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

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    #5942
    Limestone Cowboy
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    MfMan wrote: »
    Ya, I'd be happier with a foot higher also. How deep were your footings? Is the steel absolutely necessary - a man I asked said hardly, there wouldn't be that much pressure from cattle, but again, I think I'd nearly be happier with it. Also, are you to put a ledge/platform where the crush uprights are?

    A long (long) time thinking of getting round to do the same..

    Footings are 8"x24". I wouldn't pour a wall for anything without putting in steel, it's tying the whole thing together, it's fairly cheap aswell. I was only in a friend's shed a week ago and he was showing me a wall at the end of the passage that had split completely the width of your finger from top to bottom because there was no steel in it. We weren't asked to put a step in it, I put a 6" step in the last 2 I did for myself. Some fellas don't like them incase something goes on its back in the race though. Normally just put a tek screw through the horizontal bars to stop them sliding incase they need to be taken down quickly.


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    #5943
    patsy_mccabe
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    The 'L' shape in the wall gives it great strength too.

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



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    #5944
    DukeCaboom
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    There was an old man in his nineties died a few years ago here, would have been a very big cattle man in his time, still kept a few as a hobby till he died but the lorry man was telling me he had a diabolical cattle crush & every year he'd tell the lorry man "next year now ill do a right job on this crush"


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    #5945
    Lady Haywire
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    Let the SOY chunk out a couple of days ago when he learned how to suck by himself. Tis no wonder I was a bit stuck at the shoulders!

    SyADQ8tl.jpg

    gLjXGX0l.jpg


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    #5946
    Hard Knocks
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Let the SOY chunk out a couple of days ago when he learned how to suck by himself. Tis no wonder I was a bit stuck at the shoulders!

    SyADQ8tl.jpg

    gLjXGX0l.jpg
    He’s a fine calf
    If you look after him he might get you a rosette in October


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    #5947
    Lady Haywire
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    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    He’s a fine calf
    If you look after him he might get you a rosette in October

    I might keep my name on the 1st place BB bull ;)
    Right now I'm happy he's out with no section, alive and making it on his own tbh.


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    #5948
    High bike
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I might keep my name on the 1st place BB bull ;)
    Right now I'm happy he's out with no section, alive and making it on his own tbh.
    I'd say he tested the jack:D


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    #5949
    Lady Haywire
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    High bike wrote: »
    I'd say he tested the jack:D

    He was the length of it! Vet took him, doubt I'd have managed it.


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    #5950
    tanko
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I might keep my name on the 1st place BB bull ;)
    Right now I'm happy he's out with no section, alive and making it on his own tbh.

    Has yer man from down the country that bought the other blue been on the phone yet??


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    #5951
    Lady Haywire
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    tanko wrote: »
    Has yer man from down the country that bought the other blue been on the phone yet??

    Ha! No, but he's not been sent a picture yet either. One petteen of a bull was probably enough, he probably plagued him with licking his jacket/head/arse every time he went into the pen.


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    #5952
    mayota
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    Great weather to get these bits tidied up.


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    #5953
    High bike
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    Hamlet heifer 3 mts


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    #5954
    High bike
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    And a Jackpot bull 6 weeks,going to coil the 2 mammies tomorrow On Dit in one and Gamin in the other


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    #5955
    Base price
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    High bike wrote: »
    Hamlet heifer 3 mts
    Good length considering is a LM.


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    #5956
    High bike
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    Base price wrote: »
    Good length considering is a LM.
    in the heifer yes but the bull is a bit short I think but hes shapely


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    #5957
    tanko
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    High bike wrote: »
    And a Jackpot bull 6 weeks,going to coil the 2 mammies tomorrow On Dit in one and Gamin in the other

    Gamin in the first one and on-Dit in the second one i presume?


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    #5958
    Base price
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    High bike wrote: »
    Hamlet heifer 3 mts
    The calf in the pic has good length.
    An auld man told me many years ago when I first started out farming that carcass length = kgs on the hook and never a truer word was said.


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    #5959
    High bike
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    tanko wrote: »
    Gamin in the first one and on-Dit in the second one i presume?
    thats what I’m thinking alright,what u think?


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    #5960
    High bike
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    Base price wrote: »
    The calf in the pic has good length.
    An auld man told me many years ago when I first started out farming that carcass length = kgs on the hook and never a truer was said.
    very true yeah she has length alright the question is will she have milk


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    #5961
    Base price
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    High bike wrote: »
    very true yeah she has length alright the question is will she have milk
    Enough to rear her own calf? depends on her breeding/what type of cow is she out off. She'd be the type that I would buy if I was looking for a continential heifer except for the fact that she is a LM. I don't like LM's, never have, never will with the exception if they are out of a Shorthorn/cross cow - they make good sucklers if their temperment is good.

    On the flip side Holstein Friesian's have great length, have lots of milk but unfortunately they keep growing up.


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    #5962
    tanko
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    High bike wrote: »
    thats what I’m thinking alright,what u think?

    On-Dit wouldn't suit the first one anyway, she's too tall in her back end for him. He works best on smaller blocky cows with lots of muscle i found.


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    #5963
    adne
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    Ludwig


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    #5964
    adne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭adne


    Ludwig II


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    #5965
    High bike
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    adne wrote: »
    Ludwig
    cracking calf what age is he?


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    #5966
    adne
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    High bike wrote: »
    cracking calf what age is he?

    October


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    #5967
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Purebred weanling heifer I bought a few months ago. Doing a great thrive.


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    #5968
    patsy_mccabe
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    High bike wrote: »
    Hamlet heifer 3 mts
    High bike wrote: »
    And a Jackpot bull 6 weeks,going to coil the 2 mammies tomorrow On Dit in one and Gamin in the other

    Fine calves. Will you breed from the Lodge Hamlet heifer? I'd worry they wouldn't have enough milk.

    What do you think of Jackpot now? Is he as good as the hype around him?

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



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    #5969
    adne
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    High bike wrote: »
    And a Jackpot bull 6 weeks,going to coil the 2 mammies tomorrow On Dit in one and Gamin in the other

    Are they peds


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    #5970
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭High bike


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Fine calves. Will you breed from the Lodge Hamlet heifer? I'd worry they wouldn't have enough milk.

    What do you think of Jackpot now? Is he as good as the hype around him?
    dont know bout the heifer Patsy she’s out of a first calving Altea heifer and she seems to have enough milk but by all accounts the Hamlets aren’t too milky.Will see how she goes on and try get a bit of feedback from people that know a lot more about breeding than me.The Jackpot is a nice shapely calf and no bother calving but I think he’s lacking a bit of scope


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    #5971
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭High bike


    adne wrote: »
    Are they peds
    yes


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