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

Tipp Man

delaval wrote: »

Busy

Is that a blue cow in the middle of that photo?

Kovu

Tipp Man wrote: »

Is that a blue cow in the middle of that photo?

She used to be black and white but she was left out in the rain too long:pac:

vanderbadger

well did you sell??

Munster Magic

vanderbadger wrote: »

well did you sell??

Sorry, meant to say sale is this Saturday

Richk2012

delaval wrote: »

Has Spring sprung????

Great grass for them ....
I wont see that green colour for another 3 weeks id say .
Is the brown one a jersy ???

Munster Magic

vanderbadger wrote: »

well did you sell??

Any idea why my post was taken down?

vanderbadger

Munster Magic wrote: »

Any idea why my post was taken down?

no idea

bogman_bass

Probably because advertising is against the fourm charter

reilig

Munster Magic wrote: »

Any idea why my post was taken down?

Sorry, we can't allow advertising. If you want to pay for advertising, contact one of the admins

Munster Magic

reilig wrote: »

Sorry, we can't allow advertising. If you want to pay for advertising, contact one of the admins

Fair enough. Only one of the heifers were my own, just thought I would throw up a few pictures

delaval

Tipp Man wrote: »

Is that a blue cow in the middle of that photo?

Yes we have about 6. They are not BB probably a throw back to Shorthorn. We always try to serve with aa white or red bull to get a blue. We had no blue born this year or last

delaval

Richk2012 wrote: »

Great grass for them ....
I wont see that green colour for another 3 weeks id say .
Is the brown one a jersy ???

Yes Jex we have about 60% xbred

munkus

For some of ye lads who live outside of the West. These odd shaped objects called stones have littered our land for centenaries and have to be arranged in organised piles (walls). Sometimes they fall.


Step 1: Horror

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Step 2: Acceptance and clearout

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Step 3: Off to Pub.

redzerologhlen

munkus wrote: »

For some of ye lads who live outside of the West. These odd shaped objects called stones have littered our land for centenaries and have to be arranged in organised piles (walls). Sometimes they fall.


Step 1: Horror

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Step 2: Acceptance and clearout

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Step 3: Off to Pub.

Good job...the wild goats are forever knocking the walls around here:mad:

Conmaicne Mara

Nicely rebuilt, probably one of my least favourite jobs. Some of the stones in my walls, you'd wonder how people ever managed to move them. Big chunks of that blue granite (or whatever it is, it's bloody heavy).

bob charles

often got step one and two completed and headed to the pub to comtemplate how much work will be involved in doing step 3.

nothing like stone walling to calm the mind. Back in the days of the onset of the BSE crisis 96 we as good as went to the wall (business wise and literally:D), having no money to stay on the road buying animals we worked around the land to fix things up. Must of built a mile of stone walls that still look great to this day. great satisfaction in the job

delaval

munkus wrote: »

For some of ye lads who live outside of the West. These odd shaped objects called stones have littered our land for centenaries and have to be arranged in organised piles (walls). Sometimes they fall.


Step 1: Horror

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Step 2: Acceptance and clearout

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Step 3: Off to Pub.

Brilliant job. We don't have round here TG. I often wondered would the stone not be more valuable as a road way and use electric fence as a fence......,,,.,or have I asked a dumb question??

munkus

delaval wrote: »

Brilliant job. We don't have round here TG. I often wondered would the stone not be more valuable as a road way and use electric fence as a fence......,,,.,or have I asked a dumb question??

Interesting question. That is a boundary wall on our farm that was built around 1840. I think the Landlord, Gregory in Coole, Gort, commissioned for much of this in the south Galway area. The original sections that are still standing have phenomenal stonework, it's like they cut the stone.

As to the question of roadways, there's so much of the stone around that over years of ploughing them up and reclaiming land you could pave most farms with it. Well built walls are probably a better barrier than a fence in any case. You'd also have to get it crushed to be suitable for roadways.

Conmaicne Mara

delaval wrote: »

Brilliant job. We don't have round here TG. I often wondered would the stone not be more valuable as a road way and use electric fence as a fence......,,,.,or have I asked a dumb question??

They're very handy as shelter for stock. Other than that, not handy in the slightest :pac:

moy83

The clearout stage is a great job . Im usually lazy and tell myself that it will be grand to start about a foot up on top and you know how that ends up . Start all over again starting properly this time

bob charles

delaval wrote: »

Brilliant job. We don't have round here TG. I often wondered would the stone not be more valuable as a road way and use electric fence as a fence......,,,.,or have I asked a dumb question??

well we had to put the stones somewhere so that we could find the earth in the fields. the higher the walls the bigger we could make the fields.

As for roads, remove the dust of topsoil that blew over the rocks and you will have a harder surface than under the M50

You must be farming worlds apart from us poor peasants down here

delaval

bob charles wrote: »

well we had to put the stones somewhere so that we could find the earth in the fields. the higher the walls the bigger we could make the fields.

As for roads, remove the dust of topsoil that blew over the rocks and you will have a harder surface than under the M50

You must be farming worlds apart from us poor peasants down here

No need to over do it Poor Peasant two adjectives rarely used to describe you I'd say.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer though

fishfarmer

munkus wrote: »

For some of ye lads who live outside of the West. These odd shaped objects called stones have littered our land for centenaries and have to be arranged in organised piles (walls). Sometimes they fall.


Step 1: Horror

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Step 2: Acceptance and clearout

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Step 3: Off to Pub.

Always wondered how you stop them from falling over. Seen stone walls that were fairly thin. Do ye just build them a few stones thicker at the bottom or something?
I should really just ask the old fella, he's mad for building them, purely for the craic.

munkus

fishfarmer wrote: »

Always wondered how you stop them from falling over. Seen stone walls that were fairly thin. Do ye just build them a few stones thicker at the bottom or something?
I should really just ask the old fella, he's mad for building them, purely for the craic.

Ya, the single stone walls are harder to build than these, as they have to balance perfectly. Handy enough to build these are they are being filled inside as you work your way up and the stone is supported.

bbam

Some of July'12 born sucks we reared..
Out now near 2 weeks and loving it..
Getting .5kg beef nut daily for the moment..

adne

bbam wrote: »

Some of July'12 born sucks we reared..
Out now near 2 weeks and loving it..
Getting .5kg beef nut daily for the moment..

5 kg each?? Wooh

Timmaay

delaval wrote: »

Brilliant job. We don't have round here TG. I often wondered would the stone not be more valuable as a road way and use electric fence as a fence......,,,.,or have I asked a dumb question??

Ha I was just going to say that I'm not going to moan the next time I have to spend 10mins pushing a temporary electric fence back afew feet etc!

renandstimpy

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on the money

bbam

adne wrote: »

5 kg each?? Wooh

.5kg, = 0.5kg

naughto

this is renandstimpy pic from above

adne

bbam wrote: »

.5kg, = 0.5kg

Phew. Was thinking this lad has more cash than sense

Bodacious

limo_100

Bodacious wrote: »

theres notting nicer than snow white charolais calves. are you happy with with your LGL calves have you only got the two of them?

Bodacious

limo_100 wrote: »

theres notting nicer than snow white charolais calves. are you happy with with your LGL calves have you only got the two of them?

Very happy with them, only the two straws, ai'd same day - calved the same day, 2 white bulls, both fired them out.. younger cow put the calving bed out though after which mesmerises me as i never saw an easier calving and that to happen

pakalasa

I've one LGL calf myself. Very handy when born, but starting to grow away now, like only the Charolais can.

redzerologhlen

A handy little heifer calf a 3 year old springer threw out yesterday, looking grand and content for herself this morning.

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Went for a walk today and found some grass!
Hopefully will leave cows out in a few days.
Last couple of days now you can see the cattle dotting around the various farms.
Welcomed sight to see

bbam

Feel bad posting this after that last picture :o
Lovely pasture there Zetor..

We made a weedlicker a few years ago to do battle with the rushes.. On our low lying land there is little drainage and no further room as we're in the bottom of the valley and downstream drainage is very slow..

Anyway... here's a meadow where we can travel 3/4 of it when the going is good.. You can see we had some success beating the rushes back into the last 1/4 we can't travel... there's a bog hole in there somewhere !! 3 years ago the whole field was like the last 1/4, and while a good regrowth of rush is there I'm happy with the progress to date.. Another run of the licker when its grazed should go a long way..



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Muckit

pakalasa wrote: »

I've one LGL calf myself. Very handy when born, but starting to grow away now, like only the Charolais can.

Fine calf. He looks lovely.

delaval

Lovely evening kids playing hurling in the paddock cows starting to settle for the night enjoying a cup of coffee in the garden. Well when I say garden that's what it must look like for Communion on Sun week

quadboy

bbam wrote: »

Feel bad posting this after that last picture :o
Lovely pasture there Zetor..

We made a weedlicker a few years ago to do battle with the rushes.. On our low lying land there is little drainage and no further room as we're in the bottom of the valley and downstream drainage is very slow..

Anyway... here's a meadow where we can travel 3/4 of it when the going is good.. You can see we had some success beating the rushes back into the last 1/4 we can't travel... there's a bog hole in there somewhere !! 3 years ago the whole field was like the last 1/4, and while a good regrowth of rush is there I'm happy with the progress to date.. Another run of the licker when its grazed should go a long way..



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How long did it take to get it looking like that and did you only lick them no cutting? I have fields that look like that last 1/4 and want to sort em out

bbam

quadboy wrote: »

How long did it take to get it looking like that and did you only lick them no cutting? I have fields that look like that last 1/4 and want to sort em out

Spring lick, graze., mow. Graze and lick early autumn.
Gallup at 100:1 in the licker.

They can be licked without mowing for regrowth. We go out with the licker whenever the ground is good. Unfortunately, that's not often enough !

quadboy

bbam wrote: »

Spring lick, graze., mow. Graze and lick early autumn.
Gallup at 100:1 in the licker.

They can be licked without mowing for regrowth. We go out with the licker whenever the ground is good. Unfortunately, that's not often enough !

Yeah must def get a licker I see a load starting to appear in places that never before had em and the ground wouldn't even be that wet

The Real Elmer Fudd

10 day old lim bull calf out of MBP and a 36 month old second calver

ordinary farmer

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

10 day old lim bull calf out of MBP and a 36 month old second calver

that heifer a bit of angus in her.? smashing calf by the way.!!

delaval

Clever cow

delaval

delaval wrote: »

Clever cow

1 twine we use to activate auger if we have a short row

2 cow pulling

3 Jackpot

moy83

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

10 day old lim bull calf out of MBP and a 36 month old second calver

We wouldnt have the best of cows . Alot of aax and that bull is bringing the best of calves from them I must say

The Real Elmer Fudd

ordinary farmer wrote: »

that heifer a bit of angus in her.? smashing calf by the way.!!

As far as I know the cow is out of a br fr x aa dam and a ch stock bull. She has piles of milk and did a great job on her calf last year.

whelan1

delaval wrote: »

1 twine we use to activate auger if we have a short row

2 cow pulling

3 Jackpot

had one like that, used to feed herself, let herself and her comrades into into the parlour one night and fed them all, in the end she got stomach ulcers from too much feed, her own fault really:D