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

charolais0153 · 16-11-2018 05:42PM

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Another one calve ? ðŸ˜¬

Yep. Big bull calf again. Side door job again. Head wouldnt even get in the pelvis.

valtra2 · 16-11-2018 05:48PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Yep. Big bull calf again. Side door job again. Head wouldnt even get in the pelvis.

What bull are they after

charolais0153 · 16-11-2018 06:01PM

valtra2 wrote: »

What bull are they after

Doon just the job. Ch2305.
Mistakes were made

Lady Haywire · 16-11-2018 06:06PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Doon just the job. Ch2305.
Mistakes were made

Don't beat yourself up about it. You took a chance & it hasn't worked out, these things happen. I was thinking about using him on a couple but was too scared to try it after a neighbour got a bad doing with one calf off him.
Fingers crossed the others will be ok, along with the section cows.

Never wrestle with pigs · 16-11-2018 06:10PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Doon just the job. Ch2305.
Mistakes were made

These things happen. Better that way than locked at the hipps and Notting going anywhere. I was going to use him before too before his cd rose. At least you only have on left. It just shows the importance of spreading around a few bulls. Imagine the worry if you had a dozen in the oven. Hopefully the Pair are ok.

charolais0153 · 16-11-2018 06:26PM

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

These things happen. Better that way than locked at the hipps and Notting going anywhere. I was going to use him before too before his cd rose. At least you only have on left. It just shows the importance of spreading around a few bulls. Imagine the worry if you had a dozen in the oven. Hopefully the Pair are ok.

Ya fine but just a pain in the hole

valtra2 · 16-11-2018 09:48PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Doon just the job. Ch2305.
Mistakes were made

Wow 19%. I had a 18% few years ago hard pull and cow never got up so I would rather out the side anyway.

charolais0153 · 16-11-2018 10:14PM

valtra2 wrote: »

Wow 19%. I had a 18% few years ago hard pull and cow never got up so I would rather out the side anyway.

Same as that. Same cow had ecolo at 15.8% last year. Calved herself. Fine line evidently.
I dont think its overfeeding because the other calves are coming small

Lady Haywire · 17-11-2018 09:19AM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Same as that. Same cow had ecolo at 15.8% last year. Calved herself. Fine line evidently.
I dont think its overfeeding because the other calves are coming small

More to do with thickness I reckon. That Doon calf in the photo is a great raw lump of a thing, ecolo calves have finer bone, more blueish.

Say my name · 17-11-2018 10:58AM

Work in progress.

All gone.

If your worms are not eating your cow's manure and pulling it (carbon) deep into the soil, serious questions need to be asked.

White Clover · 17-11-2018 11:00AM

Say my name wrote: »

Work in progress.

All gone.

If your worms are not eating your cow's manure and pulling it (carbon) deep into the soil, serious questions need to be asked.

What would you advise to do first to get the worms working?

Mooooo · 17-11-2018 11:00AM

Whats the time interval between the pics?

Say my name · 17-11-2018 11:06AM

White Clover wrote: »

What would you advise to do first to get the worms working?

Read them a bedtime story.

I dunno just the basics.
Go back to how our forebarers farmed?
Dose stock ONLY when necessary.
Spray herbicide ONLY when necessary.
That kind of stuff.

Say my name · 17-11-2018 11:07AM

Mooooo wrote: »

Whats the time interval between the pics?

It's two different pats in the same paddock.
So your guess is as good as mine.

30 seconds I'd say.

bogman_bass · 17-11-2018 11:10AM

White Clover wrote: »

What would you advise to do first to get the worms working?

If worms aren’t eating cows dung they might have been recently dosed

golodge · 18-11-2018 02:03PM

Had the second calf born by the same sire as the previous white bull. Bull calf again. Going to ask for the vet to search for more straws! Heifer calved herself. 288days gestation, 50.5kgs. The white one weighed 54kgs at three days age today. Fair calves for heifers!

High bike · 18-11-2018 04:25PM

2 great lumps

patsy_mccabe · 18-11-2018 04:37PM

That's a big calf.

golodge · 18-11-2018 07:09PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

That's a big calf.

A bit bigger than I'd want for a heifer. Don't mind such calf for a cow. I already knew that the sire isn't heifer safe bull, but both heifers have easy calving history in their mother side. Our average calf with the previous herdbull was around 45-46kgs, many being 50-53kgs. Quite used to bigger calves. Have seen that the AI bull's birth weight was 45kgs, so I said to myself that we should be able to handle it.:cool:

High bike · 18-11-2018 08:31PM

golodge wrote: »

A bit bigger than I'd want for a hteifer. Don't mind such calf for a cow. I already knew that the sire isn't heifer safe bull, but both heifers have easy calving history in their mother side. Our average calf with the previous herdbull was around 45-46kgs, many being 50-53kgs. Quite used to bigger calves. Have seen that the AI bull's birth weight was 45kgs, so I said to myself that we should be able to handle it.:cool:

what age are those heifers calving at 30 mts or older.?

golodge · 18-11-2018 09:03PM

High bike wrote: »

what age are those heifers calving at 30 mts or older.?

The red is 29months old, white- 31months. Have waited last year until they came home for the winter and these two hasn't stuck on their first AI, so it took abit more time. The red is abit bigger, but both should be slightly over 600kgs.
Never tried calving earlier, but next year will have a group of heifers calving at 25-27months age.

adne · 19-11-2018 03:09PM

I might get to December with stock grazing

adne · 19-11-2018 03:10PM

Unusual to be able to have cows grazing in mid Nov in the west

Pidae.m · 19-11-2018 09:29PM

the poster boy for the Irish limousin society as I call him

Pidae.m · 19-11-2018 09:31PM

hard calving and soft, but as good a one we've ever had. Just waiting for him to do the splits on the slats or get his head stuck under a gate.

TITANIUM. · 19-11-2018 10:02PM

Pidae.m wrote: »

the poster boy for the Irish limousin society as I call him

He's got good timber under him at the back in fairness. Unusual for such a well muscled bull. Mighty quarters.
What's he off?

tanko · 19-11-2018 10:16PM

Is there Rocky breeding in him?

Pidae.m · 20-11-2018 11:32AM

Pidae.m · 20-11-2018 11:33AM

Simple cow I bought as a wealing in listowel. Icbf only says her dam is fr nothing about her sire.

TITANIUM. · 20-11-2018 02:19PM

Pidae.m wrote: »

Simple cow I bought as a wealing in listowel. Icbf only says her dam is fr nothing about her sire.

You got a lucky one. A limo or blue out of the right fr cow ban bring a great calf.

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