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

Parishlad · 01-08-2019 11:05PM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

We discovered Dr Pimple Popper on TLC on Sky a few weeks back. It's a bit like that video but with humans. And strangely fascinating.

Ah here, don’t talk to me about Dr Pimple Popper. My wife discovered it recently. Sweet Jesus is all I can say. I ran out of the room anyway!

Buford T. Justice XIX · 02-08-2019 09:53AM

Parishlad wrote: »

Ah here, don’t talk to me about Dr Pimple Popper. My wife discovered it recently. Sweet Jesus is all I can say. I ran out of the room anyway!

She's very popular here. Nobody wants to watch her but nobody leaves when she's on:D

liosnagceann75 · 02-08-2019 01:04PM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

She's very popular here. Nobody wants to watch her but nobody leaves when she's on:D

"I'm not hurting you right" Think I'm addicted to dr pimple popper

Limestone Cowboy · 07-08-2019 12:00PM

Section calf 7 weeks old now.

Muckit · 07-08-2019 05:09PM

LC could you please keep posting pictures, on a daily basis if possible, to help boost morale?
Regards and thanks, signed every beef farmer in the country!!

Limestone Cowboy · 07-08-2019 05:48PM

Muckit wrote: »

LC could you please keep posting pictures, on a daily basis if possible, to help boost morale?
Regards and thanks, signed every beef farmer in the country!!

I ended up in elphin Mart on Monday evening, some of the best cattle I have ever seen up there but it wouldn't do much for morale unfortunately. 400kg ch bulls making little along with €2/kg.

charolais0153 · 07-08-2019 05:58PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

I ended up in elphin Mart on Monday evening, some of the best cattle I have ever seen up there but it wouldn't do much for morale unfortunately. 400kg ch bulls making little along with €2/kg.

300 or 400 back on last year?

tanko · 07-08-2019 05:59PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Muckit wrote: »

LC could you please keep posting pictures, on a daily basis if possible, to help boost morale?
Regards and thanks, signed every beef farmer in the country!!

I ended up in elphin Mart on Monday evening, some of the best cattle I have ever seen up there but it wouldn't do much for morale unfortunately. 400kg ch bulls making little along with €2/kg.

Were lighter ones around 300kgs any better?

Limestone Cowboy · 07-08-2019 06:09PM

tanko wrote: »

Were lighter ones around 300kgs any better?

Seen 330kg yellow ch struggle to make 700. Wasn't that many lighter ones in it.

Limestone Cowboy · 07-08-2019 06:10PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

300 or 400 back on last year?

I was never there before but would have thought most of the 400kg ones would have made 1k+ down here last year.

Albert Johnson · 07-08-2019 06:21PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Muckit wrote: »

LC could you please keep posting pictures, on a daily basis if possible, to help boost morale?
Regards and thanks, signed every beef farmer in the country!!

I ended up in elphin Mart on Monday evening, some of the best cattle I have ever seen up there but it wouldn't do much for morale unfortunately. 400kg ch bulls making little along with €2/kg.

I hope someone welcomed you to our country Limestone. There's some serious suckler men around Elphin, probably some of the best in the country. That would have been a special sale so there'd be extra buyers in attendance from all over. Having said that the trend has been going against heavy weanlings in recent years and it seems to me the light the dearer when it comes to calves. There'd be some serious farmer customers around there for hairy CHx type calves circa 280-330kg.

wrangler · 07-08-2019 06:24PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

I was never there before but would have thought most of the 400kg ones would have made 1k+ down here last year.

winter finishers can't go `back in at last years prices, no point in comparing

Limestone Cowboy · 07-08-2019 07:13PM

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I hope someone welcomed you to our country Limestone. There's some serious suckler men around Elphin, probably some of the best in the country. That would have been a special sale so there'd be extra buyers in attendance from all over. Having said that the trend has been going against heavy weanlings in recent years and it seems to me the light the dearer when it comes to calves. There'd be some serious farmer customers around there for hairy CHx type calves circa 280-330kg.

I'd know a few lads up that side from ag college alright and I bought a few bulls off a fella privately up there. There wasn't a bad calf in it in fairness. The heifers seemed a better trade than the bulls.

20silkcut · 08-08-2019 12:47AM

The old zetor found the Mc Hale bales tough going. King pin sheared.

patsy_mccabe · 08-08-2019 07:21AM

20silkcut wrote: »

The old zetor found the Mc Hale bales tough going. King pin sheared.

We call that part the half axle. Have a look at the surface where it sheared and you'll probably see where it was cracked tru all along. (The last bit to go will have a different brighter colour.) Fatique failure, no doubt. Happened here on our old David Brown. It could be cracking for years.

20silkcut · 08-08-2019 02:20PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

We call that part the half axle. Have a look at the surface where it sheared and you'll probably see where it was cracked tru all along. (The last bit to go will have a different brighter colour.) Fatique failure, no doubt. Happened here on our old David Brown. It could be cracking for years.

Meant to post in machinery photo thread.
Yes that’s exactly the way the surface was where it sheared just a crescent of silver at the edge the rest was cracked through for a long time it is clear.
Lucky it didn’t happen when I was flying down the road.

White Clover · 08-08-2019 02:34PM

20silkcut wrote: »

Meant to post in machinery photo thread.
Yes that’s exactly the way the surface was where it sheared just a crescent of silver at the edge the rest was cracked through for a long time it is clear.
Lucky it didn’t happen when I was flying down the road.

Did you have any weight in the back?

adne · 08-08-2019 11:16PM

Ludwig bull calf. Few hours old. Cow has bloody watery beestings. Milked it out of her and fed calf frozen beestings. Does not seem to be mastitus... Will it come to milk?

adne · 08-08-2019 11:18PM

Another pic. Fine calf ... not sure if cow will rear him now though

Parishlad · 09-08-2019 12:14AM

adne wrote: »

Ludwig bull calf. Few hours old. Cow has bloody watery beestings. Milked it out of her and fed calf frozen beestings. Does not seem to be mastitus... Will it come to milk?

Has she a lot of milk? I had a cow before with blood in her milk and it was just because she had so much that some of the vessels were popping. Can’t remember it being watery though!

adne · 09-08-2019 05:59AM

Parishlad wrote: »

Has she a lot of milk? I had a cow before with blood in her milk and it was just because she had so much that some of the vessels were popping. Can’t remember it being watery though!

Ya she a good milker. She a SIM x lm. When I say watery it was not thick like beestings

Grueller · 09-08-2019 06:20AM

adne wrote: »

Ya she a good milker. She a SIM x lm. When I say watery it was not thick like beestings

Anything else sucking her?

50HX · 09-08-2019 06:22AM

adne wrote: »

Ludwig bull calf. Few hours old. Cow has bloody watery beestings. Milked it out of her and fed calf frozen beestings. Does not seem to be mastitus... Will it come to milk?

Once the calf starts drinking he'll bring her into milk......I had it a few times and cleared quickly, just keep an eye on all quarters as calf may only be working off of 2/3 at the very start

20silkcut · 09-08-2019 06:43AM

White Clover wrote: »

Did you have any weight in the back?

No. I was loading a trailer and the tractor was pulling it.

Muckit · 09-08-2019 07:13AM

20silkcut wrote: »

No. I was loading a trailer and the tractor was pulling it.

I dont know how you are feeling about the poor tractor now, but l would see that situation as the best case scenario. Great it happened in the field the way it did. Could be any of us.

You'll have to stick up a pic of "the resurrection" when you get sorted. You'll have piece of mind after this. Lovely clean crystal btw.

adne · 09-08-2019 07:35AM

Grueller wrote: »

Anything else sucking her?

No had her on her own on bare ground last month

adne · 09-08-2019 07:35AM

50HX wrote: »

Once the calf starts drinking he'll bring her into milk......I had it a few times and cleared quickly, just keep an eye on all quarters as calf may only be working off of 2/3 at the very start

Ya it's bit milker this morn even

Lady Haywire · 09-08-2019 08:45PM

After a break from blues for a year, nice to see them back. JKS, OOT & BZC doing the biz.

ganmo · 17-08-2019 09:57PM

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Looking for some ideas for cattle thanking facilities layouts.
Doing an inside crush that can be dismantled, but just can't get it to work. I'll not be able to put in one of those circular races, but need some ideas.
Looking to have access to both sides of animal in the head gate.

Any dimensions? How many cattle?

Hard Knocks · 17-08-2019 10:11PM

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Looking for some ideas for cattle thanking facilities layouts.
Doing an inside crush that can be dismantled, but just can't get it to work. I'll not be able to put in one of those circular races, but need some ideas.
Looking to have access to both sides of animal in the head gate.

Would this work
2ft Wall to crush
3ft crush
2ft crush to handling pens?

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

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