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

Tokyo · 2014-09-07 15:10:24

The original Livestock/General Farming photo thread has reached the end of the line (10,000 posts). Welcome to the all new Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2! RULES The rules are very few - mostly to do with security and privacy. Basically, no posting of identifying information (names, postal addresses,…

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#3272 02-05-2017 8:49pm
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Saw this today near Carrauntoohil. Poorish land being reclaimed. It looked like they were mixing up the peaty top soil with the more solid subsoil.

'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'

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#3273 02-05-2017 9:44pm
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patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Saw this today near Carrauntoohil. Poorish land being reclaimed. It looked like they were mixing up the peaty top soil with the more solid subsoil.

Some stones there!:eek:
You wouldn't pick them by hand.
There was actually a poster on here a few months ago looking for a digger driver to do just that. Mix peat with the subsoil.

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#3274 02-05-2017 9:52pm
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pedigree 6 wrote: »

Some stones there!:eek:
You wouldn't pick them by hand.
There was actually a poster on here a few months ago looking for a digger driver to do just that. Mix peat with the subsoil.

Covered in stones but if you look at the field on the left in the first pic, that's the result. Those green fields looked like an oasis with all the poor land around it.

'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'

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#3275 02-05-2017 9:52pm
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pedigree 6 wrote: »

Some stones there!:eek:
You wouldn't pick them by hand.
There was actually a poster on here a few months ago looking for a digger driver to do just that. Mix peat with the subsoil.

surely subsoil will always separate and go back to being sub soil, even on a small scale i used to reseed for a neighbour, plough it for corn to level it and the folowing year for grass The land would plough up two layers of different colours, lack and peat, it'd be mixed into a lovely color with the cultivation and the following year it'd plough up two colours again

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#3276 02-05-2017 10:18pm
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rangler1 wrote: »

surely subsoil will always separate and go back to being sub soil, even on a small scale i used to reseed for a neighbour, plough it for corn to level it and the folowing year for grass The land would plough up two layers of different colours, lack and peat, it'd be mixed into a lovely color with the cultivation and the following year it'd plough up two colours again

I'm not sure as I've no experience of it down here.
I know out in NZ they really bury the peat down deep when they're reclaiming land.
Probably depends on what kind of subsoil you have.
There could be another thing maybe! You know in another thread carbon was being discussed. Well the peat is stored carbon in an anaerobic environment and when it's exposed to the air it turns back to carbon dioxide. This sounds off the wall I know but the field level could have been dropping every year and you were just hitting a fresh bit of subsoil again every time.

(I think I may have a lie down).

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#3277 02-05-2017 10:32pm
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@Reggie - did I see your sparkling clean Landini in a tractor run this weekend?

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#3278 02-05-2017 11:51pm
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roosterman71 wrote: »

@Reggie - did I see your sparkling clean Landini in a tractor run this weekend?

In ballinagore?

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#3279 03-05-2017 11:53am
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Pidae.m wrote: »

The joys of grazing bulls

Have all heifers here and they're just as bad. It's the weather. Sure I'm nearly as bad myself. If I could only get her to stand :pac:

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#3280 03-05-2017 11:54am
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Muckit wrote: »

Have all heifers here and they're just as bad. It's the weather. Sure I'm nearly as bad myself :pac:

With other bulls?

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#3281 03-05-2017 6:59pm
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Don't mention the heifers I've only a few here but the big lads that graze a couple of hundred continental heifers should get some sort of Nobel prize for patience

Muckit wrote: »

Have all heifers here and they're just as bad. It's the weather. Sure I'm nearly as bad myself. If I could only get her to stand :pac:

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#3282 03-05-2017 9:25pm
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Muckit wrote: »

Have all heifers here and they're just as bad. It's the weather. Sure I'm nearly as bad myself. If I could only get her to stand :pac:

Cold shower would sort you out😘:D

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#3283 03-05-2017 10:37pm
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Nah.... kids are the best contraceptive!!

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Cold shower would sort you outðŸ˜˜:D

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#3284 04-05-2017 10:25am
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Noticed a heifer that is destroyed in warts all over her teats. I couldn't get close enough but it looks like one teat is completley gone and another looks split at the tip.

She was bulled a few weeks ago and I'm wondering if I should get her aborted. I'm worried that teats are ruined

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#3285 04-05-2017 12:51pm
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piedmontese heifer at 11 months old, unsure whether to sell as a weanling or keep to a store and sell then

this was her at a month old
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100217026

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#3286 04-05-2017 8:04pm
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RobinBanks wrote: »

Noticed a heifer that is destroyed in warts all over her teats. I couldn't get close enough but it looks like one teat is completley gone and another looks split at the tip.

She was bulled a few weeks ago and I'm wondering if I should get her aborted. I'm worried that teats are ruined

We had heifers like that - warts always fell off especially when they started to bag closer to calving.

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#3287 04-05-2017 8:07pm
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Dozer1 wrote: »

piedmontese heifer at 11 months old, unsure whether to sell as a weanling or keep to a store and sell then

this was her at a month old
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100217026

Or keep her as a replacement? Lovely heifer and mother has a nice bag of milk?

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#3288 04-05-2017 8:51pm
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Plenty of penstrep of a few days. Wouldn't worry about it.

RobinBanks wrote: »

Noticed a heifer that is destroyed in warts all over her teats. I couldn't get close enough but it looks like one teat is completley gone and another looks split at the tip.

She was bulled a few weeks ago and I'm wondering if I should get her aborted. I'm worried that teats are ruined

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#3289 05-05-2017 9:19am
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No interest in keeping as a replacement Seaba she's too flighty and as her dam is a BBx I'd worry about ever getting a calf out of her

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#3290 05-05-2017 3:45pm
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Did a walk today and grass cover is better than expected.:)

A couple of pics of the stock.

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#3291 06-05-2017 11:34am
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Calf from the caesarean section. 2 weeks old now. She has serious shape to her. Find it hard to believe that a half bred BB bull weanling would produce such a nice calf from such a plain cow. What you think?
You can see calf holding up the right leg where the hoof shell came off.

'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'

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#3292 06-05-2017 10:19pm
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patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Calf from the caesarean section. 2 weeks old now. She has serious shape to her. Find it hard to believe that a half bred BB bull weanling would produce such a nice calf from such a plain cow. What you think?
You can see calf holding up the right leg where the hoof shell came off.

Hope you didn't squeeze that weanling Patsy 😀,you'd be delighted with her off an Ai Bull

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#3293 08-05-2017 1:36pm
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High bike wrote: »

Hope you didn't squeeze that weanling Patsy 😀,you'd be delighted with her off an Ai Bull

He's gone to the McDonald's in the sky.

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#3294 08-05-2017 1:38pm
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Whitethorn in full bloom.

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#3295 08-05-2017 2:08pm
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earp heifer

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#3296 08-05-2017 2:14pm
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Lady Haywire wrote: »

^^Had the same with an animal this year, was puzzled until I seen a calf in the next pen taking a fair few slugs when she was eating at the barrier!

Was burning shíte from the front of the barrier this morning (dry silage, fussy fcuker won't eat it)
Maxy has no fight or flight reaction to fire anyway, though she gives a good ''The fcuk are you burning food for'' look :pac:

PTI cow. pic taken end of jan.

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#3297 08-05-2017 2:29pm
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apostle bull @ 4 months

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adx twin bull @ 6 months

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#3299 08-05-2017 2:36pm
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Gringo heifer @ 25 months. pic taken in march

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#3300 08-05-2017 3:39pm
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Tomschoice Ironside (LM2116) bull. 5 weeks old.

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#3301 08-05-2017 10:34pm
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Ampertaine Mozart – sells for 100,000gns at Carlisle.

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