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

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    #3212
    Buncha Fives
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Buncha Fives


    just do it wrote: »
    Nice calves there. Any chance of a pic of the set up you've described for the calves

    Here is the set up I have for letting the calves in and out to the cows twice a day with no hastle... To be honest I wouldnt be proud of the workmanship its one of the roughest pieces of work I ever did, in my defence I did it one Sunday morning in a rush.

    I also made a calving gate recently and took my time and spent a lot of Saturdays/Sundays at it and its a serious tidy job.


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    #3213
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I love the principle behind it. Why go cutting a good gate when your simple idea will do the trick ;)


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    #3214
    Buncha Fives
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    Muckit wrote: »
    I love the principle behind it. Why go cutting a good gate when your simple idea will do the trick ;)

    Ye; the principle behind it it good, if I had a little more time on my hands I would of made a tidy job out of it. I could of went cutting or buying a gate but it would of been more hastle/cost.

    I am big into keeping things as cheap/simple as possible... I looked at buying a proper calving gate a while ago and it was costing something like 750+VAT for the gate I wanted. It was very hard to justify that type of money so I looked up the design on the internet and set about making it...all it cost me was approx. 100 euro (+ a lot of time!) because I had a lot of old bit of steel lieing around at home and I had a gate going spare.


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    #3215
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=T1hrKtWjfrE&NR=1
    fair old monster of a bull


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    #3216
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=T1hrKtWjfrE&NR=1
    fair old monster of a bull

    Oui Vander, il est magnifique!! :p


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    #3217
    Bodacious
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    my little "lorry calf" tasting her first bit of haylage, she shaping up well, the cow's milk gave her a good lift

    7AD2163F.jpg


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    #3218
    Conor556
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    Buncha Fives wrote: »
    Here is the set up I have for letting the calves in and out to the cows twice a day with no hastle... To be honest I wouldnt be proud of the workmanship its one of the roughest pieces of work I ever did, in my defence I did it one Sunday morning in a rush.

    I also made a calving gate recently and took my time and spent a lot of Saturdays/Sundays at it and its a serious tidy job.

    Could you put up a picture of the calving gate please


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    #3219
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Bodacious wrote: »
    my little "lorry calf" tasting her first bit of haylage, she shaping up well, the cow's milk gave her a good lift

    Is that cable car cables in the background?! :D


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    #3220
    moy83
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    just do it wrote: »
    Is that cable car cables in the background?! :D
    Sure how else would he get the haylage up to them :D


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    #3221
    Bodacious
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    moy83 wrote: »
    Sure how else would he get the haylage up to them :D

    It's a fecker to drop the feed in the right clean spot out of the cable car! ;-)

    Any dairy lads/ladies think with the broken face and white on the legs that there is any Holstein or montipeliard or anything else apart from hr X FR?


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    #3222
    bob charles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Bodacious wrote: »
    It's a fecker to drop the feed in the right clean spot out of the cable car! ;-)

    Any dairy lads/ladies think with the broken face and white on the legs that there is any Holstein or montipeliard or anything else apart from hr X FR?

    nope, he X british fr even, she is a smasher and will be as fat as a pig in no time at all. a counter mans dream for yummie meat:)


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    #3223
    Bodacious
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    bob charles wrote: »

    nope, he X british fr even, she is a smasher and will be as fat as a pig in no time at all. a counter mans dream for yummie meat:)

    Good stuff , few neighbours commented on her that "she is a real old style calf" used to be loads of lorry calves sold about here, everyone had them triple AAA golden maverick or bloom flat out feeding them, then stale bread into it, then few calf nuts in bottom of the bucket!

    Ill hold her as was away few times during the summer and my sisters would let her have a suck of the cow and she a bit of a pet


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    #3224
    Milton09
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    Spotted this while driving through the village the other day !


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    #3225
    vanderbadger
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    Milton09 wrote: »
    Spotted this while driving through the village the other day !
    top quality forage there :)


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    #3226
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Milton09 wrote: »
    Spotted this while driving through the village the other day !
    How do they get it off? Fast forward and hit the brakes, I suppose. :D


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    #3227
    Buncha Fives
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    Conor556 wrote: »
    Could you put up a picture of the calving gate please

    Will take a few pics over the next couple of days


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    #3228
    whelan1
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    santa came


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    #3229
    Juniorhurler
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    Great present Whelan. Better than any fail station as they are called by the cousin in college.


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    #3230
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    santa came

    Santa is a great judge of an animal :D


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    #3231
    bob charles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    whelan1 wrote: »
    santa came

    its good to see he is in the voluntary BVD testing scheme :)


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    #3232
    vanderbadger
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    be careful bringing the pooch for a walk :D
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmpONxJ7JSw


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    #3233
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    HCA bull calf from 27mo heifer as seen from the calving camera on my smartphone. Calved herself unaided. : D

    sc20121226102119.jpg

    Calved this morning at 8am. I've started recording the time of calving so i'll be interested to see if individual cows follow a pattern. I'll report back on this one in about 5 yrs time :rolleyes:


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    #3234
    redzerologhlen
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    There must be great comfort being able to keep an eye on them calving through the phone jd.


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    #3235
    just do it
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    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    There must be great comfort being able to keep an eye on them calving through the phone jd.
    Sure is. Saved me 3 or 4 visits to the shed between 9pm last night and calving this morning.


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    #3236
    Grecco
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    2012+-+1

    Busy Christmas Day, but I aint complaining :D


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    #3237
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    just do it wrote: »
    Sure is. Saved me 3 or 4 visits to the shed between 9pm last night and calving this morning.

    Is there a distance limit just do it or could you be anywhere once there's coverage? This kind of system is on my wishlist :rolleyes:


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    #3238
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »
    Is there a distance limit just do it or could you be anywhere once there's coverage? This kind of system is on my wishlist :rolleyes:

    No distance limit as all I need is an internet connection. I'm really seeing the benefits as I'm also watching a pen of bullying cows. As I'm away with work a bit often I'm only guessing within 24hrs of when they've been bulling. The camera takes the guesswork out of it.


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    #3239
    blue5000
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    santa came
    And I see by jpeg no 1 that you got a new camera from santa for yerself

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



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    #3240
    mantua
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭mantua


    just do it wrote: »
    HCA bull calf from 27mo heifer as seen from the calving camera on my smartphone. Calved herself unaided. : D

    sc20121226102119.jpg

    Calved this morning at 8am. I've started recording the time of calving so i'll be interested to see if individual cows follow a pattern. I'll report back on this one in about 5 yrs time :rolleyes:
    How much did it cost all in to get the camera up and running??


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    #3241
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    mantua wrote: »
    How much did it cost all in to get the camera up and running??
    Have alook here http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056741425?page=1

    Camera and 2 nanostations for the 600m wireless bridge between the shed and house cost roughly €180 on ebay. Took a fair bit of setting up. 2 IT issues took a while to figure out.


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