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

john mayo 10 · 30-10-2019 12:51AM

Lovely quiet saler heifer.ðŸ€ªðŸ€ª

CHOPS01 · 02-11-2019 04:56PM

My beef nuts brings all the boys to the yard and they're like there better than yours. Damn right there better than yours !!
You have to see the funny side sometimes.

Base price · 09-11-2019 03:57PM

Did anyone go to the shorthorn sale in Roscommon today.

Lady Haywire · 09-11-2019 05:54PM

The TVR twins. Cow is fed up of them

forgottenhills · 09-11-2019 06:10PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

The TVR twins. Cow is fed up of them

Your suckler calves are very quiet if you can get this close in a field to take a photo.

Lady Haywire · 09-11-2019 06:39PM

forgottenhills wrote: »

Your suckler calves are very quiet if you can get this close in a field to take a photo.

Fairly quiet

https://twitter.com/LadyHaywire/status/1191746860962201600?s=19

whelan2 · 09-11-2019 07:03PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

The TVR twins. Cow is fed up of them

Did your other cow calve yet?

Lady Haywire · 09-11-2019 07:07PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Did your other cow calve yet?

No, she's due the 8th dec. Panting a bit today, definitely under pressure whatever is in her.

rushvalley · 09-11-2019 09:24PM

Few of this years calves

rushvalley · 09-11-2019 09:26PM

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Limestone Cowboy · 26-11-2019 10:27AM

All go here the last couple of days.

patsy_mccabe · 26-11-2019 12:52PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

All go here the last couple of days.

What you building? What kind of ties are they used in the shuttering? Years since we did concrete here.

ganmo · 26-11-2019 02:08PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

What you building? What kind of ties are they used in the shuttering? Years since we did concrete here.

My guess is a silage pit

Dozer1 · 26-11-2019 02:37PM

haven't seen shuttering pan's that small in years, the bigger ones take all the work out of it.
fair play

Limestone Cowboy · 26-11-2019 03:05PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

What you building? What kind of ties are they used in the shuttering? Years since we did concrete here.

Cattle crush. Just normal snap ties.

Limestone Cowboy · 26-11-2019 03:07PM

Dozer1 wrote: »

haven't seen shuttering pan's that small in years, the bigger ones take all the work out of it.
fair play

They are a bit labour intensive alright. A friend bought a heap of them for small money. Grand for doing smallish bits.

Justjens · 26-11-2019 10:18PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Cattle crush. Just normal snap ties.

For a job like that I cut oval white plastic conduit in a chopsaw to slide over the snap ties.....then you can reuse the ties

Limestone Cowboy · 27-11-2019 08:44AM

Justjens wrote: »

For a job like that I cut oval white plastic conduit in a chopsaw to slide over the snap ties.....then you can reuse the ties

We were going to do that but local place had no conduit when I went to get it. Didn't want to lose a day or 2 for the sake of it.

Rushy Fields · 06-12-2019 03:58PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

The TVR twins. Cow is fed up of them

Have twin TVR Cows out of a Charlois cow. Very quiet cows.... bit cheeky at times. Put ZAG in to one of them... as they say TVR has little milk. She threw him out there 5mths ago. Was plain enough initally but the calf has turned into a lovely bit of stuff now....
Must get a pic of him nd stick it up....

Lady Haywire · 08-12-2019 07:04PM

First calf out of our last bull we sold. Massive shoulders, expected a bull. Nope, female!:eek:
No more twins (thanks feck)

patsy_mccabe · 08-12-2019 07:12PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

First calf out of our last bull we sold. Massive shoulders, expected a bull. Nope, female!:eek:
No more twins (thanks feck)

Was that the cow you were expecting to have twins?

Buford T. Justice XIX · 08-12-2019 07:20PM

Mini Noo?

Lady Haywire · 12-12-2019 05:43PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Was that the cow you were expecting to have twins?

Assumed she would as she was so heavy but was thankfully incorrect!

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Mini Noo?

Mini Noo's calf, now named Noodle:D:D:D

patsy_mccabe · 12-12-2019 11:51PM

This is incredible;

Rogers Ranch Gelbvieh and Stockdogs. Unbelievably well trained!

https://twitter.com/HayMapApp/status/1205000046900580353

Lady Haywire · 15-12-2019 10:27PM

Image of her Daddy. First time Im sorry I sold a bull, have had much worse calves off AI, off better cows. :pac:

https://twitter.com/LadyHaywire/status/1206138705783726081

GiantPencil · 03-01-2020 05:13PM

Help settle an argument, had a cow due to calve on new years day and she was sick this morning at 7am which made the father assume she'd calve in the next hour or two. I checked on her at 10am and she was lying down chewing the cud with no intention of calving, no blister passed either. Ended up tying her up and pulling out the calf myself with ropes, had to pop the blister first to get at the calf. Everything went fine, heifer calf who was up suckling within the hour.

My question is should I have done it or should I have waited? How long does a typical 'sickness' last in cows before calving actually starts? Cow is PB Saler who's on her 6th calve.

tanko · 03-01-2020 05:35PM

GiantPencil wrote: »

Help settle an argument, had a cow due to calve on new years day and she was sick this morning at 7am which made the father assume she'd calve in the next hour or two. I checked on her at 10am and she was lying down chewing the cud with no intention of calving, no blister passed either. Ended up tying her up and pulling out the calf myself with ropes, had to pop the blister first to get at the calf. Everything went fine, heifer calf who was up suckling within the hour.

My question is should I have done it or should I have waited? How long does a typical 'sickness' last in cows before calving actually starts? Cow is PB Saler who's on her 6th calve.

You were dead right to get the calf out. I don't see why there would be an argument over it, once the calf and cow are ok everyone involved should be happy:).
Sometimes i see cows start to calve and then just lie down and almost forget to get on with it. Some cows can be lazy especially if they're a bit fat or the calf is big. If calving goes on too long it can be bad news for the calf.
Calving cows isn't an exact science, ive seen well over over a thousand calvings here and i'd still be debating when to intervene sometimes.

GiantPencil · 03-01-2020 07:37PM

tanko wrote: »

You were dead right to get the calf out. I don't see why there would be an argument over it, once the calf and cow are ok everyone involved should be happy:).
Sometimes i see cows start to calve and then just lie down and almost forget to get on with it. Some cows can be lazy especially if they're a bit fat or the calf is big. If calving goes on too long it can be bad news for the calf.
Calving cows isn't an exact science, ive seen well over over a thousand calvings here and i'd still be debating when to intervene sometimes.

Ya we're glad to have done it now alright. The cow is now kind of pushing as if she's ready to calve now which is puzzling us. We think it's like a delayed reaction to calving. Had a cow abort it's uterus before but that was an hour after calving so we don't think that's the issue.

tanko · 03-01-2020 07:42PM

GiantPencil wrote: »

Ya we're glad to have done it now alright. The cow is now kind of pushing as if she's ready to calve now which is puzzling us. We think it's like a delayed reaction to calving. Had a cow abort it's uterus before but that was an hour after calving so we don't think that's the issue.

There's hardly another one in there?

Lady Haywire · 03-01-2020 09:40PM

If she's really milky I'd have been thinking of lazy calving due to subclinical Milk fever but odd to first show it at her age.

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

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