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

patsy_mccabe · 23-04-2016 7:41pm

Young cow, just gone 2 years. She has sore eyes like this for well over 6 months. Any idea what it could be. I tried opticlox ointment last week but only improved for a day or two.

Kovu · 23-04-2016 9:15pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Young cow, just gone 2 years. She has sore eyes like this for well over 6 months. Any idea what it could be. I tried opticlox ointment last week but only improved for a day or two.

Maybe she's just sick of the sight of ya.

patsy_mccabe · 23-04-2016 9:21pm

Well her calf isn't anyway. He comes straight up to me and uses me as a scratching post. I bottled him from birth cause mother had no milk for a day or so.

Base price · 23-04-2016 9:58pm

Could it be something in the silage/hay/bedding that she is allergic too. I presume that she has been housed indoors during the winter. Is her breathing effected too, nasal sound?

limo_100 · 23-04-2016 10:01pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Young cow, just gone 2 years. She has sore eyes like this for well over 6 months. Any idea what it could be. I tried opticlox ointment last week but only improved for a day or two.

get some mastitis tubes clear her up in a few days, give her one every 3-4days

patsy_mccabe · 23-04-2016 10:07pm

Base price wrote: »

Could it be something in the silage/hay/bedding that she is allergic too. I presume that she has been housed indoors during the winter. Is her breathing effected too, nasal sound?

I was thinking the same but she wasn't housed till early Feb. Had her out grazing off some dry ground. It looks like an allergy thing alright.

Base price · 23-04-2016 10:14pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I was thinking the same but she wasn't housed till early Feb. Had her out grazing off some dry ground. It looks like an allergy thing alright.

Sometimes bulls develop a type of sinus after been sculled and have a nasal discharge as well as white gunk in their eyes.
Is there any clouding/haziness in her eye. Is it causing her any discomfort/irritation?

tanko · 23-04-2016 10:16pm

Month old GJB heifer calf

charolais0153 · 23-04-2016 10:23pm

tanko wrote: »

Month old GJB heifer calf

I thought it said kjb and I almost had a heart attacj.

tanko · 23-04-2016 10:33pm

charolais0153 wrote: »

I thought it said kjb and I almost had a heart attacj.

Why would you have a heart attack, that calf was the biggest and heaviest one here this year, couldn't believe the size of it.

Base price · 23-04-2016 10:40pm

The downside of no longer keeping sucklers is that I now have to look up bull codes to figure out what breed they are.
Tanko - that is a smashing calf. The bull (gjb) has good length which imo is where the money is made on the hook.

charolais0153 · 24-04-2016 8:41am

tanko wrote: »

Why would you have a heart attack, that calf was the biggest and heaviest one here this year, couldn't believe the size of it.

I was expecting something like this. http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057285534/128/#post95749561 (6th post down )she's a grand heifer no doubt but just a bit of a shock as you always have limos

Muckit · 24-04-2016 8:53am

orm0nd wrote: »

the wire snapped & wrapped around his chest, being the summer time all he had on was a light short sleeved shirt

Any wire is dangerous. A good pair of gloves and goggles or safety glasses a must. I always shove the end of the wire into the ground after winding it out.

tanko · 24-04-2016 9:51am

charolais0153 wrote: »

I was expecting something like this. http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057285534/128/#post95749561 (6th post down )she's a grand heifer no doubt but just a bit of a shock as you always have limos

She's had twins the last four years so i put an AA on her so it would be easy on her if twins again but she had that big lump, I think she's trying to kill herself!!!

Used to use AA a lot years ago, had plenty of R+ and some U grades off their crosses.

bogman_bass · 24-04-2016 1:16pm

tanko wrote: »

Month old GJB heifer calf

Those GJB caves grow like mushrooms

limo_100 · 24-04-2016 1:25pm

bogman_bass wrote: »

Those GJB caves grow like mushrooms

What would the heifers be like to keep as cows??

Mac Taylor · 24-04-2016 9:07pm

Updated pictures of some of the PB limousins born in the last few months.

Pic1 - Virginia Andy - Really impressed with him
Pic2 - Brooklands KJB
Pic3 - Milbrook Dartangan - Poor star on the maternal side and doubt she will have much milk with her vantastic breeding. (she's a cheekly lady though, managing to take a sneak drink from every cow that is with her.:D

Muckit · 24-04-2016 9:09pm

Fine calves God bless them!

Mac Taylor · 24-04-2016 9:12pm

Muckit wrote: »

Fine calves God bless them!

If only God would bless us with some grass!!

Fairly bare around South Galway now.

Muckit · 24-04-2016 9:20pm

Mac Taylor wrote: »

If only God would bless us with some grass!!

Fairly bare around South Galway now.

Same here. Ground burnt from the wind. I had a pile of bushes and was tidying them up. There was more grass growing in under the edges of the pile than anywhere else in field (sheltered).

I haven't an ounce of bag manure out yet. Watching a few of the neighbours fields that have it out a month and no go. So l don't feel too bad. We might get time next weekend.

Kovu · 24-04-2016 9:33pm

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Updated pictures of some of the PB limousins born in the last few months.

Pic1 - Virginia Andy - Really impressed with him
Pic2 - Brooklands KJB
Pic3 - Milbrook Dartangan - Poor star on the maternal side and doubt she will have much milk with her vantastic breeding. (she's a cheekly lady though, managing to take a sneak drink from every cow that is with her.:D

Wait til you see that Virginia Andy calf once he hits meal and six months of age! Had one that surpassed all round her once she got feeding and is now almost the same height as her mother at 11 months.
Wasn't surprised that his stars shot up like they did.

Limestone Cowboy · 25-04-2016 1:39am

Mac Taylor wrote: »

If only God would bless us with some grass!!

Fairly bare around South Galway now.

I feel your pain Mac, not a rib to be seen around here either and I could do with it. Plenty of cows thinner than I'd like after getting hammered with wind and rain all winter. Had the first 2 calves out of the young bull I bought last year last night.

Limestone Cowboy · 25-04-2016 1:47am

And the other, not small!

Kovu · 26-04-2016 4:16pm

They've a whole field to lie in and yet they do this.
Looks very relaxing though.....hmmm.

*Lies down with them*

Farrell · 26-04-2016 11:24pm

Going to keep these 3 for breeding

The 1 on the right (top pic) is off CQA & a LLX dam born Mar 15,
middle is a Jul 15 think FR off a UBY heifer that visited next door
Left is a bought in May 15 LMX.
Going to calve down the SI @ 24 months, in 2 minds on the Other 2, Calve April/May or Aug/Sept
Any opinions?

Kovu · 26-04-2016 11:33pm

Farrell wrote: »

The 1 on the right (top pic) is off CQA & a LLX dam born Mar 15,
middle is a Jul 15 think FR off a UBY heifer that visited next door
Left is a bought in May 15 LMX.
Going to calve down the SI @ 24 months, in 2 minds on the Other 2, Calve April/May or Aug/Sept
Any opinions?

Nice heifers Farrell, esp the top right. I'd be worried that the white faced one wouldn't grow tall enough to bull at all though. She just looks like she'll stay butty round the back end with the way she's framed, maybe it's just the way her tail is set though.

Farrell · 26-04-2016 11:41pm

Kovu wrote: »

Nice heifers Farrell, esp the top right. I'd be worried that the white faced one wouldn't grow tall enough to bull at all though. She just looks like she'll stay butty round the back end with the way she's framed, maybe it's just the way her tail is set though.

Thanks, agree really disappointed with the LMX of late, she's grown out rather than up over the winter, we'll put them To grass soon & see if she starts to spurt, else she'll be for winter finishing.
What about the FR, would you calve @ 21 months, she was 250Kg in Jan

Kovu · 26-04-2016 11:51pm

Farrell wrote: »

Thanks, agree really disappointed with the LMX of late, she's grown out rather than up over the winter, we'll put them To grass soon & see if she starts to spurt, else she'll be for winter finishing.
What about the FR, would you calve @ 21 months, she was 250Kg in Jan

I would, but sure I'm mad for hardship :pac: She looks wide enough and she'll have caught up with the Mar heifer (in height but not weight) by the time you're bulling that one. I'd do those two together, put maybe Towthorpe Dubai on them both and leave off the other one unless she grows up a bit. I am always wary of heifers that stall round that age and put weight on their middle rather than the back end, they don't really grow upwards any further when incalf either.

bogman_bass · 27-04-2016 12:37pm

Farrell wrote: »

Thanks, agree really disappointed with the LMX of late, she's grown out rather than up over the winter, we'll put them To grass soon & see if she starts to spurt, else she'll be for winter finishing.
What about the FR, would you calve @ 21 months, she was 250Kg in Jan

personally I wouldn't. calve September @26 months would be the way I'd go.

Jimlh86 · 01-05-2016 2:33pm

This fella is out of the cow on the left of the top picture. We put her in to an ai Charolais bull same as every year. She's always had White calves like the lad in the too picture. I think a Hereford cross (black white head) bull I had here last summer got her before he was sold. What do ye think?

Sorry pictures are the other way around

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

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