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

Mooooo

Keepgrowing wrote: »

A bit of this going on

Out door cubicles? Big pans for walls are the job. Messing around with 8 2 , 4 2 pans and keys,wedges and snap ties...... won't knock em as they put up most of this place but plenty help around back then, right lads in for a job is the way to go these days I reckon

Keepgrowing

Mooooo wrote: »

Out door cubicles? Big pans for walls are the job. Messing around with 8 2 , 4 2 pans and keys,wedges and snap ties...... won't knock em as they put up most of this place but plenty help around back then, right lads in for a job is the way to go these days I reckon

We have our own 4*2 pans here but the thoughts of doing a 7' wall 140' long gave me nightmares. Hired pans, guy erected, we fill them he removes tomorrow €1000.

There are 2 feed walls to be poured and I've located enough 20'*2 to do it in 1 day.

The thoughts of small pans, pins and wedges give me nightmares ;(

pedigree 6

Breakfast time - munching away.


Heifer calf by sire(LHZ x laurel) out of a heifer by sire(RTA x KBA)

charolais0153

Reseed down the 10th of august. Mix of abergain,aberchoice tyrella and avoca clover. Has got great weather so far let's hope I can graze it

Lady Haywire

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Few from this evening while moving them, will ye feckers down south stop praying for rain, it's getting very swampy up here!

Early April born PBNR heifers calf off Towthorpe Dubai.

This is Jenny aka heifers's heifer, the mammy of above. Teensy tiny heifer and no sign of her to grow.

mayota

Getting ready for the weekends rain.

tanko

Nice job, will you be piping it and filling it in?

Reggie.

mayota wrote: »

Getting ready for the weekends rain.

How much rain are ya expecting

patsy_mccabe

mayota wrote: »

Getting ready for the weekends rain.

Tasty operator.

mayota

tanko wrote: »

Nice job, will you be piping it and filling it in?

No. It's an existing drain that hasn't been cleaned in about 30 years. It was almost fully closed in.

limo_100

mayota wrote: »

Getting ready for the weekends rain.

is that two seperate fields? If so why dont you build the clay and made a ditch out of it?

Farrell

limo_100 wrote: »

is that two seperate fields? If so why dont you build the clay and made a ditch out of it?

What about pipe, stone & make 1 big field?

limo_100

Farrell wrote: »

What about pipe, stone & make 1 big field?

maybe but with the way the years are comming theres propably to many drains closed

Never wrestle with pigs

limo_100 wrote: »

maybe but with the way the years are comming theres propably to many drains closed

+1
That type of land is suited to open drains better.

limo_100

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

+1
That type of land is suited to open drains better.

We have some ground like that and when its well minded it can be very prodouctive a few shores would dry it out well

mayota

limo_100 wrote: »

is that two seperate fields? If so why dont you build the clay and made a ditch out of it?

I prefer it flat into the drain. Easier kept.

Never wrestle with pigs

limo_100 wrote: »

We have some ground like that and when its well minded it can be very prodouctive a few shores would dry it out well

Same as that. A lot more minding than dry land but it can grow a lot of grass if it gets the chance.

limo_100

mayota wrote: »

I prefer it flat into the drain. Easier kept.

will you draw it away or level it on the ground

mayota

limo_100 wrote: »

will you draw it away or level it on the ground

I'll level it roughly for now but there's a lot of scraws and long weedy stuff and it's very wet so I'll probably go over it again when it drys up in spring or maybe sooner if we get a couple of dry weeks.

limo_100

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Same as that. A lot more minding than dry land but it can grow a lot of grass if it gets the chance.

we find that silage of the wetter holds its leaf longer and makes lovely soft silage

Farrell

limo_100 wrote: »

maybe but with the way the years are comming theres propably to many drains closed

True, but a pipe drain is better than a collapsed one

Dawggone

Sire and offspring.

Dawggone

...from the front.

Bullocks

Dawggone wrote: »

Sire and offspring.

Brilliant photo

Dawggone

Bullocks wrote: »

Brilliant photo

Guess the weight of the bull...

Bullocks

Dawggone wrote: »

Guess the weight of the bull...

940kg ?

mayota

Dawggone wrote: »

Guess the weight of the bull...

1350

Dawggone

Bullocks wrote: »

940kg ?

I guessed 1250kg and I underestimated...

Bullocks

Dawggone wrote: »

I guessed 1250kg and I underestimated...

Oh I'm way out , I was putting 280kg on the calves ,am I badly off with them too !

Dawggone

mayota wrote: »

1350

Bang on Mayota!