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

High bike · 27-04-2020 11:18AM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

13 month old Loyal bull I sold today. Got another bull calf by Loyal out of a ZXT heifer this year & looks like he has the makings of a nice bull too.

fine animal for his age, what weight his he??

adne · 27-04-2020 11:43AM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

13 month old Loyal bull I sold today. Got another bull calf by Loyal out of a ZXT heifer this year & looks like he has the makings of a nice bull too.

What's loyal heifers like. Are they suitable for breeding

Lady Haywire · 27-04-2020 12:21PM

I'd say he was around 600kg. Can't lift him like the little heifer so he's definitely more than 20kg

He's a brother of that wee one we had born- same cow anyway.
Not had any Loyal heifers so can't say as yet.

Gillespy · 27-04-2020 05:28PM

PJ is a twitter sensation! Your pictures of him playing dead are hilarious.

Lady Haywire · 27-04-2020 05:51PM

Gillespy wrote: »

PJ is a twitter sensation! Your pictures of him playing dead are hilarious.

I actually felt I had to warn the new buyer about that.....he's scared the bejaysus out of me on so many occasions. Especially the day he fell asleep halfway into the hedge :pac:

High bike · 28-04-2020 08:43PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

13 month old Loyal bull I sold today. Got another bull calf by Loyal out of a ZXT heifer this year & looks like he has the makings of a nice bull too.

i see bova have Loyal straws,how much are they??

Lady Haywire · 28-04-2020 09:24PM

High bike wrote: »

i see bova have Loyal straws,how much are they??

Can't tell you, our AI man does call out, AI & straw for 30. I'm sure somebody knows!

tanko · 28-04-2020 09:27PM

Loyal straws are €10 each or 25 straws for €200.

Gamin (ZGM) is the same.

Lady Haywire · 29-04-2020 09:59AM

The titchy little heifer is doing mighty! Here's her with a 4 week old Cloughbrack Navarone boy.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 29-04-2020 12:03PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

The titchy little heifer is doing mighty! Here's her with a 4 week old Cloughbrack Navarone boy.

Moooooommmm! What's that? It's like a calf....only smaller:p

Lady Haywire · 29-04-2020 12:18PM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Moooooommmm! What's that? It's like a calf....only smaller:p

:D Ruby can't help being petite!

Limestone Cowboy · 29-04-2020 05:33PM

At this for the last few days. Starting to take shape now.

patsy_mccabe · 29-04-2020 06:21PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

At this for the last few days. Starting to take shape now.

Another calving shed? Is that the machine you bought last year....looking well?

High bike · 29-04-2020 06:36PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

:D Ruby can't help being petite!

You won’t put her under ur arm in another week:D

High bike · 29-04-2020 06:37PM

tanko wrote: »

Loyal straws are €10 each or 25 straws for €200.

Gamin (ZGM) is the same.

both bulls are great value at that

tanko · 29-04-2020 07:02PM

High bike wrote: »

both bulls are great value at that

They are indeed.
There's a pedigree royalty of €40 for Loyal and €37 for Gamin.

Limestone Cowboy · 29-04-2020 07:13PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Another calving shed? Is that the machine you bought last year....looking well?

Ya that's it alright. No, it's a cattle crush. A friend is after buying a round of shuttering and we got a few jobs. I have the machinery and he has the pans and all the tools for the concrete work. Handy enough if we get a few jobs around locally.

Limestone Cowboy · 01-05-2020 06:58PM

Nearly there now, old pillars taking a bit from it but it's what we were given.

Limestone Cowboy · 01-05-2020 08:50PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Nearly there now, old pillars taking a bit from it but it's what we were given.

Pic.

Hard Knocks · 02-05-2020 06:52PM

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Can anyone here give me a rough price for the comfort slat mats?

When the class calf here we tend to keep them isolated with the calf for about 1 week but despite cleaning and bedding daily we have have trouble with dirty teats and calls not sticking that quarter as a result. So every evening we'd have to clean and sometimes drain them.

Going to put them all back onto slats now with calves in a straw bed with access to cows

Was thinking that some of the cow mats might help reduce the dirty teats. We all work off farm too, so reducing workload would be beneficial.

Think it’s about €1000 per 12ft 6 x 15ft 9 pen

FeelTheBern · 02-05-2020 08:47PM

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Can anyone here give me a rough price for the comfort slat mats?

When the class calf here we tend to keep them isolated with the calf for about 1 week but despite cleaning and bedding daily we have have trouble with dirty teats and calls not sticking that quarter as a result. So every evening we'd have to clean and sometimes drain them.

Going to put them all back onto slats now with calves in a straw bed with access to cows

Was thinking that some of the cow mats might help reduce the dirty teats. We all work off farm too, so reducing workload would be beneficial.

Think paid €1600 per pen for 16’6 stat with a front hob about 3 years ago. To be honest I’m not sure that the cows teats any cleaner on them that the normal slats. They are definitely easier on the feet though. Have cows with bad feet on them over the winter and they wouldn’t last two days on normal slats. I just put in two pens and put dodgy feet on those.

tanko · 02-05-2020 09:02PM

Did you consider any other brand of mats like easy fix?

charolais0153 · 02-05-2020 11:11PM

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Jaysus - thats a lot more expensive than I was expecting.

Moved the calves today into a straw bedded pen and put the cows on slats. Calves have already sussed to go down for a suck and then come back up to lie on the straw. We'll just have to keep an eye on the teats and clean them if any look dirty.
Not sure why it has been a problem this year - it usually isn't. But I think part of the problem is that we are at home now more due to the restrictions and are finding work where it would have been solved naturally when we were at work.

I've noticed us having much problem with feet - sometimes the dirt would look awful, but when they start shedding the winter hair they clean up well. I'd be looking for them primarily for cleanliess perspective and maybe for rearing some cattle on for slaughter as I've read that they are good in that regards. However, that price would be totally prohibitive for our setup.

Why are the cows still in?
We put in riverstick mats a few years ago, about 800 i think +vat per 10'6 bay,

Lady Haywire · 05-05-2020 01:56PM

28 month old ZXT pb with a Loyal bull.
Very impressed with the heifer, calved in approx five mins, took to calf straight away, milky, trusting of everyone & not overly protective.
I'd like to clone her please

Her comrade heifer who is a Salers jumped out of the crush yesterday from a standing start, leaving her calf behind. I wouldn't mind but she was only there so I could tag the calf for scheme, wasn't doing anything to the mother!!Can hang out of her neck, scratch her, do anything to her in the field, just don't corner her.

tanko · 05-05-2020 04:55PM

Lovely unit there. What do you think of Loyal now, will you use him much this year?

Lady Haywire · 05-05-2020 05:05PM

tanko wrote: »

Lovely unit there. What do you think of Loyal now, will you use him much this year?

I dunno, while good on heifers, think there's better bulls for cows out there, they just seem to be lacking that bit of panache. Would like to see some heifers off him and see what he's like for milk in those as well. Haven't actually looked at any limos yet for the year ahead, must do that some evening. I'd like a few new straws to try.

patsy_mccabe · 06-05-2020 08:06PM

Doing a bit of this today. A tree that fell a few years back. In a very wet place so took advantage of the dry weather to go in and cut it. I got stuck once and had to be pulled out .... drove about 6 feet in too far. Have to take it out in a transport box, will take a few trips. Still some size of a tree. Have to go right around with the 16" to cut it.

High bike · 06-05-2020 08:29PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Doing a bit of this today. A tree that fell a few years back. In a very wet place so took advantage of the dry weather to go in and cut it. I got stuck once and had to be pulled out .... drove about 6 feet in too far. Have to take it out in a transport box, will take a few trips. Still some size of a tree. Have to go right around with the 16" to cut it.

do u want a loan of an axe Patsy:D

patsy_mccabe · 06-05-2020 08:35PM

High bike wrote: »

do u want a loan of an axe Patsy:D

Thanks, but logsplitter is flying through it.

It's warming me now anyway, whatever about during the winter.

Limestone Cowboy · 06-05-2020 09:31PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Nearly there now, old pillars taking a bit from it but it's what we were given.

Pic might attach now.

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

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