@MHealyRae Everything in nature needs a predator to maintain a balance in our eco system. Wildlife like foxes deer badger etc have no such predator so control by hunting and culling is a necessity.
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Michéal O Sullivan
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Michéal O Sullivan
@MichalOSulliva2
Dairy farm manager. live in Tipperary,a Kerryman by birth and nature
Katılım Nisan 2020
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You’re welcome to keep seeing rural Ireland as a scenic backdrop from Dublin.
Farmers live with the consequences every day livestock loss, disease and wildlife management aren’t optional.
You only know rural life through policy papers and social media, everything looks simple.
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Is there any wild animal #MichaelHealyRae likes? It’s scary that he is a junior minister in the Dept of Agriculture. Wild animals just get in the way of farming: foxes, badgers, deer should be “eradicated”. Shameful FFFG bring him into govt & give him any power. #foxhuntdebate
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@kieran_sullivan @kieran_kigr If your fed up already you might just be in the wrong profession
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@kieran_kigr Dried off last week. All first calvers, short of grass, fed up, milk price cuts, etc
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@AidanAidanmc Looks good underfoot. Is it ground previously closed of that u didn't get to
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@AlanBurton12 @johnphelan81 Soak away to a drain very common in old tanks
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@johnphelan81 It was a concrete pipe leading into it, id say just slightly bigger than the normal sewer pipe
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Question for people, my dad put in 1 of the 1st slatted tanks in munster, and yesterday evening I discovered water flowing into it through the hole in the picture, this hole was probably blocked up, till I got the contractor during the summer to agitate it with his tractor 1/2
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@CarlowWeather The east gets 1 day of heavy rain and it's almost a national emergency. Meanwhile in the south west we call it a nasty day
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11am Saturday and rain continues in parts of East and midlands. Video taken just now at Powerscourt waterfall shows the volume of rain coming down off the Wicklow Mountains with a lot of reports of flooding coming in.
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@1noeloconnor Chlorine free detergent should never be recycled just adding in all you've washed out in the morning. Hot wash every morning here cold water rinse with sterilise in the evening tbc average 8-12
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@MichalOSulliva2 Yeah, hot wash only is what we use. Do you not use that now cold wash in the evenings though?
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A quick question, folks. Talking to a friend just now with a TBC issue. Could be 8 one test and 160 next test. Has sampled different points and bypassed the plate cooler, changed detergent suppliers, everything tried but no solution.
Any ideas or direction to travel from here?
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@1noeloconnor Chlorine free detergent needs hot wash every day and don't re use the solution
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@1noeloconnor Good hot wash with chlorine . Cf detergents are useless
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@AidanAidanmc I could've got another week/10 days but was too wet early Sept to put out nitro to give a boost in growth last application b4 that was August weekend
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@MichalOSulliva2 There was a spell there in the middle of Sept that we thought we wouldn’t get to Oct not to mind November, but it all worked out in the end.
If we could order the v same again nxt year again we’d definitely take it!!
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That’s the curtain call on grazing 2025!, U know it’s winter when both the calves and the incalf heifers are housed!!
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@Walsh50Brendan @slatterywill Lower is brutal on the backfoot too
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@slatterywill Ringrose going walkabout in defence had more of an individual impact on that game than anyone else.
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A few things jump out
- Ireland clearly ran out of gas, the match fitness did matter
- 3rd quarter a killer, dominated but nothing to show for it
- lineout still needs serious work
- no matter who plays ten, Ireland do not have a top option
- NZ can still score from anywhere
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@JerryMoloney1 @SeanMoy98947674 I suppose there's a bit of a celebrity factor involved with these herds, they're elite in their own right. The more average run of the mill stock will feel the drop imo.
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@SeanMoy98947674 No Sean …watching online …autumn stock anyway …see what funds are like for some offspring calvers
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Hope those talking cow/incalf heifer and dairy calf prices down aren’t watching first part of moanmore dispersal sale today …quality herd of cows …and prices been paid reflect it
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@Williecarroll37 Have their swimming gear ready for tommow
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@AgrilandIreland Might aswell make them digital digital altogether
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DAFM considers timing for consultation on cattle passports agriland.ie/farming-news/d…
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@teagascgrams @bryanjdaniels @LynchFencing Can’t understand lads using 6 inch posts to hold 1 stand of light wire 🙄🙄…
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I know I give out about my Gator, but I do work it hard. Maybe @LynchFencing and @sprinkles785 are right when they say im hard on it🤔
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@ashleighfen Jesus that's tough going and its looked constant all summer for ye. Its a strange country oceans of grass in kerry no N spread since July growth has been so strong loads of seeding done to control growth
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@sprinkles785 @kieran_kigr Alan could nearly publish a book now at this stage on his theories on grazing and genetics 🥱
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One of the more satisfying jobs, fresh break after a good graze out 👌🏻
Kieran Griffin@kieran_kigr
@sprinkles785 Up there with covering silage pit as least favourite jobs 😬
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I don’t think there’s a phrase that could adequately describe my hate for bottom fill water tanks #bastardyokes
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@sprinkles785 On the far side of it here too yeild drop protein drop. Nothing different in the cow's or the diet. Last about a week. Starting to go up the gears now again the last few days.
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Just when you think you’re on the pigs back … BANG .. reality check . Cows dropped 13% (yield)in last few days 😬, mainly high yielders and scoury, no coughing .. no runny noses .. no temperatures that we’re aware of…. Must some sort of virus and we’ll just ride it out 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
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@kieran_kigr @GillwallyO @grazyfarmer @keenan17 @donaloreilly3 You can select your cow's for sexed on the app and set your time frame for ai . It'll bring up a 2nd bar for optimum time for the sexed cows
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@GillwallyO @grazyfarmer @keenan17 @donaloreilly3 Does it give a time in hours from onset of heat?
Nedap here.. usually go between 14-24 hours as we're oad ai..
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Taking the amount of PG Im about to sink into cows as a yardstick, I can with confidence say that...... I have absolutely no patience!!
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