Farming Family On A Busy Bank Holiday || A Dangerous INFESTATION Is Living In Our Fields

In this video we are working through the may bank holiday weekend as we get calves to grass and speaking of grass! theirs a pest that could cause big issues later on living in our fields.
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[@MegF142857]

12:20 As a teenager a neighbor's horse died from eating a piece of plastic & having a serious colic. Beautiful red mare died. Seeing that plastic bag reminded me again. Glad you spotted it before calf.

[@TB-nh4dg]

A family affair with quality craic… “you touch it” “no you touch it” ⚡️😂

[@jonathancassells641]

It is good to see the boss out giving you hand making sure your doing things right😊

[@gatorguy7711]

Another great video! Always good to see the family working together to accomplish a task on the farm. Take care and be safe...

[@garymadden2656]

Great video Adrian as always aye in our house you ate what was put in front of you or else no dinner and straight to bed 🤣👌

[@sandymcghee3328]

Cracking video nice to see the family helping out Adrian 👍👍👍

[@icryostorm3727]

its garlic mustard - (confirm yourself) tasty on salads

[@randybutler4772]

Good to see the calves at turn out. Your girls know exactly what to do. Fortunate to have such talented youth. Thank you for sharing.🐄

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

👍😊👍 Another busy day on the family farm ❤️

[@anthonyatherton5994]

feeling your pain with the weather Adrian coming from sunny cyprus 32 degrees today 🌞😎🐄🐄

[@tonysargent7787]

Happy bank holiday Adrian Sinead and family another great video as always

[@stephenkelly2067]

You and your family are amazing

[@Lexi20255]

Amazing ❤️❤️👍👍

[@gerarddiamond3958]

👌🏻 Step Brothers quote! Lots more room for activities 😝

[@willyfindlay4398]

Stir fry shredded Sweed with bacon bits and soy sauce. Different vegetable all together ❤️ Great video, great to see the family helping with the Calf training. 😊

[@MarkDonnelly-j9v]

Hi I like your video

[@jenesisjones6706]

" don't do it...don't do it"...." I told ya" 🤣

[@davidfeatch1436]

Give Sinead and the girls a camera Adrian. Let them have a wives and kids view of farming :D Great video again btw

[@andrewchesworth7171]

The plant is garlic mustard you can eat that in salads

[@victoriaskuse118]

Ahhhh…. I thought Dead Nettle…. I stand corrected 😊

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Never heard of that one, but I’ll know now the next time Andrew 👌

[@mrvanahead]

We had a person talking about wolf proofing our horse fencing. One of the most important things for the condition of the electric tape is to NOT make knots in it, as it the shorts out on itself. Same goes for connections on underground wire. About the grips.. i was told that in the tape there is a couple copper wires, and the copper reacts with the inox of the grips and make em rust anyway. No matter what brand.. i use only gallager grips, but they do it too. But cutting out knots and connect em with special connectors made a difference this year.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

That’s very interesting, good knowledge to have and I will certainly give it a go 👍

[@mrvanahead]

@@IFarmWeFarm for horses we use wider tape (4cm) and thick cord. I new knotting wasn't the best way as you sometimes could hear it tick. But those special connectors aren't cheap. (As is everything on the horsefencing equipement is). And with 3 lines going around 14hectares in 4 different fields, we got some fencing hanging around 😅 and a lot of tape-gates too. But with current weather conditions grass and weeds underneath the fence is the main thing of loosing energy.

[@charlesanto]

Share the gate restoration please

[@michaelodonoghue7464]

7:59 for Me the worst smell ever to come out of the kitchen was when My Father as cooking Cabbage.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I always loved cabbage 😀

[@ianhaggart1438]

Great vid.... bit imagine making it about bursting your bubbles 🙄🤪 stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.. ps.. that old gate will outlast anything made nowadays... especially galvanised field gats 😅..

[@brendanhegarty8972]

A suggestion - When training calves on the electric fence, try doing it in a walled enclosure - maybe use machinery (tractor & trailer) to make a 'wall', have wire 1-2 metres from boundary. The daylight is a big part of the 'excitement' and if they break through they can't escape. Leave 'em there for a few hours and the field part might also be less exciting! Do you get what I am at? Now I never tried it and basically because it's a while since I farmed good luck with it anyway! My turnips was bacon and cabbage and of course the more it was forced the more you hated it - now you couldn't give me enough of it and the turnips add to the fayre. This is a popular dish in Munster with the people who have their dinner in the middle of the day! I converted half of London to it and a few of our own as well and everyone is swelled and happy!

[@78mikehayes]

Try getting in touch with Kiluragh iron works in Cappamore in Limerick to do the blacksmith gates. They won’t weld if you try it.

[@PeggyStentzCasey]

I love when the cows are turned out! They all turn into little horses and lambs cavorting about!!!!

[@CB-xr1eg]

I saw some lambs gambolling the other day, not sure if they were playing poker or 3 card brag.😀

[@LouiseMurphy-uq1tg]

We leave our calves out aswell on the May Bank Holiday when there's plenty of help around 👍

[@MarkDonnelly-j9v]

Hi spray paddock

[@KiwiJim13]

👀🙄🐾👍 Great video Adrian I have always found the svratchied to be better than the Kamars

[@JimDalyGlicIT]

The plant at 7:31 is Alliaria petiolata, or garlic mustard. It's edible and can be added to a salad or even chopped in with mashed spuds. It makes an excellent pesto too.

[@victoriaskuse118]

Ahh…. Exciting times! A very entertaining video, Adrian. Thank you 😊

[@paddy294]

Cracking video as always. Keep up the good work Adrian

[@hughcarrigan7824]

Great video, i usually let calves into an enclosed yard for a few hour's and then divided the yard with the electric fence. They wont run through it as much, you have great help there!

[@tonywatson987]

@7:27 that's White Dead-nettle, very invasive, spreads like hell through the roots.

[@pattyberan4523]

Brilliant plan to fence train calves!

[@wendyrowland7787]

The plant is called charlock a garlic flavoured herb from the brassica family. I expect your mum was trying to make the turnips a bit tasty . We will be glad to do these things again, not if, but when the food shortages begin. I have to say I don’t like turnips either, but swedes are quite nice. We have another farmer’s calves for the summer, they can break through well fenced thick hedges with us before they settle down. It must be a bit scary for them having not seen the earth and sky before.

[@murraysmith6315]

You think Adrian might of checked the current before letting calves out of the trailer. 😆Scratch cards are a gamble, sometimes you get a win.....

[@tomotoole7241]

The best electric gate is the spring the last forever

[@tomotoole7241]

And as for Turnips the steam when the are boiling is said to be great for your lungs

[@Mark-lz8yv]

Great video all the family out with u on calf turnout day ur has a comic strike like ur self

[@michaelleach4868]

I agree Adrian. Turnips are offal smelling. Funny story. I thought mom made potato soup. Turns out it was turnip soup. I got a big bowl and dad made me eat every bit. Lesson learned.

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Hefers looking good must be expanding all them coming

[@roadwarrior8560]

I think a wee Angus Bull would be better than any bubbles and save you time and money Adrian. Them snails will go away hopefully soon.

[@Conall_Dowdall]

Great video just wondering if you could spray a salt or even spread sulphur in the fertiliser would that eliminate the slug issue

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Surly in good health

[@tommitchell1826]

mighty man adrain well done on your award id say you have some crack with ur family farming

[@ciaranconeely8579]

You could put sheep wire and two lines of mains around the bog field with the calves. Nothing would go through that.

[@tkinvy9750]

Go scratch cards. The bubbles burst for too many reasons Go scratch cards & you won’t do heat detecting in the paddock again. I buy a spray glue to put them on tho because scratch cards don’t stick like the bubbles. Get an aerosol glue tho because it dries quick enough 👌🏻👍

[@Sean-fb7cy]

Go out last ting at night With the torch best time of day to pick the heifers up bulling. As they normally tend to lie down at night I use Ai on a few sucklers and the last thing at night visit is the one you pick up the most

[@towel2473]

would it be worth to slap a load of dielectric grease on the insulators? should prevent the corrosion yearly and maintain continuity.

[@Imtheman1977]

They also set off the bubbles by scratching off trees

[@vxnova1]

A fleet of ducks would work wonders on the snails,

[@vxnova1]

There was a show on HBO called biggest little farm who had an infestation of snails in their orchard, they brought it a flock of ducks who went wild for them, gobbling hundreds of them each per day, Not sure if there is someone local you could borrow a flock from or buy some yourself, but it would be interesting to see how big of an impact it would have on the fields of Cavan, At the end of the season you may have some fat ducks for dinner

[@AM-ej9lh]

Can't have ducks where cattle graze, gives cattle salmonella

[@paddypoolfc3579]

That plant is garlic mustard. If your cows eat it it can taint the milk, but it is nice in a salad. Nothing wrong with turnip you bid jessy, I hope your wife put in in the Irish stew just to put a smile on your mothers face.😂😂

[@SantaBahadur-dt3pm]

Thanks boss I watch your video very enjoy. I like dairyfarm working please help me. I am still now Saudi Arabia dairyfarm 8 year milker departing I have a 8year Express

I was made sit at the table until I ate the Turnip but I outlasted them.

[@CB-xr1eg]

In infant school I was kept in the dinner hall and they tried to make me eat mashed swede.🤢 They failed!

[@banjoboy8802]

Hi Adrian I am pretty sure there is a phone app that can help you identify that invasive plant.

[@KieranMcGroary]

Well Adrian, how u keeping, not bad weather, great healthy calfs, lovely farm, chat soon, kieran from laghey donegal town

[@karloarsch1579]

The leafs of this plant, will relieve the itching after an insect bite.

[@kevinwittstruck8764]

One calf way to brave that one going to be a trouble maker for sure

[@ipfreely10001]

Adrian, the 'bubbles" i used like 20+ yrs ago were called kamars, stuck on with glue, once on and set, yea they were a terrible job to pull off. They are an 'aid' to animals in heat as youve found out. They do take quite a bit of weight to squash the tube, releasing the red liquid, so chin scratching shouldnt set them off. When you are used to them, a definate heat will tell easily as opposed to a quick ride, or at least i found out. The scratch cards, i never got on with, when given some to try out once. Too vague. Nothing like the 2 eyes like you say to defo spot true bullers, away from any collar system.

[@michaeldoyle6766]

Only serve the ones that have full colour on them, only half burst not in heat

[@patrickcormack7637]

Battery fencer is good for a belt shock. Do you have fence tester on you. I have a folt finder. It give you a volt reading between 1000 to 20000 volts a arrow show you were a folt. You should fence a small area in field for one day. A run around yard with a fence is good job

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I’d normally always have a tester with me on the Quad but forgot to bring it with me on tractor. Sinéad doesn’t mind testing it for me 😂

[@deniscousley6905]

My Grandmother came to the back door of the farm house and blew a whistle for meal time if you didn't come for dinner you didn't get!

[@ciaranseery7696]

Scratch cards are way better for heifers we find when there completely scratched off there definitely on heat won't come off if there put on properly

[@padraigking5185]

Good stuff

[@leepannett2086]

Instead of bubbles or scratch cards, try tail paint on the tail head and pins, much cheaper and only rubs through after multiple mountings, so you can usually guarantee they are in heat. Have used bubbles and scratch cards, tail paint is much cheaper, worth a try. Cheers.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I used tail paint for years, great in the dairy cows as you can top it up in the parlour as needed but with heifers it didn’t last very long I found

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Mad to go

[@donalhickey8506]

Use them kamar heat seeker they are fairly accurate but they are a hoor to remove hair comes off with them if you have a pointy bony cow they are harder to put on compared to a flat fatty cow

[@brianhansen826]

That orange gate handle looks like a Gallagher

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I think Gallagher stamp there name on there’s, they make fairly good stuff but I think these might just be a knock off version

[@markcorr6704]

Dont weld that gate. Keep it original with rivets.

[@kieranosullivan02]

meadow, field in front of the house as far as I know. No idea why that is though

[@bpmcg101]

Use a beer trap for the slugs

[@Imtheman1977]

Would you not be better let the calves into the yard behind the gates for an hour first before out to yard with wire?

[@DjDj-ww6rh]

Nicole like’s wearing hat

[@ShaneKirwan-sw3qm]

Hi did ya ever try putting the wire up in the calf shed first

[@Agrilad-gc6yi]

Where are you located

[@craigpowell3415]

Why don't you let calves run around yard first without electricity fence . Then after they have calm down then put up fence?

[@markcorr6704]

I was thinking the same. Let them burn off a bit of steam first

[@FordCowMan]

Are they British friesian because they are in some really good condition

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Yes mostly British Emma

[@anthonybrogan6783]

Would the stuff you trimmed for the electric fence be Japanese knottweed

[@patlydon519]

Limeing will reduce them snails

[@IFarmWeFarm]

We put 2T per acre of lime over 90% of the farm in 2022. The rain over the last 10 months may have leeched it away though 🤔

[@victoriaskuse118]

Is that plant Dead Nettle? 🤔

[@maretteschulz8898]

I love turnips.....🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@quinkeogh3081]

Would it be a good idea to let them loose in the yard first without fence to calm down and then put up fence. Speeking as a sheep man😂

[@GerardDonnelly-d1d]

With that amount of black slugs about do you think it might be a warning of a wet summer the older generation would of had ideas about that

[@pierceol966]

Another great video Adrian,cant beat the turnip and bacon

[@IFarmWeFarm]

My father’s favourite 👍

[@JimF500]

Can't buy turnips now, name change Swedes.( Are they the same thing?) I still eat them , they're fine for me

[@CB-xr1eg]

Swedes and Turnips do come from the same family. Swede is a Swedish turnip, hence the name “swede”. They are bigger, tougher skinned, yellow fleshed and much hardier than a turnip. Turnips are the smaller ones, with smoother skin and white flesh

[@JimF500]

@@CB-xr1eg dont know why the dissapeared

[@CB-xr1eg]

@@JimF500 Have they disappeared? As far as I know you can still buy them. But you say you still eat them, so how can they have disappeared?🤔

[@JimF500]

@@CB-xr1eg SWEDES I eat not turnips. Supermarkets only have swedes, just wondering that is all, it not a big deal for me, thanks.

[@CB-xr1eg]

@@JimF500 They're practically the same thing anyway. And they're awful to eat as far as I'm concerned. Each to their own though.👍

[@timmo645]

You’ll be breeding a few hundred ducks to eat the slugs and snails now!!!

[@sean11cvt80]

They are slugs lad, snails have shell on their back

[@johndillon9476]

Hi Adrain. What make of strimmer do u use?

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Stihl combi unit John

[@lynjames6223]

Just check your subscribers as I have just realised that you had been unsubscribed and I didn't do it.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I’ve been unsubscribed from channels I watch too recently. I don’t know what causes it to happening but apparently it’s quite common. Thanks for bring it to my attention anyhow mate 👌

[@michaelstaunton1632]

👍👍👍

[@joefoley457]

😃🚜👍

[@shanemcguire3367]

First

[@greggroome2791]

👍👍👏👏🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏

[@amxoso]

Thank you Adrian! I wanted to say that as your videos really lifts my spirits. Also how it warms my heart watching all the family together out in the field helping you truly that’s a wonderful sight. Health and happiness to you all.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Thank you, glad you enjoy them 👍

[@patriciamccormack7626Teashee]

Fantastic video Adrian 👍 the wee calves having a right auld frolic, and a wee ping to the nose just for good measure 😂 👋 Sinead great to see you again, your lassie are a credit to you both 🥰 Have a wonderful Bank Holiday ❤

[@bernardcasey1500]

Great video nice to see all the family out helping

[@ronaldlucas5360]

You are so very good at explaining what you are doing for us that aren't farmers.

[@kevinobrien436]

Always had two options at meal times , you either eat , or you don't !

[@yodaslovetoy]

Did we live in the same house? 😆

[@CB-xr1eg]

You were lucky, we had one option..."get it down you"😀

[@ultanb]

Great video as usual. Brings back memories of letting the calves out, at home. I was listening to shouts of " run can't you" or " stand in front and block them" 😅 I didn't know it at the time but I can look back now and appreciate good days and good memories

[@onepup-pr3yl]

Are there no sprays or pellets for the snails?

[@farmerdan1979]

Why dont you put up a length of cord in the shed for a week or two before you let them out of the shed and then they'll be use to it when they go out.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Probably would work better in fairness. It’s a small wee shed though and they haven’t much room as is.

[@farmerdan1979]

@IFarmWeFarm get them pigtails that's a foot long approx & screw them to the wall and put your electric tape on them. The calves will soon learn to stay away from it. Once you'll let them out into the yard / field you'll be amazed how they stop at it straight away. They wouldn't learn about electric tape in an hour in the yard I think.