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  • #3102
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Bodacious wrote: »
    What sort of money are them pasture pumps? He has fair operation there alright ... So pipe feeding them 4 is in a river somewhere And the cows pump it up to themselves
    ?

    They are around €300 each pump.

    Here's a clue to the river:D


  • #3103
    J DEERE
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭J DEERE


    Bizzum wrote: »
    They are around €300 each pump.

    Here's a clue to the river:D

    Is that Newgrange in the background??


  • #3104
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    J DEERE wrote: »
    Is that Newgrange in the background??

    It sure is. It's been there a while too:)


  • #3105
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    J DEERE wrote: »
    Is that Newgrange in the background??

    haven't NAMA taking control of it now since the developer went bust that built it?

    I was disappointed with the land around it, courted a young wan with land very close by;)


  • #3106
    kboc
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭kboc


    bob charles wrote: »
    I was disappointed with the land around it, courted a young wan with land very close by;)

    was it not good for rolling in!


  • #3107
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    A BB Heifer calf by PG's Canadian Club a week old today .
    Out of a Belgian Blue x Simmental 4th calver .
    She wouldnt suck for the first 4 days .
    Had to keep stomach tubing her twice a day .


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231547.JPG

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231546.jpg

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231548.jpg


  • #3108
    Bigbird1
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Bigbird1


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    A BB Heifer calf by PG's Canadian Club a week old today .
    Out of a Belgian Blue x Simmental 4th calver .
    She wouldnt suck for the first 4 days .
    Had to keep stomach tubing her twice a day .


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231547.JPG

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231546.jpg

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231548.jpg


    Super outfit,big pull was there?


  • #3109
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    A BB Heifer calf by PG's Canadian Club a week old today .
    Out of a Belgian Blue x Simmental 4th calver .
    She wouldnt suck for the first 4 days .
    Had to keep stomach tubing her twice a day .


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231547.JPG

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231546.jpg

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231548.jpg

    Smashing calf. Seems to be close to knuckling over on the front feet? Between that and the slow to suck you might be suspicious of selenium deficiency.


  • #3110
    Bigbird1
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Bigbird1


    just do it wrote: »

    Smashing calf. Seems to be close to knuckling over on the front feet? Between that and the slow to suck you might be suspicious of selenium deficiency.

    Over the last 2 years we have had about 4 calves born knuckling,all cows were receiving lifeline pre-calver minerals for 2 months before Calving,all calves were lively and up sucking within minutes,,could selenium deficency still be possible?


  • #3111
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Bigbird1 wrote: »
    Super outfit,big pull was there?

    The cow is very wide in the pelvis , and as loose as a bag behind but she still needed a pull . Was fair pressure on the jack but nothin extreme.
    Would never usually use a bull like Canadian Club on a blue cow but tried him on two mature cows this year .
    The other Blue cow in calf to him calved a very ordinary bull calf about a month ago .
    And that particular cow had a heifer that won the weanling show and sale near us last year , and last years calf was from a smaller less muscular bull .
    Genetics is a funny thing :rolleyes:


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  • #3112
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    just do it wrote: »
    Smashing calf. Seems to be close to knuckling over on the front feet? Between that and the slow to suck you might be suspicious of selenium deficiency.

    Was thinking that myself Just Do It , however the cow was getting bagged Gain Pre-Calver Gold 6 weeks before calving .
    I know they recommend 8 weeks prior calving but just didnt suit .
    I put it down to the weight of her. She is savage weight so i thought she was struggling to support herself


  • #3113
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    some of the really good blues can take days to get up just like that one,great suck.


  • #3114
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Picture of last years heifer i was talking about in previous post
    She is the bigger of the two weanlings




    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231583.jpg


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231584.jpg


  • #3115
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Was thinking that myself Just Do It , however the cow was getting bagged Gain Pre-Calver Gold 6 weeks before calving .
    I know they recommend 8 weeks prior calving but just didnt suit .
    I put it down to the weight of her. She is savage weight so i thought she was struggling to support herself

    Class animals there Rich. I've had a few with that knuckling and I always thought that it was caused by using the calving jack. I didnt even know it could be down to selinum def. They alway came right after a few days


  • #3116
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭td5man


    Any pics from yesterday stanflt?


  • #3117
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭stanflt


    td5man wrote: »
    Any pics from yesterday stanflt?


    no pics-dropped the phone while i wash clipping the other evening-cow walked back on top of it:(

    happy with 1960 and 1780 for second calvers


  • #3118
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭ZETOR_IS_BETTER


    Had to put a picture up for my massive 200th post count ;):)

    8253741464_433f2c58de_c.jpg


  • #3119
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    God yer getting great weather there altogether in yer part of the world zetor_is_better! :D I hope that 'calf' is gone at this stage!!


  • #3120
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭ZETOR_IS_BETTER


    Muckit wrote: »
    God yer getting great weather there altogether in yer part of the world zetor_is_better! :D I hope that 'calf' is gone at this stage!!

    :) he certainly is gone now Muckit. Currently enjoying himself on beef maker :D


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  • #3121
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    lspg.jpg
    3 day old PB CH bull calf by LSP. Heifer is one we've bred ourselves by TZA out of a SLV (Sylvain) dam.

    He was a bit scoury so gave him half a sachet of bimadine and will repeat for next few days. Looks v light at the mo, hopefully he'I have full out by this time next year ;)


  • #3122
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭red bull


    Muckit wrote: »
    lspg.jpg

    3 day old PB CH bull calf by LSP. Heifer is one we've bred ourselves by TZA out of a SLV (Sylvain) dam.

    He was a bit scoury so gave him half a sachet of bimadine and will repeat for next few days. Looks v light at the mo, hopefully he'I have full out by this time next year ;)
    Another good one for Tuam mart weanling sale I hope


  • #3123
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Tractor won't start?...........Just hook up your landcruiser and tow 6 bales of silage behind it!!

    landcruisern.jpg


  • #3124
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    red bull wrote: »
    Another good one for Tuam mart weanling sale I hope

    Tullamore hopefully ;)


  • #3125
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭red bull


    Muckit wrote: »
    Tullamore hopefully ;)
    Best of luck


  • #3126
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Muckit wrote: »
    lspg.jpg
    3 day old PB CH bull calf by LSP. Heifer is one we've bred ourselves by TZA out of a SLV (Sylvain) dam.

    He was a bit scoury so gave him half a sachet of bimadine and will repeat for next few days. Looks v light at the mo, hopefully he'I have full out by this time next year ;)

    Wats she like for milk so far muckit?????


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  • #3127
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Wats she like for milk so far muckit?????

    Judge for yourself Rich... not a bad bag for a charolais;)
    That's 'granny' in the background :D

    We find a fart would smig a PB calf, so it's still early days. A few more days of powders and once he can handle the milk, the worst is over... (coccidosis stay away please! :o)

    tzaheifer.jpg


  • #3128
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Muckit wrote: »
    Judge for yourself Rich... not a bad bag for a charolais;)
    That's 'granny' in the background :D

    We find a fart would smig a PB calf, so it's still early days. A few more days of powders and once he can handle the milk, the worst is over... (coccidosis stay away please! :o)

    tzaheifer.jpg

    any bother agtating the tank when the straw goes down through the slats like that?


  • #3129
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    reilig wrote: »
    any bother agtating the tank when the straw goes down through the slats like that?
    Also is there a hole to the front of the cows feet or am i imagining things?


  • #3130
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    reilig wrote: »
    any bother agtating the tank when the straw goes down through the slats like that?

    Feck all straw goes down to be honest Reilig, clogs the holes really that's why she so dirty! Grape it up in a few days once the calf gets stronger. anyways straw will rot, silage won't ;) Never got around to building a calving shed here :rolleyes:


  • #3131
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    1chippy wrote: »
    Also is there a hole to the front of the cows feet or am i imagining things?

    I see what you mean... but no... it's an optical illusion :D


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  • #3132
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »
    Feck all straw goes down to be honest Reilig, clogs the holes really that's why she so dirty! Grape it up in a few days once the calf gets stronger. anyways straw will rot, silage won't ;) Never got around to building a calving shed here :rolleyes:

    Jeez that's interesting. I'm stuck for space this winter as I've straw stored in the creep area/ calving bays. I'm currently exploring options for when the first calver springs up (due in 10 days time). The rest of them aren't due till 1st January on at which point I'll have an extra pen free.

    So what you do is calve them down on the slats and just put in straw? Once the calves are a few days old you clear it out and the calves get on the finest. Have they a creep area to go back into? Do you hose down/ disinfect the slats before calving?

    I notice in my shed the slats in the 2 pens with the dry cows on 33-50% straw in their diet have gotten really dry. A bit more like a horse's stable than slatted shed. First winter feeding straw so it's new to me.


  • #3133
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,078 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Geez Just Do It! I'd be trying to do as little as possible over the festive period, not calving down cows!

    you must be some man for the work!


  • #3134
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Geez Just Do It! I'd be trying to do as little as possible over the festive period, not calving down cows!

    you must be some man for the work!

    My better half wasn't too impressed either when she found out the calving dates recently!


  • #3135
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    Re just do it. On the issue of dry dung from straw. I remember I dried off suckler cows in August. Stook them on a bare paddock with round feeder of straw. Clare to Jaysus, didn't one of them go down from constipation. on with the glove and raked her out. The things that happen.


  • #3136
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Re just do it. On the issue of dry dung from straw. I remember I dried off suckler cows in August. Stook them on a bare paddock with round feeder of straw. Clare to Jaysus, didn't one of them go down from constipation. on with the glove and raked her out. The things that happen.

    Yet another thing to watch out for :rolleyes:


  • #3137
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    just do it wrote: »

    So what you do is calve them down on the slats and just put in straw? Once the calves are a few days old you clear it out and the calves get on the finest. Have they a creep area to go back into? Do you hose down/ disinfect the slats before calving?

    Yes! It's always been tough love here. We're prob a bit foolish in ways, but then again there are a lot of farmers that would laugh at city folk putting coats on dogs and they themselves doing much the same with calves... half 'mammying' them! They're animals at the end of the day. If they survive our 'system', they'I go on to make great cattle!

    I posted a pic of our creep area on this tread before. Don't have a pic to hand now. We only did it in one pen, the one beside this one. Basically it's like a 2 bar feed rail (like in the older slatted sheds) that blocks off cows from a raised cubicle bed at the back of the slats. The calves can run under it along the full length of the back of the pen. We removed the cubicles as we found them not to suit suckler cows. Some would use them, they'd lie backwards in them or strong calves would nearly get stuck in them.

    No not at calving. We power hose the shed every summer and lime it. That's it then.


  • #3138
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I prob came across a bit harsh there. I do give the cows pre-calver mineral, the calf's naval get iodine and I watch them for scours. But after that they are on their own and either get busy livin' or get busy dyin' ;)


  • #3139
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »

    Yes! It's always been tough love here. We're prob a bit foolish in ways, but then again there are a lot of farmers that would laugh at city folk putting coats on dogs and they themselves doing much the same with calves... half 'mammying' them! They're animals at the end of the day. If they survive our 'system', they'I go on to make great cattle!

    I posted a pic of our creep area on this tread before. Don't have a pic to hand now. We only did it in one pen, the one beside this one. Basically it's like a 2 bar feed rail (like in the older slatted sheds) that blocks off cows from a raised cubicle bed at the back of the slats. The calves can run under it along the full length of the back of the pen. We removed the cubicles as we found them not to suit suckler cows. Some would use them, they'd lie backwards in them or strong calves would nearly get stuck in them.

    No not at calving. We power hose the shed every summer and lime it. That's it then.
    Well that's interesting and will get me out of a hole until I've a few calved. Once you're not getting infections sure there's nothing wrong with it.


  • #3140
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »

    Yes! It's always been tough love here. We're prob a bit foolish in ways, but then again there are a lot of farmers that would laugh at city folk putting coats on dogs and they themselves doing much the same with calves... half 'mammying' them! They're animals at the end of the day. If they survive our 'system', they'I go on to make great cattle!

    I posted a pic of our creep area on this tread before. Don't have a pic to hand now. We only did it in one pen, the one beside this one. Basically it's like a 2 bar feed rail (like in the older slatted sheds) that blocks off cows from a raised cubicle bed at the back of the slats. The calves can run under it along the full length of the back of the pen. We removed the cubicles as we found them not to suit suckler cows. Some would use them, they'd lie backwards in them or strong calves would nearly get stuck in them.

    No not at calving. We power hose the shed every summer and lime it. That's it then.
    Out of interest, what height is the bottom bar to the creep area off the ground?


  • #3141
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    just do it wrote: »
    Out of interest, what height is the bottom bar to the creep area off the ground?

    I can't say off hand, but leave it with me and I'I get back to you ;) One thing I would maybe change is to make it height adjustable.

    Found pic! Scroll down....Post 38.... ;)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74271885


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  • #3142
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »
    I can't say off hand, but leave it with me and I'I get back to you ;) One thing I would maybe change is to make it height adjustable.

    Found pic! Scroll down....Post 38.... ;)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74271885

    Thanks for that Muckit. A nice piece of engineering there. You know I was thinking of something like this as a feed barrier with a few notches up along the side so you could adjust it for weanlings vs yearlings vs cows. The self-locking barriers are great but the disadvantage is you're limited to 7 head spaces which isn't great when throwing them some meal.


  • #3143
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    I let in a bit of light where there was none this morning :D Ill sleep tonight!!

    photo-2466.jpg


  • #3144
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    I let in a bit of light where there was none this morning :D Ill sleep tonight!!

    ....and dreaming of hazel scrub!

    What's the plan now that it is cleared in order to keep it at bay? I'd imagine striking the right stocking rate is a delicate balance.


  • #3145
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    just do it wrote: »
    ....and dreaming of hazel scrub!

    What's the plan now that it is cleared in order to keep it at bay? I'd imagine striking the right stocking rate is a delicate balance.

    Well I have every stump dosed with roundup so hopefully that will kill the most of it, Wipe any regrowth next summer then but there shouldnt be too much going by other places I have seen done with the same methods. It will be next summer before the grass starts to close in on it I would imagine so wont graze it too heave because I dont want it to get poached. Another week now and I should be able to throw the chainsw into the back of the shed until next year.


  • #3146
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    The advantage of a vasectomised bull. Green marks are from a strong bullock castrated late in life. Red marks are from a young vasectomised bull probably not even 300kg yet.
    20121214083611.jpg


  • #3147
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Over 3,000 posts, what does a thread need to do to become a sticky around here?


  • #3148
    Buncha Fives
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Buncha Fives


    Here is a drinker I hung last Saturday with a steel frame I made from a bit of box section to protect it, I had older steel drinkers in the shed before but they got badly damaged with cattle pushing each other against them or else pushing into them with their heads and they always ended up leaking. Hopefully this will be a sound enough job now that they can't get at it!!


  • #3149
    jerdee
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    Jesus that's gas I was just after bending two inch piping to do exactly that job ....


  • #3150
    The Real Elmer Fudd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭The Real Elmer Fudd


    The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »
    Picture of Dovea MBP bull calf at a few hours old and at 6months old. Out of a SimxCh heifer that calved down at 24 months. Calf has not received any meal.

    Picture on page 240

    Sold today 330kg for €870


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  • #3151
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

    Picture on page 240

    Sold today 330kg for €870
    Good stuff REF, did you sell the other one as well? How old was this one?


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