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Kovu

Muckit wrote: »

I got an interesting 'Easter Egg' this morning from the OH.

Not a Charolais, but I appreciated the gesture

Should have tipp-exed out the black bits!:p

I was eating one of these in work on Tuesday, gave more of it away than I got myself!

just do it

Vasectomised bull in action. Cow is 44 days calved and she got DZP yesterday. He's a charolais gene ireland bull.

just do it

The tide has turned:D. Heifer is a first calver. She's only 23 months according to the card but I've my suspicions she's older;).

Kovu

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First pic- Calf with pneumonia that kicked the hell out of me while injecting and giving him scour powders today ( potieen incl)
Second- Sectioned Ped Lim out with her bull.
Third- My pick of the calves for showing this year, off WTB.
Fourth- Same calf as above next to dam. Another WTB calf in the background.
Fifth- Calves in a range of ages. Furthest calf is the PB LM, middle is our first blonde and the front is a PIO CH off a good milky dam.

Richk2012

Has your sectioned cow come back bulling karen ???

Kovu

Richk2012 wrote: »

Has your sectioned cow come back bulling karen ???

Not yet unfortunately. Had to let out a litre of pus from the CH cross there the last week. All healthy though. Thank feck.

johngalway

Keep them wagons rollin...



Went to check the ewes just before dark (sorry for the photo quality), three ewes lambed, three ewe lambs this being the best of them. 6 ewe lambs now and three ram lambs, just waiting for the morning to turn that upside down. Sheep are all milky and on the ball.

Kovu

Was up the farther land today looking at the cattle. This heifer has turned out to be a smasher, 20 months and off BYQ and a CF42 dam. EDIT- The mother was 11 when she had her, my father wouldn't let the cow til she had a heifer. And just seen the cow behind her has no tags.....whoops...... :O



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Muckit

johngalway wrote: »

Are they the shores in the pic you keep open by hand John? :eek:

johngalway

Haha, no, that's not our land, I just stopped there to open a gate. They were dug by machine. I'll take a photo of my handiwork tomorrow

Richk2012

Karen112 wrote: »

Was up the farther land today looking at the cattle. This heifer has turned out to be a smasher, 20 months and off BYQ and a CF42 dam. EDIT- The mother was 11 when she had her, my father wouldn't let the cow til she had a heifer. And just seen the cow behind her has no tags.....whoops...... :O

And herself only has the one .... Yea them sections are a hit and miss , sometimes its hard to get them back cycling after it .

johngalway

Muckit, got an opportunity to take a couple of snaps this evening before checking the yet to lamb ewes.

A couple of typical drains (as they're called here, ye foreigners call them shores ).





Quite a long piece ran along this wall, which over the years decades had fallen into the drain and been grown over, much to my amusement as I used pick, bar, spade and drag to remove everything.



An aerial view of some drains

Eventually :rolleyes: when I buy a trailer for the borrowed quad I'll start shifting that drain spoil up the farm to the rough part, I've a notion to go planting hedges in it, might go with mostly holly trees or something - likely and adventure doomed to failure but......

I've a lot of walls to get back into shape but that job is well down the list. I'll dig another drain where that brown patch runs from the wall down into the drain on the left hand side. Three years ago much of the area pictured was thick with rushes :eek: Slow and steady wins the race.



As you can see my grass is doing OK on the hill I took the above photo from, which is one of the most exposed parts of my farm. But, there's good and bad with both moss and scutch grass in the photo as well (they're on the list too - yes, it is a long list ).

Juniorhurler

Fair play to ya John. When we see pictures of land from the west we only realise how lucky we are on the eastern seaboard here and what commitment to farming really is.

johngalway

Juniorhurler wrote: »

Fair play to ya John. When we see pictures of land from the west we only realise how lucky we are on the eastern seaboard here and what commitment to farming really is.

Thanks JH I've seen plenty of fields in different parts I'd have loved to roll up and bring home with me A neighbour across the way from me commented that I was putting the rest of them to shame with what I'd done with the place. As I told him, "Wasn't for ye I was doing it"

sea12

johngalway wrote: »

Thanks JH I've seen plenty of fields in different parts I'd have loved to roll up and bring home with me A neighbour across the way from me commented that I was putting the rest of them to shame with what I'd done with the place. As I told him, "Wasn't for ye I was doing it"

Jeez John That is incredible commitment, fair play to you. It looks fantastic. How long does it take you to dig each of those drains.

just do it

johngalway wrote: »

A couple of typical drains (as they're called here, ye foreigners call them shores ).

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Gr8 work john. Is there a ewe at the end of that crook?:-)

LivInt20

BB Heifer calf, born September 2011.

Sire STQ
Dam Saler

308kgs 06/04/12

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johngalway

sea12 wrote: »

Jeez John That is incredible commitment, fair play to you. It looks fantastic. How long does it take you to dig each of those drains.

I don't know how long it takes. When I go at it I try to do a minimum of 10 yards a day. That doesn't sound like much, and it isn't, but it's not a job I want to be stuck at all day, I'd get fed up in jig time. But, done consistently, I can get a lot done. If you think of an 8 square Cadburys chocolate bar, that's how I cut the drain, if the scraws are any bigger they're too much work to haul out considering they're full of water. I'll then pull out that length of drain and start again going another spit down. If there isn't much depth then I go as far as the rock/hard pan. Some sections are easier or harder than others to do depending if rushes have grown there or a little twiggy plant I must identify which is a right hoor to get out.

Next part of the job now is to gather some big pipe and make a few little bridges where the ewes and lambs cross over.

A digger of course would do all of this an awful lot faster. But, I can use that money for other things, grazon 90, mortone, feed, fert, vet stuff etc. The worrying bit is I enjoy it all

One thing I really need for the job is a decent radio !

just do it wrote: »

Gr8 work john. Is there a ewe at the end of that crook?:-)

I hope not :pac: They better appreciate it too the feckers

leg wax

New Born.jpg stq bull out of pb lim

Muckit

That's unreal work there JohnGalway. But I suppose when you see the water running away like that and the grass growing well, it makes it all worth while.

Pics are great. When you were talking in other posts about digging drains by hand it would be easy for a lad to think you were mad! But your work speaks for itself. Keep it up.

Oh nice fencing too btw in the background. U should stick 'golden pliers' into youtube and you'I see the Kiwi's in competition fencing a hill, by hand! (posts and all are sunk by hand!)

Bodacious

leg wax wrote: »

New Born.jpg stq bull out of pb lim

He half reared Legwax!! Well developed in hindquarters already ... Any bother landing him?

JohnBoy

Those are great pics john.

hard work, but you really have some great looking results to show for it.

I think in tractor terms what you need to try and get your hands on is one of those alpine articulated yokes.

or since you're handy with your hands....

http://www.cadplans.com/cadtrac.htm

that should be small enough to go round most obstacles, but low enough to crawl over the others

leg wax

Bodacious wrote: »

He half reared Legwax!! Well developed in hindquarters already ... Any bother landing him?

no she put him out herself with me in the ditch watching,hes the biggest calf this year and he will grow on .

just do it

johngalway wrote: »

The worrying bit is I enjoy it all

One thing I really need for the job is a decent radio !

I appreciate what you're saying john. Gr8 satisfaction out of a bit if decent hard labour. And great satisfaction each time you see you look upon it.

Rovi

johngalway wrote: »

One thing I really need for the job is a decent radio !

Stick an iPhone/iPod/MP3 player into one of these and clip it onto your belt:
http://www.i-luv.com/product_detail.asp?idx=1593&category_cd=t119&cat_lev=1

Sturdy, unobtrusive, showerproof (so far!), and plenty loud enough.
I use mine a good bit when I'm pruning trees or brashing inspection paths; great job.

I got it in Argos.

just do it

Lm x fr 2nd calver just calved. She's the poorer of 2 ladies I bought 5 weeks ago. Both carried embryos and had sections last year. They came from a dairy man who also breeds quality pedigree limousins. Handy three quarter bred LM heifer calf but she took a pull as cow's bearing was tight. Patience and the head rope did the trick. I'd hoped she'd have calved earlier than this but I'm definitely not complaining!

limo_100

Heres a panda bull calf from a angus cow born yesterday

And heres a Panda heifer calf a few weeks old i have to say very impressed with the quality of his offspring

And this is a Siam heifer calf from a blue cow very good quality aswell calved sunday

pakalasa

limo_100 wrote: »

...........And this is a Siam heifer calf from a blue cow very good quality aswell calved sunday

Keep an eye on this one. She might make a good replacement !!!

Richk2012

leg wax wrote: »

New Born.jpg stq bull out of pb lim

Hes a smasher . Well developed all ready . Be a powerful weaner by early october

jerdee

my oldest cow calved again this morning bull again only one heifer from her after 9 years good thick legs nkg breeding.

johnpawl

Yearling heifer nearly as big as my AAx cow


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Couple of 9 day old calves, starting to show a bit of shape.





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limo_100

what are the yearling heifers by?? there great looking heifers for the bull

johnpawl

limo_100 wrote: »

what are the yearling heifers by?? there great looking heifers for the bull

They are pedigree PT. She is the plainer heifer of the two. They are really thriving since I left them out on grass. Never had PT here before, took the plunge last year and they are serious cattle. Born in late march last year, so won,t be seeing the bull for a bit yet.

limo_100

johnpawl wrote: »

They are pedigree PT. She is the plainer heifer of the two. They are really thriving since I left them out on grass. Never had PT here before, took the plunge last year and they are serious cattle.

i can see that great size aswell. im thinking of using a few straws this year for cross breeding hopefully get a few heifers

johnpawl

limo_100 wrote: »

i can see that great size aswell. im thinking of using a few straws this year for cross breeding hopefully get a few heifers

I tried that this year and I'm getting all bulls, the usual...

limo_100

johnpawl wrote: »

I tried that this year and I'm getting all bulls, the usual...

would you need tall cows for them?

johnpawl

I put PT on all different sizes, haven't a clue how the calves'll work out...

limo_100

johnpawl wrote: »

I put PT on all different sizes, haven't a clue how the calves'll work out...

and what is the quality like of your cross breed calves so far? what bull where you using?

johnpawl

limo_100 wrote: »

and what is the quality like of your cross breed calves so far? what bull where you using?

Hard to know yet, they still young. That's two of 'em pictured. Off AAx

leg wax

johnpawl wrote: »

They are pedigree PT. She is the plainer heifer of the two. They are really thriving since I left them out on grass. Never had PT here before, took the plunge last year and they are serious cattle. Born in late march last year, so won,t be seeing the bull for a bit yet.

dont wait with those heifers is my advice as they will only end up huge ,if you are worried that they will stop growing after the bull dont be,i should have bulled my heifers so that they calved down at 24 months,the part is one breed that from my limited experience will keep growing, and all the talking with breeders they have the same view.

johnpawl

leg wax wrote: »

dont wait with those heifers is my advice as they will only end up huge ,if you are worried that they will stop growing after the bull dont be,i should have bulled my heifers so that they calved down at 24 months,the part is one breed that from my limited experience will keep growing, and all the talking with breeders they have the same view.

That's my worry alright. If I'm trying to sell a pb bull calf, I want the mother to be a decent looking cow.. My plan was to calve them down at 30 months.
What age did you bull your heifers at and how did they turn out?

limo_100

pakalasa wrote: »

Keep an eye on this one. She might make a good replacement !!!

thats the plan anyway pak. didnt you used to use him?? did you keep any of his heifers??

jerdee

made this for nephew for xmas just trying out pic uploads please advise if too big ....havn t figured out how to crop yet

vanderbadger

jerdee wrote: »

made this for nephew for xmas just trying out pic uploads please advise if too big ....havn t figured out how to crop yet

jeez that cool, might be a nice little business there for you making models

jerdee

vanderbadger wrote: »

jeez that cool, might be a nice little business there for you making models

not with the amount of time that it took i left him a couple of small pots of paint to finish it off himself and some single core black cable to run water to the troughs.....he was well impressed as he said that he could never have enough of sheds hes eleven ...

johnpawl

jerdee wrote: »

not with the amount of time that it took i left him a couple of small pots of paint to finish it off himself and some single core black cable to run water to the troughs.....he was well impressed as he said that he could never have enough of sheds hes eleven ...

That must've taken a bit of time in fairness. You'll have to get a few days work out of him in the future:)

chickenfarmer

jerdee wrote: »

not with the amount of time that it took i left him a couple of small pots of paint to finish it off himself and some single core black cable to run water to the troughs.....he was well impressed as he said that he could never have enough of sheds hes eleven ...

Never realised you were so handy !

Muckit

Did we ever have horses in this tread??...............

A few pics of the neighbours horses letting off steam

johngalway

Does your neighbour do expensive horseback tours by any chance Muckit?

redzerologhlen

vanderbadger wrote: »

By vanderbadger at 2012-04-05
pic does no justice, one of he biggest bulls i ever saw, down at ennis yesterday, didnt see how he got on though

Thats my uncles bull I'd swear vander!! I took this pic of him 2 weeks ago. 1150 kgs, €2200