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

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    #5702
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,377 ✭✭✭High bike


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    A PBR Foreman x Afly heifer I bought recently. Just gone 2 years. She's grand and quiet and 5 stars for milk. She's a bit leggy but we'll try and pick a bull to suit.:rolleyes:
    fine heifer plenty height and length,Hamlet or Gamin might suit her


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    #5703
    patsy_mccabe
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    High bike wrote: »
    fine heifer plenty height and length,Hamlet or Gamin might suit her

    I have both. She was running with a good bull on the farm but i don't know if she is in calf.

    '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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    #5704
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    A PBR Ampertaine Foreman x Fieldson Alfy heifer I bought recently. Just gone 2 years. She's grand and quiet and 5 stars for milk. She's a bit leggy but we'll try and pick a bull to suit.:rolleyes:

    Both herself and her mother are genotyped.

    Have a foreman X Regis (spelling?) That's the spit of her. Incalf to gamin calving around Paddy's Day hopefully.


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    #5705
    Dozer1
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    Was she out of Gortalea Patsy? He was a fine Bull, couldn't understand why they weren't scanned


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    #5706
    patsy_mccabe
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    Dozer1 wrote: »
    Was she out of Gortalea Patsy? He was a fine Bull, couldn't understand why they weren't scanned

    Yep, Gortalea. Don't know if he was the bull or not as they had 2 bulls. They should have had a proper ICBF pedigree catalogue aswell. Could have done that very easily. Unless you looked up each individual animal, you wouldn't know their breeding.

    '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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    #5707
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,118 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Anyone know anything about Bó Riabhach cattle. Was just reading about them, down to 30.


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    #5708
    Say my name
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    Stealth mode activated!!

    20190823-091430.jpg


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    #5709
    Reggie.
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Stealth mode activated!!

    20190823-091430.jpg

    Great idea till she kicks the bumper off


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    #5710
    Farmer Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Farmer Dan


    What would you do with these, mart or Factory?
    29 month old, AA. Not getting meal.
    What do ye think if them.?


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    #5711
    bogman_bass
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    Are they fat enough for the factory? I think so.
    Which would get the better price? Good question....


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    #5712
    High bike
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    Mart you can brim them home if ur not happy


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    #5713
    Farmer Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Farmer Dan


    Thanks. I know it's hard to judge from a photo.
    Would ye take a stab at approx. weights?
    Haven't been to a mart lately, how are these type of cattle going.?


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    #5714
    Grueller
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    Farmer Dan wrote: »
    Thanks. I know it's hard to judge from a photo.
    Would ye take a stab at approx. weights?
    Haven't been to a mart lately, how are these type of cattle going.?

    €2 per kilo is the best of it today in Carnew. Saw 430kg lim/fr bullocks at 14 months make €650 a head.


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    #5715
    sandydan
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    Grueller wrote: »
    €2 per kilo is the best of it today in Carnew. Saw 430kg lim/fr bullocks at 14 months make €650 a head.

    saw 540 kg limx make €500 plus weight in skib friday, bullocks. Frx were hit and miss .


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    #5716
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    Carnaross Mart last week for AAx bullocks 600 -700 Kgs. Things like movements will have a big impact on price.


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    #5717
    Farmer Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Farmer Dan


    Anto_Meath wrote: »
    Carnaross Mart last week for AAx bullocks 600 -700 Kgs. Things like movements will have a big impact on price.

    Thanks for that. Big variation in prices there.
    As you said movements & dob has a big effect


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    #5718
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    Haven't had the phone out with me for a while, took a few pics of this years calves off the stock bull.

    The bulls might lack a bit of height but he's putting good shape and good ends to them so far.
    2:1 ratio of heifers to bulls this yr though :mad:

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    #5719
    Say my name
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    2:1 ratio of heifers to bulls

    This might sound crazy but I was giving Osmonds mineral boluses to the stock for the last God knows how many years.
    But I found that if you gave two of their copper boluses to the bull 3 weeks before mating there was a tendency for bull calves. If you gave two of their high fertility boluses there was a tendency for heifer calves.
    Osmonds are gone out of business now but maybe there's something similar with other brands.
    Anyways keep that to yourself there..


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    #5720
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,118 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Does anyone here have a Lister pasture pump?
    Is it suitable for sheep?


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    #5721
    whelan2
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    Eldest lads heifer calved this morning


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    #5722
    annubis
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Eldest lads heifer calved this morning
    nice looking pair


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    #5723
    grassroot1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Eldest lads heifer calved this morning

    Another suckler farmer!!!! One more of us one less of them.
    Hope she is lucky for him


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    #5724
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,182 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Eldest lads heifer calved this morning
    It's nice to hear a good news story with all the doom and gloom about.

    Best of luck to them.


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    #5725
    CHOPS01
    Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭CHOPS01


    Any idea what these legions/scars are ?
    29 month old bullock here with 2 or 3 on each side of the belly. Saw them a few weeks back but thought they had cleared up however I noticed them back last evening. Are they ringworm ?


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    #5726
    Base price
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    CHOPS01 wrote: »
    Any idea what these legions/scars are ?
    29 month old bullock here with 2 or 3 on each side of the belly. Saw them a few weeks back but thought they had cleared up however I noticed them back last evening. Are they ringworm ?
    They don't look like ringworm to me. They look more like infected wounds especially the top one as it appears to be raised. I wonder is he scratching himself with the hind hoof or rubbing off something sharp.


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    #5727
    CHOPS01
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    Base price wrote: »
    They don't look like ringworm to me. They look more like infected wounds especially the top one as it appears to be raised. I wonder is he scratching himself with the hind hoof or rubbing off something sharp.

    When I noticed it first I actually wondered were they like some type of bite mark so am inclined to think it is infected sores.
    Probably totally unrelated but he has been somewhat lame since about a week after he arrived which I was putting down to a hurt from pucking. Def not a scald but had given him LA antibiotic just in case. He is a poor enough animal but has good appetite and despite never looking full is putting on flesh. One of those odd types !


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    #5728
    Lady Haywire
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    Is there any animal with a sharp horn in with him? Doesn't look like ringworm to me either.


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    #5729
    Base price
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    CHOPS01 wrote: »
    When I noticed it first I actually wondered were they like some type of bite mark so am inclined to think it is infected sores.
    Probably totally unrelated but he has been somewhat lame since about a week after he arrived which I was putting down to a hurt from pucking. Def not a scald but had given him LA antibiotic just in case. He is a poor enough animal but has good appetite and despite never looking full is putting on flesh. One of those odd types !
    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Is there any animal with a sharp horn in with him? Doesn't look like ringworm to me either.
    If he is a new introduction to the herd then he is probably bullied by other animal and as Kovu posted possibly by another bullock with a stub of a horn.


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    #5730
    CHOPS01
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    Base price wrote: »
    If he is a new introduction to the herd then he is probably bullied by other animal and as Kovu posted possibly by another bullock with a stub of a horn.

    Nothing horny around here !


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    #5731
    grassroot1
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    Tis hardly warble fly scars is it or do they only come out through the back?
    Read somewhere that imported cattle had re-introduced them
    maybe Greysides might enlighten us?


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