.ie is worse than the nazis and are restricting free speech?

I think he’s a highly intelligent man who received bad parenting and had a very sheltered upbringing which hasn’t done him or his siblings any favours in their adult life.

Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to be able to use his intelligence to know when he’s fighting a losing battle.

Call me old fashioned but I personally was born and reared with 2 genders, male and female, and there were rare cases where someone from either gender may have changed sides and while it might have been seen as odd or would have been the talk of the parish if it happens in the locality I think it was out of gossip more than anything else and no one really passed much remarks after the gossip stage passed over.

I don’t even understand all the different genders that exist now and the “pronouns” that should be used or not used but if someone asks to be called by a certain word or description then out of politeness I would oblige as at the end of the day it makes shag all difference to me.

It appears Enoch has decided to be a martyr on this particular cause and I personally think it’s pointless. What difference does it make to him what word anyone wants to be described as and why keep turning up at a school where he has been suspended from with full pay? There are plenty of rumours as to the real reasons, and the funding he’s receiving from various unpalatable groups, for continuing this crusade but I’d imagine a public forum is not the place for discussing that.

You can kind of see the battle that's unfolding atm.

It's between the enviro non for profit side of that 123,000 acre and the 123,000 of what Coillte are looking for Gresham House to buy. The battle ground are the uplands. The enviros want the commonage grounds for free. Sheep banned. A bit of selective broadleaf or scots pine planting but hoping for self seeding. They also want the land bounding commonage for same. This is the farmer land. Gresham would be in competition with the non for profit for land. Gresham are suggested that it would be hardcore Coillte. Like their conifer plantings in wales and scotland. It's run as a business. This is how the British sentiment is being used by our enviros here on this story. But it's purely for land imo and which can get that land cheaper or for free or through designations, etc.