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

Count Mondego

I hope you've no use for that silage knife. I remember when I was about 5, the auld lad cutting the pit with one of those and forking into a transport box. Hard times.

High bike

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

She's a lim out of a lim x Friesan I'd say. Not sure on that though because her mother was bought in but you'd know there's dairy blood in her. Have very few big cows, they fall apart if you put them to the winterage unless you start feeding them as soon as you put them in and calve nearly everything at 2yo aswell. That's her mother there in the pic.

That's a great lump of a calf,no wonder he got stuck at the hips,the width of him:P

Genghis Cant

High bike wrote: »

That's a great lump of a calf,no wonder he got stuck at the hips,the width of him:P

And he doesn't look a fleshy calf. A big raw calf.
He'll be a proper weanling.

CloughCasey1

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

All the cows are out here, have no slats. Brought all the cows back from the winterage about 3 weeks ago and had the ones bear calving left beside the house on a field that had a small pick of grass on it. More feeding in that pick than I thought :rolleyes: they weren't getting any other feeding. Only have a few left now anyway that have always calved themselves so I'm not too worried. Had to pull the calf from the one yesterday the last three years in a row, bad cow to calf but a good cow to breed.

Me thinks she is worth it so. Takes a bit extra watchin her in last few wks.

Base price

Count Mondego wrote: »

I hope you've no use for that silage knife. I remember when I was about 5, the auld lad cutting the pit with one of those and forking into a transport box. Hard times.

I remember using one :eek:

Limestone Cowboy

High bike wrote: »

That's a great lump of a calf,no wonder he got stuck at the hips,the width of him:P

Decieving hoor he was, brought the head with a small bit of pressure and just the ropes. The mother of that cow had a calf with the widest shoulder I have seen in a long time this year and calved herself.

Genghis Cant

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Decieving hoor he was, brought the head with a small bit of pressure and just the ropes. The mother of that cow had a calf with the widest shoulder I have seen in a long time this year and calved herself.

We'd a brute of a Culard Ch last year with shoulders like that. They'd flap in and out. He couldnt walk for a few days, but came along the finest when he started to walk. You could push in and out his shoulders.

Base price

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Decieving hoor he was, brought the head with a small bit of pressure and just the ropes. The mother of that cow had a calf with the widest shoulder I have seen in a long time this year and calved herself.

Ouch...

Limestone Cowboy

Genghis Cant wrote: »

We'd a brute of a Culard Ch last year with shoulders like that. They'd flap in and out. He couldnt walk for a few days, but came along the finest when he started to walk. You could push in and out his shoulders.

Ya He's the exact same, his legs look awful twisted aswell but they might straighten as he grows. Actually hard to do it justice with a picture, the gap between his front legs is huge when you look at him head on. He wasn't going to get caught at the hips anyway once she got the front of him out

Limestone Cowboy

Count Mondego wrote: »

I hope you've no use for that silage knife. I remember when I was about 5, the auld lad cutting the pit with one of those and forking into a transport box. Hard times.

Tis left there with a few years now. Handy for splitting s bale if you want to fork it all the same.

limo_100

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Tis left there with a few years now. Handy for splitting s bale if you want to fork it all the same.

Il show you a shoulder ha post 6318

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=87093348

Genghis Cant

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Ya He's the exact same, his legs look awful twisted aswell but they might straighten as he grows. Actually hard to do it justice with a picture, the gap between his front legs is huge when you look at him head on. He wasn't going to get caught at the hips anyway once she got the front of him out

He'll grow into his shoulders and the ligaments, tendons and muscles will all pull together. You won't know him in a few weeks.

allthedoyles

Mad4simmental

If you ever get one with huge sholders at calving do ye shorten the rope on one leg to try pop out one side first?

Or I was told before to try turn the calf sort of sideways as there is more room at the exit top to bottem rather than side to side?

What tricks have ye got?

tanko

My vet reckons there's three golden rules for getting big calves out.
1 Lubrication
2 Lubrication
3 Lubrication

He uses a special gel as a lubricant, it's not cheap but he has great faith in it. Can't think of the name of it now.

Base price

tanko wrote: »

My vet reckons there's three golden rules for getting big calves out.
1 Lubrication
2 Lubrication
3 Lubrication

He uses a special gel as a lubricant, it's not cheap but he has great faith in it. Can't think of the name of it now.

Oh I think your going to get some gel suggestions

snipey

Ann Summers has a sale on gels this week

Reggie.

KY jelly!!!!!

onyerbikepat

Mad4simmental wrote: »

If you ever get one with huge sholders at calving do ye shorten the rope on one leg to try pop out one side first?

Or I was told before to try turn the calf sort of sideways as there is more room at the exit top to bottem rather than side to side?

What tricks have ye got?

If using the jack or just ropes, I try and pull on one rope and then the other, kinda going from side to side. An extra rope over the head and down dehind the ears and have someone else pull that too.
Plenty of lubrication and try and get it in where you feel the calf is caught. You might have to push the calf back a bit to do this.
The other big thing is to wait till the cow pushes before pulling.

Kovu

Base price wrote: »

Oh I think your going to get some gel suggestions

What about this one? Says nothing about shoulders though....

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mJdAicSUhM3cLv_w2q2dA8A.jpg

Reggie.

Kovu wrote: »

What about this one? Says nothing about shoulders though....

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mJdAicSUhM3cLv_w2q2dA8A.jpg

Out of your own collection is it

Kovu

Reggie. wrote: »

Out of your own collection is it

How very dare you

Reggie.

Kovu wrote: »

How very dare you

Ya must have given her a bit of it too did ya :P

tanko

QCD twins, bull and heifer.

Genghis Cant

tanko wrote: »

QCD twins, bull and heifer.

Pity that he aint a she .......... But that's just being greedy. Lovely pair all the same.

tanko

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Pity that he aint a she .......... But that's just being greedy. Lovely pair all the same.

Yeah, I know but I dont expect anything else. The last time there was two heifer twins here was sixteen sets of twins ago. That cow is five years old and that's her fourth set of twins. She's well shook at this stage. I see she's a five star cow anyway.

grassroot1

Kovu wrote: »

What about this one? Says nothing about shoulders though....

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mJdAicSUhM3cLv_w2q2dA8A.jpg

oh sweet Jesus (splashes holy water into eyes) how will I tell the auld lad to pick up a tube of that!!

Tyson Lannister

CBQ bull and MZT heifer, 6 weeks old

furandfeather

Tyson Lannister wrote: »

CBQ bull and MZT heifer, 6 weeks old

Some calf. Is he pure?

Tyson Lannister

He is shaping up well alright. Yep pedigree.