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

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    #332
    893bet
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    just do it wrote: »
    How old?

    Around 9 months!


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    #333
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    893bet wrote: »
    Around 9 months!

    Sell as bull now!


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    #334
    893bet
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    just do it wrote: »
    Sell as bull now!

    I agree. Try tell that to my father.


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    #335
    tanko
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    893bet wrote: »
    I agree. Try tell that to my father.

    Very nice bull, that Saler behind him is hardly his mother, is it?


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    #336
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    That's it alright, I might cut them with the strimmers in a few more weeks. Too many stones for the topper!

    Don't bother breaking your back cutting them with strimmers they'll be well rotted away next spring..


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    #337
    893bet
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    tanko wrote: »
    Very nice bull, that Saler behind him is hardly his mother, is it?

    Nope. He is out of a very nice limo.


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    #338
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭tanko


    893bet wrote: »
    Nope. He is out of a very nice limo.

    Do you keep any Saler cows?


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    #339
    just do it
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    893bet wrote: »
    I agree. Try tell that to my father.

    What's his plan?


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    #340
    893bet
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    tanko wrote: »
    Do you keep any Saler cows?

    We only have a small stock these days. One of those farms that makes no money with 15 sucklers cows. Mix of salers, limos, short horns, white heads all AI with limos or BB.


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    #341
    893bet
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    just do it wrote: »
    What's his plan?

    Prob keep and fatten on grass for sale at 20-24 months.


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    #342
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭tanko


    893bet wrote: »
    We only have a small stock these days. One of those farms that makes no money with 15 sucklers cows. Mix of salers, limos, short horns, white heads all AI with limos or BB.

    Plenty of variety there so, would you be a fan of Saler cows as regards their calf quality, milk production, temperament etc in comparison to limousin cows?


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    #343
    Limestone Cowboy
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    rushvalley wrote: »
    Don't bother breaking your back cutting them with strimmers they'll be well rotted away next spring..

    12 acres there, I actually cut them over a few evenings earlier on in the summer with the strimmers because they were too strong to do. Be a bit tidier looking if they were cut even though I often left strong rushes I sprayed to rot.


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    #344
    just do it
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    893bet wrote: »
    Prob keep and fatten on grass for sale at 20-24 months.

    Old style ;).


    Just from the photo on the phone it looks like he's suitable for export. If so it will be hard to beat that for return on the home market


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    #345
    just do it
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    12 acres there, I actually cut them over a few evenings earlier on in the summer with the strimmers because they were too strong to do. Be a bit tidier looking if they were cut even though I often left strong rushes I sprayed to rot.

    Yeah it's a dose looking at them alright. Left them after spraying last year but got in and topped them this year. At least the fields look good for a few weeks. Determined to avoid poaching from now on.


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    #346
    Muckit
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    tanko wrote: »
    Very nice bull, that Saler behind him is hardly his mother, is it?

    No as the bull mick on Mcsavage would say ....'they're quuuarrrres!!!!!' :D:D


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    #347
    Limestone Cowboy
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    just do it wrote: »
    Yeah it's a dose looking at them alright. Left them after spraying last year but got in and topped them this year. At least the fields look good for a few weeks. Determined to avoid poaching from now on.

    My place is a nuisance there. It's half way up a mountain with 30 acres of a winterage above it and the water is at the very bottom. Want to keep cattle off it for the winter but can't at the moment because of the water and it's getting poached during the winter time. Might get to do something with the water through the BFCP next year if it stays going hopefully!


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    #348
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭tanko


    I wish all my cows could do this. Early April Mereside favori (FZF) bull.


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    #349
    just do it
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    just do it wrote: »
    First autumn calf born last night smack on due date. Heifer out of a springer by FTY.

    5ceGfE.jpg

    And now 10 days later shaping up nicely. Pity she's probably going to be mad as a hatter :rolleyes:
    5HpZsp.jpg


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    #350
    Muckit
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    Lovely outfit as the auctioneers say. Sure if she's flighty sell her on


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    #351
    Miname
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    Serious calf for an April lad tanko.


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    #352
    Reggie.
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    Always vigilant


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    #353
    Kovu
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Always vigilant

    ''Look Simba, Everything the light touches is our kingdom'' :D


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    #354
    tanko
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    Miname wrote: »
    Serious calf for an April lad tanko.

    Yeah, he's some lump and has never seen a nut. His mother's milk is like rocket fuel. Her calves always put on serious flesh. I wouldn't mind but she's a mongrel of a cow of a scrub bull (a quality one tho, a son of Epson). The only thing wrong with him is that he isn't a heifer.

    Here's another favori calf around the same age.


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    #355
    onyerbikepat
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    tanko wrote: »
    ...Here's another favori calf around the same age.
    Happy with Mereside Favori so? Did you buy the straws off a fellow Cavan man? :cool:


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    #356
    on the river
    Registered Users Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭on the river


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Always vigilant
    ;)


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    #357
    Limestone Cowboy
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    onyerbikepat wrote: »
    Happy with Mereside Favori so? Did you buy the straws off a fellow Cavan man? :cool:

    He seems to be the real deal, a neighbour has a serious heifer calf out of him off a Charolais cow.


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    #358
    tanko
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    onyerbikepat wrote: »
    Happy with Mereside Favori so? Did you buy the straws off a fellow Cavan man? :cool:

    Yeah, I'm very happy with him. Plenty of length and power in his calves with good square back ends. If his heifers have milk (which they should going by his breeding) then he is a good all round bull really.
    Here's one more that I hope will make a good cow. Got the straws off Phillip alrite.


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    #359
    on the river
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    tanko wrote: »
    Yeah, I'm very happy with him. Plenty of length and power in his calves with good square back ends. If his heifers have milk (which they should going by his breeding) then he is a good all round bull really.
    Here's one more that I hope will make a good cow. Got the straws off Phillip alrite.

    she going against the laws of physics anyways:D


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    #360
    Milton09
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    View from the kitchen window this morning, let a few munchers in for a few hours to chew down the site.


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    #361
    sandydan
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    nice ones too and useful in more ways than one , make nice bulge in wallet


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