Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::

Muckit

Put in a few extra drinking troughs here too over the weekend. Didn't go to the same rounds as Clough but hopefully will serve their purpose!

To help ensure they stay level, they are sitting on 2 rows of 6" dry blocks on the flat (8 blocks per trough).

Mac Taylor

Couple of pictures from today.

Picture 1 - On-Dit PBR Bull Calf
Picture 2 - Dancer PBR Bull Calf
Picture 3 - On-Dit PBR Bull Calf
Picture 4 - 50:50 Shorthorn/Limo Heifer

Holding judgement on On-Dit but I big fan of Dancer

Muckit

V nice stock there Mac! btw do you have sheep? Lovely green butt to that grass

patsy_mccabe

Mac Taylor, where did you get the On-Dit straws? I tried this year but told they were all gone. How do you find him so far, easy calving?

Mac Taylor

Muckit wrote: »

V nice stock there Mac! btw do you have sheep? Lovely green butt to that grass

Yes we have the vermin sorry I mean sheep.:D They'd eat you out of house & home but the auld lad likes them. They do keep the place clean. To be honest the ground around here is the better for sheep (don't tell him I said that pls:rolleyes:)

Mac Taylor

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Mac Taylor, where did you get the On-Dit straws? I tried this year but told they were all gone. How do you find him so far, easy calving?

Bought them last year and was told I was getting the last of them. Was hoping for heifers but got all bulls. Easy enough calving to be fair but their all mature cows that I put him on.

tanko

Are you thinking that the On-Dit calves are a bit leggy and lack muscle?
He's very easy calved on cows i found. Got four heifers out of four cows here this year off him so very happy with that.

Edit, don't mean your calves, just On-Dit calves in general.

Mac Taylor

tanko wrote: »

Are you thinking that the On-Dit calves are a bit leggy and lack muscle?
He's very easy calved on cows i found. Got four heifers out of four cows here this year off him so very happy with that.

Edit, don't mean your calves, just On-Dit calves in general.

Exactly, they just seem to be plain, but they are young so maybe with time for my ones.

Pidae.m

Number 4 is dreamy! I'm already imagining the yellow bull calf she'll have in3 yrs time:)

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Couple of pictures from today.

Picture 1 - On-Dit PBR Bull Calf
Picture 2 - Dancer PBR Bull Calf
Picture 3 - On-Dit PBR Bull Calf
Picture 4 - 50:50 Shorthorn/Limo Heifer

Holding judgement on On-Dit but I big fan of Dancer

patsy_mccabe

tanko wrote: »

Are you thinking that the On-Dit calves are a bit leggy and lack muscle?
He's very easy calved on cows i found. Got four heifers out of four cows here this year off him so very happy with that.

Edit, don't mean your calves, just On-Dit calves in general.

He's well proven now , so the milk fertility side of his breeding is very good. I saw a lot of cows by him at the large dispersal sale in Roscrea last year and they were all good cows. Not fancy but milky and great frames and style to them.

kollegeknight

Heifer in the back is off stock bull and is 20days.
Bull in front is off bovas lanigan deep red (zll) and is two days old

Lady Haywire

JKS bull calf that we took backwards last night. Rosie lived up to her usual giant calf anyway Never seen a cow like her to calve.

GiantPencil

Speaking of big calves  I had one born last week that was a 55kgs bull and his chest circumference was 89cm and height to shoulder was 82cm....to me he was a big calve compared to the usual ones I have here so I'm wondering has anyone else out there got the measurements to their big calves and how they calved?

Lady Haywire

GiantPencil wrote: »

Speaking of big calves  I had one born last week that was a 55kgs bull and his chest circumference was 89cm and height to shoulder was 82cm....to me he was a big calve compared to the usual ones I have here so I'm wondering has anyone else out there got the measurements to their big calves and how they calved?

I can go measure him later on for you! Not able to weigh him though. He's a bit twisty on one back leg but he'll even out with time I expect.

charolais0153

GiantPencil wrote: »

Speaking of big calves  I had one born last week that was a 55kgs bull and his chest circumference was 89cm and height to shoulder was 82cm....to me he was a big calve compared to the usual ones I have here so I'm wondering has anyone else out there got the measurements to their big calves and how they calved?

Have only one recorded 85.5 cm and 76 cm height. A CH bull calf

Pidae.m

Done a bit of haulage today. Ch by livarot 420kg €1140 sept '16
BB by sultan Jan 16. 460kg €1280

bogman_bass

GiantPencil wrote: »

Speaking of big calves  I had one born last week that was a 55kgs bull and his chest circumference was 89cm and height to shoulder was 82cm....to me he was a big calve compared to the usual ones I have here so I'm wondering has anyone else out there got the measurements to their big calves and how they calved?

That's a big lad in my books!

Had one a week or two ago that was 88 and 80 and he was a tank. Only small pull with the ropes though. Big open cow

Lady Haywire

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I can go measure him later on for you! Not able to weigh him though. He's a bit twisty on one back leg but he'll even out with time I expect.

93 around the chest and just about 82/83 in height to the shoulder. Big boy!

bogman_bass

Lady Haywire wrote: »

93 around the chest and just about 82/83 in height to the shoulder. Big boy!

Is that measurement at his middle or just behind the front legs?

Lady Haywire

bogman_bass wrote: »

Is that measurement at his middle or just behind the front legs?

Just behind the front legs, that the correct place to do it?

bogman_bass

SRI bull out of a fat lump of a BWU. Calved herself. Just one left to go

Base price

Lady Haywire wrote: »

JKS bull calf that we took backwards last night. Rosie lived up to her usual giant calf anyway Never seen a cow like her to calve.

He is a smashing calf Kovu.

Lady Haywire

Base price wrote: »

He is a smashing calf Kovu.

He sucked there by himself too which is great cause Mammy isn't sociable at all. And has a terrible habit of going down on her knees in the crush.

Base price

Lady Haywire wrote: »

He sucked there by himself too which is great cause Mammy isn't sociable at all. And has a terrible habit of going down on her knees in the crush.

Ah, she's only doing that so you can scratch the back of her head

Lady Haywire

Base price wrote: »

Ah, she's only doing that so you can scratch the back of her head

Yea....with a shovel :pac:

TITANIUM.

Pidae.m wrote: »

Done a bit of haulage today. Ch by livarot 420kg €1140 sept '16
BB by sultan Jan 16. 460kg €1280

Serious stock. Are they your own?
That's great weight on the Ch for a 7 month old calf. He's some animal.

Pidae.m

God no , I was only drawing them for a lad. They were sold to viastar.

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Serious stock. Are they your own?
That's great weight on the Ch for a 7 month old calf. He's some animal.

Pidae.m

Sky cam

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Serious stock. Are they your own?
That's great weight on the Ch for a 7 month old calf. He's some animal.

Farrell

Pidae.m wrote: »

Sky cam

LAO was some bull, any muscle in the dam & you've an exceptional calf

bogman_bass

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Just behind the front legs, that the correct place to do it?

Yep that's right.
He's some lump of a calf so!