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

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Another Ulsan, this is the tart who's 3 months incalf to next doors ch bull :pac: Still no idea where she got out or he got in. Will be 22ish months at calving so not ideal but she's growthy.

Lovely heifer. As long as she is a decent size at the calving and not extreme calf, everything should go well!  Good luck!
We had one 5 months old heifer get incalf maybe two weeks before taking the bull from the herd... It sure reduced her size, but she still stayed here for awhile and left some daughters.

Just had a look on Google Earth. They've updated it for 2018 and the clarity is unreal. I had a look at one of my fields and the tracks from the tractor after I licked the rushes can be seen. Talk about Big Brother watching you.
If it wasn't for a few trees, I could count my silage bales too .

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Just had a look on Google Earth. They've updated it for 2018 and the clarity is unreal. I had a look at one of my fields and the tracks from the tractor after I licked the rushes can be seen. Talk about Big Brother watching you.
If it wasn't for a few trees, I could count my silage bales too .

There was a link somewhere on boards someone put up of a link to the Copernicus website. That satellite imagery is updated every 5 days or so.
But the different layers it had to choose from was outstanding from soil moisture deficits in fields to vegetation index to photosynthesis, etc, etc.
The commercial field sat companies get their imagery from Copernicus that tells you how your crop is doing from the eyes in the sky.
There was even an option to let you 'see' through clouds.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Two Crossmolina calves for sale tomorrow

Crossmolina Euro or Jupiter?

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Two Crossmolina calves for sale tomorrow- White 8 1/2 month old bull & brown mid March heifer. Originally had her chosen for breeding as he mother is one of our best cows & she's got a sweet temperament to boot. But just not shaped as a breeding animal





Leaving two sad looking boys outside looking for their missing female :pac:

Pedigree bull & culard. Two of them have matured very well in the last month, putting up decent flesh.

That culard is some thriver

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yea they're all doing well now. The nuts seem to have kicked in. Both the feeding & testosterone producing ones

I was thinking the same recently. Young bulls reach a point where they become bullish and strong, even if they are still under the cow. That brings them into a different price league altogether. It's like the guys buying for under 16 months or maybe the exporters take more interest.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I was thinking the same recently. Young bulls reach a point where they become bullish and strong, even if they are still under the cow. That brings them into a different price league altogether. It's like the guys buying for under 16 months or maybe the exporters take more interest.

Yea there's a sudden jump with some of them. Am surprised at the culard though, he's only just 5 months now so it'd be a bit young for him to hit some sort of maturity. Be intresting to see the white guys weight today, have him at 450ish in my head.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Could be better, could be worse! Happy with the bull anyway, though was out 25kg in his weight.

I thought you were high balling him a bit at 450. Although I thought he would go better then €2.50 a kg aswell. Not bad going at all tho really for the year that's in it. Your heifer while not breaking any records, did ok. Heifers are a terrible trade at the minute unless there exceptional. Seen grand white and golden heifers heavier then your bull going for not a whole pile more then your one. There's light heifers being bought for good suck calf money any other year. All in all a good day for 2018.

Jaysus.... they put on weight anyways...impressive!

Would you breed from those Goldie types?

Lady Haywire wrote: »

It'd depend on the breeding behind them. Vey handy now looking up the tags online. There's was one, lot 120 I think, nice white stripe up her back, that I'd have bred from if I was looking to buy one. She made over 1k though :pac:

A golden Charolais cow will bring a golden Limousine which will sell well but a white Charolais that won’t sell aswell as the golden

I see the Limousin champ at the show and sale today made 38K...and they say there is no money in farming! Was anyone at it?

High bike wrote: »

Where was that?

Roscrea. Carrickmore Maximus, champion from Tullamore.
Is he gone to England??

GiantPencil wrote: »

I see the Limousin champ at the show and sale today made 38K...and they say there is no money in farming! Was anyone at it?

I was at it. Very bad day for selling. He was a nice bull to be fair. The judge of the show bought him. Prominent breeder from Waterford was the underbidder. It's nothing to the big English lads to be fair, he could have a 100 pedigree cows.

5/6 other bulls sold for 5/9 k. Most bulls for around 2.3/3k allot of bulls not selling, maby 40% at a guess.

Nice quality made money, some bulls not good enough for that sale at all.

GiantPencil wrote: »

Strange to hear of the lack of quality in bulls...I'd regard that show and sale to be of a very high standard with bulls needing to be scored etc

Ya it was. Not loads but you could pick 10 no hastle that shouldn't be there. This meeting a certain weight is not great either. Some fine bulls there that were as far as pigs instead of nice lean well muscled. You would have bought a fine bull for 2.5 k that would have hit 3.5/4 another year. No money around its that simple. Everyone is squeeze to the last this year.

Interesting enough, replacement stars didn't seem to matter much. Some with stars sold well but some nice lads with none went for good money too.