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just do it

Muckit wrote: »

same here, different colour, still no grass!!

I feel your pain!

redzerologhlen

pakalasa wrote: »

Redz, You could try introducing a dog too. I brought a young Jack Russell counting last night. Man, sent the cows into a mad panic. he loved it though. First dog we've had with no fear - but no sense either.

I let her off this morning with him and she has taken, I let the dog in with her first to be sure though

redzerologhlen

Another 2 year old springer calved this morning when I went out, I left a hand on her at half 1 this morning and her bones werent stirred and the calf was up sucking at half 8 when I seen her again. 11 more to go now until a normal sleeping pattern can resume again :cool:

Kovu

You were up at the same time as me Redzer:D
Checked this girl at two, then half four, she was just starting to get sick to calve at that stage. By half seven, calf had arrived and she was mental. Still don't know if it's a bull or heifer! She's for the road this year anyway!


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Cleaning out the shed today as only three cows left in, mice everywhere!! I should prob train the original Kovu to not play with his food:o



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Richk2012

Kovu Murr wrote: »

You were up at the same time as me Redzer:D
Checked this girl at two, then half four, she was just starting to get sick to calve at that stage. By half seven, calf had arrived and she was mental. Still don't know if it's a bull or heifer! She's for the road this year anyway!


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Cleaning out the shed today as only three cows left in, mice everywhere!! I should prob train the original Kovu to not play with his food:o



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Whatbull is the calf by kovu ???

vanderbadger

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vanderbadger

after reseed


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pakalasa

...and I heard there wasn't a blade of grass "back west Clare". You must be very happy with that, Van. Did you do it yerself? By what method?

vanderbadger

pakalasa wrote: »

...and I heard there wasn't a blade of grass "back west Clare". You must be very happy with that, Van. Did you do it yerself? By what method?

no contractors, it was drained as well, then sprayed off, disc harrowed and 2 runs of power harrow, seed spread with wagtail, then gran lime, 10-10-20 and rolled
it looks good at the moment but its been a long haul, was done last april, its started raining a few days after seed went in and was wet enough all year, only half grazed by weanlings last autumn, hoping to get good crop of silage or two out this year though

moy83

Lovely job vander great to have fresh stuff like that this year especially . Just keep on top of the baxtard rushes now

ordinary farmer

how did you go about that vander did u spray off the rushes?
or what

just do it

Kovu Murr wrote: »

You were up at the same time as me Redzer:D
Checked this girl at two, then half four, she was just starting to get sick to calve at that stage. By half seven, calf had arrived and she was mental. Still don't know if it's a bull or heifer! She's for the road this year anyway!

She has that twinkle in her eye alright. I'd be sure to have a gate between her and me at all times!

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Cleaning out the shed today as only three cows left in, mice everywhere!! I should prob train the original Kovu to not play with his food:o

He's the sacrafical mouse while the rest of them get to safety!

vanderbadger

ordinary farmer wrote: »

how did you go about that vander did u spray off the rushes?
or what

yes field was burned off with roundup

Bizzum

May Day and not a pick of grass.

Pic 16. Looking for grass.
Pic 18. A KFY Sim heifer out of a PB CH cow.
Pic 20. A nice thick PB CH bull calf by AZA.

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Kovu

Richk2012 wrote: »

Whatbull is the calf by kovu ???

Westside Bob, we've used him a lot the last couple of years. Only two blues left for us this year are VMP so that should be interesting.

ordinary farmer

Bizzum wrote: »

May Day and not a pick of grass.

Pic 16. Looking for grass.
Pic 18. A KFY Sim heifer out of a PB CH cow.
Pic 20. A nice thick PB CH bull calf by AZA.

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fine lumps of cows bizzum. how you find the charolais ?

Bizzum

ordinary farmer wrote: »

fine lumps of cows bizzum. how you find the charolais ?

That cow in the picture there would kill you when she calves, otherwise she's alright. She is by Sylvain, goes in calf nicely, pops out a calf, and makes a good job rearing the calf. We will breed from her calf there all going well. The Simm should bring a touch of milk.
Now that I think of it the 2 CH cows are by Sylvain, the other is a third calver, and again a tramp at calving, settles down then, breeds well. She's not as big a cow as the other one.

yellow50HX

rotovating for beet at the uncles place, his dog came over to inspect finish. think i passed the test as he wasnt barking at me about it being too shallow.

delaval

Another job done

bob charles

delaval wrote: »

Another job done

more like another job to do, get those docks sprayed

delaval

bob charles wrote: »

more like another job to do, get those docks sprayed

Never have to send for a smart ass round here

bob charles

delaval wrote: »

Never have to send for a smart ass round here

Publican said to me one night about going on holidays

"never pack a B*ll*x when your going on holidays, as its the first thing you will meet when you get there"

Username John

bob charles wrote: »

Publican said to me one night about going on holidays

"never pack a B*ll*x when your going on holidays, as its the first thing you will meet when you get there"

And did you enjoy that holiday?

bob charles

Username John wrote: »

And did you enjoy that holiday?

I just looked in the mirror when the plane landed over and that was the first B*ll*x I met

Username John

Moved the sheep and lambs to a new paddock this morning. Was a lovely morning, not too cold...



Grass is growing good enough the past 2 weeks down this side of the country.
The sheep last grazed this paddock about 3-4 weeks ago (but to be fair they didn't graze it to the bone, as I wanted to ensure there would be better regrowth) Its still not super I know but it'll hold em for a few days and will move em on again...
This year I am trying to keep them moving every 3-4 days...
(And before anyone thinks I am anyway good at grass management or something like that, I'm not, I'm just very understocked)

bob charles

Those hampshire downs are gas looking little fellows

Tipp Man

delaval wrote: »

Another job done

How old are they?

Look fit for weaning

delaval

Tipp Man wrote: »

How old are they?

Look fit for weaning

Fit to wean. Eating almost 2 kg Goldgrain nut 800gms milk replacer got them out to train to fence and will wean on Monday.
Will keep on this paddock for 1 week to be sure all ok then they will move to heifer area to join other weaned calves.
We moved earlycalved born Feb (weaned) calves there yesterday. I weighed in tractor trailer on way averaged 85kg. Cross breds mainly what do you think. They have 360 days till ai if they do .7/day they'll be fit. What do ye think?

just do it

bob charles wrote: »

more like another job to do, get those docks sprayed

I've a small patch of docks that have come in a hole I filled in. What's should I spray them with?

bbam

Last of the babies getting milk..
These lads are 7 & 8 weeks old..
Just running out the end of a bag of milk and then out to grass..

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These guys are from end jan onwards..
Just the four babies from above to join them.. Always like when they all get together.. nicer to see and easier to manage..

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tismesoitis

just do it wrote: »

I've a small patch of docks that have come in a hole I filled in. What's should I spray them with?

Grazon 90 wil do a great job spent the last 2 days spot spraying a 15 acre silage field and on th 2nd day i could see the ones sprayed the day before starting to curl up!! mix 60 mls to 10 litres of water and robert is your fathers brother:D

just do it

tismesoitis wrote: »

Grazon 90 wil do a great job spent the last 2 days spot spraying a 15 acre silage field and on th 2nd day i could see the ones sprayed the day before starting to curl up!! mix 60 mls to 10 litres of water and robert is your fathers brother:D

Great stuff as I've grazon already

stanflt

Manoffeeling wrote: »

Before you reseed, you spray with roundup, end of.

Roundup should be in the best investment thread!

got a lot of stick for reseeding 14th october 2012

just do it

stanflt wrote: »

got a lot of stick for reseeding 14th october 2012

Are you sure you didn't install an underground heating system at the same time?!:D

limo_100

bbam wrote: »

These guys are from end jan onwards..
Just the four babies from above to join them.. Always like when they all get together.. nicer to see and easier to manage..
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bbam what weight would your jan calves be as i have 3 jan sucks bought in i only did it as i was bored and it passed the time for me. mine would be would be over 150KG but not quite 200KG yet would that be about right?

dar31

vactomised bull, next best thing to the lad with all the tackle

Timmaay

stanflt wrote: »

got a lot of stick for reseeding 14th october 2012

I wasn't much before ya, early oct,even with the relatively mild winter the field was very bare right through the last 6months, of course no growth with that spring we had, but its really rocketed up the last 2wks.

bbam

limo_100 wrote: »

bbam what weight would your jan calves be as i have 3 jan sucks bought in i only did it as i was bored and it passed the time for me. mine would be would be over 150KG but not quite 200KG yet would that be about right?

I'd say they're doing very well at that sort of weights.

kowtow

Not often one sees dairy calves suckling but here's one of ours - this one is a February born bull, suckled his mother for a month and then orphaned, since then has been rougue-ing the others (who, being dairy cows with little ongoing mothering instinct, don't seem to mind a bit)..

bob charles

kowtow wrote: »

As you said you have hilly land. it looks like "a spare pair of jocks needed in the tractor cab" type of ground:D

kowtow

bob charles wrote: »

As you said you have hilly land. it looks like "a spare pair of jocks needed in the tractor cab" type of ground:D

We think it's quite flat.

But then we did come here from the Alps.

Tipp Man

delaval wrote: »

Fit to wean. Eating almost 2 kg Goldgrain nut 800gms milk replacer got them out to train to fence and will wean on Monday.
Will keep on this paddock for 1 week to be sure all ok then they will move to heifer area to join other weaned calves.
We moved earlycalved born Feb (weaned) calves there yesterday. I weighed in tractor trailer on way averaged 85kg. Cross breds mainly what do you think. They have 360 days till ai if they do .7/day they'll be fit. What do ye think?

They should be fine you'd have to imagine unless they get any kind of set back. As long as we get any kind of half decent year at all this summer

Ours got a really bad scour last year on the grass, no idea what caused it (lab tests couldn't find anything) which set them back a lot. That coupled with the dreadfull summer just gone and being out late this spring meant that we had to feed them a couple of kilos of nuts for a month outside - finished this week.

Bull off with a week so its in his hands now

yellow50HX

kowtow wrote: »

Not often one sees dairy calves suckling but here's one of ours - this one is a February born bull, suckled his mother for a month and then orphaned, since then has been rougue-ing the others (who, being dairy cows with little ongoing mothering instinct, don't seem to mind a bit)..

we also have a few FR cows that we use as sucklers as we would often get extra calves and double suckle. have found that cows are more likely to take to calves with the same colouring as themsleves. that siad we have had a few "twins" that are inseprable in the field, often see one brown lmx and his adpoted fr brother following thier mammy around and roaring for each other when they're seprated.

kowtow

yellow50HX wrote: »

we also have a few FR cows that we use as sucklers as we would often get extra calves and double suckle. have found that cows are more likely to take to calves with the same colouring as themsleves. that siad we have had a few "twins" that are inseprable in the field, often see one brown lmx and his adpoted fr brother following thier mammy around and roaring for each other when they're seprated.

Any issues with re-breeding while they are suckling? or are they off them by then?

just do it

Timmaay wrote: »

I wasn't much before ya, early oct,even with the relatively mild winter the field was very bare right through the last 6months, of course no growth with that spring we had, but its really rocketed up the last 2wks.

It has still worked out then. Given the weather you've probably missed out on 1 grazing?

Manoffeeling

stanflt wrote: »

got a lot of stick for reseeding 14th october 2012

Why did you quote me?

stanflt

Manoffeeling wrote: »

Why did you quote me?

Do you not remember asking me how the field was after we had about 5inches of rain- knowing that it wasn't sown

Username John

stanflt wrote: »

Do you not remember asking me how the field was after we had about 5inches of rain- knowing that it wasn't sown

Cos it seems stanflt didnt forget!

:eek:

yellow50HX

kowtow wrote: »

Any issues with re-breeding while they are suckling? or are they off them by then?

re-breeding?????

if you mean heifer calves getting bulled then yes we do have to watch them. we note if any heifers come in season which they can from about 5-6 months. we seprate the bulls from the heifers at weaning and inject the older heifers in case they are in calf. havent seen a young bull calf bull a cow even though they'll try. usually the big bull will come over make sure he does the job.

Manoffeeling

stanflt wrote: »

Do you not remember asking me how the field was after we had about 5inches of rain- knowing that it wasn't sown

No. There is life beyond the keyboard!!

The fields look fantastic after a bad winter and worse spring. Is there any of the old grass up?

Keep up the good work, but get yourself a bad memory. Enjoy the sun