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

pakalasa

What price did ye pay for these limousin bulls lads? :rolleyes:

Milton09

limo_100 wrote: »

one for the bull no dought and is she off a sim cow??

Shes off an LM cow but there is sim connections through her mother, grandmother and great grandmother

just do it

pakalasa wrote: »

Milk only makes up 9% of the new Maternal Index. You really do need to look at the invididual traits, not the overall ones.

http://www.icbf.com/publications/files/Intro_of_new_terminal_maternal_beef_indexes.pdf

Legs in fairness to him has been spouting that muscle in the genes is more important than milk for a long time. And there aint too much wrong with his stock.

A neighbour reckons you need milky cows for Autumn calving. Makes sense really.

limo_100

heres a pic of my new lad used to do all ai but struggled to catch them this year he'll be there 3weeks at the weekend as of today 10cows bulled.

johnpawl

Lovely stock, here's spring born bull calf off the same bull
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towzer2010 wrote: »

I tried BZB Part bull for the first time last year and here is the calf. Born September on her own with no problem. The cow is back in calf to the same bull calving in September.



This is her with her mother. I'm very happy with her colouring because amazingly round here that's what sells best although I'm probably going to keep her for breeding. I've tried BZB on three other cows, 2 chx and one red LM so hopefully they will keep this colouring.

Richk2012

Two Blue heifer calves that werent really up to much , but the grass and milk is showing in them now . They are powering .


A PB Castleview Casino heifer calf il keep as replacement weaned and on grass .
She is a bit on the light side but i hope will strengthen up

vanderbadger

Richk2012 wrote: »

Two Blue heifer calves that werent really up to much , but the grass and milk is showing in them now . They are powering .


A PB Castleview Casino heifer calf il keep as replacement weaned and on grass .
She is a bit on the light side but i hope will strengthen up

nice ones

Dampintheattic

Richk2012 wrote: »

Two Blue heifer calves that werent really up to much , but the grass and milk is showing in them now . They are powering .


A PB Castleview Casino heifer calf il keep as replacement weaned and on grass .
She is a bit on the light side but i hope will strengthen up

Have a few Castleview Casino X breds. None of them big.

delaval

Got IBR done this am. All the rush since Feb over. Time to put on weight with the cows now!!!!

reilig

Richk2012 wrote: »

A PB Castleview Casino heifer calf il keep as replacement weaned and on grass .
She is a bit on the light side but i hope will strengthen up

They're good breeders - not big cows, but do people still go for big cows that are hard fed?

I'd be more inclined to choose a smaller cow who puts the feed into her milk over a cow that puts it all on her back, is hard fed and hard on ground!

Casino cows are well able to throw out big calves and fatten them along with that!

Richk2012

Dampintheattic wrote: »

Have a few Castleview Casino X breds. None of them big.

reilig wrote: »

They're good breeders - not big cows, but do people still go for big cows that are hard fed?

I'd be more inclined to choose a smaller cow who puts the feed into her milk over a cow that puts it all on her back, is hard fed and hard on ground!

Casino cows are well able to throw out big calves and fatten them along with that!

How do ye find them for docility ?????
Have a few crossbred castleview calves aswell and there all fairly flighty .

Richk2012

vanderbadger wrote: »

nice ones

Thanks Van ,
Ballyfinn Borat and Maserati are sires

Muckit

delaval wrote: »

Got IBR done this am. All the rush since Feb over. Time to put on weight with the cows now!!!!

Are you able to do the cows Like that without running them up a crush?

Bodacious

Richk2012 wrote: »

Thanks Van ,
Ballyfinn Borat and Maserati are sires

which calf is the BBQ calf 1 or 2? and what type of cow? thanks

limo_100

calves fighting for places them seem to really mop up stewarts pedigree 3 calf crunch. Do any of the rest of use that crunch??

delaval

Muckit wrote: »

Are you able to do the cows Like that without running them up a crush?

That is a crush. They stand as in parlour really handy for AI, scanning, blood testing etc.

moy83

Punishment for more escapees !

limo_100

couple of bucket fed calves enjoying the good day

Dampintheattic

limo_100 wrote: »

couple of bucket fed calves enjoying the good day

Damn good calves. Fair play to you.

limo_100

Dampintheattic wrote: »

Damn good calves. Fair play to you.

thanks i think they did well first time trying calf rearing. Some of them are jan born and others are April born. there just holding on for abit of after grass but i think there triving well

redzerologhlen

redzerologhlen wrote: »

New Jockey

I think I did him more justice in this pic :pac::pac:

jimmy G M

Took this pic yesterday eve with my new fandangle I phone. Hope it posts ok. Brother mowing down a lightish crop in 4 acre field. Looking west over rolling lands of northeast Galway. On a clear day you can see Croagh Patrick from here 70 miles away.

naughto

jimmy G M wrote: »

Took this pic yesterday eve with my new fandangle I phone. Hope it posts ok. Brother mowing down a lightish crop in 4 acre field. Looking west over rolling lands of northeast Galway. On a clear day you can see Croagh Patrick from here 70 miles away.

i look out my top window and i can see people climbing Croagh Patrick on a clear day

just do it

New roadway under threat, already!

Well not a big surprise as it's cutting across the natural fall of the land and therefore blocks the natural run-off. But if left like this, alot of it may be washed away by next Spring. So only one thing for it, drainage. Here's the tile drain with the bed of 2" clean stone in the bottom:


And here it is filled to the top (took 40 ton :eek:):

Marooned75

just do it wrote: »

New roadway under threat, already!

Well not a big surprise as it's cutting across the natural fall of the land and therefore blocks the natural run-off. But if left like this, alot of it may be washed away by next Spring. So only one thing for it, drainage. Here's the tile drain with the bed of 2" clean stone in the bottom:


And here it is filled to the top (took 40 ton :eek:):

This weather will test ya great work done

Richk2012

Bodacious wrote: »

which calf is the BBQ calf 1 or 2? and what type of cow? thanks

Picture No40 is BBQ .
Both calves out of half blue cows

Username John

just do it wrote: »

New roadway under threat, already!

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How are you doing just_do_it?

Nice job...

I'm assuming that first pic wasn't taken anytime recently though was it? with that much water on the ground.

Muckit

just do it wrote: »

New roadway

Excellent work JDI;) The white stuff a good idea on bottom for calves.

Will you be using this roadway for machinery also? Just that paddock gate would be tight to turn in coming from the yard I think .... There is a lad near here that put in a new roadway with a chicane that schmacher would have trouble getting around.

naughto

Milton09

naughto wrote: »

Off farm diversification !!

Conmaicne Mara

naughto wrote: »

Delaval has finally run out of grass and opened up a desert oasis. Luckier than a black cat that lad, he got the weather for opening day and all!

Timmaay

Ha, ill definitely have two feilds close to that very soon, thankfully only those two fields are on a sandbank, I'd have zero grass otherwise! had a similar idea, for the beach besides me, Open up bit of a temporary shop on warm days like today, last ssummer put a quick end to any of those plans ha.

delaval

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Delaval has finally run out of grass and opened up a desert oasis. Luckier than a black cat that lad, he got the weather for opening day and all!

:D:D

furandfeather

Few hiefer calves
1 kfy pb. December
2 anchor pb. November
3 apz xbred. Jan
4 kfy xbred. November
5 limo stock bull. March

just do it

Username John wrote: »

How are you doing just_do_it?

Nice job...

I'm assuming that first pic wasn't taken anytime recently though was it? with that much water on the ground.

The first photo was taken a few weeks back, probably second week of June. Got the roadway done and then we had that 10 day wet period (and around here it was bad). Posted plenty pics of it a few weeks back.

just do it

Richk2012 wrote: »

Two Blue heifer calves that werent really up to much , but the grass and milk is showing in them now . They are powering .


A PB Castleview Casino heifer calf il keep as replacement weaned and on grass .
She is a bit on the light side but i hope will strengthen up

Powerful stock there Rich. Agree the last month has made a difference to stock.

just do it

jimmy G M wrote: »

Took this pic yesterday eve with my new fandangle I phone. Hope it posts ok. Brother mowing down a lightish crop in 4 acre field. Looking west over rolling lands of northeast Galway. On a clear day you can see Croagh Patrick from here 70 miles away.

Nothing wrong with the pic quality, or the pic for that matter!

just do it

Muckit wrote: »

Excellent work JDI;) The white stuff a good idea on bottom for calves.

I was thinking of the drain and I was wondering what white stuff is he on about?! Yeah I've it along most the roadways at this stage and it's the only job, better than wire, tape or twine. I've two paddocks beside the shed that I've triple wire on - wire on top and bottom and white rope in between. Ideal for training stock to electic fence.

Will you be using this roadway for machinery also? Just that paddock gate would be tight to turn in coming from the yard I think .... There is a lad near here that put in a new roadway with a chicane that schmacher would have trouble getting around.

That gap will only ever be used for stock. The pics are taken from a crossing over a trench so as it is there is a bit of a chicane! However there's a swing area so no bother for machinery!

redzerologhlen

furandfeather wrote: »

Few hiefer calves
1 kfy pb. December
2 anchor pb. November
3 apz xbred. Jan
4 kfy xbred. November
5 limo stock bull. March

Lovely heifers there furandfeather.

just do it

F&F
Nice stock there. Nothing wrong with the stock bull either, competing well with his AI colleagues.

Muckit

furandfeather wrote: »

Few hiefer calves
1 kfy pb. December
2 anchor pb. November
3 apz xbred. Jan
4 kfy xbred. November
5 limo stock bull. March

Lovely stock there. Good stock is good stock regardless of breed. Best weanling bulls I seen last year going through Ballinasloe mart were simmentals and they all made over the €1000. Couldn't get over their weight for age

iverjohnston

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moy83

You left more of a headland there than you cut out of your lawn :-)

iverjohnston

moy83, I cannot take credit for the mowing of that field, I was drawing for a neighbour:D

td5man

iverjohnston wrote: »

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Nice tractor on the harvester is she plus or pro?

stanflt

silage and hay

nashmach

td5man wrote: »

Nice tractor on the harvester is she plus or pro?

Doesn't seem to have the high roof so a Plus.

Muckit

stanflt wrote: »

silage and hay

That better be second cut Stan and not third !! :pac:

Do you have horses or what's the idea of the board over the wire fence to the left of the second pic?

stanflt

Muckit wrote: »

That better be second cut Stan and not third !! :pac:

Do you have horses or what's the idea of the board over the wire fence to the left of the second pic?

yeah its a gallop that i have the land rented off

iverjohnston

td5man wrote: »

Nice tractor on the harvester is she plus or pro?

She is a Pro. 1997. Resprayed with 2 pack 2 yrs ago. Also has 2 5140,s, one has an engine from a Daf rigid truck fitted.