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

Lady Haywire

Few of the younger ones. Wasn't able to dehorn some of these with the hot weather. Once you get maggots on a calves head it's a bit of a mood killer for doing them in sun :pac:

May THZ lad off a RHF cow. Background is a late June Crossmolina Jupiter bull.


Two hairy salers off Ulsan, left is a May bull off a blondeX that almost got killed by a cow attacking his cosi-jacket. Right is mid March off a THZ heifer.




April orphan off a useless Virginia Andy 2nd calver.
Sold the cow when he was 4 months- No milk, jumped like Shergar and wild to boot, couldn't deal with having her around any more

Lady Haywire

Another Ulsan, this is the tart who's 3 months incalf to next doors ch bull :pac: Still no idea where she got out or he got in. Will be 22ish months at calving so not ideal but she's growthy.

Muckit

You have a great pic of grass there yet and lovely and green. Sweet heifer too btw !

Lady Haywire

Muckit wrote: »

You have a great pic of grass there yet and lovely and green. Sweet heifer too btw !

The outfarm, been set stocked all year so only been licked & mulched, no slurry on it. But whatever is in it, the grass is great for growing heifers. So usually throw the breeding ones up there with the cows that have heifers we want for breeding. That ZXT heifer I posted here about a week ago with no feeding was up there too.
Can't complain about the heifer, saved the 30euro AI fee :pac:

golodge

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Another Ulsan, this is the tart who's 3 months incalf to next doors ch bull :pac: Still no idea where she got out or he got in. Will be 22ish months at calving so not ideal but she's growthy.

Lovely heifer. As long as she is a decent size at the calving and not extreme calf, everything should go well!  Good luck!
We had one 5 months old heifer get incalf maybe two weeks before taking the bull from the herd... It sure reduced her size, but she still stayed here for awhile and left some daughters.

Lady Haywire

golodge wrote: »

Lovely heifer. As long as she is a decent size at the calving and not extreme calf, everything should go well!  Good luck!
We had one 5 months old heifer get incalf maybe two weeks before taking the bull from the herd... It sure reduced her size, but she still stayed here for awhile and left some daughters.

Here's hoping! She's putting up nice frame on her now so looks like she'll be a rangy enough size by calving time. Will have to ask the neighbour how the bull is for calving ease though.:)

patsy_mccabe

Just had a look on Google Earth. They've updated it for 2018 and the clarity is unreal. I had a look at one of my fields and the tracks from the tractor after I licked the rushes can be seen. Talk about Big Brother watching you.
If it wasn't for a few trees, I could count my silage bales too .

mayota

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Just had a look on Google Earth. They've updated it for 2018 and the clarity is unreal. I had a look at one of my fields and the tracks from the tractor after I licked the rushes can be seen. Talk about Big Brother watching you.
If it wasn't for a few trees, I could count my silage bales too .

I noticed that last week. Clearly see the path of sprayer and the slithers I missed.

Say my name

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Just had a look on Google Earth. They've updated it for 2018 and the clarity is unreal. I had a look at one of my fields and the tracks from the tractor after I licked the rushes can be seen. Talk about Big Brother watching you.
If it wasn't for a few trees, I could count my silage bales too .

There was a link somewhere on boards someone put up of a link to the Copernicus website. That satellite imagery is updated every 5 days or so.
But the different layers it had to choose from was outstanding from soil moisture deficits in fields to vegetation index to photosynthesis, etc, etc.
The commercial field sat companies get their imagery from Copernicus that tells you how your crop is doing from the eyes in the sky.
There was even an option to let you 'see' through clouds.

Lady Haywire

Two Crossmolina calves for sale tomorrow- White 8 1/2 month old bull & brown mid March heifer. Originally had her chosen for breeding as he mother is one of our best cows & she's got a sweet temperament to boot. But just not shaped as a breeding animal





Leaving two sad looking boys outside looking for their missing female :pac:

Pedigree bull & culard. Two of them have matured very well in the last month, putting up decent flesh.

Simmental.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Two Crossmolina calves for sale tomorrow

Crossmolina Euro or Jupiter?

Lady Haywire

Simmental. wrote: »

Crossmolina Euro or Jupiter?

Jupiter, feck had it typed and all. Find them to be rangier & plainer than Euro. Better cattle to hold weight imo.

charolais0153

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Two Crossmolina calves for sale tomorrow- White 8 1/2 month old bull & brown mid March heifer. Originally had her chosen for breeding as he mother is one of our best cows & she's got a sweet temperament to boot. But just not shaped as a breeding animal





Leaving two sad looking boys outside looking for their missing female :pac:

Pedigree bull & culard. Two of them have matured very well in the last month, putting up decent flesh.

That culard is some thriver

Lady Haywire

charolais0153 wrote: »

That culard is some thriver

Yea they're all doing well now. The nuts seem to have kicked in. Both the feeding & testosterone producing ones

patsy_mccabe

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yea they're all doing well now. The nuts seem to have kicked in. Both the feeding & testosterone producing ones

I was thinking the same recently. Young bulls reach a point where they become bullish and strong, even if they are still under the cow. That brings them into a different price league altogether. It's like the guys buying for under 16 months or maybe the exporters take more interest.

patsy_mccabe

Lady Haywire

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I was thinking the same recently. Young bulls reach a point where they become bullish and strong, even if they are still under the cow. That brings them into a different price league altogether. It's like the guys buying for under 16 months or maybe the exporters take more interest.

Yea there's a sudden jump with some of them. Am surprised at the culard though, he's only just 5 months now so it'd be a bit young for him to hit some sort of maturity. Be intresting to see the white guys weight today, have him at 450ish in my head.

Lady Haywire

Could be better, could be worse! Happy with the bull anyway, though was out 25kg in his weight.

TITANIUM.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Could be better, could be worse! Happy with the bull anyway, though was out 25kg in his weight.

I thought you were high balling him a bit at 450. Although I thought he would go better then €2.50 a kg aswell. Not bad going at all tho really for the year that's in it. Your heifer while not breaking any records, did ok. Heifers are a terrible trade at the minute unless there exceptional. Seen grand white and golden heifers heavier then your bull going for not a whole pile more then your one. There's light heifers being bought for good suck calf money any other year. All in all a good day for 2018.

Base price

They're still thriving

Hopefully they will cover the bills when they're on the peg.
First pic/link is from November 2017 when the weather was ****e.

The second is from July this year during the drought.
The final one I took last week.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105385950&postcount=20
The Limousin fella likes to keep his spot along the feed barrier.

Muckit

Jaysus.... they put on weight anyways...impressive!

Lady Haywire

TITANIUM. wrote: »

I thought you were high balling him a bit at 450. Although I thought he would go better then €2.50 a kg aswell. Not bad going at all tho really for the year that's in it. Your heifer while not breaking any records, did ok. Heifers are a terrible trade at the minute unless there exceptional. Seen grand white and golden heifers heavier then your bull going for not a whole pile more then your one. There's light heifers being bought for good suck calf money any other year. All in all a good day for 2018.

Yea it's better than a kick in the hole for sure!!
Few nice heifers there that I'd picked out, kept an eye on them & they went 3/3.30 a kg, round 300kg or that. Nice broad goldie heifers.

patsy_mccabe

Would you breed from those Goldie types?

Lady Haywire

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Would you breed from those Goldie types?

It'd depend on the breeding behind them. Vey handy now looking up the tags online. There's was one, lot 120 I think, nice white stripe up her back, that I'd have bred from if I was looking to buy one. She made over 1k though :pac:

Hard Knocks

Lady Haywire wrote: »

It'd depend on the breeding behind them. Vey handy now looking up the tags online. There's was one, lot 120 I think, nice white stripe up her back, that I'd have bred from if I was looking to buy one. She made over 1k though :pac:

A golden Charolais cow will bring a golden Limousine which will sell well but a white Charolais that won’t sell aswell as the golden

GiantPencil

I see the Limousin champ at the show and sale today made 38K...and they say there is no money in farming! Was anyone at it?

GiantPencil

I see the Limousin champ at the show and sale today made 38K...and they say there is no money in farming! Was anyone at it?

High bike

Where was that?

tanko

High bike wrote: »

Where was that?

Roscrea. Carrickmore Maximus, champion from Tullamore.
Is he gone to England??

High bike

Nice money if u can get it,gone to an ai station I presume