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

Limestone Cowboy

Last of them weaned now except for 2 August calves. Looked a lot better than I thought they were when you have them inside together.

Muckit

A lovely bunch. Great stock as always LC.

Mac Taylor

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Last of them weaned now except for 2 August calves. Looked a lot better than I thought they were when you have them inside together.

Great looking stock LC . What's the plan for them?
What's their stars like?

Limestone Cowboy

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Great looking stock LC . What's the plan for them?
What's their stars like?

There's a good few of them 4&5 star anyway. I'll keep them for the winter anyway. Probably keep the best of them on for breeding.

Wes Palmer Lee

Lovely honest looking bunch!

I've put my autumn calvers in and since they got the silage their scouring like mad,,, Good wilted grass it is too... would it be fluke?

pedigree 6

Anyone want to buy a hedgehog?:D
I seem to have a great breeding programme going on here.
Poor little fella fell into the pit in the parlour and can't get out.


In the bucket. Maybe i'll keep him as a pet. I'll call you Spike.




Ok i'll let you go. Go on will you. No you can't stay with me. BORN FREE.:D


You better stay in your home now.

Timmaay

Haven't seen one here in years, I remember coming across a decent few as a kid. These milder winters aren't helping the population supposely, hedgehogs should be in hibernation from October onwards.

pedigree 6

Timmaay wrote: »

Haven't seen one here in years, I remember coming across a decent few as a kid. These milder winters aren't helping the population supposely, hedgehogs should be in hibernation from October onwards.

The hedgehog doesn't know what date it is. If it's warm they're out eating and filling their bellies. If it's cold they're huddled up and asleep. Milder winters are better as they can keep foraging for food.
Which would you prefer? Iceland or Ireland to be huddled up in a ditch.

charolais0153

Have great hopes for thus one@ 5days old

Then her father is crossbred :eek:

pedigree 6

charolais0153 wrote: »

Have great hopes for thus one@ 5days old

Then her father is crossbred :eek:

You have the sire on that as a ped Limousin.
It's the dam of the calf where the problem is.
There's no sire recorded on the dam's side and then it says Charolais coming in from her dam and Simmental then they guessed that it came from her sire.
(Even though that's not true).

charolais0153

No that's the bulls ancestry I have up

Never wrestle with pigs

charolais0153 wrote: »

No that's the bulls ancestry I have up

He jump over the fence or did you intend on using him? I had a lad here last year and I was very tempted to let him at one or two cows. He was a smashing sim x lim.

charolais0153

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

He jump over the fence or did you intend on using him? I had a lad here last year and I was very tempted to let him at one or two cows. He was a smashing sim x lim.

We bought two springers and we asked the lad what the bulls number was for registering etc we don't mind tho since there good calves and they calved easy

Lady Haywire

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Well fair play ta her. And you all ready to go with your calving jack ropes an all. You'll be pulling down that roll of wrap in a few weeks I suppose.

Selling this chappie today, along with an SFL bull born a month earlier. Be interesting to see how they weigh.

TITANIUM.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Selling this chappie today, along with an SFL bull born a month earlier. Be interesting to see how they weigh.

360kgs to 420kgs

Lady Haywire

TITANIUM. wrote: »

360kgs to 420kgs

420kg- €1005- born end of march, don't think I've a photo of him here, a red blue.
355kg- €875- the calf born start of may above.

patsy_mccabe

An idea for picking up silage bales; :rolleyes:

pedigree 6

Great little conveyer on that lorry.
It's actually a ground driven conveyer.
If you don't mind holes on your silage bales from the spikes it'd be grand.;)
Some great cotton picking farmers out there.

Lady Haywire

Heifers KZH calf now two weeks old and thriving like a gosling!

charolais0153

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Heifers KZH calf now two weeks old and thriving like a gosling!

Pity its a bull. Would make a smashing heifer

Lady Haywire

charolais0153 wrote: »

Pity its a bull. Would make a smashing heifer

True but can't keep them all, his mother has plenty of years to breed more, will use the same bull again on her I think.
Already had the halter on him, can't start them too young. Roscrea '18, here we come

patsy_mccabe

And the guy that buys him will take the halter off when he gets him home, never to put it on again. Crazy when you think about it.

charolais0153

Lady Haywire wrote: »

True but can't keep them all, his mother has plenty of years to breed more, will use the same bull again on her I think.
Already had the halter on him, can't start them too young. Roscrea '18, here we come

Didn't realise he was pb. Should do good

Lady Haywire

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

And the guy that buys him will take the halter off when he gets him home, never to put it on again. Crazy when you think about it.

Yea but sure it's a bit of craic too....take them along to a few shows to get them used to the atmosphere.

charolais0153 wrote: »

Didn't realise he was pb. Should do good

With a bit of luck, have to see how he grows up. Manys a calf looked a star for the first few months and then dropped back. The ch calf in a photo above that was born the same time makes him look small though!

sonnybill

The hill diet

Muckit

Is that kind of a croagh patrick for bovines? Like do they climb up there to find their 'inner cow?'

sonnybill

Muckit wrote: »

Is that kind of a croagh patrick for bovines? Like do they climb up there to find their 'inner cow?'

They be fit for calving after that .. Get up there!

Only pain is the heifers at the back there don't stick with the cows .. Splinter group!

Limestone Cowboy

sonnybill wrote: »

The hill diet

Do you give it a bit of a graze in summer? It would get rid of a lot of the white grass (molinia). Bit of a problem on some of the winterages on the burren aswell but a light graze in July-August will thin it out an awful lot when it's palatable to cattle. The burren life crowd hate it.

sonnybill

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Do you give it a bit of a graze in summer? It would get rid of a lot of the white grass (molinia). Bit of a problem on some of the winterages on the burren aswell but a light graze in July-August will thin it out an awful lot when it's palatable to cattle. The burren life crowd hate it.

No and you are absolutely correct that I should graze it in the Summer

patsy_mccabe

sonnybill wrote: »

No and you are absolutely correct that I should graze it in the Summer

It would be fierce handy being able to graze it too, on those very wet weeks we seem to get more and more now in the summer.