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

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    #4442
    High bike
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Powerful cow. There's a funny lip on her!
    didnt notice till now was concentrating on the other end lol


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    #4443
    Lady Haywire
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    High bike wrote: »
    didnt notice till now was concentrating on the other end lol

    Prob just caught her about to lick her nose! hope she calves ok for you, she's the cerberus one isn't she?


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    #4444
    High bike
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Prob just caught her about to lick her nose! hope she calves ok for you, she's the cerberus one isn't she?
    thats her she's a sympa


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    #4445
    tanko
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    High bike wrote: »
    298 days and still waiting

    Had a Lim cow calve a Sim bull last week, went 304 days.
    305 days is the record here.

    What is yours in calf to?


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    #4446
    High bike
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    tanko wrote: »
    Had a Lim cow calve a Sim bull last week, went 304 days.
    305 days is the record here.

    What is yours in calf to?
    willodge Cerberus


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    #4447
    Say my name
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    At this craic today.

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    #4448
    Pidae.m
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    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    True that. That looks like some ground around there. Is that around the Macroom coachford area?

    Only fair ground. We don't fatten cattle there. The sea is about 4 miles behind the camera


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    #4449
    Pidae.m
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Are they full bulls?

    Ya planwas to squeeze and sell them but decided knowing our luck we'd get locked up. Going go put them in 1st July


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    #4450
    Say my name
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    Just about ready to ride a bike on it. :)

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    #4451
    grassroot1
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    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Thanks - just looking for some general feedback on the breed. When do you calf them? Do you feed them all meal (inc cows) or just those you are finishing? How many interventions do you perform during calving? Are they all docile or are there some flighty ones in the breed? Do you cross them?

    1st Feb to 17 March
    Meals to weanlings only (cows did get meal this year)
    Very little intervention with cows, a little with the heifers calving at 24 months
    as with all breeds some strains are easier to calve than others.
    They are a very quiet breed in general have not had a wild one yet anyway
    Issues feet can be a problem and some strains lack milk I feel.
    Ideally suited to an integrated herd.


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    #4452
    High bike
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    tanko wrote: »
    Had a Lim cow calve a Sim bull last week, went 304 days.
    305 days is the record here.

    What is yours in calf to?
    Cerberus bull I think aftet 302 days,mammy won't allow closer inspection��


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    #4453
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,269 ✭✭✭tanko


    High bike wrote: »
    Was looking at him looks a. nice bull with good figures, would he be ok on 1st time calvers do u think?

    From the two heifer calves here off fifty cent from second calvers id say he would be ok for heifers. This KJB cow only went 275 days, the other one was 279.


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    #4454
    furandfeather
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    tanko wrote: »
    From the two heifer calves here off fifty cent from second calvers id say he would be ok for heifers. This KJB cow only went 275 days, the other one was 279.

    It's mad too really. Nearly 4 weeks difference between your calf and high bikes. I really think we should be focusing on shorter gestations for our suckler Bulls.


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    #4455
    High bike
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    tanko wrote: »
    From the two heifer calves here off fifty cent from second calvers id say he would be ok for heifers. This KJB cow only went 275 days, the other one was 279.
    lovely markings on that lady


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    #4456
    High bike
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    furandfeather wrote: »
    It's mad too really. Nearly 4 weeks difference between your calf and high bikes. I really think we should be focusing on shorter gestations for our suckler Bulls.
    some difference all right


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    #4457
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,269 ✭✭✭tanko


    High bike wrote: »
    lovely markings on that lady

    Yeah, she has. This is her grandmother with a nice On-Dit heifer this year.


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    #4458
    High bike
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    tanko wrote: »
    Yeah, she has. This is her grandmother with a nice On-Dit heifer this year.
    obviously plenty milk in that line who has on dit ?


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    #4459
    tanko
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    High bike wrote: »
    obviously plenty milk in that line who has on dit ?

    PG had him but he’s gone now i think.


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    #4460
    charolais0153
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    furandfeather wrote: »
    It's mad too really. Nearly 4 weeks difference between your calf and high bikes. I really think we should be focusing on shorter gestations for our suckler Bulls.

    Never seem to have too many outliers 283-293 would have 95% of them I'd say


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    #4461
    High bike
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    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Never seem to have too many outliers 283-293 would have 95% of them I'd say
    everything else here this year was less than 290 days tg


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    #4462
    Lady Haywire
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »

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    Add on a year :pac:

    TBH, I didn't think much of this lady when she was born. Am happily proved wrong.


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    #4463
    Muckit
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    Doing a complete Doogle on it now, but is it just me or did that cow get smaller ? :D


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    #4464
    Lady Haywire
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    Muckit wrote: »
    Doing a complete Doogle on it now, but is it just me or did that cow get smaller ? :D

    Shes just further away!


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    #4465
    High bike
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Shes just further away!
    i thought far away cows had long horns😂


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    #4466
    TITANIUM.
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Add on a year :pac:

    TBH, I didn't think much of this lady when she was born. Am happily proved wrong.


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    My god that is some difference. Not being smart but if I walked in and saw a cow after dropping a calf like that I'd say I'd puke. It looks like a cross between a cow and some kind of antelope. But tis amazing the way well bred cattle will come right as they mature. An ounce of breeding an all that.


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    #4467
    Lady Haywire
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    High bike wrote: »
    i thought far away cows had long horns��

    I thought they were greener? :P
    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    My god that is some difference. Not being smart but if I walked in and saw a cow after dropping a calf like that I'd say I'd puke. It looks like a cross between a cow and some kind of antelope. But tis amazing the way well bred cattle will come right as they mature. An ounce of breeding an all that.

    Well it was our first time using a saler so I was wondering wtf I had done. Heifer had been small enough when inseminating so that's why I didn't use a limo but when I seen that wee yoke I was a bit peeved! More like a fawn than a calf as you say. But am impressed with her now, good bit of AI breeding behind her alright.


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    #4468
    GiantPencil
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    Have calved Salers here and you'd be ashamed to show people what the calves look like, absolute rats! Turn into fine cattle though once they get going


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    #4469
    Lady Haywire
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    GiantPencil wrote: »
    Have calved Salers here and you'd be ashamed to show people what the calves look like, absolute rats! Turn into fine cattle though once they get going

    Have two this year, heifer & a bull. Bull got a setback with scour so will be interesting to see how he thrives on & most importantly how he sells in winter.


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    #4470
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Junior having a stretch yesterday


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    #4471
    milligan2
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    tanko wrote: »
    Yeah, she has. This is her grandmother with a nice On-Dit heifer this year.

    Hey Tanko,how do you find On Dit as a cow maker?have a heifer off a purebred simm out of him and I wouldn’t be too impressed,she is very leggy and tall.Do they fill out with age?She is 5 months old


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