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Livestock/General Farming photo thread ***READ MOD NOTE IN POST #1***

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  • #1142
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Bodacious wrote: »
    5 heifer weanlings i kept over the winter... cant wait for a couple of dry weeks and i can let them off to grass out of the way:D
    Loving the barrier :D


  • #1143
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    I think I put up a pic of this heifer before last summer when she was sucking. She's out of our own lim bull and a Charolais cross shorthorn cow. This is the type of heifer that I thought would cross nicely with a blonde, not muscly behind but a good frame
    photo-32.jpg


  • #1144
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Bodacious wrote: »
    5 heifer weanlings i kept over the winter... cant wait for a couple of dry weeks and i can let them off to grass out of the way:D
    Loving the barrier :D

    Cheers Red

    Homemade jobby, few stakes, 15ft ESB pole at bottom, 16ft rafter ... All knocked together in 2 hours max with 6inch nails and the chainsaw!! really strong... I might leave it in it

    alternative was another ring feeder divided in 2 but would still have to secure them to wall with stakes, 16ft for 5 weanlings is acres of space but they get along famously anyway :)


  • #1145
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    That'll do Pig..........That'll do! :D


  • #1146
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Bizzum wrote: »
    That'll do Pig..........That'll do! :D

    Great photo Bizzum.
    Only problem is you need to buy me a laptop as I just got tea all over mine.


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  • #1147
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    That's a good one alright bizzum :D


  • #1148
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Karen112 wrote: »
    Only problem is you need to buy me a laptop as I just got tea all over mine.

    The cheque is in the post;)


  • #1149
    Finno59
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭Finno59


    Heres a beefy Montbeliarde cow with Mo x Fr heifer in background.
    http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/7982/20120310132317.jpg


  • #1150
    13spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    img3763gu.jpg
    Red white head twin bullocks arrived during the week. Named Eddie and Buzz, after the neighbour said ''By god they'll be hardy bucks'' :D

    img3734o.jpg
    They managed to build it fair straight the first day :)


  • #1151
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    13spanner wrote: »
    Red white head twin bullocks arrived during the week.

    Jaysus that's some cow. Would save on the castration fees!:p


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  • #1152
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    13spanner wrote: »
    img3763gu.jpg
    Red white head twin bullocks arrived during the week. Named Eddie and Buzz, after the neighbour said ''By god they'll be hardy bucks'' :D

    img3734o.jpg
    They managed to build it fair straight the first day :)
    Jaysus everyone is gone mad for the whiteheads down your side, the uncle got a fit and went off and bought one aswel last year :rolleyes:


  • #1153
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    This is a DEP heifer out of a RUZ cow. Calf is 3 weeks old.

    xpat3l.jpg

    LFqKXl.jpg

    bnaeMl.jpg

    4ubgHl.jpg


  • #1154
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    This is a DEP heifer out of a RUZ cow. Calf is 3 weeks old.

    xpat3l.jpg

    LFqKXl.jpg

    bnaeMl.jpg

    4ubgHl.jpg

    Great calf. Any trouble calving? And what's the cows docility like? RUZ has a poor docility rating on icbf being in the worst 1% accross breeds:eek:


  • #1155
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    LFqKXl.jpg

    That looks like a niffy calving/ handling pen you've got there as well! Is the feed barrier good at stopping calves coming out onto the silage? It looks to be at a good height. The height of mine are a bit of a disaster. Even the self-locking gates don't always close because they're set so low. I've been meaning to raise them up a bit but once the cattle are out it gets forgotten about!:rolleyes:. This year....


  • #1156
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    just do it wrote: »
    Great calf. Any trouble calving? And what's the cows docility like? RUZ has a poor docility rating on icbf being in the worst 1% accross breeds:eek:

    She is very quiet. I only have 12 cows so its easy to manage them. Nearly all are LM's and I can pet them all out in the field. I know this isnt always the case but when you have a small number maybe its easier to give them a bit of attention!

    No trouble getting the calf out. A leg was down though. Once I got it up I got her out ok. I needed the jack though. Was'nt very big when she was born but is developing well now


  • #1157
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    just do it wrote: »
    That looks like a niffy calving/ handling pen you've got there as well! Is the feed barrier good at stopping calves coming out onto the silage? It looks to be at a good height. The height of mine are a bit of a disaster. Even the self-locking gates don't always close because they're set so low. I've been meaning to raise them up a bit but once the cattle are out it gets forgotten about!:rolleyes:. This year....

    I built that calving pin this year. I converted a bay in a hay shed that wasn't been used. It took me a long time because I used to go at it when I would come home from work in the evenings. I made everything myself and I was happy with how it turned out but some things I could have done better.

    No hassle with calves coming out yet but they are usually not there very long. I just left this one here for so long because I have none ready for calving yet.

    Here are some pics of the other side of the pin

    TzESil.jpg

    laZi3l.jpg

    GQ1qJl.jpg


  • #1158
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Robin,
    Fine looking calf. What is the back breeding in the cow?


  • #1159
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Robin,
    Fine looking calf. What is the back breeding in the cow?

    She is by RUZ out of a CF52 cow. The CF52 cow was out of a CH that my father bought years ago. I think there was a touch of shorthorn in that cow.


  • #1160
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Ya, I've seen it myself, you need good breeding back along the cow to get the good BB weanlings. 1/2 bred cows can be very hit and miss.


  • #1161
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,466 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    RobinBanks wrote: »

    No trouble getting the calf out. A leg was down though. Once I got it up I got her out ok. I needed the jack though. Was'nt very big when she was born but is developing well now

    You would know that you were from the wesht! out in these parts thats exactly what we would call trouble at calving!


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  • #1162
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    You would know that you were from the wesht! out in these parts thats exactly what we would call trouble at calving!

    Maybe I should have phrased that differently :) If the leg wasn't down she would have calved no problem! DEP is 19% calving difficulty


  • #1163
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,466 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Maybe I should have phrased that differently :) If the leg wasn't down she would have calved no problem! DEP is 19% calving difficulty
    if it wasnt for the leg down would you have needed the jack?


  • #1164
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭naughto


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    You would know that you were from the wesht! out in these parts thats exactly what we would call trouble at calving!
    trouble calving is when u have to big men o nthe jack and the fecking rope on the claves snaps and the calves have way out .the sh1te his the fan then


  • #1165
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    naughto wrote: »
    trouble calving is when u have to big men o nthe jack and the fecking rope on the claves snaps and the calves have way out .the sh1te his the fan then

    It's only trouble once. It happened me three year ago. I haven't calved a cow since without having a second set of ropes in the shed.
    We only use the heavy blue/red ropes now. In fact I see the claving jack in the shed there with the two sets of ropes hanging off it!


  • #1166
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    naughto wrote: »
    trouble calving is when u have to big men o nthe jack and the fecking rope on the claves snaps and the calves have way out .the sh1te his the fan then

    Then it's time for the handful of straw and grab the legs!


  • #1167
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭naughto


    if its a big bb you in trouble it happend wounce luckly we got him out but man it was some job


  • #1168
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭naughto


    never realised u wher from mayo karen what part?iam in space


  • #1169
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,466 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    If I have to use the jack its a hard calving in my book. Guess I still have a dairy mans attitude to calving


  • #1170
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    if it wasnt for the leg down would you have needed the jack?

    I think she would have calved ok I used the jack as a lever I didn't need to use the racket. I suppose I was worried that I may have done damage or upset something with all the handling and I just wanted to get the calf out. the cow was ready for calving So I thought it better just to get her out. I don't have much experience with calving. That was the first time I had to get a leg up but I have been getting some good advice from a pedigree breeder not far away and I knew the basics.


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  • #1171
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    If I have to use the jack its a hard calving in my book. Guess I still have a dairy mans attitude to calving

    I agree with you bogman. Lads forget the jack exerts x10 the force when pulling. And as for if the ropes snap, maybe the calf should be coming out the side in the first place!


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