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

Lady Haywire

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Another auctioneer locally is renowned for "super suckler" and letting an odd roar into the mike for added emphasis.

Or anyone who knows Pj, breaks into song on occasion

Albert Johnson

PJ is a fair man to keep the same tempo all day. "Give it again and the middle of the deck" feature frequently.

patsy_mccabe

Or as the auctioneer who sells a lot of pedigree bulls says - which part of the bull isnt worth e50?.
He'll also 'take a little one off you' when trying to get the last bid and then say ' I didn't say you had a little one'.

bogman_bass

johnnyw20 wrote: »

13 and half month old simmental cross bull I bought for €150 as a calf in for finishing at the moment 510kg last week. Should leave me a few quid hopefully. How would he roughly grade? An O+?

Some grade of an O anyways
Finishing as a bull or squeezing him?

golodge

Twin heifers doing fine just one week on grass. Both will be AI'd at the end of June.


Another heifer for AI soon too.

Base price

golodge wrote: »

Twin heifers doing fine just one week on grass. Both will be AI'd at the end of June.

Another heifer for AI soon too.

They are cracking heifers. What age do you AI them at.

They are grazing beautiful diverse meadows and do you receive top up EU payments in your farm/area?

golodge

Base price wrote: »

They are cracking heifers. What age do you AI them at.

They are grazing beautiful diverse meadows and do you receive top up EU payments in your farm/area?

Thank you. They are 20months old now. They were too small to calve now and don't want any fall calving, so just kept them a bit longer.

We do get EU payments, for the land and for the sucklers. However, the number of cows, we get payed for, are counted from 10 years ago...

Parishlad

Had a fair pull with this lad this evening! In fairness to him though, he was up and sucking by himself within the hour.

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Parishlad

And that’s it for 2019. Last cow calved earlier tonight. She calved a small little heifer outside but I decided to bring them in with the way the weather is. After I got them in I was pottering about and noticed the cow pushing again. To cut a long story short I decided to handle her before I left and sure enough there was a second but the right leg was tucked down so she was never gonna get him out. Got the leg up and was able to pull him out with no trouble. Grand little bull calf. Took a while for him to stand but eventually got him up and sucking. Good end to calving 2019 ! ��211FDCA5-9853-4EC3-9A27-F6F2251843C5.jpeg

Hard Knocks

Parishlad wrote: »

And that’s it for 2019. Last cow calved earlier tonight. She calved a small little heifer outside but I decided to bring them in with the way the weather is. After I got them in I was pottering about and noticed the cow pushing again. To cut a long story short I decided to handle her before I left and sure enough there was a second but the right leg was tucked down so she was never gonna get him out. Got the leg up and was able to pull him out with new trouble. Grand little bull calf. Took a while for him to stand but eventually got him up and sucking. Good end to calving 2019 ! 😀211FDCA5-9853-4EC3-9A27-F6F2251843C5.jpeg

Good few twins around here too this year
All mixed sadly

Parishlad

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Good few twins around here too this year
All mixed sadly

I had another set a couple of weeks ago too but unfortunately both were born dead. They weren't presented correctly so the cow showed no signs of calving until it was too late. I was gutted tbh but that's the joys of it I suppose!

Lady Haywire

Parishlad wrote: »

I had another set a couple of weeks ago too but unfortunately both were born dead. They weren't presented correctly so the cow showed no signs of calving until it was too late. I was gutted tbh but that's the joys of it I suppose!

Don't beat yourself up about it. We'd have lost 2 sets this year only for we have a small herd & know the cows so well so knew they were sick to calve.
Shocking amount of them this year!

golodge

We'd no twins this year, yet. Usually have at least one set. Was pretty sure that one cow will have twins, as she was very big and had two sets from three calvings, but she only had a fair size bull calf this time.

Say my name

That's another bit of fencing done by Smn enterprise's. 400 metres done.

Almost nationwide.

Dinzee Conlee

Say my name wrote: »

That's another bit of fencing done by Smn enterprise's. 400 metres done.

Almost nationwide.

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You don’t have sheep do you Say? Why use sheep wire - it’s expensive enough stuff...

Grueller

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

You don’t have sheep do you Say? Why use sheep wire - it’s expensive enough stuff...

Maybe the neighbours do

ganmo

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

You don’t have sheep do you Say? Why use sheep wire - it’s expensive enough stuff...

Maybe he's thinking of upgrading to become a shepard

Say my name

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

You don’t have sheep do you Say? Why use sheep wire - it’s expensive enough stuff...

The neighbours have sheep. Plus it keeps out or in other animals.
Piece of mind. And making the boundaries trouble and maintenance free.
I won't have to worry about a power cut or price increase of grazon or round up now.

Base price

Say my name wrote: »

The neighbours have sheep. Plus it keeps out or in other animals.
Piece of mind. And making the boundaries trouble and maintenance free.
I won't have to worry about a power cut or price increase of grazon or round up now.

IMO using sheep wire doesn't make the boundaries trouble and maintenance free, in fact it has the opposite effect - every briar, thistle, dock etc will do their upmost to pull it down as well as cattle/calves shoving their noses under it to reach the really tasty bits on the ditch. Unless you run a couple of strands of electric fence (standing off the sheep wire fence) then your going to end up with the posts broken and the sheep wire rolled up into a tangled knot.

Say my name

Base price wrote: »

IMO using sheep wire doesn't make the boundaries trouble and maintenance free, in fact it has the opposite effect - every briar, thistle, dock etc will do their upmost to pull it down as well as cattle/calves shoving their noses under it to reach the really tasty bits on the ditch. Unless you run a couple of strands of electric fence standing off the sheep wire fence then your going to end up with the posts broken and the sheep wire rolled up into a untangled knot.

You won't stretch this wire anymore or break any of these posts. I can guarantee you.
I've a similar fence up the last three years and it's perfect.
Then again I've dairy stock and not elephants. :pac:

Albert Johnson

Say my name wrote: »

Base price wrote: »

IMO using sheep wire doesn't make the boundaries trouble and maintenance free, in fact it has the opposite effect - every briar, thistle, dock etc will do their upmost to pull it down as well as cattle/calves shoving their noses under it to reach the really tasty bits on the ditch. Unless you run a couple of strands of electric fence standing off the sheep wire fence then your going to end up with the posts broken and the sheep wire rolled up into a untangled knot.

You won't stretch this wire anymore or break any of these posts. I can guarantee you.
I've a similar fence up the last three years and it's perfect.
Then again I've dairy stock and not elephants. :pac:

I'm a bit OCD when it comes to fencing of any type and like to see it well done be it a temporary or permanent fence. Sheep wire needs to be adequately strained from the beginning and this is where lads often make the first mistake imo. Secondly I find that placing a strand of barbed wire alongside the top of the sheep wire and alongside the second horizontal row from the ground greatly strengthens the sheep wire. If a bit of tying wire is used to join the barbed and sheep wire together the end result is a sturdy barrier that will withstand plenty of abuse.

Base price

Say my name wrote: »

You won't stretch this wire anymore or break any of these posts. I can guarantee you.
I've a similar fence up the last three years and it's perfect.
Then again I've dairy stockand not elephants. :pac:

What do you mean. I rear/feed dairy stock and although your fence looks pretty it wouldn't last a grazing season on my farm.

Say my name

Base price wrote: »

What do you mean. I rear/feed dairy stock and although your fence looks pretty it wouldn't last a grazing season on my farm.

This is how you tighten sheep wire Base.

charolais0153

Don’t think you are meant to put the staples in that far, should be room for the wire to move iykwim

Say my name

charolais0153 wrote: »

Don’t think you are meant to put the staples in that far, should be room for the wire to move iykwim

Nooo. By having each staple buried in every post.
Even in the unfortunate event that a section gets stretched after. All the other sections between posts stay taught.

Stretch the bollocks off it putting it up and then drive em home!

Base price

Say my name wrote: »

Ahh, stop the lights.
So you have just discovered an innovative method for straining sheep wire :eek:

I helped my late Uncle fence the farm in the 90's using a simular system and at the end of the day a calf could push their nose under the fence.
** If you have cows/cattle then you need to have one or two strands of live wire offset from sheep fence.

Say my name

Base price wrote: »

Ahh, stop the lights.
So you have just discovered an innovative method for straining sheep wire :eek:

I helped my late Uncle fence the farm in the 90's using a simular system and at the end of the day a calf could push their nose under the fence.

Did you use a chain puller to tighten the wire?

(I'm starting to see why Reggie got fed up posting on here.)

gozunda

Base price wrote: »

IMO using sheep wire doesn't make the boundaries trouble and maintenance free, in fact it has the opposite effect - every briar, thistle, dock etc will do their upmost to pull it down as well as cattle/calves shoving their noses under it to reach the really tasty bits on the ditch. Unless you run a couple of strands of electric fence (standing off the sheep wire fence) then your going to end up with the posts broken and the sheep wire rolled up into a tangled knot.

This: neigbour put up sheep wire about 6 years ago. No electric on his side. Stock breaking through on bank and destroying planted trees and bushes at every opportunity.

charolais0153

Say my name wrote: »

Nooo. By having each staple buried in every post.
Even in the unfortunate event that a section gets stretched after. All the other sections between posts stay taught.

Stretch the bollocks off it putting it up and then drive em home!

If it gets stretched , take out the end staples stretch it again and put them back in? Nice fully taunt fence again,

Say my name

Oh great. More experts.

That's me finished posting pictures.
Sitting on the other side of the fence and criticising every one else's pictures is going to be more fun.

Seriously though why the phuck did any of ye think I posted up the pictures of the fencing and then the pullers?

I posted the fencing because I was proud of a job well done. And the pullers so that other posters may benefit from it, if they hadn't used it before.
Jaysus..

Edit: that's not directed at you charolais btw. That's helpful constructive criticism.