Livestock/General Farming photo thread ***READ MOD NOTE IN POST #1***

mikeoh

Sligoronan wrote: »

any idea what a man could do with this leg.
gave him a shot of Vit e about a week after he was born but still not improveing. he running around the field no bother. just it looks a site.

I had one like him but worse my lads 2 front legs were bowed....he was walking like a crab , keep giving the vitesel regularly and plenty multivitamins my lad came right after a month or more and turned into the best calf I have, I think it a mixture of too much muscle on light bone and lack of vitamins .....best of luck

stanflt

busy day

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Bodacious wrote: »

The bit of drying on their backs for outwintered animals is mighty:)

Love the photo

redzerologhlen

Bodacious wrote: »

The bit of drying on their backs for outwintered animals is mighty:)

+1, stock are a lot happier looking the last few days and it was well due. Have 5 springers softening now and ten cows so hopefully it will hold up for another few weeks

redzerologhlen

stanflt wrote: »

busy day

Sometimes I wonder if we are living in the same country stan.

leg wax

stanflt what is the make up of that fert nutri booster?

stanflt

leg wax wrote: »

stanflt what is the make up of that fert nutri booster?

25n with selenium cobalt and sulphar- supposed to help cow fertility:rolleyes:

bogman_bass

First pic is a HCA heifer out of a REQ first calver
Pics 2 and 3 are a ADX bull out of an SRI cow
Pics 4 and 5 are an IRX bull out of an HExAA cow. nice calf but not too happy about the front leg

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limo_100

bogman_bass wrote: »

First pic is a HCA heifer out of a REQ first calver
Pics 2 and 3 are a ADX bull out of an SRI cow
Pics 4 and 5 are an IRX bull out of an HExAA cow. nice calf but not too happy about the front leg

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have a similar hca calf watch him grow they come up very quick. That ADX calf is a smasher out was he big born?? i had one last week small calf id say he'll grow time will tell. Id love to see a picture of the cow hes off is she a big blue cow??

redzerologhlen

Keeping the outwintered hereford theme going here bodacious They are all very content the last few days and starting to soften now. No feeding what so ever got yet and holding up well.

awaywithyou

stanflt wrote: »

busy day

middle picture....

whats the story with the screen to the right of the steering wheel... GPS..???

td5man

awaywithyou wrote: »

middle picture....

whats the story with the screen to the right of the steering wheel... GPS..???

Its sat nav so he doesnt get lost in all that grass!!!

bogman_bass

limo_100 wrote: »

have a similar hca calf watch him grow they come up very quick. That ADX calf is a smasher out was he big born?? i had one last week small calf id say he'll grow time will tell. Id love to see a picture of the cow hes off is she a big blue cow??

he was big enough. he was born on Sunday morning 15 days overdue. she got as far as the hips herself and had to give a wee pull to help but nothing serrious. she's a cracker of a cow. loads of milk, 360 day calving interval and a wee pet. very fond of her

here is a picture of her back in May she had gone a bit stale at that stage

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mf240

Nice grass stan.

Redzer had the cows out before ya.:D

bogman_bass

A friend posted this on facebook. I thought it was a beautiful juxtaposition

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limo_100

bogman_bass wrote: »

he was big enough. he was born on Sunday morning 15 days overdue. she got as far as the hips herself and had to give a wee pull to help but nothing serrious. she's a cracker of a cow. loads of milk, 360 day calving interval and a wee pet. very fond of her

here is a picture of her back in May she had gone a bit stale at that stage

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is she a british freisen x blue?? do you have many cows like that?

bogman_bass

She is. SRI out of ah half BF half HO cow. The herd is made of cows like her or their daughters. when we were milking we always finished the beef calves and any bbx heifers we had we bulled.
Cant fault them, the only thing is you have to be sensible with your bull choice but having bucket reared animals as suckler dams gives a lot of comfort as regards temprement

limo_100

bogman_bass wrote: »

She is. SRI out of ah half BF half HO cow. The herd is made of cows like her or their daughters. when we were milking we always finished the beef calves and any bbx heifers we had we bulled.
Cant fault them, the only thing is you have to be sensible with your bull choice but having bucket reared animals as suckler dams gives a lot of comfort as regards temprement

is adx about the hardest bull ud put on them?? im thinking of getting a few of them there nice stock and good milkers. there good broad long cows the only think is there not overly tall but i suppose thats why you use limousin bull

bogman_bass

limo_100 wrote: »

is adx about the hardest bull ud put on them?? im thinking of getting a few of them there nice stock and good milkers. there good broad long cows the only think is there not overly tall but i suppose thats why you use limousin bull

Yeah he would be as hard as I'd go. used a lot of fl22 on them with good results. I dont buy into the whole thing of needing a big lump of a calf to end up with a good weanling/finished animal. Have them small coming out and they'll grow.
also I'm working off farm and dont really want the old lad going pulling at them.
Temped to try a parthenaise on one but wary of putting muscle on muscle.

Richk2012

bogman_bass wrote: »

he was big enough. he was born on Sunday morning 15 days overdue. she got as far as the hips herself and had to give a wee pull to help but nothing serrious. she's a cracker of a cow. loads of milk, 360 day calving interval and a wee pet. very fond of her

here is a picture of her back in May she had gone a bit stale at that stage

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Shes a cracker of a cow Bogman . From the pic , she seems to hold her condition well too , which isnt always the case with HOxBB

just do it

Glad to post this photo. She's a second calver with a DZP heifer calf at foot. She wouldn't let her calf suck last year and after 12 days I fostered it onto another cow. I was going to cull her until someone posted on here about a cow that didn't take to a calf that had gotten covered in s**t from having calved down on the slats. That's what happened her last year so I decided to give her a second chance.

So glad to see this one sucking

pakalasa

just do it wrote: »

.... I was going to cull her until someone posted on here about a cow that didn't take to a calf that had gotten covered in s**t from having calved down on the slats...

I saw a cow reject her calve after I tagged it using some iodine on the tag tip. She was grand after an hour or so, but shows really how much they go on smell above eevrything else.

bob charles

Today was a day for taking it easy

Muckit

arragh bob your an oul softie behind it all!!

td5man

Muckit wrote: »

arragh bob your an oul softie behind it all!!

They're probably for sale.

bob charles

td5man wrote: »

They're probably for sale.

doing my best to find good working homes for them as they are very well bred. Think I have them sorted now. I would much prefer to see one of them become as good as their dad than make a quick buck selling them. On saying that 7 pups have over a quarter ton of dog nuts and hundreds of cans of feed eat. Gave €25 a piece for vaccinations last week. Little feckers cost about €100 to get this far:D

bob charles

Meanwhile back in the real world it was pedal to the metal all weekend. My dairy herd in the foreground:D

grazeaway

bob charles wrote: »

Meanwhile back in the real world it was pedal to the metal all weekend. My dairy herd in the foreground:D

as yes the tyregod, fantastic way of feeding stones. a few lads round here got them back in the late 80's "cos dem armers are way too small, like!", got feed up the amount of stones going to mallow so ditched them for the armers again, then when back the tyregods when they started to grow beet again for fodder and the leaves were shagged on the beet. know of a few tillage lads that now run both harvesters. an armer for pulling in the authunm and a tyregod for digging in the spring or after the frost has killed off the leaves.

have you a lad cleaning and chopping them or are you feeding it as is?

bob charles

grazeaway wrote: »

have you a lad cleaning and chopping them or are you feeding it as is?

I have a fool of a lad to do the washing and chopping. Leaves were very poor on this variety of sugar beet, will be able to pick with armer in a few weeks time but need beet now and fields cleared, have more I will pull with armer in a months time. Oh and the fool of a lad is the one typing on here

td5man

bob charles wrote: »

doing my best to find good working homes for them as they are very well bred. Think I have them sorted now. I would much prefer to see one of them become as good as their dad than make a quick buck selling them. On saying that 7 pups have over a quarter ton of dog nuts and hundreds of cans of feed eat. Gave €25 a piece for vaccinations last week. Little feckers cost about €100 to get this far:D

Bought a bull from a lad that was also breeding terriers. He said he was making more with the terriers, forget what the price was but a couple of pups were the same price as the bull

grazeaway

bob charles wrote: »

I have a fool of a lad to do the washing and chopping. Leaves were very poor on this variety of sugar beet, will be able to pick with armer in a few weeks time but need beet now and fields cleared, have more I will pull with armer in a months time. Oh and the fool of a lad is the one typing on here

we strip graze fodder beet, find it handier then chopping, but it suits us as we leave the cows out by day. a few neighbours use chopper boxes (we used to years ago too) but will only use them on pulled beet. lad i used to hurl with feeds them whole into his feeder wagon. he dosent have knifes in the wagon as its precison cut silage and loads the beet in whole. fodder beet doesnt need to be chopped and it'll mix away well with the silage and straw. any stones will be left behind. the bigger bulk in the fodder beet will make up for the lower sugar. might be an idea if you dont want to chop and wash.

Bodacious

6 out of 6 heifers for this cow .. all i want is a yellow bull calf:D

Bodacious

Cheers for all the thanks, she fired her out on 283 days bit better quality calf than Limkiln Bosco KIB heifer calf last year ... i was feeding at the time..she went from eating silage at ring feeder to getting calf out in less than 30mins i never saw anything as quick.. she is not much to look at but she bashes them out and zero trouble putting calves sucking etc:)

just do it

Bodacious wrote: »

Cheers for all the thanks, she fired her out on 283 days bit better quality calf than Limkiln Bosco KIB heifer calf last year ... i was feeding at the time..she went from eating silage at ring feeder to getting calf out in less than 30mins i never saw anything as quick.. she is not much to look at but she bashes them out and zero trouble putting calves sucking etc:)

Funny isn't how the plainer cows can be the best sucklers! She's good shape and looks milky. Throw in the maternal gene and that's as good as it gets!

Bodacious

just do it wrote: »

Funny isn't how the plainer cows can be the best sucklers! She's good shape and looks milky. Throw in the maternal gene and that's as good as it gets!

yeah she a good milker, ive kept 2 heifers out of her.. she can calve anything last 3 were BYU, KIB, DEZ and never takes any time with her either!

blue5000

Yearling heifers at grass, after just kale, bb silage and meal around weaning for the winter.

Kovu

blue5000 wrote: »

Yearling heifers at grass, after just kale, bb silage and meal around weaning for the winter.

I spy an Aubrac:rolleyes:

blue5000

Happy as a pig in sh1te

redzerologhlen

A few from the last couple of days, hard to beat the hereford blood for fertility and easy kept cows. We have 10 hereford cows and only 2 left to calf now, only 2 continental cows calved yet and they are needing a lot more feeding than their thick skinned counterparts.





A few yearlings preparing a small field for reseeding.



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redzerologhlen

blue5000 wrote: »

Yearling heifers at grass, after just kale, bb silage and meal around weaning for the winter.

Nice looking bunch there blue, whats your plan for them?

Sunset V

redzerologhlen wrote: »

A few from the last couple of days, hard to beat the hereford blood for fertility and easy kept cows. We have 10 hereford cows and only 2 left to calf now, only 2 continental cows calved yet and they are needing a lot more feeding than their thick skinned counterparts.





A few yearlings preparing a small field for reseeding.



My 2 pet lawnmowers

Great photos. Where are you based? Couldn't even imagine having animals out at the minute. Long, LONG way off yet for us....

Richk2012

blue5000 wrote: »

Happy as a pig in sh1te

Is he a handy tool to have , or just a companion blue???

blue5000

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Nice looking bunch there blue, whats your plan for them?

Angus and aubracs will go to bull in May, all blondes will be sold, probably in April.

Richk2012 wrote: »

Is he a handy tool to have , or just a companion blue???

He's a tool alright, Poor bastard has about 45 breeds in him so gets every time he goes in a field, he doesn't know whether to round up cattle, point pheasants or chase rabbits. Still, he's great company and helps to encourage the burglars to go someplace else.

Pat the lad

blue5000 wrote: »

Happy as a pig in sh1te

a bit a Aubrac in the dog too!!! LoL !!!

100-90??

pakalasa

Pat the lad wrote: »

a bit a Aubrac in the dog too!!! LoL !!!

Ha, I was going to say the same, but didn't bother.:D

Conor556

Pedigree Speckle park hefier and calf

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Bizzum

Conor556 wrote: »

Pedigree Speckle park hefier and calf

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That could be a first on here;)

Lovely markings on them!

Richk2012

Conor556 wrote: »

Pedigree Speckle park hefier and calf

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Have you many speckle park cattle conor ???

blue5000

Pat the lad wrote: »

a bit a Aubrac in the dog too!!! LoL !!!

100-90??

110-90

Sligoronan

Always a 2 in the morning job. But shur it's worth it when they are health