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delaval

Jaysus, I had a day when I was the National Stud!!!!!

redzerologhlen

delaval wrote: »

Jaysus, I had a day when I was the National Stud!!!!!

delaval wrote: »

Harder to hold than a ewe, sometimes!!!!

:eek:

Kovu

Jeez Muckit, you wouldn't want them popping out at 66kg though.
That's pretty much a full grown Kovu:eek:

Redzer.....tut tut ;)

Western Pomise

jersey101 wrote: »

if you put roundup on a weed licker will it just kill the weeds or grass and all??

Roundup will kill anything it touches so if you let fluid drip down it will kill grass....set licker high enuf to only kill the nettles,rushes whatever

whelan1

brought the kids to the national stud last year and japanese gardens, lets just say we wont be going back

delaval

whelan1 wrote: »

brought the kids to the national stud last year and japanese gardens, lets just say we wont be going back

What did they make shyte of??

whelan1

delaval wrote: »

What did they make shyte of??

my head

pakalasa

Went to the National Stud a few years ago too with a crowd of lads, after a night out in Dublin. Never laughed so much. Felt sorry for the poor young girl showing us around.

moy83

whelan1 wrote: »

my head

My own head is ringing here , a party of eight year olds go karting and back to the house for grub . The last of them just gone home now thank god

Conmaicne Mara

moy83 wrote: »

My own head is ringing here , a party of eight year olds go karting and back to the house for grub . The last of them just gone home now thank god

Liosban?

I was bet into 2nd place by a fearless 11 year old :mad:

Rematch when he's 12 :cool:

moy83

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Liosban?

I was bet into 2nd place by a fearless 11 year old :mad:

Rematch when he's 12 :cool:

Ya Liosban it was . I just took pictures from the sidelines but a couple of them saw no danger at all in keeping the foot down around the bends , it was actually all the older fellas that were taking it handy and being bet by the young lads

Conmaicne Mara

moy83 wrote: »

Ya Liosban it was . I just took pictures from the sidelines but a couple of them saw no danger at all in keeping the foot down around the bends , it was actually all the older fellas that were taking it handy and being bet by the young lads

The amount of times I got hit from behind, ambulance chasers wet dream that place :pac: I didn't like accidentally hurting the other children, only reason I lost really

moy83

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

The amount of times I got hit from behind, ambulance chasers wet dream that place :pac: I didn't like accidentally hurting the other children, only reason I lost really

You're a pure gentleman , I would mow them down out of my way

Bodacious

I wired in a section of the commonage (200acres) last year with temporary electric battery fence, this year ive plonked 8 bales as a trial on an old roadway and will try yearling heifers on it.. had no fodder up there last year and although they had great foraging, a dry lie etc I still had to draw up pulp/barley on the quad and had to buy it also .. the haylage is my own .. hoping too throw few forks in ring feeder once a day and let them rattle away.. if it works I can bring up more bales

Kovu

Bodacious wrote: »

I wired in a section of the commonage (200acres) last year with temporary electric battery fence, this year ive plonked 8 bales as a trial on an old roadway and will try yearling heifers on it.. had no fodder up there last year and although they had great foraging, a dry lie etc I still had to draw up pulp/barley on the quad and had to buy it also .. the haylage is my own .. hoping too throw few forks in ring feeder once a day and let them rattle away.. if it works I can bring up more bales

Get on over to the Tractor Jockey thread and tell us how you got over that ground :eek:

moy83

Id say you were lucky to get all the posts in without hitting rock . Will they have the run of the 200 acres and if so how many will you leave out on it ?
To me this is what the suckler cow is all about .

Bodacious

moy83 wrote: »

Id say you were lucky to get all the posts in without hitting rock . Will they have the run of the 200 acres and if so how many will you leave out on it ?
To me this is what the suckler cow is all about .

I had torture to get ground for stakes hence the couple of back stays!!

i'll pen them in to a 4-5 acre paddock section to start and see how they fair out .. if they get used of coming to the silage daily and don't leave the mountain I could give them the run of the lot of it, my dad puts ponies out there too at times so ill have to play it by ear... 7 bulling heifers for next year that just need ticking over.

the bit that was ate last year ... is so much greener and better this year, the furze were/are taking over

Bodacious

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Get on over to the Tractor Jockey thread and tell us how you got over that ground :eek:

that is my only tractor in the background!!! wicked machine and wild soft seat on it

Muckit

So ah.... how the hell did you get bales up there? Helicopter?! :pac:

moy83

Bodacious wrote: »

I had torture to get ground for stakes hence the couple of back stays!!

i'll pen them in to a 4-5 acre paddock section to start and see how they fair out .. if they get used of coming to the silage daily and don't leave the mountain I could give them the run of the lot of it, my dad puts ponies out there too at times so ill have to play it by ear... 7 bulling heifers for next year that just need ticking over.

the bit that was ate last year ... is so much greener and better this year, the furze were/are taking over

We are under stocked here the past five years and a bit of mountain that the father used to leave heifers in for the winter is nearly closed in with furze . Slatted sheds have mountains ruined . Around here they should have given grants for hardy cattle and sheep and drainage instead of granting money for tanks that cant be spread most of the year on our land anyhow .
I dont know was it all the fires that started early this year but alot of the mountain this year looks well

Bodacious

Muckit wrote: »

So ah.... how the hell did you get bales up there? Helicopter?! :pac:

no where the quad is parked there is an old solid land commission road and the lad that does the mowing carted them up there for me as soon as they were wrapped... i'll buy a tractor again this winter hopefully when/if funds permit:)

Bodacious

moy83 wrote: »

We are under stocked here the past five years and a bit of mountain that the father used to leave heifers in for the winter is nearly closed in with furze . Slatted sheds have mountains ruined . Around here they should have given grants for hardy cattle and sheep and drainage instead of granting money for tanks that cant be spread most of the year on our land anyhow .
I dont know was it all the fires that started early this year but alot of the mountain this year looks well

I couldn't agree with you more.. our mountain is ruined.. impassable areas due to the furze and probably 200k of water pipes mixed in ... so burning is not an option

moy83

Bodacious wrote: »

I couldn't agree with you more.. our mountain is ruined.. impassable areas due to the furze and probably 200k of water pipes mixed in ... so burning is not an option

The lad next door to us used to burn his mountain and ours in the process but he is gone too old now for it and I dont have the heart / balls for it myself .

Kovu

What do you guys think of this lassie? She's just Jan boen, her mother is there behind her. I'm thinking of keeping her on to breed but we don't normally keep blues on.
One thing that bodes well for her is I can go back five generations of her breeding. Her great grand dam was a BrFr X SH, her granddam was a SI X, her mother is LM as you can see and she herself is a blue cross.
Every blue we've kept has had to be sectioned though.



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(And yes, her mother is very small, she never grew but always leaves great calves at weaning)

hugo29

Kovu Murr wrote: »

What do you guys think of this lassie? She's just Jan boen, her mother is there behind her. I'm thinking of keeping her on to breed but we don't normally keep blues on.
One thing that bodes well for her is I can go back five generations of her breeding. Her great grand dam was a BrFr X SH, her granddam was a SI X, her mother is LM as you can see and she herself is a blue cross.
Every blue we've kept has had to be sectioned though.



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(And yes, her mother is very small, she never grew but always leaves great calves at weaning)

keep, lovely animal,

pakalasa

Kovu Murr wrote: »

..Every blue we've kept has had to be sectioned though...

Kinnda answered that one already. Nice heifer alright.

moy83

Hang her up kovu and keep a small cow like her moma that wont eat you out of house and home and hopefully leave calves that pay their way . Fine heifer .

Dampintheattic

Speaking of blues. I have a blue cross heifer out of a lim cow, just hitting 294 days today. In calf to easy calving lim bull RHF.
She's not the muscley kind and AI man reckoned she was "roomey" enough!
With this number of days gone, she will need to be -;(

Conmaicne Mara

Muckit wrote: »

So ah.... how the hell did you get bales up there? Helicopter?! :pac:

Talking to a lad at the mart on Saturday, he'd gotten two weeks of work fencing, but only enjoyed two of them

They were fencing in the Maumturk mountains near the cliffs and the two good days were foggy so he couldn't see the drop

An hour and a half walk to the fence from the road and the same back. Material was dropped up by helicopter.

adne

Kovu Murr wrote: »

What do you guys think of this lassie? She's just Jan boen, her mother is there behind her. I'm thinking of keeping her on to breed but we don't normally keep blues on.
One thing that bodes well for her is I can go back five generations of her breeding. Her great grand dam was a BrFr X SH, her granddam was a SI X, her mother is LM as you can see and she herself is a blue cross.
Every blue we've kept has had to be sectioned though.



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(And yes, her mother is very small, she never grew but always leaves great calves at weaning)

She is a serious animal, great stretch to her but she is for a hook not breeding imo.