[Kovu Murr]

Originally Posted by whelan1

my husbands toy

Without saying it.......we're all thinking!

[jerdee]

Originally Posted by Kovu Murr

Without saying it.......we're all thinking!

probably truckers porn .......143 highline....

[jerdee]

Originally Posted by Kovu Murr

Without saying it.......we're all thinking!

probably truckers porn .....mighty ..143 highline....

[whelan1]

Originally Posted by jerdee

probably truckers porn .....mighty ..143 highline....

yup...
pride and joy... keeps it immaculate

[Kristopherus]

Originally Posted by whelan1

yup...
pride and joy... keeps it immaculate

Hey, Whelan 1, your photos are lovely but can you fix the datestamp in your camera? Its showing 2008 as the year

[johngalway]

Originally Posted by redzerologhlen

Have ye spuds up lads

My "earlies" that I put in on St Patricks day. I've got maincrop in to the left of them but they went in just a week ago or so, so they'll take a while if they come up at all, kinda well chitted First time planting any veg, meant to do a lot more but never made the time!

[tismesoitis]

Originally Posted by leg wax

thats what i was trying to say in a nice way,i dont think by the photos that they are for the boat.

i was thinking the same about the calves but maybe posters should share their opinions on wheather or not animals are of "export quality". We're off to carnaross on tuesday with 4 bb weanlings 2nd pic is a RSW 9mts old approx 440 kgs. I think hes export quality.(please correct us if you think otherwise and give reasons we all could learn a thing or 2). 1st weanling by EKB approx 480 again i think EQ. 3rd weanling 550kgs by BYU not for the boat me thinks but he has serious weight for age so should be ok. 4th calf is 470kgs FHZ i think border line for the boat job. jUST DO IT has great cattle there for certain markets maybe not the export one but there are some well established export producers posting here so show us and teach us what we need! Thanks

[pakalasa]

You'd be surprised what is "export" quality. I was looking through the AGFOOD.ie website and a few of our weanlings that did go for export weren't exactly fancy. Remember not all of them go to Italy. A lot of plain R types go to Spain.

[just do it]

Originally Posted by leg wax

thats what i was trying to say in a nice way,i dont think by the photos that they are for the boat.

Muckit, Leg wax
Ah lads you've pulled the rug out from under me! Yeah to be honest 1 is, 2 are only possibly and the 4th isn't. I don't really care if they go on the boat once I get good money for them. Fingers crossed and time will tell.

[just do it]

Originally Posted by tismesoitis

i was thinking the same about the calves but maybe posters should share their opinions on wheather or not animals are of "export quality". We're off to carnaross on tuesday with 4 bb weanlings 2nd pic is a RSW 9mts old approx 440 kgs. I think hes export quality.(please correct us if you think otherwise and give reasons we all could learn a thing or 2). 1st weanling by EKB approx 480 again i think EQ. 3rd weanling 550kgs by BYU not for the boat me thinks but he has serious weight for age so should be ok. 4th calf is 470kgs FHZ i think border line for the boat job. jUST DO IT has great cattle there for certain markets maybe not the export one but there are some well established export producers posting here so show us and teach us what we need! Thanks

Agree with tismesoitis. Can only improve by taking on board some critical comment, which is the whole reason of posting

[JohnBoy]

Lads ye're killing me with the spuds.

only got our veg in last weekend. been too busy, or the garden's been too wet. have roosters, peas, beans, carrots, lettuce and onions.


that said we got a truckload of gravel a few weeks ago and chatting to the driver about the garden he said they may as well be in the box as in the ground with things being so cold, so hopefully I wont be too far back with them.

and since we got a dedicated sprayer in lidl for the diathane hopefully we wont kill them like we did a few years back!!

[Muckit]

Originally Posted by just do it

Muckit, Leg wax
Ah lads you've pulled the rug out from under me! Yeah to be honest 1 is, 2 are only possibly and the 4th isn't. I don't really care if they go on the boat once I get good money for them. Fingers crossed and time will tell.

I think you know I wasn't tryin to make a pr**k of you. They are lovely cattle, but I wouldn't call them exceptional cattle. I don't think they are extreme enough in the muscling. Have a look at juniorhurlers photos he posted recently , lovely white calf....now there's a blue

But look, I never had or prob ever will have cattle for export.

All i can say is that I was quitened manys the time I had notions about our cattle. Until you take them down the ramp and in beside other pens of similar age/breed cattle you're only guessin and comparing to your own best lad which may or may not be all that great....

If you set too high of goals, you are only setting yourself up for a fall because if you don't acheive them you think you've failed.

Best to say...

'I'I take out my nice cattle (which they are) and try to get the best price I can for them on the day'

[Juniorhurler]

Originally Posted by Muckit

I think you know I wasn't tryin to make a pr**k of you. They are lovely cattle, but I wouldn't call them exceptional cattle. I don't think they are extreme enough in the muscling. Have a look at juniorhurlers photos he posted recently , lovely white calf....now there's a blue

But look, I never had or prob ever will have cattle for export.

All i can say is that I was quitened manys the time I had notions about our cattle. Until you take them down the ramp and in beside other pens of similar age/breed cattle you're only guessin and comparing to your own best lad which may or may not be all that great....

If you set too high of goals, you are only setting yourself up for a fall because if you don't acheive them you think you've failed.

Best to say...

'I'I take out my nice cattle (which they are) and try to get the best price I can for them on the day'

Thanks for the compliment Muckit, but like I said in an earlier post, they don't all make the boat. Everybody has a tail on their stock. mind you i have saw leg wax selling blues and any tail he had was attached to a very shapely and extreme muscled rear end!!

[leg wax]

Originally Posted by Juniorhurler

Thanks for the compliment Muckit, but like I said in an earlier post, they don't all make the boat. Everybody has a tail on their stock. mind you i have saw leg wax selling blues and any tail he had was attached to a very shapely and extreme muscled rear end!!

but the bad ones were still at home junior and the lorry was full,we all have bad ones, jesus i have 6 yokes on meal at the moment and i will be putting my head down going into the box when they are been sold,as said by pakalasa spain take the plainer type of cattle,but the problem is that the irish fool is buying them to try and make money from our factorys,and they are costing too much

[pakalasa]

Don't make the mistake of thinking that high weanling prices equal high profit. The two don't necessary go hand in hand. It's like high yielding cows in dairying.