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towzer2010

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Does anyone have a idea what these heifers would make in the mart? D.o.b March/April 2012, Out wintered.
I'm not very good with weights sorry.

Hard to tell from a photo but the one on the left looks around 500kgs so at €2.20 per kg (avg price for continentals atm) she'd make around €1100 from what I've seen. The others a bit less. Totally depends on demand on the day but you will be selling at the right time around now.

exercise is the antidote

towzer2010 wrote: »

Hard to tell from a photo but the one on the left looks around 500kgs so at €2.20 per kg (avg price for continentals atm) she'd make around €1100 from what I've seen. The others a bit less. Totally depends on demand on the day but you will be selling at the right time around now.

Thanks towzer. Would be happy if I got that. There's 1 Angus there she might not do to bad either.

Bodacious

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Thanks towzer. Would be happy if I got that. There's 1 Angus there she might not do to bad either.

I'm in the same boat here.. Need to offload some breeding heifers .. I'd hold off for another month if you have the fodder / space for them.. The real grass men/ DAS grass men not out yet

Reggie.

Bodacious wrote: »

I'm in the same boat here.. Need to offload some breeding heifers .. I'd hold off for another month if you have the fodder / space for them.. The real grass men/ DAS grass men not out yet

Waiting for them myself. Have two FR bullocks here to move on.

bogman_bass

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Spead some fertilizer on the reseed over the weekend. coming on grand this end of the feild but very bare other places. let cows and calves out on it on Sunday

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bogman_bass wrote: »

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Spead some fertilizer on the reseed over the weekend. coming on grand this end of the feild but very bare other places. let cows and calves out on it on Sunday

what fertilizer are you using ?

bogman_bass

18-6-12. It's silage ground and need to get the P and K up.

cows have access to hay and a bucket and doing them with bolus's later

Brown Podzol

Odelay wrote: »

If your mother saw that dirt under your finger nails you'd be in big trouble...

Oh says that hands like that make good back scratchers.:D

Damo810

Greengrass1 wrote: »

She has special sanitary wipes for me when I go to hers

Wipes, be god, most lads would just use a tissue :P

moy83

Bodacious wrote: »

I'm in the same boat here.. Need to offload some breeding heifers .. I'd hold off for another month if you have the fodder / space for them.. The real grass men/ DAS grass men not out yet

Whatever about the men being out , the grass certainly isn't out around here anyhow

Greengrass1

Monster LHZ heifer out of an RIL cow

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.up

dh1985

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Monster LHZ heifer out of an RIL cow

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.up

Is that opening ok for others

Genghis Cant

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Monster LHZ heifer out of an RIL cow

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.up

dh1985 wrote: »

Is that opening ok for others

The calf is so huge it can't fit on the screen:D

Greengrass1

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.jpg

Any better?

dh1985

Greengrass1 wrote: »

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.jpg

Any better?

Cow has a fair elder

Greengrass1

dh1985 wrote: »

Cow has a fair elder

She is very slack actually tbh

Round Bale

Damo810 wrote: »

Wipes, be god, most lads would just use a tissue :P

Or the arse of their trousers:cool:

dh1985

Greengrass1 wrote: »

She is very slack actually tbh

Jaysus from the photo you swear she'd have lots

Nekarsulm

Round Bale wrote: »

Or the arse of their trousers:cool:

Or the curtain..............

I said

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Or the curtain..............

Yeehaw

tanko

First calves this year off FZF, yellow bull, red heifer. Both came backways, small pull, no jack needed.

tanko

The mammy

towzer2010

tanko wrote: »

The mammy

Are you sure they are all out?

She looks big enough to still have a calf or two...:D

onyerbikepat

Did you buy the FZF straws from Powerful Genetics ?
He looks a fine bull from what I've seen of him. (MERESIDE FAVORI)

Greengrass1

Greengrass1 wrote: »

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.jpg

Any better?

Father says to me is it a simmental.
Weighed her. She was 58kgs.
For a Fr heifer that's a whopper

trixi2011

bogman_bass wrote: »

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Spead some fertilizer on the reseed over the weekend. coming on grand this end of the feild but very bare other places. let cows and calves out on it on Sunday

Would you not be wasting the fertilizer if you put cows on it at the weekend. You have only a 3 day window to graze grass after applying fert after this the fertilizer has made its way from the roots to the leaf ,

Genghis Cant

tanko wrote: »

First calves this year off FZF, yellow bull, red heifer. Both came backways, small pull, no jack needed.

Pity you hadn't a pair of heifers of that bull.

tanko

towzer2010 wrote: »

Are you sure they are all out?

She looks big enough to still have a calf or two...:D

Yeah, she's a very easy cow to feed, hard to keep flesh off her. She had some belly before she calved. Two heifers would have been nice but I'm just glad they're alive, I left her calving a bit too long and they had some fluid in the lungs but are flying now.

I got the straws of powerful genetics, €10/straw.

This is her OZS heifer from last year

Checked the cows earlier and went to the Cavan V Tyrone U-21 game, came back and a cow had calved on the slats. All well, don't know yet if I've got a heifer this time.

golodge

New calves. 1st is by AI Charolais bull out of 1/2Limo, 1/2dairy cow. Birth weight 45kg.
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2nd is by AI Angus bull, out of 1/2 Angus, 1/4 Salers, 1/4 dairy heifer. Birth weight 42kg.
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In pics both calves are 3 days old.

GrandSoftDay

golodge wrote: »

New calves. 1st is by AI Charolais bull out of 1/2Limo, 1/2dairy cow. Birth weight 45kg.
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2nd is by AI Angus bull, out of 1/2 Angus, 1/4 Salers, 1/4 dairy heifer. Birth weight 42kg.
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In pics both calves are 3 days old.

How do you weigh the calves, do you have a harness and hand held scales? Had a massive limo bull out of a springer here last weeks that I really struggled to lift. Would loved to have put a weight on him because I'm used to carrying 2 bags of nuts on my shoulder when I'm doing the feeding and he seemed way heavier.

Genghis Cant

golodge wrote: »

New calves. 1st is by AI Charolais bull out of 1/2Limo, 1/2dairy cow. Birth weight 45kg.
In pics both calves are 3 days old.

Would ya have a link to the AI Charolais, I'm curious to see would he have any genetic links to the AI bulls here. That's a lovely square Charolais calf!

golodge

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

How do you weigh the calves, do you have a harness and hand held scales? Had a massive limo bull out of a springer here last weeks that I really struggled to lift. Would loved to have put a weight on him because I'm used to carrying 2 bags of nuts on my shoulder when I'm doing the feeding and he seemed way heavier.

I've a hand held scales for sheep, so it fits for just borned calves.
Looks like this:
http://ykzhengya.en.alibaba.com/product/524160320-209565437/200kg_hand_held_weighing_scale.html
When calf is lifted and can't touch the ground there is nothing calf can do.

golodge

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Would ya have a link to the AI Charolais, I'm curious to see would he have any genetic links to the AI bulls here. That's a lovely square Charolais calf!

Yes I've a link.
http://www.naturalgenetics.cz/DOC_SEMEN4/ZCH-518_Offer.pdf
We'll have one his calf from one more Limox cow this weekend and one calf out of BBx cow after three weeks.

Genghis Cant

golodge wrote: »

Yes I've a link.
http://www.naturalgenetics.cz/DOC_SEMEN4/ZCH-518_Offer.pdf
We'll have one his calf from one more Limox cow this weekend and one calf out of BBx cow after three weeks.

He has a lot of body to him. He looks a useful bull to get a replacement heifer off.
I've used a Blason son (Icare), I think Blason bred milky cows, and had muscle too. I think there was a Harrison son around one of the AI stations but I can't remember his name. It might come to me!

golodge

Genghis Cant wrote: »

He has a lot of body to him. He looks a useful bull to get a replacement heifer off.
I've used a Blason son (Icare), I think Blason bred milky cows, and had muscle too. I think there was a Harrison son around one of the AI stations but I can't remember his name. It might come to me!

It nice to hear that we can expect good calves by him. We'd like to have a heifer.

golodge

New heifer calf borned this morning. Sire the same AI Charolais bull, dam 1/2 Limouisne, 1/2 dairy.
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Genghis Cant

golodge wrote: »

New heifer calf borned this morning. Sire the same AI Charolais bull, dam 1/2 Limouisne, 1/2 dairy.
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Excellent. You must tag the calves when they hit the ground! :-)

Are the cows outwintered on that ground?

dh1985

golodge wrote: »

New heifer calf borned this morning. Sire the same AI Charolais bull, dam 1/2 Limouisne, 1/2 dairy.
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Monster calf

golodge

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Excellent. You must tag the calves when they hit the ground! :-)

Are the cows outwintered on that ground?

Heifer was tagged in one hour after birth.
Cows have outwintered in the winter pasture, but now here are now snow, so girls feel much better in the field.

jt65

golodge wrote: »

New calves. 1st is by AI Charolais bull out of 1/2Limo, 1/2dairy cow. Birth weight 45kg.
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2nd is by AI Angus bull, out of 1/2 Angus, 1/4 Salers, 1/4 dairy heifer. Birth weight 42kg.
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In pics both calves are 3 days old.

great loin on the ch

GrandSoftDay

At one week old now, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

Kovu

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

At one week old out, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

Christ! The neck on him! Poor cow will never want to go incalf again:eek::eek:

moy83

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

At one week old out, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

Is that dad in the picture aswell ?

GrandSoftDay

moy83 wrote: »

Is that dad in the picture aswell ?

Yip, not looking great either. He got a bad bout of coccidiosis a few months back and it nearly whipped him. Only starting to thrive a bit with the last month.

GrandSoftDay

.Kovu. wrote: »

Christ! The neck on him! Poor cow will never want to go incalf again:eek::eek:

Out of a springer and all. Tough cookie she is, stayed standing while we pulled. Was full sure she'd go down.

TITANIUM.

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

At one week old out, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

That's some calf for a week. Fair play.
Did you ever think about taking up tug of war?

moy83

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Yip, not looking great either. He got a bad bout of coccidiosis a few months back and it nearly whipped him. Only starting to thrive a bit with the last month.

He doesn't look too bad at all . Have you many calves out of him ?

GrandSoftDay

moy83 wrote: »

He doesn't look too bad at all . Have you many calves out of him ?

He's the second one now. Bulls just gone a 2 year old. He looked a lot better when I got him!!

GrandSoftDay

TITANIUM. wrote: »

That's some calf for a week. Fair play.
Did you ever think about taking up tug of war?

Let the jack do the pulling. Pulled a lgl bull calf for my girlfriends father a few days back without a jack, he doesn't believe in it :rolleyes: 3 of us pulling the cow around the place. Self inflicted hardship is all I could call it!!

moy83

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

He's the second one now. Bulls just gone a 2 year old. He looked a lot better when I got him!!

Think will you have a few hard pulls or was it just that she was a springer . Hope he is lucky for ya