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

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    #992
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    This lad arrived yesterday evening. Bit of a pull with him but it's her first calf so had to be expected. Was up and sucking in 45 mins.
    284.JPG


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    #993
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,531 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Parishlad wrote: »
    This lad arrived yesterday evening. Bit of a pull with him but it's her first calf so had to be expected. Was up and sucking in 45 mins.
    284.JPG

    You have a good looking setup for calving there, have you the head gate but diagonally to the wall and does the gate dividing the pen close into the calving gate to help get them in?


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    #994
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    You have a good looking setup for calving there, have you the head gate but diagonally to the wall and does the gate dividing the pen close into the calving gate to help get them in?

    Yep, headgate is set in to corner of the shed. Gates at either side of headgate can be opened back to the outside. Bucket of nuts normally coaxes them up to headgate. Secret is not to excite them but if needed then the dividing gates either behind or to the side can be used to force the cow up. Have attached a couple more pics. You'll see how one side of the calving gate is fixed to the wall once the cow is locked in. Chain around the back then keeps everything in place. I'm not mad about the headgate itself. Very easy to lock in pace and free again but when a cow goes down under pressure the bar along the bottom (which would be under cows neck) is too high and could cause a problem.
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    Gate3.JPG


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    #995
    greysides
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    Parishlad wrote: »
    I'm not mad about the headgate itself. Very easy to lock in pace and free again but when a cow goes down under pressure the bar along the bottom (which would be under cows neck) is too high and could cause a problem.

    Completely agree with you... and it will happen. You could use the head gate to halter the animal then let her back out with minimum slack on the halter and close the head gate.

    If an animal gets hung in the head gate you'll never get her out due to her own weight.

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

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    #996
    Count Mondego
    Registered Users Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Count Mondego


    Parishlad wrote: »
    Yep, headgate is set in to corner of the shed. Gates at either side of headgate can be opened back to the outside. Bucket of nuts normally coaxes them up to headgate.

    That's an unbelievable shed. fire up a few more pics there for us, good man. smile.png


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    #997
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,450 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Count Mondego wrote: »
    That's an unbelievable shed. fire up a few more pics there for us, good man. smile.png

    Very tasty be nearly a sin to let animals into it :o


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    #998
    AntrimGlens
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Very tasty be nearly a sin to let animals into it :o

    I reckon Whelan couldn't get it as clean as that with all her powerwashing. Thats a cracking looking set up.


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    #999
    mayota
    Registered Users Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭mayota


    Parishlad wrote: »
    Yep, headgate is set in to corner of the shed. Gates at either side of headgate can be opened back to the outside. Bucket of nuts normally coaxes them up to headgate. Secret is not to excite them but if needed then the dividing gates either behind or to the side can be used to force the cow up. Have attached a couple more pics. You'll see how one side of the calving gate is fixed to the wall once the cow is locked in. Chain around the back then keeps everything in place. I'm not mad about the headgate itself. Very easy to lock in pace and free again but when a cow goes down under pressure the bar along the bottom

    Ya, head gate bottom bar is way too high, you should take it off and get it lengthened. What a shed tho !! Fair play to you.


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    #1000
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Parishlad wrote: »
    Yep, headgate is set in to corner of the shed.

    That's a class shed. Well wear. Yeah as you pointed out a right headgate instead of that single locking barrier and you are laughing.

    What is the little tank over the tap for?


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    #1001
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Muckit wrote: »
    That's a class shed. Well wear. Yeah as you pointed out a right headgate instead of that single locking barrier and you are laughing.

    What is the little tank over the tap for?

    It's the water tank from the pump Muckit.


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    #1002
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,531 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Parishlad wrote: »
    Yep, headgate is set in to corner of the shed. Gates at either side of headgate can be opened back to the outside. Bucket of nuts normally coaxes them up to headgate. Secret is not to excite them but if needed then the dividing gates either behind or to the side can be used to force the cow up. Have attached a couple more pics. You'll see how one side of the calving gate is fixed to the wall once the cow is locked in. Chain around the back then keeps everything in place. I'm not mad about the headgate itself. Very easy to lock in pace and free again but when a cow goes down under pressure the bar along the bottom (which would be under cows neck) is too high and could cause a problem.
    Gate1.JPG
    Gate2.JPG
    Gate3.JPG

    That's a serious setup, thanks for sticking up the pics!


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    #1003
    Reggie.
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    Ya have everyone jealous now Parishlad :D


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    #1004
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    That's a serious setup, thanks for sticking up the pics!

    No probs. The shed is a godsend. Makes life very easy and there's very little I can't do on my own......and safely!


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    #1005
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Count Mondego wrote: »
    That's an unbelievable shed. fire up a few more pics there for us, good man. smile.png

    Thanks! I'll have a look to see what I have. Not sure I have too many more though.


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    #1006
    Genghis Cant
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    Parishlad wrote: »
    No probs. The shed is a godsend. Makes life very easy and there's very little I can't do on my own......and safely!

    Serious set up. It's something else no doubt.

    I don't mean to find fault...... But.... I nearly got myself in trouble with a chain behind a gate like you've got there. It's not easy to remove with 800+ kgs of cow pushing it. A rope can be cut in a flash with a knife.
    Just something for ya to think about!


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    #1007
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Serious set up. It's something else no doubt.

    I don't mean to find fault...... But.... I nearly got myself in trouble with a chain behind a gate like you've got there. It's not easy to remove with 800+ kgs of cow pushing it. A rope can be cut in a flash with a knife.
    Just something for ya to think about!

    You probably have a point but I think that as long as you release the chain before the head gate then shouldn't have a problem. Would only pull the chain across once cow is caught in head gate.


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    #1008
    Count Mondego
    Registered Users Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Count Mondego


    Parishlad wrote: »
    Thanks! I'll have a look to see what I have. Not sure I have too many more though.

    Don't bother, went through all your previous posts and found most of them :-)

    Love the efficiency of your design. Plan on building one in the next yr or 2 depending on this grant. I wouldn't be straying too far from what you have.

    Thanks again.


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    #1009
    frazzledhome
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    Cleaning water troughs Do it daily


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    #1010
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Cleaning water troughs Do it daily
    Is that stainless? Why every day? You should put up a sign - 'No Sh1tting in the water'.


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    #1011
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Looks pretty clean to me! Do you do it regardless of whether there's shlt in it or not?


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    #1012
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Muckit wrote: »
    Looks pretty clean to me! Do you do it regardless of whether there's shlt in it or not?

    There's always a bit of silage etc in tanks. I don't like dirty delph.


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    #1013
    Reggie.
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    There's always a bit of silage etc in tanks. I don't like dirty delph.

    :D


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    #1014
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Cleaning water troughs Do it daily

    Thousands of water protesters hate you!


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    #1015
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    There's always a bit of silage etc in tanks. I don't like dirty delph.

    Do you throw the tea down the sink if the top of the biscuit falls in? :)


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    #1016
    Limestone Cowboy
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    I like red ones!


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    #1017
    Muckit
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    Are they all due to calf Limestone?


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    #1018
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,531 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Muckit wrote: »
    Are they all due to calf Limestone?

    There's a few heifers in it that aren't bulled. The cows are going out another month to 6 weeks I'd say. Have the earlier calving ones in a different bunch.


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    #1019
    Nettleman
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    There's a few heifers in it that aren't bulled. The cows are going out another month to 6 weeks I'd say. Have the earlier calving ones in a different bunch.
    The grey one at the back is probably the most expensive to run:rolleyes:


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    #1020
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,531 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Nettleman wrote: »
    The grey one at the back is probably the most expensive to run:rolleyes:

    Ya, I actually had it up on the lift yesterday seeing what it needed for the test, wouldn't feel putting 500 quid into it :(


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    #1021
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Bought this lady for 1100 in Feb 13 outside a mart.. She has calved 3 no. Charolais bulls in 24 months ! Wish I'd get few more of them

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