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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:23 pm
by pudser
Hi all,
how many dexters would you graze in place of a standard suckler cow,Continental x or other traditional breed.
I have hazarded a guess at 2 dexters approximate to 1 full size cow but I suppose short or non short could have a bearing on the ratio.
Happy Christmas to all and thanks for sharing so much wothwhile information during the year.
Nollag Shona dhaoibh go leir agus blian nua faoi mhaise dhiobh.
Pudser
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:35 pm
by Broomcroft
Personally, I'd say Longs 1.7 (I'd also guess 2 for small ones pudser, whether short or just dinky). I do all my accounts based on 1.7 beasts as well. So if I go to the abattoir I expect to take 1.7 times what normal farmers would take, and I would expect to have 1.7 times as may cattle on the same fields, and 1.7 times as many in a given barn space.
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:44 pm
by Duncan MacIntyre
If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs does a hen lay in a week?
Duncan
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:47 pm
by Saffy
Did you just write that in a Scottish accent Duncan? :;):
Stephanie
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:58 pm
by Broomcroft
I'll go for 10.5 eggs a week for the one hen. I know it'll be wrong!
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:07 pm
by pudser
probably depend on whch comes first
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:04 pm
by wagra dexters
Duncan, if it's not 4&2/3 eggs I'll stick to breeding Dexters. The blokes in the bar say I'm mad, and well I may be, but it's 11 pm, I've been cooking all day, & it's still too stinking hot to think about going to bed, so what else can a person do but count eggs?
Margaret
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:03 pm
by Broomcroft
Duncan MacIntyre wrote:If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs does a hen lay in a week?
7?
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:39 pm
by Duncan MacIntyre
You've got it, Clive.
It is one of the silly riddles we used to be asked as children.
A bit like "What is the difference between an elephant and a post box?"
Oh well, if you don't know I 'm never going to trust you to post a letter then.
"If it takes a man a week to run a fortnight, how many apples are there in a barrel of grapes?" The lorry driver who used to ask us that also wondered where all the water in the sea went when the tide went out. These should really be in the postings for more Christmas cheer I think.
Duncan
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:22 pm
by Broomcroft
Well what d'ya know. I tried to work it out last night Duncan and I got 10.5, then I woke up this morning and whilst still in a daze it came to me.
pudser - Nollaig Shona, agus bain sult as do dexter eallach.
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:30 pm
by wagra dexters
Clive, ask Google how many googies.
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:24 am
by Tim Watson
Ní thuigim thú. Níl Gaeilge agam!
As Béarla led thoil?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:26 am
by Duncan MacIntyre
Oh Dear,
I have upset an old friend and been caught out with the wrong answer to my question.
Lets work it out logically just for fun. No prizes, just a laugh.
a hen and a half = 3 half hens. an egg and a half = 3 half eggs.
so we are saying at the start that 3 half hens lay 3 half eggs in a day and a half.
So is everyone agreed that twice as many hens would lay twice as many eggs in the same time? Yes?
Then 3 hens would lay 3 eggs in a day and a half.
so... 1 hen would lay 1 egg in a day and a half.
So a week is seven days, how many one and a half days are there in a week? 4and two thirds I think.
So a hen would lay 4 and two third (4.666) in a week.
Duncan (with a sore head)
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:19 am
by wagra dexters
What the fellows couldn't get last night was that the time frame is constant, but then they should have sore heads today for a different reason.
How could anyone with that brogue upset me? (Hey, ease up on the 'old' bit.)
It's good to be trivial for a while given that another old friend is in hospital and we are all very concerned. We can pigeon hole our emotions and our celebrations, plenty of room for both.
Margaret
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:07 pm
by Broomcroft
Tim Watson wrote:Ní thuigim thú. Níl Gaeilge agam!
As Béarla led thoil?
Well Tim, I don't understand Gaelic either, only pudser can tell us what it means, but what it is supposed to say (hopefully) in Irish Gaelic is...
"Happy Christmas, and enjoy your Dexter cattle". I couldn't find a full translation service on the web so had to do it word by word with a dictionary, so it is probably saying something totally different!!!
Thinking of Beryl.
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