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

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    #6512
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,263 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    It's all got a bit of the GameStop about it.


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    #6513
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    The lad born at the weekend at 303 days. Off homebred Loyal bull. Came very CH-ish like the cow.

    mgwMg7el.jpg


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    #6514
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    The lad born at the weekend at 303 days. Off homebred Loyal bull. Came very CH-ish like the cow.

    mgwMg7el.jpg

    Fierce size
    That’s where a good roomy cow comes into her own


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    #6515
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Fierce size
    That’s where a good roomy cow comes into her own

    That's her there back left, 3rd calver. Once we got the shoulders through the pelvis he came handy enough, looks a grand sort at the moment anyway. Hard fed calf though, he'd eat udder & all if he could.


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    #6516
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Charolais yearling heifer out of a he x fr cow. Very quiet, should make a nice replacement in time.


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    #6517
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,024 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Charolais yearling heifer out of a he x fr cow. Very quiet, should make a nice replacement in time.

    You can see the Charolais in the thick bone!

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #6518
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,825 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Charolais yearling heifer out of a he x fr cow. Very quiet, should make a nice replacement in time.

    She's a smasher. Lovely shape to her and nice feminine head.

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



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    #6519
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    She's a smasher. Lovely shape to her and nice feminine head.

    I like those types, easy fleshed too for the winterage. She hasn't got any silage all the winter just 3kg nuts a day on the winterage. I know a lot of fellas don't like keeping anything with a white head but the ones from the milker cows nearly always have some bit of white breaking through somewhere on them.


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    #6520
    390kid
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭390kid


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    I like those types, easy fleshed too for the winterage. She hasn't got any silage all the winter just 3kg nuts a day on the winterage. I know a lot of fellas don't like keeping anything with a white head but the ones from the milker cows nearly always have some bit of white breaking through somewhere on them.
    I’d be with you on that one they have to have a white face, belly or elder if there to make it as a suckler in my eyes.


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    #6521
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,263 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Is there a big difference at the mart selling stores castrated vs non-castrated?
    Got a few which we'll not be able to finish that are intact and are about 410kg @ 8mths.


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    #6522
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,890 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Is there a big difference at the mart selling stores castrated vs non-castrated?
    Got a few which we'll not be able to finish that are intact and are about 410kg @ 8mths.

    From now on there's usually a premium for store bullocks over bull's at lighter weights due to demand from summer grazer's. In the autumn time there isn't much of a difference in most cases.

    However imo they'd want to be done a month or more and visibly looking like a bullock to get a premium. Castrating them today and selling next week means they still look like a bull regardless of what's announced and lads will usually buy them as such. If your going to sell in the next fortnight I'd leave them as they are tbh because I don't see it making much of a difference. As above if you could hold them for a few weeks then I'd get them done ASAP and you'll have something that should appeal to the type of lad that wants a handy time of it for the summer. The same lad will give them a dose in the mart chute before loading and let them straight into the field when he goes home and is well prepared to pay for this convenience.


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    #6523
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,263 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    From now on there's usually a premium for store bullocks over bull's at lighter weights due to demand from summer grazer's. In the autumn time there isn't much of a difference in most cases.

    However imo they'd want to be done a month or more and visibly looking like a bullock to get a premium. Castrating them today and selling next week means they still look like a bull regardless of what's announced and lads will usually buy them as such. If your going to sell in the next fortnight I'd leave them as they are tbh because I don't see it making much of a difference. As above if you could hold them for a few weeks then I'd get them done ASAP and you'll have something that should appeal to the type of lad that wants a handy time of it for the summer. The same lad will give them a dose in the mart chute before loading and let them straight into the field when he goes home and is well prepared to pay for this convenience.

    Thanks - won't be selling for a month yet so I'll get them crushed ASAP.


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    #6524
    Barron lad
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭Barron lad


    If they were my cattle I wouldn't castrate them as at that weight I would fear they would melt, with the prices good bulls are making at the minute, I would save yourself the hardship and sell them as they are.


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    #6525
    RobinBanks
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Charolais yearling heifer out of a he x fr cow. Very quiet, should make a nice replacement in time.

    LC, you have great stock fair play to you. I would love a small spot like that to keep a few cattle out for winter


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    #6526
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,632 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Wednesday's fun


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    #6527
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Wednesday's fun

    Sweet mother of god......how did she get there and how the hell did you get her out!!!


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    #6528
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,632 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Sweet mother of god......how did she get there and how the hell did you get her out!!!

    Lifted her butt up with the forks of the digger and she stepped forward. Her calf was in the shed


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    #6529
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,825 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Lifted her butt up with the forks of the digger and she stepped forward. Her calf was in the shed

    Every farmer should have those big thick lifting straps. I got a load of them here from a company I worked for before. Neighbours always looking for them.

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



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    #6530
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,632 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Every farmer should have those big thick lifting straps. I got a load of them here from a company I worked for before. Neighbours always looking for them.

    Have those. Have a lifter too but I'd say it wouldn't have fitted over her hips the way she was.


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    #6531
    liosnagceann75
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Lifted her butt up with the forks of the digger and she stepped forward. Her calf was in the shed

    No need for that lark. Thanks. GC


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    #6532
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,803 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Wednesday's fun

    You're a brave woman.


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    #6533
    furandfeather
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭furandfeather


    Only thing thats wrong is the balls!


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    #6534
    charolais0153
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    furandfeather wrote: »
    Only thing thats wrong is the balls!

    Super , bit of charolis in him I'd say


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    #6535
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,825 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    furandfeather wrote: »
    Only thing thats wrong is the balls!

    He looks like he's just after a bath, shampoo and blow dry.

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



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    #6536
    furandfeather
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭furandfeather


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Super , bit of charolis in him I'd say

    Ya mother is a vcr cow.
    Calf really brought the charolais bone


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    #6537
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,270 ✭✭✭tanko


    Lovely colouring, i'd say your heart sank when you lifted his leg.

    What bull is he off?


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    #6538
    furandfeather
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭furandfeather


    tanko wrote: »
    Lovely colouring, i'd say your heart sank when you lifted his leg.

    What bull is he off?

    Out of my own bull by curaheen tyson


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    #6539
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,263 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Generally speaking, what is the difference between dairy nuts @16%; protein and beef blend @ 16%.
    Got a calved cow (2 weeks) and she has a small udder - I think it's the type of her as she reared a good strong bull calf last year, but boss wants to put her on a dairy nut.
    I don't really see much difference in the general composition between them so wondering if a dairy nut can really do anything here.


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    #6540
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Generally speaking, what is the difference between dairy nuts @16% protein and beef blend @ 16%.
    Got a calved cow (2 weeks) and she has a small udder - I think it's the type of her as she reared a good strong bull calf last year, but boss wants to put her on a dairy nut.
    I don't really see much difference in the general composition between them so wondering if a dairy nut can really do anything here.

    Read the label
    Some 16% calf nut says not suitable for lactating cows as it can effect milk production
    Likewise dairy nut is not suitable for males as it can effect them urinating


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    #6541
    50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭50HX


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Generally speaking, what is the difference between dairy nuts @16% protein and beef blend @ 16%.
    Got a calved cow (2 weeks) and she has a small udder - I think it's the type of her as she reared a good strong bull calf last year, but boss wants to put her on a dairy nut.
    I don't really see much difference in the general composition between them so wondering if a dairy nut can really do anything here.

    Go to a dairy farmer, if he has ration in the bin for the parlour, that's what you want


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