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Bizzum

Christ Muckit thats a smashing heifer. What age/weight/breeding? Is she for beef or Incalf?

Muckit

stanflt wrote: »

nice grass-was in galway for a communion on sunday and didnt see much ground like that- what part are you in
nice animal

East Galway, outside Ballinasloe. Don't be fooled by that photo Stanfit, you would laugh if you saw the weeds in it .....very old lay, needs reseed badly. Will have to do for now...

Muckit

Bizzum wrote: »

Christ Muckit thats a smashing heifer. What age/weight/breeding? Is she for beef or Incalf?

She is for beef and around the 24mths. I wouldn't chance breeding her. She's not long out of the shed and no meal, but give her a few more weeks at grass and she will be mud fat.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't know her breeding off hand, twas oul lad that got her mother AI'd I posted a pic of her mother and last year's calf on this thread last year.... think around page 16.. :rolleyes:

Muckit

page 21 actually... not a cow you'd write home about, but just look at that calf and the heifer in above post.... just goes to show, don't judge a book by the cover :rolleyes:

dar31

stanflt wrote: »

r u milking many at the moment?
still have 6 to calf-all sprung up to calve in next week to 10days-left the bull out a little longer

170 going through at the moment, will sell 10 or so in the next forthnight, and have 10-15 to cull, but will milk them on for another 2 or so months.

Bizzum

Muckit wrote: »

She is for beef and around the 24mths. I wouldn't chance breeding her. She's not long out of the shed and no meal, but give her a few more weeks at grass and she will be mud fat.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't know her breeding off hand, twas oul lad that got her mother AI'd I posted a pic of her mother and last year's calf on this thread last year.... think around page 16.. :rolleyes:

Go quick and ask the old man! She's a good advertisement for her sire:)

Lovely feminine head on her too.

towzer2010

Muckit wrote: »

She is for beef and around the 24mths. I wouldn't chance breeding her. She's not long out of the shed and no meal, but give her a few more weeks at grass and she will be mud fat.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't know her breeding off hand, twas oul lad that got her mother AI'd I posted a pic of her mother and last year's calf on this thread last year.... think around page 16.. :rolleyes:

Great heifer alright. Just shows that the stumpy cow can sometimes be as good as any.

Muckit

A BIG thank you to everyone that liked and 'thanked' my recent picture post. I'm glad you liked it.

11thanks, I'm chuffed:) Makes it worth the effort to carry the camera when I go herding.

tismesoitis

Muckit wrote: »

A BIG thank you to everyone that liked and 'thanked' my recent picture post. I'm glad you liked it.

11thanks, I'm chuffed:) Makes it worth the effort to carry the camera when I go herding.

Theres 13 for ya now;) Any word on d daddy yet??

just do it

Muckit wrote: »

not a cow you'd write home about, but just look at that calf and the heifer in above post.... just goes to show, don't judge a book by the cover :rolleyes:

I don't think it helps to have the cows too muscular. Use a terminal sire to achieve that. That's my personal opinion anyway! No doubt it's a smashing heifer but I think you're right to slaughther her. It will be interesting to see how she grades;)

Bizzum wrote: »

Go quick and ask the old man! She's a good advertisement for her sire:)

Yes, we're all waiting!!

Muckit wrote: »

11thanks, I'm chuffed:)

Now you've 15:D

Bizzum

tismesoitis wrote: »

Theres 13 for ya now;) Any word on d daddy yet??

Get the finger out Muckit or I'll remove my thanks and lobby everyone else to do the same:D.

Soooooooooooooo....................Who's the daddy???????????????:p

johnpawl

Muckit wrote: »

She is for beef and around the 24mths. I wouldn't chance breeding her. She's not long out of the shed and no meal, but give her a few more weeks at grass and she will be mud fat.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't know her breeding off hand, twas oul lad that got her mother AI'd I posted a pic of her mother and last year's calf on this thread last year.... think around page 16.. :rolleyes:

Fine animal to be fair. It must be tempting to chance an easy calving bull on her....

Muckit

Bizzum wrote: »

Get the finger out Muckit or I'll remove my thanks and lobby everyone else to do the same:D.

Soooooooooooooo....................Who's the daddy???????????????:p

Oul lad no head for codes :rolleyes: I'I have a root through paperwork this evening bizzum! Totally forgot about it yesterday evening Keep those thanks there!

jerdee

nice heifer calf from nkg stockbull

SoJoMo

Muckit, thats a great animal .. . what you feed him?

Seaba

Just a pic of our cow that calfed this morning.
CVV Limousin bull calf - was hoping for a heifer but not complaining! Great calf.

tismesoitis

a couple of LRY bull calves roughly 10 weeks old. two last photos are both ERE calves 1st one is a heifer 2nd a bull. I think they're as good lims as we ever had.

Seaba

tismesoitis wrote: »

a couple of LRY bull calves roughly 10 weeks old. two last photos are both ERE calves 1st one is a heifer 2nd a bull. I think they're as good lims as we ever had.

Lovely calves there.
Just wondering if the ERE calves were hard calved?
A few lads on here had a lot of trouble calving him. Calving diff up at 20%

bogman_bass

Last lad is a smasher!

tismesoitis

Heifer calf was born naturally bull calf took a very small pull...would have calved her self.Have 2 more incalf due around august so hopefully they come the same.I like the CVV calf any bother calving the blue cow. we had bad experiences with blue cows found them tight

Seaba

tismesoitis wrote: »

Heifer calf was born naturally bull calf took a very small pull...would have calved her self.Have 2 more incalf due around august so hopefully they come the same.I like the CVV calf any bother calving the blue cow. we had bad experiences with blue cows found them tight

Know what you mean about blue cows being tight - we had a BB heifer calf last week, MPD AA bull calf, big calf in fairness but she was very tight, even for a heifer.
This cow is OK though - her mother was a big loose cow. We called the Vet but just as a precaution as we were afraid of a big calf. He used the jack but said she was loose enough. Calved OK.
We have a few great BB heifers that we are not going to bull though as they look tight at the hips and are too muscly. C - Section written all over them down the line if they get a decent bull.

Bizzum

@ Seaba, Super outfit, Calf up looking for a feed and the cow cleaned. That's the way to do it.:)

@ Tismesoitis, For me the ERE heifer calf is a smasher. Have they got much ration?

Bizzum

SoJoMo wrote: »

Muckit, thats a great animal .. . what you feed him?

What ever he was fed must have been high in oestrogen and progesterone:D

johnpawl

Seaba wrote: »

Know what you mean about blue cows being tight - we had a BB heifer calf last week, MPD AA bull calf, big calf in fairness but she was very tight, even for a heifer.
This cow is OK though - her mother was a big loose cow. We called the Vet but just as a precaution as we were afraid of a big calf. He used the jack but said she was loose enough. Calved OK.
We have a few great BB heifers that we are not going to bull though as they look tight at the hips and are too muscly. C - Section written all over them down the line if they get a decent bull.

so, where do ye draw the line at too muscely to breed?

tismesoitis

Bizzum wrote: »

@ Seaba, Super outfit, Calf up looking for a feed and the cow cleaned. That's the way to do it.:)

@ Tismesoitis, For me the ERE heifer calf is a smasher. Have they got much ration?

Up feedin d baby:D
calf prob not eating anything yet. 29 calves in the shed getting 10 kgs a day in a creep feeder shes among the younger ones (7 weeks)

redzerologhlen

It cleaned up well Must put a dart of fertiliser out on it now!!

vanderbadger

redzerologhlen wrote: »

It cleaned up well Must put a dart of fertiliser out on it now!!

some difference, made a great job of the place

Richk2012

]It cleaned up well Must put a dart of fertiliser out on it now!!

Thats a powerful transformation Redzer !!

Bodacious

I getting the hang of photobucket now:

Heifer calf lastnight flying about the place today in the wind

dar31

finally got ground ploughed for maize, hope we get 2 dry days this week to get it in