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

patsy_mccabe · 05-10-2019 04:30PM

Well done. Great to see all the work and effort paying off for you.

Albert Johnson · 05-10-2019 05:12PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Trade seemed good for the lighter ones alright, didn't get to watch much of the heifers as everywhere I went, I seemed to be chatting!! (Nek, I'm looking at you:p:D)
I haven't had any in the show/sale in Carrigallen before so I am well chuffed with my rosette! I didn't think the champion should have been champion either, an opinion a lot of folk seemed to share. The other black calf which made 13-something was nicer.

The lighter calf is definitely in more demand, I saw a few heavy bulls (450kg +) sold lately at either side of €2 a kilo and the double decker that came to collect them was well loaded with similar stock. There was some great CHx and LMx type bulls on it from some other town and according to the buyer there only averaging €2.09 a kilo across the board.
I meant to go someplace today seeing as it rained nearly non stop but I didn't get around too it. I haven't been in Carrigallen in ages and I think Dowra had a show today as well. As regards the judging there is always a certain amount of politics involved although you'll never please everyone either. I often gave a hand sorting the stock for judging and sticking on the rosette's afterwards, the same few lads would be complaining all the time and you'd learn to ignore them after awhile.

tellmeabit · 05-10-2019 06:57PM

Congrats. What breeding is in him? Sorry see it in pic. What is mother

tellmeabit · 05-10-2019 06:58PM

Congrats. What breeding is in him?

Lady Haywire · 06-10-2019 08:21AM

tellmeabit wrote: »

Congrats. What breeding is in him?

He's off JKS the blue, mother is a red limousin off a simmental cow, hence his bad colour. Prob some CH & Friesian in there too :pac:

CloughCasey1 · 06-10-2019 08:47AM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

He's off JKS the blue, mother is a red limousin off a simmental cow, hence his bad colour. Prob some CH & Friesian in there too :pac:

The Freisian on him really showed alright!!:D

Lady Haywire · 06-10-2019 09:00AM

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

The Freisian on him really showed alright!!:D

:cool:
The grand-dam came in the back of our old Ford, Nana had gone in to town to buy a few groceries and while she was in the drapers my Grandfather went off to Maxwell's dairy farm & bought two calves

So would probably have been a mix of BrFr somewhere in the original cow, crossed with a Sim bull.
This would be roughly 30 years ago so I just remember her as a heifer.

Say my name · 06-10-2019 05:15PM

Just noticed this as the cows were coming in this evening.
I saw that some of the dung pats were gone through by rooks, etc. So I dug away some of the dung to reveal these little tunnels underneath the pat.
And if you don't know what they are already. They are tunnels going down beneath the pat made by dung beetle larvae.

(I wonder should be payments be made to farmers who have these buggers? Just like the corncrake guys..) :pac:

Say my name · 07-10-2019 12:46AM

Pics from a bit of a walk on the carlow side of the Blackstairs.

Above that row of Scots pine there's the remains of a dwelling house. There's also the remains of ditches fencing in that part of the mountain into various fields.
And people nowadays think they have a hard life!

Limestone Cowboy · 25-10-2019 05:05PM

A few heifers. Some are bought and some are my own.

patsy_mccabe · 25-10-2019 05:15PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

A few heifers. Some are bought and some are my own.

They have a great hairdresser.

Limestone Cowboy · 25-10-2019 06:10PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

They have a great hairdresser.

Was giving my own a mineral drench from natural stockcare every few weeks and it put some shine and fleece on them. Thought it was very good. The ones I bough had spent a few weeks on the winterage.

grassroot1 · 25-10-2019 06:23PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

A few heifers. Some are bought and some are my own.

Lovely stock you could show them to anyone. Will you bull them

Base price · 25-10-2019 07:22PM

Warning - following pic is of plain stock - my type

I let these out yesterday onto the last bit of grazing for this year. They have access to a dry bedded shed and I've started giving them a nip of two thirds oats/one third barley daily.

grassroot1 · 25-10-2019 07:30PM

Base price wrote: »

Warning - following pic is of plain stock - my type
I let these out yesterday onto the last bit of grazing for this year. They have access to a dry bedded shed and I've started giving them a nip of two thirds oats/one third barley daily.

I have seen the future and it's.........I have no words.......
best of luck they are black and white lovely

Mac Taylor · 25-10-2019 08:06PM

Base price wrote: »

Warning - following pic is of plain stock - my type
I let these out yesterday onto the last bit of grazing for this year. They have access to a dry bedded shed and I've started giving them a nip of two thirds oats/one third barley daily.

My eyes my eyes:D

For gods sake think of the children:D

Base price · 25-10-2019 08:12PM

grassroot1 wrote: »

I have seen the future and it's.........I have no words.......
best of luck they are black and white lovely

We used to buy in and rear between four and five hundred mostly FR, AAx and HEx sucks every Spring up till 2012 - some were sold to local farmers after weaning, some were sold the following year to farmers to fill their stocking rate for SFP and the rest were finished by ourselves as 24 month bull beef. It was a profitable enough business at the time albeit with a lot of time and work put into rearing that many calves. Every year since then we have reduced numbers due to increasing costs and decreasing returns. This year I reared 117 bull calves - FR, AAx, HEx and a few FRx. I sold all the AAx and HEx bar two whitehead bull calves that I kept and put onto a cow. The picture is the remaining calves of this years bunch - 26 FR and 3 FRx bull calves. I paid €40/h for three which were the most expensive.
Edit - I wonder what return, if any they give going forward.

Limestone Cowboy · 25-10-2019 10:02PM

grassroot1 wrote: »

Lovely stock you could show them to anyone. Will you bull them

I dunno what the plan is yet. They'll be there until next July anyway and I'll see how I'm fixed then.

Hard Knocks · 25-10-2019 11:24PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Was giving my own a mineral drench from natural stockcare every few weeks and it put some shine and fleece on them. Thought it was very good. The ones I bough had spent a few weeks on the winterage.

Which one are you using?
Stock boost or grow a drop?

Hard Knocks · 25-10-2019 11:28PM

Base price wrote: »

Warning - following pic is of plain stock - my type
I let these out yesterday onto the last bit of grazing for this year. They have access to a dry bedded shed and I've started giving them a nip of two thirds oats/one third barley daily.

Would they need vitamin and minerals too?

Limestone Cowboy · 25-10-2019 11:49PM

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Which one are you using?
Stock boost or grow a drop?

The one in the link. Stockline. https://agridirect.ie/product/stockline-with-copper-iodine

Base price · 26-10-2019 12:53AM

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Would they need vitamin and minerals too?

All the calves got two Small Trace boluses in May/June this year. I've ordered more Small Trace boluses from our supplier. Over the years I prefer using the smaller boluses and gun on dairy bred stock until the get beyond yearlings, iykwim

Limestone Cowboy · 28-10-2019 11:22AM

Calf I had to section on the 17th of June. Fecker got laraingítis a month ago but seems to be coming around again.

High bike · 28-10-2019 01:21PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Calf I had to section on the 17th of June. Fecker got laraingítis a month ago but seems to be coming around again.

great hairy calf, ch x sa ?

Limestone Cowboy · 28-10-2019 08:22PM

High bike wrote: »

great hairy calf, ch x sa ?

No out of a handy little lim cow.

john mayo 10 · 29-10-2019 01:52PM

3 springing heifer I bought last week. 1 Simmental, 1 limousine and 1 saler all due to easy calving limousine bull in jan/ feb

john mayo 10 · 29-10-2019 01:56PM

Limousine

john mayo 10 · 29-10-2019 02:50PM

Saler

Grueller · 29-10-2019 07:48PM

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Saler

Always knew those salers were mad h**rs. Even a photo of one can't be fenced in!!!!!!

patsy_mccabe · 29-10-2019 08:34PM

Grueller wrote: »

Always knew those salers were mad h**rs. Even a photo of one can't be fenced in!!!!!!

He was lying on his back when he took that photo.

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

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