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

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    #5792
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Base price wrote: »
    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.

    I have seen the future and it's.........I have no words.......
    best of luck they are black and white lovely


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    #5793
    Mac Taylor
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    Base price wrote: »
    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.

    My eyes my eyes:D

    For gods sake think of the children:D


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    #5794
    Base price
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    grassroot1 wrote: »
    I have seen the future and it's.........I have no words.......
    best of luck they are black and white lovely
    We used to buy in and rear between four and five hundred mostly FR, AAx and HEx sucks every Spring up till 2012 - some were sold to local farmers after weaning, some were sold the following year to farmers to fill their stocking rate for SFP and the rest were finished by ourselves as 24 month bull beef. It was a profitable enough business at the time albeit with a lot of time and work put into rearing that many calves. Every year since then we have reduced numbers due to increasing costs and decreasing returns. This year I reared 117 bull calves - FR, AAx, HEx and a few FRx. I sold all the AAx and HEx bar two whitehead bull calves that I kept and put onto a cow. The picture is the remaining calves of this years bunch - 26 FR and 3 FRx bull calves. I paid €40/h for three which were the most expensive.
    Edit - I wonder what return, if any they give going forward.


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    #5795
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,527 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    Lovely stock you could show them to anyone. Will you bull them

    I dunno what the plan is yet. They'll be there until next July anyway and I'll see how I'm fixed then.


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    #5796
    Hard Knocks
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    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.

    Which one are you using?
    Stock boost or grow a drop?


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    #5797
    Hard Knocks
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    Base price wrote: »
    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.

    Would they need vitamin and minerals too?


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    #5798
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,527 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Which one are you using?
    Stock boost or grow a drop?

    The one in the link. Stockline. https://agridirect.ie/product/stockline-with-copper-iodine


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    #5799
    Base price
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    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Would they need vitamin and minerals too?
    All the calves got two Small Trace boluses in May/June this year. I've ordered more Small Trace boluses from our supplier. Over the years I prefer using the smaller boluses and gun on dairy bred stock until the get beyond yearlings, iykwim


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    #5800
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Calf I had to section on the 17th of June. Fecker got laraingítis a month ago but seems to be coming around again.


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    #5801
    High bike
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Calf I had to section on the 17th of June. Fecker got laraingítis a month ago but seems to be coming around again.
    great hairy calf, ch x sa ?


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    #5802
    Limestone Cowboy
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    High bike wrote: »
    great hairy calf, ch x sa ?

    No out of a handy little lim cow.


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    #5803
    john mayo 10
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    3 springing heifer I bought last week. 1 Simmental, 1 limousine and 1 saler all due to easy calving limousine bull in jan/ feb


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    #5804
    john mayo 10
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    Limousine


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    #5805
    john mayo 10
    Registered Users Posts: 956 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    Saler


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    #5806
    Grueller
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    john mayo 10 wrote: »
    Saler

    Always knew those salers were mad h**rs. Even a photo of one can't be fenced in!!!!!!


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    #5807
    patsy_mccabe
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    Grueller wrote: »
    Always knew those salers were mad h**rs. Even a photo of one can't be fenced in!!!!!!

    He was lying on his back when he took that photo. :D

    '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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    #5808
    john mayo 10
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    Lovely quiet saler heifer.🀪🀪


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    #5809
    CHOPS01
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    My beef nuts brings all the boys to the yard and they're like there better than yours. Damn right there better than yours !!
    You have to see the funny side sometimes.


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    #5810
    Base price
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    Did anyone go to the shorthorn sale in Roscommon today.


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    #5811
    Lady Haywire
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    The TVR twins. Cow is fed up of them :D
    mmptpm0l.jpg

    mALebAVl.jpg


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    #5812
    forgottenhills
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    The TVR twins. Cow is fed up of them :D
    mmptpm0l.jpg

    mALebAVl.jpg

    Your suckler calves are very quiet if you can get this close in a field to take a photo.


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    #5813
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    forgottenhills wrote: »
    Your suckler calves are very quiet if you can get this close in a field to take a photo.

    Fairly quiet :D

    https://twitter.com/LadyHaywire/status/1191746860962201600?s=19


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    #5814
    whelan2
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    The TVR twins. Cow is fed up of them :D
    mmptpm0l.jpg

    mALebAVl.jpg

    Did your other cow calve yet?


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    #5815
    Lady Haywire
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Did your other cow calve yet?

    No, she's due the 8th dec. Panting a bit today, definitely under pressure whatever is in her.


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    #5816
    rushvalley
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    Few of this years calves


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    #5817
    rushvalley
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    ...


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    #5818
    Limestone Cowboy
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    All go here the last couple of days.


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    #5819
    patsy_mccabe
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    All go here the last couple of days.

    What you building? What kind of ties are they used in the shuttering? Years since we did concrete here.

    '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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    #5820
    ganmo
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    What you building? What kind of ties are they used in the shuttering? Years since we did concrete here.

    My guess is a silage pit


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    #5821
    Dozer1
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    haven't seen shuttering pan's that small in years, the bigger ones take all the work out of it.
    fair play


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