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Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::

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    #5762
    Hard Knocks
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Only a day old, but enough cop on to find a snug place away from Lorenzo

    Good hiding place


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    #5763
    50HX
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Only a day old, but enough cop on to find a snug place away from Lorenzo

    More sense than some of those clowns out walking by the sea in Galway right now.


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    #5764
    Track9
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Only a day old, but enough cop on to find a snug place away from Lorenzo
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    New life , always a great feeling . A fine looking calf too.


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    #5765
    Mac Taylor
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Only a day old, but enough cop on to find a snug place away from Lorenzo

    Nice and snug all right, what breeding is he/she patsy?


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    #5766
    Track9
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    Panch18 wrote: »
    We bought in some black baldies a few years ago - they were light when bought but turned into absolutely super cattle and were all killed by end of june - and they never saw a nut.

    When you take in the fact that you'd have a hardy cow as well that would be my choice of breed if i was to do a suckler to beef enterprise i think
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    What are Black baldies ? A Angus ?
    Am always looking for New Blood to improve our sucklers .
    Thanks. P


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    #5767
    Mac Taylor
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    Track9 wrote: »
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    What are Black baldies ? A Angus ?
    Am always looking for New Blood to improve our sucklers .
    Thanks. P

    Whitehead crossed with an angus bull


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    #5768
    patsy_mccabe
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    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Nice and snug all right, what breeding is he/she patsy?

    She was meant to be by on-dit but didn't hold. I think she went in-calf to my stock bull but I'll have to genotype to confirm.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #5769
    Muckit
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    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Whitehead crossed with an angus bull

    So Hereford X Angus crossed back to an Angus bull?


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    #5770
    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    Muckit wrote: »
    So Hereford X Angus crossed back to an Angus bull?

    Typically you can have either a AA bull on a WH cow or a WH bull on an Angus cow


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    #5771
    blue5000
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    Track9 wrote: »
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    What are Black baldies ? A Angus ?
    Am always looking for New Blood to improve our sucklers .
    Thanks. P

    Do a google search on Robert+Parker+Nuffield+scholar he's been breeding them for a long time. It's basically switching bulls every generation, if a cow is by a hereford bull she is mated to an angus, then the next generation a hereford bull is used.

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



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    #5772
    Lady Haywire
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Calving 2019 off to a surprising start :pac:

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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    This lad can be weaned next month :pac: JKS bull. Tested the jack so he did!!

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    Away we go to 2019 sales again!

    https://twitter.com/LadyHaywire/status/1180166898518036481


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    #5773
    funkey_monkey
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    I've asked before about the slatmats. Is there any benefit in terms of weight gains or even cleanliness?


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    #5774
    Lady Haywire
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    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    I've asked before about the slatmats. Is there any benefit in terms of weight gains or even cleanliness?

    I don't have any answer to that but the few mights we had them in with wet weather, they had access to the whole shed. None chose to lie on the bare slates, majority (like 95%!!) on two mats) & remainder on the lying area. Was an eye opener for me.
    So cow happiness is up for one, hence her thrive & gain. But I do find them harder to clean.


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    #5775
    Lady Haywire
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    https://twitter.com/LadyHaywire/status/1180452795725549571?s=19

    Can't believe he got first!!!
    Twins were 305 & 310 kg. Bull went 810, heifer 740.
    All in all a great day!! The man who came up from Wexford for my calf has gone home with him too so he's a happy camper as well :D


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    #5776
    Albert Johnson
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    Well done Lady H, it's always nice to get some recognition for your continued efforts. What was the trade like today in general? A good bull calf at any weight up to 350kg were a flying trade last night imo, €3 a kilo and over. The more average bull calf or most types of heifers were an easier trade in comparison. There was definitely more shipping activity for the middle​ of the road bull weanling compared to the previous week.


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    #5777
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Well done Lady H, it's always nice to get some recognition for your continued efforts. What was the trade like today in general? A good bull calf at any weight up to 350kg were a flying trade last night imo, €3 a kilo and over. The more average bull calf or most types of heifers were an easier trade in comparison. There was definitely more shipping activity for the middle​ of the road bull weanling compared to the previous week.

    Trade seemed good for the lighter ones alright, didn't get to watch much of the heifers as everywhere I went, I seemed to be chatting!! (Nek, I'm looking at you:p:D)
    I haven't had any in the show/sale in Carrigallen before so I am well chuffed with my rosette! I didn't think the champion should have been champion either, an opinion a lot of folk seemed to share. The other black calf which made 13-something was nicer.


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    #5778
    patsy_mccabe
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    Well done. Great to see all the work and effort paying off for you.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #5779
    Albert Johnson
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Trade seemed good for the lighter ones alright, didn't get to watch much of the heifers as everywhere I went, I seemed to be chatting!! (Nek, I'm looking at you:p:D)
    I haven't had any in the show/sale in Carrigallen before so I am well chuffed with my rosette! I didn't think the champion should have been champion either, an opinion a lot of folk seemed to share. The other black calf which made 13-something was nicer.

    The lighter calf is definitely in more demand, I saw a few heavy bulls (450kg +) sold lately at either side of €2 a kilo and the double decker that came to collect them was well loaded with similar stock. There was some great CHx and LMx type bulls on it from some other town and according to the buyer there only averaging €2.09 a kilo across the board.
    I meant to go someplace today seeing as it rained nearly non stop but I didn't get around too it. I haven't been in Carrigallen in ages and I think Dowra had a show today as well. As regards the judging there is always a certain amount of politics involved although you'll never please everyone either. I often gave a hand sorting the stock for judging and sticking on the rosette's afterwards, the same few lads would be complaining all the time and you'd learn to ignore them after awhile.


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    #5780
    tellmeabit
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    Congrats. What breeding is in him? Sorry see it in pic. What is mother


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    #5781
    tellmeabit
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    Congrats. What breeding is in him?


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    #5782
    Lady Haywire
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    tellmeabit wrote: »
    Congrats. What breeding is in him?

    He's off JKS the blue, mother is a red limousin off a simmental cow, hence his bad colour. Prob some CH & Friesian in there too :pac:


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    #5783
    CloughCasey1
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    He's off JKS the blue, mother is a red limousin off a simmental cow, hence his bad colour. Prob some CH & Friesian in there too :pac:

    The Freisian on him really showed alright!!:D


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    #5784
    Lady Haywire
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    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    The Freisian on him really showed alright!!:D

    :cool:
    The grand-dam came in the back of our old Ford, Nana had gone in to town to buy a few groceries and while she was in the drapers my Grandfather went off to Maxwell's dairy farm & bought two calves :D So would probably have been a mix of BrFr somewhere in the original cow, crossed with a Sim bull.
    This would be roughly 30 years ago so I just remember her as a heifer.


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    #5785
    Say my name
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    Just noticed this as the cows were coming in this evening.
    I saw that some of the dung pats were gone through by rooks, etc. So I dug away some of the dung to reveal these little tunnels underneath the pat.
    And if you don't know what they are already. They are tunnels going down beneath the pat made by dung beetle larvae.

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    (I wonder should be payments be made to farmers who have these buggers? Just like the corncrake guys..) :pac: :D


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    #5786
    Say my name
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    Pics from a bit of a walk on the carlow side of the Blackstairs.

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    Above that row of Scots pine there's the remains of a dwelling house. There's also the remains of ditches fencing in that part of the mountain into various fields.
    And people nowadays think they have a hard life!


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    #5787
    Limestone Cowboy
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    A few heifers. Some are bought and some are my own.


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    #5788
    patsy_mccabe
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    A few heifers. Some are bought and some are my own.

    They have a great hairdresser.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #5789
    Limestone Cowboy
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    They have a great hairdresser.

    Was giving my own a mineral drench from natural stockcare every few weeks and it put some shine and fleece on them. Thought it was very good. The ones I bough had spent a few weeks on the winterage.


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    #5790
    grassroot1
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    A few heifers. Some are bought and some are my own.

    Lovely stock you could show them to anyone. Will you bull them


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    #5791
    Base price
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    Warning - following pic is of plain stock - my type :)
    I let these out yesterday onto the last bit of grazing for this year. They have access to a dry bedded shed and I've started giving them a nip of two thirds oats/one third barley daily.


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