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

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I was thinking 1350 myself so ya. Best of luck with her.
A bit of meal would go a long way with her. If she's Feb 2018 and that milky, she might be under a bit of pressure.

Personally. The calf is a bit plain for my liking. He doesn't look too hungry so don't see where the improvement will come from myslef

funkey_monkey wrote: »

How often did you need to clean out the straw lie back?

I don't at all. I let it build up. Creates a great bed under them. Mositure seeps away to the passage and we clean the passage twice a week. Passage is lower than the feeding apron and the lie back. 9x3 timber with gap under it to let piss into passage and let the straw build up over the winter. Bought a straw blower. Best H&S purchase ever. id avoid feeding 2nd cut or silage that wasn't wilted well as it makes an awful mess.

Two heifer chosen to keep this winter for replacement. Pics show our different land types too, top is red clay, lower is wet dauby type.

This lady is by our own bred bull (KZH) which got reserve champ in Carrick. Dam is Crossmolina Jupiter/Navarin so I have a slight reservation about milk in this heifer but we'll try her anyway.


This roan is by a rag of a yoke (my affectionate term for him :pac:) off THZ, with ERE & Tarot backbreeding, which bulled too many cows here last summer after he was sent back to us as subfertile. Honestly not complaining, I take all my cursing back, his calves are shaping up lovely.

This lad is off to the mart today. He lost a tag the last trip. April of last year. Mother is spx and Off stock bull.

Interesting to see how he goes with colouring.

Creep feeding weanlings

kollegeknight wrote: »

Nice job- do you have a creep gate on it?

Tall electric fence posts are handier

2 for the cull list, the lim cow is 1 of the best breeding cows I have even though she's nothing special to look it. She kept on prolapseing after calving this year and I had to get her stitched. The mousey calf is a lim out off a bb X ba springer that I had to section and her pelvis was tiny so she's for culling aswell. He's a cracker if he was any other colour.

893bet wrote: »

Pic?

Pic of pen

Spotted this spoil heap beside a dung pat.
Pulled back the grass to reveal a miniture rabbit burrow going down where the dung pat used to be.

Dung beetle tunnel.

DukeCaboom wrote: »

Any of the Clare lads know if there's a weanlings show n sale in ennis the end of Aug start of Sept... I can't see it on there fb page and I need to plan my bus man's holiday. Thanks

Got a text from them today to say it's on the 25th of August.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

May BZC bull. Quite like him, his full sister is somewhere up the thread recently, the one I put incalf to the blond- Glacon.
Only issue is he's supposed to be the other side of the wire :pac:

Ah the poor fella couldn’t wait
That’ll be a nice cross

Very nice. Fiston seems to bring lots of twins.

charolais0153 wrote: »

Nothing to do with the bull, fiston just used on a lot of cows

From what I’ve seen here and on local farms i think there’s more to it than that.

I’ve had more twins of Fiston here than any other bull and I’ve used the other bulls more often that’s enough evidence for me.