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Livestock/General Farming photo thread ***READ MOD NOTE IN POST #1***

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    #3332
    The Real Elmer Fudd
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    Heifers takings shelter in the snow


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    #3333
    Bizzum
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    vanderbadger wrote: »
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    purebred CF51 heifer, was ai'd twice but I guess she didnt keep although i didnt notice her bulling after, calf must be off PT bull :rolleyes:
    i guess A calf is better than no calf anyway

    You arrived at exactly where I'd be trying to get to. A live calf out of a heifer, nice and handy reared and all going well ready for the bull that bit handier. Plenty of time to go CH yet!
    The heifer looks to have a lovely bit of length to her. That calf will be a smasher, you wont be one bit sorry.


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    #3334
    Kovu
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    The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »
    Heifers takings shelter in the snow

    Is there Maine Anjou in the spotty heifer?


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    #3335
    The Real Elmer Fudd
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    Kovu Murr wrote: »

    Is there Maine Anjou in the spotty heifer?

    Def not. Bought her from a neighbour n I doubt if he's ever heard of Maine Anjou. She's out of a sim x ch cow n lim stock bull. Not sure wer her colouring came out of. I'd imagine der is British Fr a couple of generation back on the cows side n perhaps that's wer the markings are coming from.


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    #3336
    vanderbadger
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    Bizzum wrote: »
    You arrived at exactly where I'd be trying to get to. A live calf out of a heifer, nice and handy reared and all going well ready for the bull that bit handier. Plenty of time to go CH yet!
    The heifer looks to have a lovely bit of length to her. That calf will be a smasher, you wont be one bit sorry.

    ya she is a nice enough heifer, the best thing about her is her temperament, she is fierce quiet, she seems to be ok for milk i think, her mother is a milky enough cow so hopefully she should be ok


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    #3337
    stanflt
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    just do it wrote: »
    Keep the photos coming by the way. I may throw the odd slag in your direction, but don't worry, that's purely jealousy! Great to see an example of a well run farm on the best of land.


    some more 2yo heifers

    another FLT that calved last night010ums.jpg

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    a 1y 11month old UPH022zy.jpg

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    A second calver 3yo GIO left, 2yo uph in middle and a 2yo ROZ on right013xl.jpg


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    #3338
    delaval
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    Don't mind me spent half an hour doing this:eek:


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    #3339
    bob charles
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    delaval wrote: »
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    do you still reckon your current grass is better than the silage in the pit ?


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    #3340
    delaval
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    Bob, are you being mean to me again?
    This pic was taken 04/01/13!!!!!


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    #3341
    bob charles
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    delaval wrote: »
    Bob, are you being mean to me again?
    This pic was taken 04/01/13!!!!!

    nope, just everyone has a different perception of good/bad silage and good/bad grass


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    #3342
    mf240
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    Grass looks ok to me plenty of green and that yellowy butt will be best eaten off.

    Heifers are making there own silage spreading their own slurry and bedding there own shed.


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    #3343
    funny man
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    mf240 wrote: »
    Grass looks ok to me plenty of green and that yellowy butt will be best eaten off.

    Heifers are making there own silage spreading their own slurry and bedding there own shed.

    DMD up to 80
    crude protein >16%
    top class feed for growing heifers and milking cows.


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    #3344
    Bodacious
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    6528074D.jpg

    Calving end of feb to a lim bull


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    #3345
    johnpawl
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    https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3donz619airubd/2013-01-25%2015.46.13.jpg

    Heifer will be two years old in April and getting the bull then, put a pic up before when she was 9 months old. She is huge now.


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    #3346
    johnpawl
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    This is the other one same age
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq8l5ieitlzob2t/2013-01-25%2015.50.41.jpg
    this is ch off aaxfr I kept for breeding, is in calf to parth. She'll be 2 in May.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/22e1dhpxb7hfo7t/2013-01-25%2015.49.48.jpg


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    #3347
    Manoffeeling
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    bob charles wrote: »
    do you still reckon your current grass is better than the silage in the pit ?

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


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    #3348
    Sligoronan
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    Have two descent shorthorn bull calves comeing 10 months. I say they weigh in or around 360 a piece. What are the worth or should I be keeping them till the middle of march. West of ireland prices.


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    #3349
    vanderbadger
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    johnpawl wrote: »
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3donz619airubd/2013-01-25%2015.46.13.jpg

    Heifer will be two years old in April and getting the bull then, put a pic up before when she was 9 months old. She is huge now.

    very nice


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    #3350
    blue5000
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    In calf angus x heifers.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #3351
    Timmaay
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    delaval wrote: »
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    Don't mind me spent half an hour doing this:eek:

    If only I could have had a photo like this, with that date printed on it (mid Jan) to show my dad last Oct, when he was refusing to leave some cover on afew paddocks ha!

    That the N11 in the background?


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    #3352
    jerdee
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    johnpawl wrote: »
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3donz619airubd/2013-01-25%2015.46.13.jpg

    Heifer will be two years old in April and getting the bull then, put a pic up before when she was 9 months old. She is huge now.

    Nice stock there are they the pb you bought last year


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    #3353
    redzerologhlen
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    In calf angus x heifers.

    Nice even bunch there Blue, Is there dairy blood in them?


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    #3354
    blue5000
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    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Nice even bunch there Blue, Is there dairy blood in them?


    Thanks, some of them are out of fr cows.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #3355
    limo_100
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    Thanks, some of them are out of fr cows.

    will they be calving down as two year olds blue??? what weight would they be?


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    #3356
    redzerologhlen
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    Thanks, some of them are out of fr cows.

    I was thinking that was the type of cow you went for alright. Have you them in calf to the aubrac or did you put a polly back on them again?


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    #3357
    johnpawl
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    In calf angus x heifers.

    What have you them in calf to? I'm trying to breed my replacements off cows like these using ozs limo


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    #3358
    blue5000
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    In calf to aubrac, due the first week march onwards. Bit disappointed with the weight in dec, av 450kg. I'll be feeding rolled oats up to calving. Ya calving at 2yrs, so I expect them to put on a bit more weight after calving.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #3359
    johnpawl
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    jerdee wrote: »
    Nice stock there are they the pb you bought last year

    They are ya, a sickening long wait to get anything back out of them.


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    #3360
    johnpawl
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    In calf to aubrac, due the first week march onwards. Bit disappointed with the weight in dec, av 450kg. I'll be feeding rolled oats up to calving. Ya calving at 2yrs, so I expect them to put on a bit more weight after calving.

    Will you keep the aubracs for replacements?


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    #3361
    delaval
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    Tim
    Not M11.These wrere weighed 1/10/12 av230kg getting no meal I will weigh gain on 1/2/13 when they go to Summer grazing. All other weanling heifs that weighed below were kept on grass with 2kg beef nuts. I will be interesting to see how they compare.
    We block graze all our weanlings each winter on ground cut off by phuckin' motorway and then use for silage. It's a bit challenging at the moment with all the rain I have some pics that I'll try to upload


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