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

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    #6062
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Cow nearly choked on after-birth.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1279501978779947008

    '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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    #6063
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Pair of early heifers born around the end of January. Doing some thrive.


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    #6064
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,310 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Not a new picture.
    But the boy holding the Cob gave a copy of the photo to my father lately, who's standing on the working Cob, posing for the camera.

    20200711-125400.jpg


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    #6065
    Limestone Cowboy
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    April born ch bull calf out of a lim x sh cow. Calved without assistance . If I could get them all like that now I'd be in business.


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    #6066
    fanmanad
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭fanmanad


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    April born ch bull calf out of a lim x sh cow. Calved without assistance . If I could get them all like that now I'd be in business.

    Cracking animal. About 20 of them every year would be nice!


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    #6067
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,983 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    April born ch bull calf out of a lim x sh cow. Calved without assistance . If I could get them all like that now I'd be in business.
    Super calf, keep using that bull
    What’s he by?


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    #6068
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Super calf, keep using that bull
    What’s he by?

    Carrickbrack hutch.


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    #6069
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    April born ch bull calf out of a lim x sh cow. Calved without assistance . If I could get them all like that now I'd be in business.


    They’re unreal calves. Fair play


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    #6070
    dh1985
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭dh1985


    February bull. Definitely one of my better ones


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    #6071
    Limestone Cowboy
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    February born bull out of a red lim cow.


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    #6072
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    '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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    #6073
    Dozer1
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    Too late to say it's in the wrong place...


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    #6074
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Another February born heifer out of a very plain black lim x Hereford cow.


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    #6075
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Ardlea Dan ADX commercial cow. He may not have the stars, but he always bred nice cows 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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    #6076
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    ZAG pbr Lim heifer. In calf to On-Dit, fingers crossed.

    '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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    #6077
    50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭50HX


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    ZAG pbr Lim heifer. In calf to On-Dit, fingers crossed.

    What age is she patsy?

    Have a yearling zag x but v butty


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    #6078
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    50HX wrote: »
    What age is she patsy?

    Have a yearling zag x but v butty

    27 months. Mother is very muscley and wide so she brings some bit of size from her. ZAG does breed butty alright.

    '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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    #6079
    patsy_mccabe
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    One more. 23 months old XGL pbr heifer. Mother on left. Used XGL to add size and increase docility, as mother is a bit nervous.
    Must be something in the figures as she is a complete pet. Plenty wide too. In calf to Lodge Hamlet.

    '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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    #6080
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,168 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Got a cow that has a few cuts on her teat from the calf sucking her.
    The cuts are now attracting the flies.

    Is there anything I can do for her as I can see they are irritating her.


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    #6081
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Got a cow that has a few cuts on her teat from the calf sucking her.
    The cuts are now attracting the flies.

    Is there anything I can do for her as I can see they are irritating her.

    Have a cow the very same here, I'm putting Bepanthen antiseptic cream on he teat each morning, followed by tar spray. Luckily mine is quiet & just lets me do as I like with a handful of nuts on the ground in front of her. Looks a good bit better this evening, though that could be to do with the wet weather/less flies around today.


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    #6082
    funkey_monkey
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    She is an oldish core and down a few quarters so the calf will need access to the teat too.

    Was thinking of a garlic lick but not sure of their effectiveness or spot on.


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    #6083
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Ah I see. I tend to try & put it on after the cow is sucked which seems to be most mornings as they all seem to move around dawn & calves suckle so when I'm out at 8 it's a good time to put it on.
    Have a garlic lick with ours too, the Calsea block, fair pong off it anyway, but only out 10 days so can't see much difference yet with flies. Spot on wouldn't be a bad call, wouldn't do her any harm anyway.


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    #6084
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    This is a still out of a video so probably not the best pic of her, but the heifer I put incalf to Glacon. Seemingly incalf anyway, no budge after 19-21 days & she'd almost mount me the month before.
    And yes, she had got copper, just later than the rest. :pac:
    HB8z1Dzl.png


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    #6085
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Bull calf born last night out of the red shorthorn, unassisted and up sucking by itself, by SH4319.


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    #6086
    furandfeather
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭furandfeather


    Base price wrote: »
    Bull calf born last night out of the red shorthorn, unassisted and up sucking by itself, by SH4319.

    Great calf
    Is the other heifer you bought at the time in calf too?


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    #6087
    Base price
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    furandfeather wrote: »
    Great calf
    Is the other heifer you bought at the time in calf too?
    She calved mid April this year by a runt of a cnut of a AAx seven month old weanling that got to her. She had a healthy heifer calf but it wasn't anything to write home about but it's shaping up nicely now.

    I posted a pic of her as a calf (can't find it now) and I will take a pic of her in the next few days and post it.


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    #6088
    furandfeather
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭furandfeather


    Base price wrote: »
    She calved mid April this year by a runt of a cnut of a AAx seven month old weanling that got to her. She had a healthy heifer calf but it wasn't anything to write home about but it's shaping up nicely now.

    I posted a pic of her as a calf (can't find it now) and I will take a pic of her in the next few days and post it.

    She might turn out a lucky one
    I had a pedigree heifer entered into a premier sale a few years ago, I was clipping her one evening and was standing back admiring her and I thought jesus she doesn't look like a VIO
    heifer. Decided to get her DNA tested and low and behold my doubts were true. She was 100% simmental but not out of vio, even though the calving date correspond with ai date.
    So one of the weanlings must have bulled her after I ai d her even though all were under 7 months at the time and the cow was a big 900kg tank.
    I kept her and shes one of the best cows in the place now but thank the lord she wasn't sold.
    Wouldn't sell a pedigree animal now without DNA testing now


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    #6089
    DukeCaboom
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    Eby cow
    Barvardage stock bull calf.


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    #6090
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    The exemption for TB testing of calves up to 120 days is ending on September the 1st. Reading the article, normal TB rules will apply for calves that are over 42 days old on 1/9/20 if you wish to sell them.
    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/tb-tes...ptember-561868


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    #6091
    Anto_Meath
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    Base price wrote: »
    The exemption for TB testing of calves up to 120 days is ending on September the 1st. Reading the article, normal TB rules will apply for calves that are over 42 days old on 1/9/20 if you wish to sell them.
    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/tb-tes...ptember-561868

    That is a pity, didn't make any use of it myself this year but I could definitely see the merit in it. Testing calves under 4 months is money for nothing for vets.


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