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

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  • #5602
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭stanflt


    new shoes
    pcq1.jpg

    taking care of the docks
    ukhs.jpg
    wrio.jpg

    good results 3 days later
    3qrg.jpg

    cows happy

    t014.jpg

    maize looking good
    vr7e.jpg


  • #5603
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    I'm using mostly maternal bulls this year to breed my own replacements. So I was counting my chickens when the first of the autumn calvers had a heifer calf to the Limosin bull GWO today. Hes very high on maternal.

    Small calf easily born
    269932.JPG

    Followed shortly after by her younger brother
    269933.JPG

    So there goes that plan of keeping her as a replacement:rolleyes:

    But its the first set of twins I've had since so I'm still happy.:D


  • #5604
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    The cow's maintained her condition well considering she's had twins. Looks a nice quiet type.


  • #5605
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    just do it wrote: »
    The cow's maintained her condition well considering she's had twins. Looks a nice quiet type.


    She's a Sim and they are mostly quiet anyway but shes very quiet alright. She has loads of milk and has a calving interval of 355 days and that was why I want replacements from her. I thought her temperament, milk and size combined with the lim would produce the ideal heifer. I posted her calf last year as well
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=81405309&postcount=2863

    and this is that calf now not yet a year old. She will be bulled in December hopefully.
    269934.JPG


  • #5606
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    towzer2010 wrote: »
    I'm using mostly maternal bulls this year to breed my own replacements. So I was counting my chickens when the first of the autumn calvers had a heifer calf to the Limosin bull GWO today. Hes very high on maternal.

    Small calf easily born
    269932.JPG

    Followed shortly after by her younger brother
    269933.JPG

    So there goes that plan of keeping her as a replacement:rolleyes:

    But its the first set of twins I've had since so I'm still happy.:D


    Nice set pair of calves there towzer .
    Pity about the heifer not going to be a breeder , but its not a bad situation your finding yourself in all the same ;) ..

    Was going to get some of those GWO straws but opted for TVR limo instead .
    Up since 5 with a 2nd calver carrying DBZ BB .
    Head and feet showing now so making progress .

    When are your kilmoney br calves due ??


  • #5607
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Nice set pair of calves there towzer .
    Pity about the heifer not going to be a breeder , but its not a bad situation your finding yourself in all the same ;) ..

    Was going to get some of those GWO straws but opted for TVR limo instead .
    Up since 5 with a 2nd calver carrying DBZ BB .
    Head and feet showing now so making progress .

    When are your kilmoney br calves due ??
    well dbz is was easy yes as long it was not blue mammy because he could be big big hips.


  • #5608
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    leg wax wrote: »
    well dbz is was easy yes as long it was not blue mammy because he could be big big hips.

    No she is a PB limo legs , but not an over big one to be honest ..
    Calved away herself anyways , an average heifer calf .
    Il throw up a pic when i get a chance


  • #5609
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    No she is a PB limo legs , but not an over big one to be honest ..
    Calved away herself anyways , an average heifer calf .
    Il throw up a pic when i get a chance
    the same as i had ,i also had no mass on her bull calf until he was in the mart,only took notice of him then ,and even more notice when i came out of the sellers box.:D


  • #5610
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    When are your kilmoney br calves due ??

    I'm not sure if you meant me but I've none for kilmoney Bruce.

    I've two due to BZB in the next fortnight though


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  • #5611
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    johnpawl wrote: »
    Serious animals fair play. Have they eaten much ration atall??? Have a few aaxbrfr cows in calf to ba kilmoney Bruce, what would you think of them as breeding heifers?
    I must try a few Simmental straws

    No nuts given at grass to them calves.

    The BA x AA may well make decent cows, only one way to know, stick a few straws in them and see how it goes!
    Oddly enough we have one AA x BA cow and she's not a good breeder, she's for the off this year.
    Are ya happy with the K Bruce heifers?


  • #5612
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Pic 1 - ground after power harrowing. On the right you can see alot more thatch. This is the headland that was too rough to be mowed so was only topped prior to harrowing. It's come out well enough. I'd meant to top it during the summer as well but just never got to it :rolleyes:
    tgz9.jpg

    Pic 2 - ground after being rolled and a good few passes between seed, 10-10-20 and gran lime. After this it was rolled and got ~1,350 gal/ac. Now wait and watch it grow and grow and grow :D
    xn1u.jpg


  • #5613
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Fine job, Just Do It. I got the impression from your posts that all your land was very wet. That soil looks to be very dry.


  • #5614
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    towzer2010 wrote: »
    I'm not sure if you meant me but I've none for kilmoney Bruce.

    I've two due to BZB in the next fortnight though

    Sorry getting mixed up . Was half asleep looking at the thread this morning ...


  • #5615
    valtra2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭valtra2


    some jan,feb bulls due to be weaned end of month


  • #5616
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    leg wax wrote: »
    the same as i had ,i also had no mass on her bull calf until he was in the mart,only took notice of him then ,and even more notice when i came out of the sellers box.:D

    Hopefully I'll be saying the same to you next year ...
    Are you going to NewRoss with all your weaners or you using carnew as well ??

    Was going to bring a few of the better ones to carnew show & sale hoping that a few exporters are there . Yes /No???


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  • #5617
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Hopefully I'll be saying the same to you next year ...
    Are you going to NewRoss with all your weaners or you using carnew as well ??

    Was going to bring a few of the better ones to carnew show & sale hoping that a few exporters are there . Yes /No???
    sold weanlings for the first time in new ross 2 weeks ago,always go to carnew or tullow,you would prezume that they will be in carnew for that sale,must meet up at it.


  • #5618
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Fine job, Just Do It. I got the impression from your posts that all your land was very wet. That soil looks to be very dry.

    That's a good dry field alright, if only all the rest of the place was like it ;). It's easy farm that land, it's the rest of the place that requires good management.


  • #5619
    Conor556
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    Found this fella in a old water through,,, anone see 1 of them before?


    menupop.gif


  • #5620
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Found this fella in a old water through,,, anone see 1 of them before?


    menupop.gif

    It's a smooth newt. Lovely little chaps.
    Also called Man Keepers.


  • #5621
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭red bull


    think we call them lizzards, will mayo bate dublin hope so


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  • #5622
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    red bull wrote: »
    think we call them lizzards, will mayo bate dublin hope so

    They're amphibian, lizards are reptiles.
    No, the Dubs will win, :-)
    I'd love to see Mayo lift Sam.


  • #5623
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭red bull


    Thanks for the info on lizards. I hope its Mayo'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' at last


  • #5624
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    Bizzum wrote: »
    They're amphibian, lizards are reptiles.
    No, the Dubs will win, :-)
    I'd love to see Mayo lift Sam.

    Stick a handful of them lizards in the Dubs underware on the day of the match!
    That should send Sam to the west -;)


  • #5625
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Hope the neighbours win, the lads coming down to the mart will be a bunch of miserable feckers otherwise lol.


  • #5626
    munkus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭munkus


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Found this fella in a old water through,,, anone see 1 of them before?


    menupop.gif

    more importantly, I think its time for a new jacket, Conor!


  • #5627
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Hope the neighbours win, the lads coming down to the mart will be a bunch of miserable feckers otherwise lol.

    yea bout time they had a bit of luck, hope they win it too


  • #5628
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Drained ground fertilized, gran limed, seeded, slurried and rolled. Going to have a weed problem I suspect so will have to spray it in a few weeks.

    DSC_0045_zpsd8110049.jpg

    Ampertaine Commander Bull. Had a call from a guy who had looked him up on the Limousin website and is interested in buying him. Don't really know what i will do with him yet. Possibly feed him till January and then sell him - he will be 20 months and pretty strong at that stage.

    DSC_0042_zps5f0f9f97.jpg

    DSC_0035_zpsf6244766.jpg


  • #5629
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,078 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    what way did you till it rellig?


  • #5630
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Looking good Rellig

    Because it's peaty land did you use a special seed mix? I was looking at my REPS plan recently and noticed it allows for a much lower pH on bog land - 5.5 I think. Something I've been meaning to look into, although that particular reseed is for 2 years time. Did you soil test before hand?


  • #5631
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    It had been dug with the track machine and levelled back out. We just ran over it with the land leveller.

    We used a normal seed mix from Connacht gold which is mixed for this area (ie. late heading stuff). No soil test for this exactly, but it was tested 2 years ago and was fine so I think the gran lime will have done the job just grand.


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  • #5632
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    I see you slurried and used gran lime, I asked here about using thin slurry on reseed was advised against using slurry, mine was stitched in to burned off pasture


  • #5633
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭red bull


    dharn wrote: »
    I see you slurried and used gran lime, I asked here about using thin slurry on reseed was advised against using slurry, mine was stitched in to burned off pasture

    I think slurry can attract frit fly:(


  • #5634
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    Thanks, I thought it was more related to reactionbetween the granlime and the slurry


  • #5635
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    dharn wrote: »
    Thanks, I thought it was more related to reactionbetween the granlime and the slurry

    No reaction with slurry and gran lime. It's ordinary lime and slurry which reacts and
    You lose the nitrogen.


  • #5636
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    Thanks relig::)


  • #5637
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    leg wax wrote: »
    sold weanlings for the first time in new ross 2 weeks ago,always go to carnew or tullow,you would prezume that they will be in carnew for that sale,must meet up at it.

    Ya we will do ..

    Go on the beer then with all the money the exporters are going to give us :pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • #5638
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    This particular bunch of girls were introduced to the pasture pump for the first time yesterday morning. It took them more than 24 hours to figure it out. This morning they were roaring looking for water. This particular cow is a pet and she saw me pumping the pump and came over nudging it. They all had it figured out this evening - even the calves (3 -4 months old).

    DSC_0046_zps366c74f3.jpg


  • #5639
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Houston we have a problem


  • #5640
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    reilig wrote: »
    This particular bunch of girls were introduced to the pasture pump for the first time yesterday morning. It took them more than 24 hours to figure it out. This morning they were roaring looking for water. This particular cow is a pet and she saw me pumping the pump and came over nudging it. They all had it figured out this evening - even the calves (3 -4 months old).]

    And some people think cattle are stupid:D

    I was thinking about getting one of those. How far away is the water source and what depth?


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  • #5641
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    towzer2010 wrote: »
    And some people think cattle are stupid:D

    I was thinking about getting one of those. How far away is the water source and what depth?

    It's coming from the drain just behind the fence which is about 2 meters deep - through about 10 meters of piping. The pump will bring water for 200 meters and up to 8 meters in elevation.


  • #5642
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Ampertaine Commander Bull. Had a call from a guy who had looked him up on the Limousin website and is interested in buying him. Don't really know what i will do with him yet. Possibly feed him till January and then sell him - he will be 20 months and pretty strong at that stage.
    did you Ch bull come right, was this the chap you were thinking of running with the cows? nice looking bull


  • #5643
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    .
    did you Ch bull come right, was this the chap you were thinking of running with the cows? nice looking bull

    Ch Bull is going to mart on saturday. He has 2 bad feet - one front and back. He's in good shape now and feet appear good so it's time to let him go. Pity, because we never had as good of calves off any bull. The guy above ran with 15 cows for 6 weeks and it didn't knock a spark out of him. No repeats so far.


  • #5644
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    5 minutes to fill the sprayer, patent pending :D

    photo_zps7857b647.jpg


  • #5645
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Is it rushes u at there redz? What u using MCPA?


  • #5646
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    5 minutes to fill the sprayer, patent pending :D

    photo_zps7857b647.jpg

    That there would be a jarmet,

    How long did it take to fill the tanks:D


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  • #5647
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭red bull


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    5 minutes to fill the sprayer, patent pending :D

    photo_zps7857b647.jpg

    A 90degree bend would make it even faster imo


  • #5648
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    red bull wrote: »
    A 90degree bend would make it even faster imo

    That would probably double the cost of reds patent pending pipe, and add in a whole lot of extra fabrication, he's spot on the money with the current design, straight to market is my vote!


  • #5649
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭red bull


    Timmaay wrote: »
    That would probably double the cost of reds patent pending pipe, and add in a whole lot of extra fabrication, he's spot on the money with the current design, straight to market is my vote!

    Its a 4" wavin pipe see what happens if you turn on the water full from ibc, not much of it will go into sprayer:D


  • #5650
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    red bull wrote: »
    Its a 4" wavin pipe see what happens if you turn on the water full from ibc, not much of it will go into sprayer:D

    I will have you know it all went in the sprayer with the valve fully opened :D d50 I was using muckit, wasnt doing it for myself!


  • #5651
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    hugo29 wrote: »
    That there would be a jarmet,

    How long did it take to fill the tanks:D

    The most of a day :rolleyes: a jarmet is right!


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