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

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    #1742
    Limestone Cowboy
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    just do it wrote: »
    As well as a smashing heifer thistles are a sign of good land ;)

    And bad farmers ;) few acres we have rented that I was feeding weanlings on last winter. Was like a garden last March hence all the thistles.


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    #1743
    Miname
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    A couple of my replacements.


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    #1744
    Miname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭Miname


    A couple of my replacements. All calving in January. There's a few reds that's hard to tell between that I've kept because their mothers have all bred well for years. There's a limo out of a sim that looks narrower than I'd like but she's out of a sim cow that left eight calves in five years and always reared them without hassle. There's a limo out of a blue that unusually never had any issue calving even with monsters of bulls and then there's the thing that looks like a whitehead that is actually a friesain out of my best cow a blonde cross limo. A screw of a weanling gave her mother a jump when we were testing one year and she's the result. I'm curious to see how she breeds but il hang her up if she goes wrong.


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    #1745
    Mad4simmental
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    These girls are doing a good job on their first calves. Jan born.


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    #1746
    Farrell
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    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    These girls are doing a good job on their first calves. Jan born.

    Are they SM or LM calves?
    Nice outfits, really like the third pair, will you keep that heifer?


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    #1747
    Mad4simmental
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    A few of the heifers to calve in dec.


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    #1748
    patsy_mccabe
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    Miname wrote: »
    A couple of my replacements....
    really like the one in the middle photo.

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



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    #1749
    Mad4simmental
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    Farrell wrote: »
    Are they SM or LM calves?
    Nice outfits, really like the third pair, will you keep that heifer?

    They are sim x BA the first of my sim calves will be on the ground this year. Looking forward to them. No id like to keep a few but the bills will haveto be payed to ha.

    I'm going to sell them around late September or early October. They should make nice cows a good balance of milk & muscle. I'd say they would cross nice with a part or bb.


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    #1750
    Farrell
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    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    They are sim x BA the first of my sim calves will be on the ground this year. Looking forward to them. No id like to keep a few but the bills will haveto be payed to ha.

    I'm going to sell them around late September or early October. They should make nice cows a good balance of milk & muscle. I'd say they would cross nice with a part or bb.
    Should do, fair play to you.
    Would they be suitable for the breeding sales (3.5 star plus), would make lots if they are


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    #1751
    Mad4simmental
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    Farrell wrote: »
    Should do, fair play to you.
    Would they be suitable for the breeding sales (3.5 star plus), would make lots if they are

    I must look up their stars. Their dams are 4/5 star but their grand sire is an imported ba so probably get hit for their star rateing there.


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    #1752
    Farrell
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    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    I must look up their stars. Their dams are 4/5 star but their grand sire is an imported ba so probably get hit for their star rateing there.

    Sure he'd affect the dam's stars too, if the sire is high maternal, they'd be ideal


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    #1753
    just do it
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    Miname & Mad4simmential

    Fair deuce lads, great breeding stock. There's a lot to be said for knowing the history of your replacements.


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    #1754
    Kovu
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    Aah! What I tried earlier didn't work.
    Maiden heifers in first pic, a half sister to arsey mc arse heifer above in second pic. She's off cwi, now incalf to towthorpe dubai.


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    #1755
    Kovu
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    Kovu wrote: »
    Aah! What I tried earlier didn't work.
    Maiden heifers in first pic, a half sister to arsey mc arse heifer above in second pic. She's off cwi, now incalf to towthorpe dubai.

    Oh and before anyone says it; I didn't dehorn her :p


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    #1756
    AP2014
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    Kovu wrote: »
    Oh and before anyone says it; I didn't dehorn her :p

    Nice view, is that a lake in the background?


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    #1757
    Kovu
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    AP2014 wrote: »
    Nice view, is that a lake in the background?

    Nope. Dowra mountains. Lake is at the home house. This is our outfarm.


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    #1758
    AP2014
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    Kovu wrote: »
    Nope. Dowra mountains. Lake is at the home house. This is our outfarm.

    Spoilt so ;)


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    #1759
    Kovu
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    AP2014 wrote: »
    Spoilt so ;)

    Not at all. Leitrim land.


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    #1760
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Nice golden heifer out of lim bull and a ch x sim cow and a foster cow I bought off a neighbour to rear a twin, best cow in the place to look at but wouldn't rear a kitten.


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    #1761
    Limestone Cowboy
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    A little fsz bull calf I found this morning.


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    #1762
    Count Mondego
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    A little fsz bull calf I found this morning.

    What % of autumn calving LC?


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    #1763
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Count Mondego wrote: »
    What % of autumn calving LC?

    2 young cows that came bulling last November, ai'd the two of them with the intention of flogging them when they calved. Have to test in the next fortnight and if we're clear they will get a day out. Doesn't suit us having them sucking here for the winter. The two cows are a bit flighty though.


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    #1764
    Tyson Lannister
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    a good breeding cow, 2nd calver


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    #1765
    RobinBanks
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    Tyson Lannister wrote: »
    a good breeding cow, 2nd calver

    That's a lovely cow. Is she pure bred?


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    Tyson Lannister
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    she is PB yeah. lovely cow alright extremely quiet.


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    #1767
    High bike
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    Kovu wrote: »
    Oh and before anyone says it; I didn't dehorn her :p
    well recovered there:P


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    #1768
    Tyson Lannister
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    this is her with this years young calf


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    #1769
    Kovu
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    Am finally back at the laptop and can do this!

    This was the wee babby here, she's done well eh? ;)
    Kovu wrote: »
    Poor little babba has had a very hard weathered start to her life! Two days of crappy weather to welcome her to the world.
    Thank feck for hedges and sensible mammies that shelter the calf or hide it. Just spent half an hour trying to find the wee yoke.

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    Kovu wrote: »
    I like big butts and I can not lie!

    ERE heifer off a Tarot cow- about 2 months old. And Virgina Andy heifer about three weeks.

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    #1770
    orm0nd
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    really like the one in the middle photo.

    snap


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    #1771
    whelan2
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    Aa cow and her heifer calf born yesterday


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