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

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    #3722
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,819 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Base price wrote: »
    Several pair of strong shoulders - up and over.
    I dunno about that. It looked like a tractor loader and straps job to me. He was a lively devil, kicking a bit.

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



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    #3723
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    Weaning tomo so took a few snaps.


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    #3724
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Weaning tomo so took a few snaps.

    I made a massive boo-boo this with the dehorning so till have to wait.


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    #3725
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    I made a massive boo-boo this with the dehorning so till have to wait.

    More


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    #3726
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Weaning tomo so took a few snaps.

    Like that chap in IMG 2271, the ch with the black cow with the white flash on her head. She seems a little highly strung though!!


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    #3727
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Like that chap in IMG 2271, the ch with the black cow with the white flash on her head. She seems a little highly strung though!!

    Ha ha I sold my last wild cow in July , I've so much free time now I'm not mending fences!
    She's a VKG cow 3rd calver. At least I've one polled calf!


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    #3728
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Ha ha I sold my last wild cow in July , I've so much free time now I'm not mending fences!
    She's a VKG cow 3rd calver. At least I've one polled calf!

    You'll need to get me down to do them next year :D:D:D


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    #3729
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    You'll need to get me down to do them next year :D:D:D

    Vet charged me €13 to do a few I'd missed couple of years back, there's a bucko east along.... €3.


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    #3730
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Vet charged me €13 to do a few I'd missed couple of years back, there's a bucko east along.... €3.

    Two bulls here that were missed when I was away in Monaghan, will see how they look before they're sold in the Spring, may get away with them if they grow slowly.


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    #3731
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,267 ✭✭✭tanko


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Like that chap in IMG 2271, the ch with the black cow with the white flash on her head. She seems a little highly strung though!!

    Ha ha I sold my last wild cow in July , I've so much free time now I'm not mending fences!
    She's a VKG cow 3rd calver. At least I've one polled calf!

    What do you think of Saler cows compared to limousin cows?


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    #3732
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    I made a massive boo-boo this with the dehorning so till have to wait.

    I've a couple of fr here that were missed, fecking horns are nearly a foot long


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    #3733
    GrasstoMilk
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    The best of this springs heifer calves


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    #3734
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    tanko wrote: »
    What do you think of Saler cows compared to limousin cows?

    They're the job if you can get the right one... end of the day do I find a little bit more killing power to the calf from a Lm


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    #3735
    Hard Knocks
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    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Weaning tomo so took a few snaps.
    Super stock, god bless them
    Excellent colours from black cows, what breeding is i. Your bull to do that, or are the cows 3/4 bred?


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    #3736
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Super stock, god bless them
    Excellent colours from black cows, what breeding is i. Your bull to do that, or are the cows 3/4 bred?

    Mainly 3/4 lm other quarter is anything fr,sl,aa or sh. I've a few aubrac cows too. They are only ok... a little bit low.


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    #3737
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Super stock, god bless them
    Excellent colours from black cows, what breeding is i. Your bull to do that, or are the cows 3/4 bred?

    Mainly 3/4 lm other quarter is anything fr,sl,aa or sh. I've a few aubrac cows too. They are only ok... a little bit low.
    The 3/4 is a great cow, with both milk, colour but can be a little nervous depending on the bulls used


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    #3738
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,819 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Mainly 3/4 lm other quarter is anything fr,sl,aa or sh. I've a few aubrac cows too. They are only ok... a little bit low.

    Go on tell them where you get your cows? :rolleyes:

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



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    #3739
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Go on tell them where you get your cows? :rolleyes:

    I'm blue in the face from plugging that place!


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    #3740
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    The two cats decided to come to the bog to hunt cattle.

    The dog stayed at home.

    429329.JPG


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    #3741
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Found these mushrooms near the new home we under a spruce tree. I put a small match box beside for size reference. Does anybody know anything about them?


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    #3742
    Grueller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,230 ✭✭✭Grueller


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Found these mushrooms near the new home we under a spruce tree. I put a small match box beside for size reference. Does anybody know anything about them?

    Ya. Smurfs live in them.


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    #3743
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Found these mushrooms near the new home we under a spruce tree. I put a small match box beside for size reference. Does anybody know anything about them?

    Sickener mushrooms perhaps?:confused:


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    #3744
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,283 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    The only red mushrooms that I know by name are fly agaric and that is because I worked with a guy who had an obsession with them ;)
    https://www.irelandswildlife.com/fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria/


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    #3745
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Base price wrote: »
    The only red mushrooms that I know by name are fly agaric and that is because I worked with a guy who had an obsession with them ;)
    https://www.irelandswildlife.com/fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria/

    Must be them- under a spruce tree. Must get rid of them tomorrow in case the children go handling them.


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    #3746
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Grueller wrote: »
    Ya. Smurfs live in them.


    You've got to be smurfing kidding!


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    #3747
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,450 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    You've got to be smurfing kidding!

    Get out


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    #3748
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,819 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Base price wrote: »
    The only red mushrooms that I know by name are fly agaric and that is because I worked with a guy who had an obsession with them ;)
    https://www.irelandswildlife.com/fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria/

    I'd say they were resonsible for a few apparitions down tru the years.

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



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    #3749
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Sickener mushrooms perhaps?:confused:

    Another vote for the Sickener. As the name suggests they are poisonous.


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    #3750
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    I picked them today in case any of the nieces or my small lady went at them. They flattened during the night.


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    #3751
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users Posts: 971 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    Anyone cross an Angus with white charolais? What way would they turn out? What colour


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