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

tellmeabit · 28-03-2021 07:21AM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

SFL! Those straws go a good price now. Hope for a heifer from that one!! Best of luck with them anyway, the bit of muscle is always tempting alright

A wee heifer alright.

patsy_mccabe · 30-03-2021 09:28AM

High bike · 01-04-2021 06:58PM

Someone was asking about Moondarrig Knell,that's a June born heifer out of a first time calver.Nice heifer but a bit flighty might move her on I think

Base price · 01-04-2021 07:03PM

High bike wrote: »

Someone was asking about Moondarrig Knell,that's a June born heifer out of a first time calver.Nice heifer but a bit flighty might move her on I think

She has length which imo is the most difficult conformation point to breed into stock. Length = carcass weight. Lovely grass under her.

High bike · 01-04-2021 07:45PM

Base price wrote: »

She has length which imo is the most difficult conformation point to breed into stock. Length = carcass weight. Lovely grass under her.

yeah she’s a nice type just like her mother who’s an Aubrac x Sim .Pity the knells seem to be a bit highly strung and his milk figures seem to be gone down too.That was reseeded 3 yrs ago after Kale happy enough with it

pure breed · 02-04-2021 12:27PM

High bike wrote:

yeah sheâ€™s a nice type just like her mother whoâ€™s an Aubrac x Sim .Pity the knells seem to be a bit highly strung and his milk figures seem to be gone down too.That was reseeded 3 yrs ago after Kale happy enough with it

We are using a Knell stock bull on Heifers and small Cows recently and his a very docile bull probably the quietest we've ever had. First calves came Autumn just gone and they seem docile as well for what it's worth.

RD10 · 02-04-2021 05:16PM

Have a yearling heifer by knell here, off a shx cow. Her offspring would usually be a little bit on the flighty side but this heifer a nice quiet heifer

patsy_mccabe · 03-04-2021 08:29PM

Great to have a bit of help at last. Couldn't figure out how the electric fence kept getting opened in the yard. She does this the whole time, even when it's powered. Managed to catch her on camera today. She's by ZAG, by the way.

patsy_mccabe · 05-04-2021 08:01PM

Watch this video from 10:45;

High bike · 05-04-2021 09:51PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Great to have a bit of help at last. Couldn't figure out how the electric fence kept getting opened in the yard. She does this the whole time, even when it's powered. Managed to catch her on camera today. She's by ZAG, by the way.

I bet if u put a Limerick flag around the gap handle she wont touch it Patsy:D

patsy_mccabe · 06-04-2021 11:40AM

Lodge Hamlet LM4058 bull calf

High bike · 06-04-2021 05:34PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Lodge Hamlet LM4058 bull calf

Lovely calf,typical Hamlet wit the big arse on him

Lady Haywire · 06-04-2021 06:37PM

Just like the last Loyal bull we had, this one hit a thrive around 10 months. He's about 11ish months & a bit now.
He's bulled a cow but debatable if fertile at that age though it didn't stop him getting the 'jump'!

(Just to add, we do not own the rushes across the river

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06-04-2021 06:45PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Just like the last Loyal bull we had, this one hit a thrive around 10 months. He's about 11ish months & a bit now.
He's bulled a cow but debatable if fertile at that age though it didn't stop him getting the 'jump'!

(Just to add, we do not own the rushes across the river )

Cracking bull

Lady Haywire · 06-04-2021 06:55PM

DukeCaboom wrote: »

Cracking bull

Thought he did very well for a heifers calf, she's just due now to CWI, fingers crossed for a heifer.

charolais0153 · 06-04-2021 09:04PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Thought he did very well for a heifers calf, she's just due now to CWI, fingers crossed for a heifer.

A decent heifer Wil have a calf as good as any cow

DBK1 · 06-04-2021 09:18PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Lodge Hamlet LM4058 bull calf

Super looking calf Patsy. I killed a lodge hamlet heifer during the winter at 24 months old and she killed out at just 62% of her live weight in the yard.

I was delighted the way she turned out considering last August I thought I was going to have to put her down. A heifer behind her in the crush put her head in under her, lifted her in the air and when she dropped her down her back leg had gone out over the top bar of the crush. She was very lame after it, with blood seeping out through her flesh. The vet was anxious as to whether she’d recover or not and prepared me for the worst.

I took her away from the stock she was with and put her in with the whitehead suck calves. Slowly she started to recover. It got to the stage where she was only very slightly lame but if you were moving them to fresh grass and she ran she’d be lame again for a few days. Left her on peat all winter and was delighted to eventually get a cheque for her and not be paying to have her taken away. She killed out 385kgs and came to €1,611

patsy_mccabe · 06-04-2021 09:22PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Just like the last Loyal bull we had, this one hit a thrive around 10 months. He's about 11ish months & a bit now.
He's bulled a cow but debatable if fertile at that age though it didn't stop him getting the 'jump'!

(Just to add, we do not own the rushes across the river )

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Fine bull. Would you consider that bull butty? Loyal's figures are very poor for skeletal value with ICBF. Only 18 animals scored but still.
I'm about to order straws from Bova AI and was thinking of getting a few Loyal.

Lady Haywire · 06-04-2021 09:47PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

A decent heifer Wil have a calf as good as any cow

IMO, not really, you'd be using an easier calving bull so wouldn't have the same traits as something you'd put on a cow, not the full potential of her milk yet, and still growing herself so not putting all into the calf.

The potential can be there in the calf but they mightn't bring the calf to achieve it. I'd always expect a heifers calf to achieve less than comrades to cows.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Fine bull. Would you consider that bull butty? Loyal's figures are very poor for skeletal value with ICBF. Only 18 animals scored but still.
I'm about to order straws from Bova AI and was thinking of getting a few Loyal.

Aye, a slight bit, but the mother is tall, as is the grand-dam so I'd be hoping he'll stretch upwards now before he's sold. He's been lengthening the last while & putting up the neck & arse, so I'm hopeful the upwards growth might have been put on the back burner. He was genuinely born end of last April so he has time to grow yet.

charolais0153 · 06-04-2021 09:51PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

IMO, not really, you'd be using an easier calving bull so wouldn't have the same traits as something you'd put on a cow, not the full potential of her milk yet, and still growing herself so not putting all into the calf.

The potential can be there in the calf but they mightn't bring the calf to achieve it. I'd always expect a heifers calf to achieve less than comrades to cows.
w yet.

You aren't going putting a hardcalving bull on a purebred cow so it's not all that either, a heifer has better milk but maybe less of it. Plenty of cows don't put it all into the calf either

Lady Haywire · 06-04-2021 09:52PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

You aren't going putting a hardcalving bull on a purebred cow so it's not all that either, a heifer has better milk but maybe less of it. Plenty of cows don't put it all into the calf either

Just my opinion, each to their own.

patsy_mccabe · 06-04-2021 09:58PM

At pedigree bull sales, sellers will announce if a bull is a heifers calf. I always understood this to imply that mother (being a first calver) , would have been that bit short of milk so calf not showing it's true potential. Calf also born without problems, so overall a good thing.

Lady Haywire · 06-04-2021 10:10PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

At pedigree bull sales, sellers will announce if a bull is a heifers calf. I always understood this to imply that mother (being a first calver) , would have been that bit short of milk so calf not showing it's true potential. Calf also born without problems, so overall a good thing.

I'd always say if a calf is off a heifer in a private sale too, esp if it's a nice one!

Reckon we'll use Loyal as our heifers bull for the next while, not too many seem to be using him so always nice to have a choice different from ZAG :pac: I'll prob let him bull that heifer in pic too, he's only 4.9% CD on paper for heifers so better the devil you know.

Say my name · 23-04-2021 07:46PM

Not the clearest photo but ye get the idea.

This is a shale field laneway come machinery storage area. There was an old slurry tanker parked nearest the camera and a not so young either tipping trailer parked behind that.
For those not versed on greenage there's a noticeable green and thick spot where the tanker was and another where the trailer was. Now you'd think it should be the opposite with it been shaded from the Sun.
The reason. Begins with F and ends with T.

Anto_Meath · 24-04-2021 08:06PM

A cow a bought 2 years ago with a five hour old Zag bull.. think she would fit in on a dairy farm. She had a lovely blue black heifer last year, however the heifer seems to fatty for breeding. All going well might try Fifty Cent on her this summer.

tanko · 24-04-2021 08:46PM

If she was mine i'd put Curaheen Earp on her if going for a Sim.

Anto_Meath · 24-04-2021 09:34PM

Thanks Tanko, is he a better bull. Have had a few fifty cents and thankfully very easy calved...

tanko · 24-04-2021 09:53PM

I think he is and would suit that cow better. Fifty cent is a grand bull on a small well muscled cow but they can be plain on the wrong type of cow.

Limestone Cowboy · 01-05-2021 08:46PM

Today's fun.

patsy_mccabe · 14-05-2021 08:45PM

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

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