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Kovu

delaval wrote: »

Spent a bit if time looking for this guy

Do you...do you have a jacks in the parlour

Greengrass1

Gonna get shot for this.....but you know what they say, animals take after there owners :D

delaval

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Do you...do you have a jacks in the parlour

Not in parlour but in the yard

Xbreds are really fussey and clever

Timmaay

Ha, reminds me of last spring, the uncle drops in and says he has a calf in his boot that he found 1/4mile down the road, no tags etc. I was scratching my head and had to check every bloody calfbox, was fairly sure it wasnt mine, until I remembered the tiny runt that was being kept in an IBC cage under a red lamp. Sure enough the chap had gone from being almost dead the night before, to managing to knock the IBC cage clean over and legged it down the road!

hugo29

Genghis Cant wrote: »

You're gonna have to explain that:). Please.

Potty training,

J.O. Farmer

delaval wrote: »

Not in parlour but in the yard

Xbreds are really fussey and clever

Very fancy and civilised.
I normally find a corner of the yard or the slats for No.1 and go up to the house for anything more.
Me being your stereotypical small dirty farmer and all.

jp6470

One from Summer.some bucket reared aaxfr, out grazing with the rest.

Reggie.

jp6470 wrote: »

One from Summer.some bucket reared aax out way the rest

very nice there jp

Bodacious

Posted this pic back in August ... Going to turn the heifers up into it tomorrow

delaval

These xbreds aren't up to much

Genghis Cant

Bodacious wrote: »

Posted this pic back in August ... Going to turn the heifers up into it tomorrow

I remember seeing it. Be interesting to see how they and it fares in the coming months!

Bodacious

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I remember seeing it. Be interesting to see how they and it fares in the coming months!

ive temporary fenced off 7 acres (checked it there on google planimeter) and hopefully they"ll settle in it, can ferry up more bales if they settle in it,,.. great dry lie and shelter from every wind

Greengrass1

https://imageshack.us/a/img849/1305/3k5l.jpg
Don't know if you can see in the photo but regrowth after 3 days

adne

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I remember seeing it. Be interesting to see how they and it fares in the coming months!

But u only joined boards in january

Genghis Cant

adne wrote: »

But u only joined boards in january

Now now Enda. I was in the rushes a while before I was tagged:eek:

Reggie.

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Now now Enda. I was in the rushes a while before I was tagged:eek:

Yeah you practice that in your place I hear

Genghis Cant

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah you practice that in your place I hear

The more I practice the luckier I get!

Reggie.

Genghis Cant wrote: »

The more I practice the luckier I get!

Fence must be down to the neighbouring farm

moy83

Surprise here this morning . I bought a aa x cow with a blue heifer weanlin at foot last year . The father rang last night to say the heifer looked to be bagging up and to gather a few pound for a section .
She started calving this morn so I called the vet to be on the safe side , handy pull and out popped what looks to ba a part bull calf all healthy . Id say the heifer is about 20 months and bursting with milk .

Reggie.

moy83 wrote: »

Surprise here this morning . I bought a aa x cow with a blue heifer weanlin at foot last year . The father rang last night to say the heifer looked to be bagging up and to gather a few pound for a section .
She started calving this morn so I called the vet to be on the safe side , handy pull and out popped what looks to ba a part bull calf all healthy . Id say the heifer is about 20 months and bursting with milk .

You may do the lotto now aswell

moy83

Reggie. wrote: »

You may do the lotto now aswell

Thats a thought , the local one is 20 k too

RobinBanks

delaval wrote: »

These xbreds aren't up to much

Hi delaval. Just wondering, are dairy herds normall all pure bred or is it common to have cross bred?

tismesoitis

Tyson Lannister wrote: »

Had ye a good success rate with the Embryos? Were they born by section or naturally? Any chance of a pic?
Wk old bourvil bull calf, first Calver calved no prob.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l1zjuojw1b0rc25/Photo%20Jan%2021%2C%2023%2030%2038.jpeg

Pics of 3 PB Parthenaise calves

1st 2 pics are the little Coquin Heifer calf
2nd 2 are the Sirex bull
and last pic is Coquin bull. This lad is'nt getting the greatest doing because his mother a mad bast*@d of an FL22 heifer rejected him at birth and we thought she was going to kill him so we hand reared him for the 1st couple of weeks and eventually got him on another cow

Kovu

Fine calves, making me think about varying our AI this year!

Just noticing the cows stitches, our vet does them completely differently, not the X but a = the whole way up.
Was taking stitches out of a bitch yesterday and the catgut was so fine I could hardly find it. When your used to these big hoers of large animal stitches it's a shock seeing the tiny versions :P

onyerbikepat

moy83 wrote: »

Surprise here this morning . I bought a aa x cow with a blue heifer weanlin at foot last year . The father rang last night to say the heifer looked to be bagging up and to gather a few pound for a section .
She started calving this morn so I called the vet to be on the safe side , handy pull and out popped what looks to ba a part bull calf all healthy . Id say the heifer is about 20 months and bursting with milk .

Judging by the second picture she doesnt seem to have much condition on her. If she had any condition on her, i'd say you might have been in trouble. Nice one all the same.;)

moy83

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Judging by the second picture she doesnt seem to have much condition on her. If she had any condition on her, i'd say you might have been in trouble. Nice one all the same.;)

They werent the best of pics , but she was is in good enough nick . If she was getting nuts and a bit chubbier things might have been different alright .

Tyson Lannister

Quality calves you have there. Best of luck with them.
Will you keep any heifers for breeding?
I might chance buying a few embryos next year.
Do you buy the embryos and implant them yourself or how does it work?

tismesoitis wrote: »

Pics of 3 PB Parthenaise calves

1st 2 pics are the little Coquin Heifer calf
2nd 2 are the Sirex bull
and last pic is Coquin bull. This lad is'nt getting the greatest doing because his mother a mad bast*@d of an FL22 heifer rejected him at birth and we thought she was going to kill him so we hand reared him for the 1st couple of weeks and eventually got him on another cow

delaval

RobinBanks wrote: »

Hi delaval. Just wondering, are dairy herds normall all pure bred or is it common to have cross bred?

By far the majority are BW pbnr, then you'll have purebred Bw followed by xbred

just do it

moy83 wrote: »

They werent the best of pics , but she was is in good enough nick . If she was getting nuts and a bit chubbier things might have been different alright .

Feed her on well now though and she'll make a grand cow.

dh1985

First calf of the year landed thursday

dh1985

dh1985 wrote: »

First calf of the year landed thursday

Reduced photo size

rushvalley

nice little calf creep there aswell

dar31

6 hmy and 1 abo(2nd from right), all heifers
hmy, 7 out of 8 heifers almost 90% so far and all 8-12 days early
calving has started but wont really kick off til tue/wen

Greengrass1

dar31 wrote: »

6 hmy and 1 abo(2nd from right), all heifers
hmy, 7 out of 8 heifers almost 90% so far and all 8-12 days early
calving has started but wont really kick off til tue/wen

The brown and white one us unique. Nice calf

dar31

about 10% of the herd is red and white year on year,
like having them around

Greengrass1

dar31 wrote: »

about 10% of the herd is red and white year on year,
like having them around

Know a lad with a herd of British Friesian cows and sells stock bulls. Two yes ago he get 3 red bulls. He was going to get rid if them just for the fact they were red and white

bogman_bass

tismesoitis wrote: »

Pics of 3 PB Parthenaise calves

1st 2 pics are the little Coquin Heifer calf
2nd 2 are the Sirex bull
and last pic is Coquin bull. This lad is'nt getting the greatest doing because his mother a mad bast*@d of an FL22 heifer rejected him at birth and we thought she was going to kill him so we hand reared him for the 1st couple of weeks and eventually got him on another cow

I really like that Coquin Heifer! Little smasher!

tismesoitis

Tyson Lannister wrote: »

Quality calves you have there. Best of luck with them.
Will you keep any heifers for breeding?
I might chance buying a few embryos next year.
Do you buy the embryos and implant them yourself or how does it work?

Thanks Tyson.Ye we going to keep the little heifer for breeding. Using Part (Mainly LRY Carlo from Bova) on some commercial cows and keeping all them for breeding too!!Had our 1st part heifer calve down with a CZH limousin bull calf and very happy with the calf!!
Bought the embryos and had them implanted in our own heifers by Richard Duff of champion embryos in ballyfin in Laois. Still have 1 to implant by DAX out of the same dam as the Coquins.
How many part cows you have Tyson? great looking stock!!

RobinBanks

An RYP bull calf born this morn. Off a Maine Anjou second calver.

Genghis Cant

RobinBanks wrote: »

An RYP bull calf born this morn. Off a Maine Anjou second calver.

Christ almighty, some calf. I seem to remember something about the MA cow from last year, remind me again what she had?

A Malibu heifer calf?

Nekarsulm

She deserves a lie-down after that calving !

RobinBanks

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Christ almighty, some calf. I seem to remember something about the MA cow from last year, remind me again what she had?

A Malibu heifer calf?

By jasus your right! Here she is now a year older!

just do it

Nice heifers Robin. Replacements?

RobinBanks

just do it wrote: »

Nice heifers Robin. Replacements?

Only the MBU heifer JDI. The other 2 are a bit beefy. I don't think they would have much milk

Genghis Cant

RobinBanks wrote: »

Only the MBU heifer JDI. The other 2 are a bit beefy. I don't think they would have much milk

The MBU heifer aint lacking in the beef dept either;)

Will ya bull her this spring? Do you finish your heifers or sell as stores?

RobinBanks

Genghis Cant wrote: »

The MBU heifer aint lacking in the beef dept either;)

Will ya bull her this spring? Do you finish your heifers or sell as stores?

I hope to bull her in Apr. she would be 25 months at calving then.

I usually sell the weanling heifers at the start of the summer and keep on some I think might breed well.

Conmaicne Mara

A change from showing ye the bottom of a drain

Seeing as I have cut down the furze, which in fairness were good for shelter, I now have to replace them. Starting to lift old stone walls. Sheep don't need much height to shelter behind so every bit helps. Would like to put in trees too but there is SFA depth up this part of the farm.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/111758162@N02/12188558385/

Panch18

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

A change from showing ye the bottom of a drain

Seeing as I have cut down the furze, which in fairness were good for shelter, I now have to replace them. Starting to lift old stone walls. Sheep don't need much height to shelter behind so every bit helps. Would like to put in trees too but there is SFA depth up this part of the farm.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/111758162@N02/12188558385/

That photo with your dog sitting on the edge of the rock pool looking out into the countryside is absolutely amazing

that would win prizes

Brown Podzol

Panch18 wrote: »

That photo with your dog sitting on the edge of the rock pool looking out into the countryside is absolutely amazing

that would win prizes

He's been published.:p

Panch18

Brown Podzol wrote: »

He's been published.:p

Not surprised there are some excellent shots on there

The dog 1 really caught my eye though