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Bodacious

Waiting to go : 5 year old lim x for factory Tuesday.. was a great cow to breed and great milk



Her replacement ...

just do it

Bod, why are you getting rid of her?

Bodacious

just do it wrote: »

Bod, why are you getting rid of her?

ah she put the bed out after calving and got vet to put it in but again at six weeks post calving she started to show it and put it out again, put it in and she forced it all out against stitches and refused to hold it in, she melted away..and calf wasn't thriving so took calf off of her (put him on a freisan x) and dried her off and fattened her up.. she still puts it out every 3 weeks regular when in oestrus eventhough she has nothing in field to jump on.. I just wash it and put it back in and thank god it hasn't got infected

below is her calf at six weeks.. great calf now

hugo29

What breed is her replacement

Bizzum

hugo29 wrote: »

What breed is her replacement

I was wondering the same. Did ya keep any heifers off her for breeding?
That's a super bull calf off her.

Bodacious

hugo29 wrote: »

What breed is her replacement

she is 75% Charolais at least, I bought her mother from up the side of a mountain!(big brown CH X heifer) and she was bulled to a ch stock bull so jury is out as to what she will be like for milk but her mother is good rearer

Attached is pic of her mother as a heifer (she massive now, nearly too big for my liking, calving in jan to Kilmoney Bruce the blonde

Bodacious

Bizzum wrote: »

I was wondering the same. Did ya keep any heifers off her for breeding?
That's a super bull calf off her.

she is a twin so her full sister and mother still about, the cow rejected the brown heifer calf and kept the white one the same colour as herself, she herself bred 3 out of 3 bulls, FL22, CVV and last calf in pic was LGL, great bull IMO

just do it

Bodacious wrote: »

great bull IMO

+1

Petty about the mother but at least you'll get money for her rather than paying money to remove her.

Bodacious

just do it wrote: »

+1

Petty about the mother but at least you'll get money for her rather than paying money to remove her.

exactly and the cow wasn't well at all so lucky to have calf reared by another and cow made it to finish

moy83

Bodacious wrote: »

exactly and the cow wasn't well at all so lucky to have calf reared by another and cow made it to finish

Lovely calf , the frx will make some job of him now . He will be a monster at weaning time

Milton09

Feb. born weanling bull of ADX, ready for road soon!


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pakalasa

Lads, what do you think of ADX? Breeding serious cattle, I find anyway.

delaval

milton
That's a nice beast. What % of your weanlings would be to that standard?

leg wax

delaval wrote: »

milton
That's a nice beast. What % of your weanlings would be to that standard?

cant really see him ,pic too big:mad:

Muckit

leg wax wrote: »

cant really see him ,pic too big:mad:

Pity. He's a right lad.

dharn

Adx, ? What breed is that

delaval

dharn wrote: »

Adx, ? What breed is that

Jersey:D:D:D

dharn

Galway jersey ? Maroon colour

moy83

I finished it today in better weather

Sharpshooter82

Yeah today came drier than I thought

Bodacious

pakalasa wrote: »

Lads, what do you think of ADX? Breeding serious cattle, I find anyway.

Yep , ADX (Ardlea Dan- limousin- Munster/ progressive genetics ) is throwing great calves round here too ... Neighbour sold red ADX bull calf there sat 390kg e1075

Milton09

delaval wrote: »

milton
That's a nice beast. What % of your weanlings would be to that standard?

Unfortunately not enough !
This year though I'm happy with them all, that guy is probably the best. He would be some animal if he was on creep all summer, as it was he was on rented ground with poor grazing. Weaned 2 weeks ago and put on good aftergrass and ration.

Overall happy with ADX but a lot depends on the cow too !!!

Milton09

I thought this was interesting but I’m a bit sad sometimes...anyway I got a dashcam for the car a while back and last week just for the crack I attached it to the back window of the tractor when baling up a bit of second cut. I changed to the bale lifter afterwards to run in the bales and forgot about the dashcam. Turns out that I didn’t put the clip in correctly in the top link pin and lost it after the 3rd bale. I remembered the dashcam later that night and checked the footage, sure enough it recorded the clip falling out and based on previous footage I was able to guess where in the field. Wandered out the next morning and found it – RESULT !:D

Heres the footage of the clip falling out - the quality should be much better, seems to be loosing a lot through youtube.

100%

Sharpshooter82

must get one of them dash cams for the craic. how much and where

Muckit

Milton09 wrote: »

I thought this was interesting but I’m a bit sad sometimes...anyway I got a dashcam for the car a while back and last week just for the crack I attached it to the back window of the tractor when baling up a bit of second cut. I changed to the bale lifter afterwards to run in the bales and forgot about the dashcam. Turns out that I didn’t put the clip in correctly in the top link pin and lost it after the 3rd bale. I remembered the dashcam later that night and checked the footage, sure enough it recorded the clip falling out and based on previous footage I was able to guess where in the field. Wandered out the next morning and found it – RESULT !:D

Heres the footage of the clip falling out -

100%

Not sad at all. The nerd in me is loving your story. Right up my street. Love the dash cam video

moy83

Muckit wrote: »

Not sad at all. The nerd in me is loving your story. Right up my street. Love the dash cam video

Every tractor that has a young lad driving it should have one mounted front and back , they could deny nothing then when they burst things

Sharpshooter82

moy83 wrote: »

Every tractor that has a young lad driving it should have one mounted front and back , they could deny nothing then when they burst things

i like it

Dupont

Was I the only one expecting to see bale handler to fall off

Sharpshooter82

nope

eire23

just do it wrote: »

I confess, perpendicular was my description. He's on the second pass now and it's only at a slight angle. I've only seen the first pass and I'm impressed with it. I'd imagine its hard to know are the ridges gone until it all settles down with time.

Pic - disc on left, power harrowed on right

Any finnished pictures just do it? How many runs did the contractor to with the power harrow and did it break up the sods well?

Kovu

quadboy wrote: »

Heard of a fella with a serious rat problem and was using the blue blocks the rats kept taking them. one day cleaning out the shed he found all the blocks in a heap

Glue them to a block of wood:D

red bull

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Glue them to a block of wood:D

Break them up, then they will have to eat them otherwise they will hoard them

Kovu

red bull wrote: »

Break them up, then they will have to eat them otherwise they will hoard them

Yea we used to do that too, until the birds started eating it:(

red bull

To, all the banner men/ women on here, you were nearly robbed today. Good luck next day

red bull

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Yea we used to do that too, until the birds started eating it:(

I put the broken up ones in a tube, I find the tubes left after round bale rap very good

freedominacup

red bull wrote: »

Break them up, then they will have to eat them otherwise they will hoard them

I found a spot yesterday where they were hoarding the grain type.

Sharpshooter82

freedominacup wrote: »

I found a spot yesterday where they were hoarding the grain type.

Never heard of that happening

freedominacup

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Never heard of that happening

Neither had I but then I saw it. The reason for using the grain is supposed to be to prevent hoarding.

Conmaicne Mara

They will hoard it if they're given too much of it. Leave them a week after bait has run out, it'll do them in.

Ronan 2013

I do ground the blocks down to dust and then <modsnip> in it. <modsnip> so won't notice and if poison don't work the <modsnip>


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just do it

eire23 wrote: »

Any finnished pictures just do it? How many runs did the contractor to with the power harrow and did it break up the sods well?

2 runs with the power harrow and it turned out well. I rolled it before broadcasting the seed to firm up the seed bed. No photos yet but don't worry, you won't have to wait long.

(I think I posted some more photos after that one?)

vanderbadger

just do it wrote: »

2 runs with the power harrow and it turned out well. I rolled it before broadcasting the seed to firm up the seed bed. No photos yet but don't worry, you won't have to wait long.

(I think I posted some more photos after that one?)

did you harrow the whole lot in the end or try the chain harrow as well

just do it

vanderbadger wrote: »

did you harrow the whole lot in the end or try the chain harrow as well

9 acres disc and power harrow, 1 acre chain harrow only.

hugo29

stanflt wrote: »

last of the grassland sprayed today- thank f**k

meant to ask stan, what do you spray with and how long do you wait before grazing,

just do it

Reseeded ground 10 days later. Green patches suffered a bit of roundup deficiency :rolleyes: Ground on left was power harrowed. Ground on right was chain harrowed only. I'll try to post every week or two from same spot.

Sharpshooter82

just do it wrote: »

Reseeded ground 10 days later. Green patches suffered a bit of roundup deficiency :rolleyes: Ground on left was power harrowed. Ground on right was chain harrowed only. I'll try to post every week or two from same spot.

Looks like bad weather coming in there over the hill

renandstimpy

Dead happy with myself today bought these 35 esb poles cut to 7ft with diameters averaging 10 inches with some up to 14 . had some work out loading and unloading trailer by hand . should keep me busy for a while:)

Sharpshooter82

renandstimpy wrote: »

Dead happy with myself today bought these 35 esb poles cut to 7ft with diameters averaging 10 inches with some up to 14 . had some work out loading and unloading trailer by hand . should keep me busy for a while:)

Nice, put a few points on them and drive them home

Bizzum

Great load of posts there. Will ya point em with the saw before you drive them?

renandstimpy

Bizzum wrote: »

Great load of posts there. Will ya point em with the saw before you drive them?

ya ill give them a petitcure for sure even at that ill have to pick a wet day to drive some of them the bull can puck them all he wants then he wont break them .