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

Niallers87

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Ya I think that was her , I didn’t see her myself tbh
Nice animal in fairness

Serious heifer alright; there was a special charlaois sale on in enis today i think.

Limestone Cowboy

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Ya I think that was her , I didn’t see her myself tbh
Nice animal in fairness, if she was more of a snowball she would have been a class animal altogether

Same fella sold an eby heifer for over 2k in gort last week.

tanko

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Same fella sold an eby heifer for over 2k in gort last week.

There’s a pic of her in his other ads. He has super cattle.

charolais0153

tanko wrote: »

That's some heifer, MBP is a serious bull.
What bulls are the CH and SH breeding there?

Ya, same bull got again, don't know is there much mbp left,
Just a stock ch bull, bought her as a springer

I was watching ennis heifers today, though there was some very good value in it. Couple of 400kg 2019 heifers in it given away.

I was actually passing ennis mart last week, called in and bought 3 heifers to bull. Everytime I go there I always had forgotten how good the cattle are up there. Place wedged and literally not one fr in the yard.

Mac Taylor

DukeCaboom wrote: »

I was watching ennis heifers today, though there was some very good value in it. Couple of 400kg 2019 heifers in it given away.

I was actually passing ennis mart last week, called in and bought 3 heifers to bull. Everytime I go there I always had forgotten how good the cattle are up there. Place wedged and literally not one fr in the yard.

What kind of money were the 400kg that were given away making...I’ve a 3/4 bred 4* red lim heifer...433kgs born aug’19....she’s a nice heifer, I was hoping for €1,100..

charolais0153

Mac Taylor wrote: »

What kind of money were the 400kg that were given away making...I’ve a 3/4 bred 4* red lim heifer...433kgs born aug’18....she’s a nice heifer, I was hoping for €1,100..

26 months?

Mac Taylor

charolais0153 wrote: »

26 months?

Fixed that now:D

Mac Taylor

Mac Taylor wrote: »

What kind of money were the 400kg that were given away making...I’ve a 3/4 bred 4* red lim heifer...433kgs born aug’19....she’s a nice heifer, I was hoping for €1,100..

Barley €2.

charolais0153

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Fixed that now:D

An ideal replacement, why aren't you keeping her yourself

Mac Taylor

charolais0153 wrote: »

An ideal replacement, why aren't you keeping her yourself

I’m at my max....I’m keeping just 1/2 heifers this year....I’m thinking of getting a droimeann heifer or two....really interested in them...we’ll see.

patsy_mccabe

pure breed

Anyone got a link for calf prices at Ennis mart today. TIA

50HX

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Doreen did well

Some great stock in all herds.

Base price

pure breed wrote: »

Anyone got a link for calf prices at Ennis mart today. TIA

https://www.livestock-live.com/MartMemberAccess/Market/MartCatalogue?Mart=ENNIS&op=list

pure breed

Thanks for the reply Base Price.
I was looking in that link alright but can't seem to locate or see a option for the calves that were on sale.

Base price

pure breed wrote: »

Thanks for the reply Base Price.
I was looking in that link alright but can't seem to locate or see a option for the calves that were on sale.

It looks like only 15 calves were sold - lot numbers 300 - 314. Scroll down to the very end.

patsy_mccabe

Some nice heifers;

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/heifers/26241347

tanko

They're very nice alrite but are a lot of them not fit to kill.
Would they have any milk and getting calves out of them cold be tricky i think.
I'd prefer a good R grade heifer and let the bull put the muscle/shape into the calf.

charolais0153

tanko wrote: »

They're very nice alrite but are a lot of them not fit to kill.
Would they have any milk and getting calves out of them cold be tricky i think.
I'd prefer a good R grade heifer and let the bull put the muscle/shape into the calf.

I don't think they are that strong, you'd often get r grade heifers with dam all milk either

patsy_mccabe

tanko wrote: »

They're very nice alrite but are a lot of them not fit to kill.
Would they have any milk and getting calves out of them cold be tricky i think.
I'd prefer a good R grade heifer and let the bull put the muscle/shape into the calf.

The voice of experience. :rolleyes:

tanko

Each to their own i suppose, i don’t mean to knock them.

In saying all that i have this ZGM lady off a QCD X HE cow. Her mother has loads of milk and has a milk figure of +14, she has a figure of +6.
I’m thinking of keeping her on. Anyone got any ZGM cows, what are they like?

charolais0153

tanko wrote: »

Each to their own i suppose, i don’t mean to knock them.

In saying all that i have this ZGM lady off a QCD X HE cow. Her mother has loads of milk and has a milk figure of +14, she has a figure of +6.
I’m thinking of keeping her on. Anyone got any ZGM cows, what are they like?

I don't see why you wouldn't, certainly not too muscled

Grueller

tanko wrote: »

Each to their own i suppose, i don’t mean to knock them.

In saying all that i have this ZGM lady off a QCD X HE cow. Her mother has loads of milk and has a milk figure of +14, she has a figure of +6.
I’m thinking of keeping her on. Anyone got any ZGM cows, what are they like?

I'd keep her

patsy_mccabe

tanko wrote: »

Each to their own i suppose, i don’t mean to knock them.

In saying all that i have this ZGM lady off a QCD X HE cow. Her mother has loads of milk and has a milk figure of +14, she has a figure of +6.
I’m thinking of keeping her on. Anyone got any ZGM cows, what are they like?

A few Gamin heifers here but no cows yet. ICBF have Gamin below average and 90% rel for maternal calving. If you have doubt about her, let her grow away a bit more and give her an easy calver. You know yourself.

tanko

She's only six months old yet, will get an easy calving Saler the first time anyway.

CHOPS01

Happy Autumnal Grazers

Say my name

Been having the craic today.

Brix testing silage. (Measuring sugars).
A stainless steel garlic press is used to extract the juice from the silage and a drop is put on the refractomiter and you look through the eye piece on the brix reader to get the reading.

Say my name

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Do you measure your dry matter too?

No.
I had a bloke in with a hand held NIR tester last year and that was the first test ever on silage here.
The above was the first time using the brix reader with silage.

wrangler

Say my name wrote: »

No.
I had a bloke in with a hand held NIR tester last year and that was the first test ever on silage here.

We use one here to test the colostrum, some ewes'd be very watery