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ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Bodacious wrote: »

photo

Looks like he is on a few kg's of ration

vanderbadger

Bodacious wrote: »

no wonder he is tame, id say he can hardly move

leg wax

!cid_cidImage_P__6FAF.jpg cambridge out of the pied cow,a super calf pity hes wild:eek:

Muckit

Fine calf legs. Green grass???? where was that pic taken???? Brown and yellow are the only two options around here

Conmaicne Mara

Bodacious wrote: »

First time I've seen a double muscled pheasant. The fella on my farm looks like a famine victim in comparison, I must get my ration tested

leg wax

Muckit wrote: »

Fine calf legs. Green grass???? where was that pic taken???? Brown and yellow are the only two options around here

silage ground ,its after getting 2500gals of slurry and 2 bags of 0 7 30, waiting for rain now to put out urea.we have purple grass aswell

just do it

leg wax wrote: »

silage ground ,its after getting 2500gals of slurry and 2 bags of 0 7 30, waiting for rain now to put out urea.we have purple grass aswell

Had you it soil tested? I'd have thought the 2500gal of slurry would have P & K covered.

pakalasa

Let sucklers into a field of yellow grass today. It got too wet at the end of last year to graze. Once it's eaten, it's the long acre for me.:D

Manoffeeling

pakalasa wrote: »

Let sucklers into a field of yellow grass today. It got too wet at the end of last year to graze. Once it's eaten, it's the long acre for me.:D

There is a 4 day waiting time on dairy nuts from glanbia. The mill is going 24 hours a day. I met 9 artic load of wraps on Saturday between limerick and nenagh.

leg wax

just do it wrote: »

Had you it soil tested? I'd have thought the 2500gal of slurry would have P & K covered.

yes i got it tested and was low in k,last year the silage was very thin and not bulky after just 2500 gallons of slurry,needed more k and after the winter we just had,the slurry on its own is only going to maintain the k levels at the same level if taking silage off.

vincenzolorenzo

pakalasa wrote: »

Vintage Silage making

We cut silage at home for years with one of those side mounted JF's shown at 1min 40s in the video. Some machine!

AntrimGlens

Got some heifers out yesterday onto a bit of rough grazing, keeping the silage and meal at them until the brown carpet turns a slighly less colour of brown and maybe green

leg wax

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Got some heifers out yesterday onto a bit of rough grazing, keeping the silage and meal at them until the brown carpet turns a slighly less colour of brown and maybe green

legs would like a load of them for the bull:cool:

beef burger

them is fine heifers are they home reared or bought in.

AntrimGlens

beef burger wrote: »

them is fine heifers are they home reared or bought in.

All home bred haven't bought in anything in years except a stock bull.

just do it

The Curragh this morning

reilig

just do it wrote: »

The Curragh this morning

Is that sand or grass :D:D:D

Kovu

Had a bad shock a couple dsys go. Calf went awol. EVENTUALLY found near neighbours.

Sligoronan

Hopefully calf before the weekend

towzer2010

Are you looking at me........punk!

Muckit

I dunno....are you a square with an X going through it? :P

tanko

Sligoronan, your cow will calve between 2am and 6am on sunday morning. I can guarantee it:D

Milton09

Finally got a chance to lay a few of my connacht agri pipes at the weekend, this is in the corner of a cutaway bog field with about 3 feet of bog left.

adne

Milton09 wrote: »

Finally got a chance to lay a few of my connacht agri pipes at the weekend, this is in the corner of a cutaway bog field with about 3 feet of bog left.

Whats the stone your putting on top milton? Looks to be a lot of dust in it

Damo810

Anyone been to the marts recently? How are yearling heifers/Bulls going? We might have a few off soon if theres any decent trade, roughly 300Kg-350Kg..

Milton09

adne wrote: »

Whats the stone your putting on top milton? Looks to be a lot of dust in it

Thats just some 2" all in, we ran into a very soft spot when digging and needed to build up the bottom of the drain a bit to get it level. We didn't put any stone on top of the pipe.

Muckit

Milton09 wrote: »

Thats just some 2" all in, we ran into a very soft spot when digging and needed to build up the bottom of the drain a bit to get it level. We didn't put any stone on top of the pipe.

I hope this works out for you. From photos, it doesn't seem like you've gone down far. Will there just be stock on this? Would you be worried about machinery or stock damaging the pipe or upsetting the levels?

Seems to be a lot of lads draining wet spots this spring. Been ideal for it.

Username John

Yesterday seemed to be the first day where the ewes and lambs weren't perished looking, instead they were lying enjoying the evening sun...

Made a very pleasant change



Hopefully the bit of heat we're getting will stay, badly need grass... After this field, there isn't much to go, and they wont last too long more there... (and as you can see, some are a thin )

just do it

Muckit wrote: »

I hope this works out for you. From photos, it doesn't seem like you've gone down far.

Funny you bring that up Muckit. I'd to get my digger man to go back for more depth. He didn't feel it was needed but I felt the deeper the better. Probably site dependant I suppose.

Muckit

just do it wrote: »

Funny you bring that up Muckit. I'd to get my digger man to go back for more depth. He didn't feel it was needed but I felt the deeper the better. Probably site dependant I suppose.

Well they reckon anything less than 2' deep can be impacted on by machinery. On the other hand drain near the surface will do the job in bog ground which is supposed to have low permability. Cattle bogging in that photo you'd imagine could damage pipe. If they don't it should be a good job

adne

Milton09 wrote: »

Thats just some 2" all in, we ran into a very soft spot when digging and needed to build up the bottom of the drain a bit to get it level. We didn't put any stone on top of the pipe.

Should work grand as long as your not putting it on top of pipe

Milton09

Muckit wrote: »

I hope this works out for you. From photos, it doesn't seem like you've gone down far. Will there just be stock on this? Would you be worried about machinery or stock damaging the pipe or upsetting the levels?

Seems to be a lot of lads draining wet spots this spring. Been ideal for it.

Thanks, this is my first experiment using these pipes. Unfortunately the ground was falling away from the open drain so the land drain is a lot deeper at the start than at the end , but there is still a fall on the pipe if you know what I mean. Its about 2' deep at the very end. Theres a 18" mains water pipe less than 20' away from it so there wont be any heavy machinery there, probably only let very light cattle and sheep on it for grazing down the line.

Richk2012

Username John wrote: »

Yesterday seemed to be the first day where the ewes and lambs weren't perished looking, instead they were lying enjoying the evening sun...

Made a very pleasant change



Hopefully the bit of heat we're getting will stay, badly need grass... After this field, there isn't much to go, and they wont last too long more there... (and as you can see, some are a thin )

All the hardship and problems at lambing seems worth it when you get that to that stage John . Great pic

Butcher Boy

This lad was born yesterday 26 days over.... There was nothing slow about him this morning!!

earnyourturns

Me and my new Jersey friend.

Muckit

Butcher Boy wrote: »

This lad was born yesterday .......

Ahhh .... so you rear your own... 'Butcher Boy'!!

Butcher Boy

Muckit wrote: »

Ahhh .... so you rear your own... 'Butcher Boy'!!

Ya from stable to table.:D

leg wax

earnyourturns wrote: »

Me and my new Jersey friend.

where are you based earnyourturns

just do it

earnyourturns wrote: »

Me and my new Jersey friend.

Looks like you'll be sticking with the farming

earnyourturns

just do it wrote: »

Looks like you'll be sticking with the farming

Actually, this is from when a friend and I were looking after a smallholding for a week while the owner was on holidays, and we had to milk two Jersey cows every morning. Nothing to do with any fellas! Bit smitten with Jerseys now though.

I'm in New Zealand, actually. Plenty of farming here for sure!

reilig

A miniature addition

redzerologhlen

Another sizeable lump of a lim bull calf a few hours ago, the cows a bit worse for wear looking after carrying him for the winter.

bogman_bass

wow! he's a bit of a bruiser alright!

Muckit

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Another sizeable lump of a lim bull calf

Now that's what you call a calf All the more impressive when you see the setting they are coming out of. Nice one Redz. Keep them coming!

Is he AI or out of your own bull?

redzerologhlen

Muckit wrote: »

Now that's what you call a calf All the more impressive when you see the setting they are coming out of. Nice one Redz. Keep them coming!

Is he AI or out of your own bull?

Heres the daddy Muckit, didnt bother ai'ing any cows last year, might do some this year on the first heat and let them run with the bull after, I have to bring the cows across the road to the crush and its a bit of a balls to get them in unless I have someone with me. Sold the bull last october for 2k at a 7 year old, he was bought for breeding.

limo_100

clever heifer doesnt like the slats she never goes into the pen so she gets the best of everything

ps its the shorthorn cow that shes sucking

limo_100

heres a DEP heifer calf landed yesterday shes a avarage calf so hopefully she will do well in the next few weeks

leg wax

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redzerologhlen

leg wax wrote: »

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redzerologhlen

4 heifers I bought for breeding lads. 2 charolais I bought of a friend at home knowing they will have a bit of milk. I bought the red lims off another neighbour, both are out of sim cows and a malibu stock bull so should be ok for milk too. The charolais are around 430kg and the lims are around 360.