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

naughto

Mutton dressed as lamb

darragh_haven

Pic stolen from twitter. Brazil do things bigger

RobinBanks

View from the calving camera

Limestone Cowboy

RobinBanks wrote: »

View from the calving camera

Serious looking calf, ch x bb??

RobinBanks

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Serious looking calf, ch x bb??

Blonde out of blue heifer

bogman_bass

serious hips! much of a pull?

Reggie.

bogman_bass wrote: »

serious hips! much of a pull?

Thinking the same

Mad4simmental

Savage looking length too.

Mad4simmental

I don't know how to tell them but it's the last supper for these guys!

I said

Mad4simmental wrote: »

I don't know how to tell them but it's the last supper for these guys!

Any ham ?

Mad4simmental

I said wrote: »

Any ham ?

No might do sum during the year as an experiment.

whelan2

Mad4simmental wrote: »

No might do sum during the year as an experiment.

how many turkeys do you have , do you kill them yourself? Have 2 pigs here, local lad who owns a restaurant arrived down yesterday with 30 boxes of mc cains wedges /chips/ potatoes that are out of date for the pigs. They dont like the spicy wedges

Mad4simmental

whelan2 wrote: »

how many turkeys do you have , do you kill them yourself? Have 2 pigs here, local lad who owns a restaurant arrived down yesterday with 30 boxes of mc cains wedges /chips/ potatoes that are out of date for the pigs. They dont like the spicy wedges

We do about 30 a year. Killed them ourselves a few years ago but now a local butcher takes them all and kills them himself much easier let the pro at it. I love the taste of home birds far superior to shop birds.

I have half an AC with sheep wire and a shed would this be ok for pigs or would I nearly need a block wall to keep them in?

Bought a home pig a few years ago that was feed cider apples. The tastiest pork iv ever had!

Kovu

Kovu's. A Kovu everywhere

whelan2

Mad4simmental wrote: »

We do about 30 a year. Killed them ourselves a few years ago but now a local butcher takes them all and kills them himself much easier let the pro at it. I love the taste of home birds far superior to shop birds.

I have half an AC with sheep wire and a shed would this be ok for pigs or would I nearly need a block wall to keep them in?

Bought a home pig a few years ago that was feed cider apples. The tastiest pork iv ever had!

we got ours for free as they kept breaking out, they are in a yard/shed . Lad who had them before had electric fence to keep them in but they ignored it.We used to have turkeys too but was too much work at christmas killing them and cleaning them out, money came in handy though

Mad4simmental

whelan2 wrote: »

we got ours for free as they kept breaking out, they are in a yard/shed . Lad who had them before had electric fence to keep them in but they ignored it.We used to have turkeys too but was too much work at christmas killing them and cleaning them out, money came in handy though

Might convert cubicle shed to a piggy shed over summer for the crack so, bit of a gra for doing sum of our own food here just an intrest.

whelan2

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Might convert cubicle shed to a piggy shed over summer for the crack so, bit of a gra for doing sum of our own food here just an intrest.

Friend has 300 turkeys loads them into cattle lorry and brings them to meat factory gets them back plucked and all

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Friend has 300 turkeys loads them into cattle lorry and brings them to meat factory gets them back plucked and all

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

is he your friend too?

sandydan

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Must remember this, for when I get stuck again;

ripped many a valve off when doing it, you need a pull when doing it though , if tractors swings as well as front lifting you could end up on one side,its not really suitable for modern cabs and mudguards though, used prefer to put hook of chain into rim and ring on hitch of anther tractor and use diff lock.

Farmer Pudsey

sandydan wrote: »

ripped many a valve off when doing it, you need a pull when doing it though , if tractors swings as well as front lifting you could end up on one side,its not really suitable for modern cabs and mudguards though, used prefer to put hook of chain into rim and ring on hitch of anther tractor and use diff lock.

Saw another version of that years ago. The timber was chained lenght ways in front of the wheel and you drove up onto it and over it. You then took off the timber and replaced it in front and did the same again if needed

mayota

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Saw another version of that years ago. The timber was chained lenght ways in front of the wheel and you drove up onto it and over it. You then took off the timber and replaced it in front and did the same again if needed

Have seen that done with a sleeper, works well, tho one lad did'nt understand the principle of it and let up the clutch and bent the mud guard.

Copa Mundial

The queen and her castle

dh1985

Santa just came.

Muckit

My God that calf is half reared!!

dh1985

Muckit wrote: »

My God that calf is half reared!!

He is big enough alright but surprisingly lively for a charolais. Was up sucking within minutes. And a greedy calf as well. Mad for tit.

Greengrass1

dh1985 wrote: »

Santa just came.

Do any if you take beestibg from cow and give to calf. Neighbor started doing it last two yr and he said it made an unreal difference. No sick calves or any mortality.

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Do any if you take beestibg from cow and give to calf. Neighbor started doing it last two yr and he said it made an unreal difference. No sick calves or any mortality.

We always draw a litre or so before she calves so the calf can be bottle feed straight away

Reggie.

dh1985 wrote: »

He is big enough alright but surprisingly lively for a charolais. Was up sucking within minutes. And a greedy calf as well. Mad for tit.

What was the pull like...surely a jack was needed

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

is he your friend too?

He is now