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

893bet

Couple of weanlings. 3 zags to the left (7, 10, 7 months), A LM2388 (7 month) and a zag (5 months).

Some annoyed mothers anxious to show the calves the best way to eat ration..

893bet

Waiting on these two to come bulling! Two June calvers....hopefully come in the next week or two and keep and we pull them back for next year.

ADX on the left. Nice calf.

Mzt on the right. Little disappointing for a CH.

Lady Haywire

Lovely stock & a great sheltered field in the top group of older weanlings.
That MZT should come yet, cow is a Salers, is she? Have a March born Bivouac heifer out of a Salers heifer here and was average enough looking til the last 3 weeks or so.

893bet

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Lovely stock & a great sheltered field in the top group of older weanlings. so.

The rushes out of view give great shelter. Tis a wet spot.

It’s SAC so need to get it into the next GLAS or some scheme. Would have planted most of it otherwise.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

That MZT should come yet, cow is a Salers, is she? Have a March born Bivouac heifer out of a Salers heifer here and was average enough looking til the last 3 weeks or so.

Yes she is a 10 yr old Saler! I am sure she will fill out. Only 7 weeks old!

50HX

Haved used a good bit of mzt, give them time....always graded u in factory

Always liked adx male calves, females can be a bit mad

You'd get nice money for the 7-10mnth old one now

Yiu holding them longer?

893bet

50HX wrote: »

Haved used a good bit of mzt, give them time....always graded u in factory

Always liked adx male calves, females can be a bit mad

You'd get nice money for the 7-10mnth old one now

Yiu holding them longer?

The four older ones will go September. The three 7 months old weight 300 each when they were weighed last month for beep. Ten month old weighted 370. Young fella will be kept.

What kinda money these making in the mart at the moment?

tanko

That’s a nice looking LM2388 calf, have you used him much?

50HX

893bet wrote: »

The four older ones will go September. The three 7 months old weight 300 each when they were weighed last month for beep. Ten month old weighted 370. Young fella will be kept.

What kinda money these making in the mart at the moment?

300kg type you have are 800+

Lovely stock btw

893bet

tanko wrote: »

That’s a nice looking LM2388 calf, have you used him much?

Not much maybe two this year. We rarely request a specific bull. 80 percent last 3 years were ZAG, FSZ, OKH and GWO.

Gonna start taking a closer look at the breeding. Father is usually the one there when an animal is bulling. Heifer this year has no milk for her calf. Quick check of the sire stats and they ain’t built for replacement (sire lm2214); def worth watching and not putting them in calf sole based on the “eye”.

893bet

50HX wrote: »

300kg type you have are 800+

Lovely stock btw

Father babies them. Small feed twice a day. Standing minding with a stick. Can’t beat having the day to do a job.

50HX

893bet wrote: »

Father babies them. Small feed twice a day. Standing minding with a stick. Can’t beat having the day to do a job.

Mind him:D

tanko

893bet wrote: »

Not much maybe two this year. We rarely request a specific bull. 80 percent last 3 years were ZAG, FSZ, OKH and GWO.

Gonna start taking a closer look at the breeding. Father is usually the one there when an animal is bulling. Heifer this year has no milk for her calf. Quick check of the sire stats and they ain’t built for replacement (sire lm2214); def worth watching and not putting them in calf sole based on the “eye”.

The big advantage of using Ai is that you can match a bull to every cow depending on what kind of animal you want to produce, especially if you have a closed herd and want to try and produce replacements which will hopefully improve the cows you have.

The likes of Moondharrig Knell or Cross Liam might be worth a try if you want to try and breed Lim heifers, i haven’t used either tho.
Curaheen Earp and Clonagh Frosty king are two good Sim bulls i think.

minerleague

893bet wrote: »

Father babies them. Small feed twice a day. Standing minding with a stick. Can’t beat having the day to do a job.

fine cattle, have you many saler type cows?, find them very good but can be headstrong. As someone said to me " youve nothing to do all day and all day to do it"

Lady Haywire

Our local show would normally be on today. Would have taken this SOY lad if it hadn't been called off. Born Mayday.

patsy_mccabe

Bought this BB bull calf in Ennis mart this spring for €130. Cow lost her calf and she took to him easy enough. Saw whiteheads bull calves on the same day making €350.

CHOPS01

4 for the factory in the morning

funkey_monkey

What weights are they?

50HX

Nice twist there patsy

funkey_monkey

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Our local show would normally be on today. Would have taken this SOY lad if it hadn't been called off. Born Mayday.

That's a cracking calf.

CHOPS01

funkey_monkey wrote: »

What weights are they?

Expect them to killout 360-380 kg

tanko

CHOPS01 wrote: »

Expect them to killout 360-380 kg

Some shine off them, what grades would you be expecting?

CHOPS01

tanko wrote: »

Some shine off them, what grades would you be expecting?

Still working on my grading!!
Be disappointed if they are O=. Expecting O+ and 1 or 2 might possibly come into R- . Killed a comrade 3 weeks ago and he was O= but mud fat 4+

kollegeknight

Was at an open farm in limerick. A belted galloway cow and her speckle park heifer (26months). Both not in calf. Serious flesh on them.

CHOPS01

CHOPS01 wrote: »

Still working on my grading!!
Be disappointed if they are O=. Expecting O+ and 1 or 2 might possibly come into R- . Killed a comrade 3 weeks ago and he was O= but mud fat 4+

Just off the phone from lad that carried them to the factory. 3 Rs and one lad killed out over 400kg
Averaging out around 1500 a piece. Alright for dairy bred stock !

Bigbird1

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Our local show would normally be on today. Would have taken this SOY lad if it hadn't been called off. Born Mayday.

A lovely calf, is the cow a blonde, have you used much SOY? , he's around a while i think

Lady Haywire

Bigbird1 wrote: »

A lovely calf, is the cow a blonde, have you used much SOY? , he's around a while i think

No, the cow's a 5yr old off Alwent hitman, the polled CH.
Used that bull last about 10yrs ago, on a couple of black limousins I think, wasn't overly impressed tbh. From what I recall they were gutty enough & fine boned. The ch breeding in the cow seems to have rectified that part this time.
Funnily enough I just used SOY again today, on a repeat cow, a daughter of this white cow actually. Last chance saloon for her, 6 week repeat:mad: so switched the bull.

funkey_monkey

Anyone on here winter their cattle on straw?
Was looking to winter some weanlings on straw and wondering what I'm letting myself in for. How often do you clean out the pens/. Any problems with the feet on straw over a prolonged time?

Hard Knocks

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Anyone on here winter their cattle on straw?
Was looking to winter some weanlings on straw and wondering what I'm letting myself in for. How often do you clean out the pens/. Any problems with the feet on straw over a prolonged time?

Done it
Ideally if the straw lie back was behind slatted or concrete apron where the cane for water & silage
Bedding once per week or when dirty
Usually roll out a bale & they’ll do the rest
Bulls were easier kept
Heifers would mess it up more when one is in heat

funkey_monkey

How often did you need to clean out the straw lie back?

893bet

Some of last years weanling. 14-18 months.


This lad was born 13 May.....! Massive. Lm2214. AI man pulled wrong straw as they ain’t no easy calver. Biggest calf I ever saw. We weighted them for Beep on the 25th May...led than two weeks later........calf weighted 125kg. Never really kicked on like you would imagine. He was soft as ****! He the middle of the bunch now.



Two below are from Lm2388. 17 and 18 months.Pick of the bunch but mother’s are well breed.