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

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


    Muckit wrote: »
    Don't worry Bizzum. You're still in the top three :D

    I'll say what Jim Royle would say...............Top three.......My Ar*e:D
    Seaba wrote: »
    I always love looking at other peoples stock so I went a bit mad with the iPhone and here are a few of ours.

    1st & 2nd pic is of the C sectioned heifer and black bull calf. Disappointed she had not a better bag of milk but she was just 2 yrs old last week - at least thats what the date of the card says! Lovely quiet heifer tho. Might bag next year.
    3rd pic - a DEZ bull calf off a shorthorn cow.
    4th pic - a 12 yr old cow LM & BB (AZL) calf. Pic does calf no justice. Cow is what she always was - a bit scrawny but brings a good calf and good bag of milk
    5th pic - daughter of 12yr old - 8 yr old LM with BB (AZL) calf. Quiet animals but they kept moving on me so thats as close as I could get! Serious calf. Great back/arse and a great shine off him.

    Lovely stock there! What did you put in that heifer in pic 1&2? She looks CH X Sim. Is the calf Lim?

    Edit to add: I see his code now. Bohey Corporal the AA. Are Ya sure?????????????????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭Seaba


    And a few more
    1st pic - got another pic of the AZL calf & cow
    2nd pic - going to give this one the bull. A bit too muscley for our liking but her mother would calf anthing and has a great bag of milk so I hope she has passed on those traits.
    3rd pic - FL22 heifer. Pic makes her look better! Light and leggy. Don't like FL22 - the bull book said give him to short, heavy muscled heifers which means he is tall and light. Should have done that.
    4th pic - FL22s mom. Really good/nice heifer, very quiet and decent bag of milk. Will be getting a proper bull next time!
    5th pic - is just a few cows due to calf. They are running late. Trying to get Dad to bull them earlier/get rid of some late calving ones but he always says "a calfs, a calf - they will come in sometime!" BB (DEP) 2nd calver on the left is very muscly, due to LM CVV in 2 weeks. LM heifer on the right had twins last year so she is running late also


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭Seaba


    Lovely stock there! What did you put in that heifer in pic 1&2? She looks CH X Sim. Is the calf Lim?[/QUOTE]
    She is 50% CH 22% SM. Gave her a black bull as it was her first calf (BOQ - Dovea) Reilig on here had a red calf out of the same bull a few days ago....and I was going to give the AI a bollocking!


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


    Karen its IE18-13021-5-0077

    I'm afraid he's burgers:o
    I see he was from Galway originally, is Ennis normally a mart that Galway sellers go to? He served a good time with his owner at least. Factory F311, wherever that is on 12th April.


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


    Karen112 wrote: »
    I'm afraid he's burgers:o
    I see he was from Galway originally, is Ennis normally a mart that Galway sellers go to? He served a good time with his owner at least. Factory F311, wherever that is on 12th April.

    There is normally a few that would head down to ennis from that side. Its a huge mart with a big catchment area so a good place to sell a bull. Thanks for that anyway karen!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    Top quality stock there Seaba - very impressive


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭Seaba


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    Top quality stock there Seaba - very impressive
    Thanks. We always have decent cattle - its just trying to make money out of the farm that is the hard part. Our stocking level could be much higher, we only have half our cows calved at the moment and even though we have decent land we have no grassland managment whatsoever.
    The land may be in my name but Dads still the 'boss', and even though we got on well, its so hard to get him to change!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Seaba wrote: »
    its so hard to get him to change!

    Sometimes you have to lead the way. We'll be as bad when we're their age :D I had an idea a few years ago to buy a quad sprayer (we don't own a quad) and I was almost f'd out of it for "wasting my money".

    That is, until I had it out the back yard spraying water. Only then did he go in to bring out the sister to tell her what "we bought".

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Suckler


    johngalway wrote: »
    Sometimes you have to lead the way. We'll be as bad when we're their age :D I had an idea a few years ago to buy a quad sprayer (we don't own a quad) and I was almost f'd out of it for "wasting my money".
    That is, until I had it out the back yard spraying water. Only then did he go in to bring out the sister to tell her what "we bought".
    :D

    That's familiar alright!

    My favourite is when I have a digger in and I'm stoning up a yard or a roadway around the place.

    It starts off with "HE'S there digging up the place again :mad:"
    Ends with "Well I managed to get my roadway in so now I've great access to...:pac:"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Got him with a good one yesterday, we had to move his triplets to my place, cos I have grass :D On the way out of his place I was talking about lads who'd said they'd mismothering problems with lots of trips and we were talking solutions.

    "Ah, there's a lot of sh1t talked on that internet" :rolleyes:

    Arrive back at my place, sort out the trips and shed, and he's looking up the land. "By Jesus you've a load of grass here"

    "Yeah", says I, "Must be all that internet farming I'm doing".

    There wasn't much talk after that :D :pac:

    Sure wasn't it from him I learned to pick my moments anyway :cool:

    Like the time we were "discussing" (arguing) about buying a quad. He was pouring over the Journal one day, "Come here and look at this yoke, a new type of gate for quads so's you don't need to get off to open it".

    .........."Would ya not want to get the quad first?"

    "Ahem", ruffles and closes paper, starts watching TV :D

    They can give it, but can they take it? :P


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    One of my half Cheviot ewes and her twins born yesterday (photo yesterday). I brought 14 half Cheviot lambs to the mart three years ago and was offered €39 per head, brought them home. Kept 4 including the one above and sold the other 10 for €59 three weeks later :D This is her second set of twins so I figure I done OK :D First year trying the lamb jackets, mostly as a fox deterrent but getting on farm this morning to see it partially white from hail I'm damn glad to have them.

    twins-1.jpg


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


    Just following on from last post. I saw one of these on a farm recently. It's a solared powered fox deterent flashing light. I wonder is it any good?

    http://www.connachtagri.ie/index.php?p=117


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Trips in their jackets. Out during the day and in at night

    trips.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Just following on from last post. I saw one of these on a farm recently. It's a solared powered fox deterent flashing light. I wonder is it any good?

    http://www.connachtagri.ie/index.php?p=117

    Waste of time, IMO.

    I shot at, and missed :o a lamb killer one night, around 10.30pm I think. She was back again in the same field at 2.20 am despite my mate being there with his Lightforce 170 shining around the place. His brother found the den up on the hill and we waited out until last light where she was nabbed coming out.

    I know lads here who have solar powered lights, like driveway lights, out in fields. Sure if two men out with 1 million power plus lamps and guns won't put a fox off, how do they expect a driveway light will :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,044 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    What are those lamb jackets made of JG?? - they look different from the ones I've used in the past!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    What are those lamb jackets made of JG?? - they look different from the ones I've used in the past!!

    They're some type of plastic, but I'll find out later, I don't have the packet with me right now.

    This is them:

    http://www.farmrite.co.uk/product/150244/Net-tex-Lamb-Jackets-25


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


    Seen a guy here at the sale today with a lamb a bare 12 hours old. Is that not illegal? brought the poor bugger into the office for an hour to warm him up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Seen a guy here at the sale today with a lamb a bare 12 hours old. Is that not illegal? brought the poor bugger into the office for an hour to warm him up.


    I've seen very young lambs with massive ear tags at the marts, wouldn't allow it on my lambs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭chickenfarmer


    Time to add my livestock :D

    New babies arrived


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    they look healthy batch weather colder the gas bill must be going up...icon12.gif


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


    Time to add my livestock :D

    New babies arrived


    I'd be a bad farmer there. I'd just spend the day cuddling them...:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭chickenfarmer


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I'd be a bad farmer there. I'd just spend the day cuddling them...:o
    Ah they don't stay that cute for long. :)


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


    Sure who needs a trailer these days :p

    Onlyinireland.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Sure who needs a trailer these days :p

    :D Christ on a bike, where was that taken???


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


    johngalway wrote: »
    :D Christ on a bike, where was that taken???

    It could only be Ireland anyway John, I spotted it on facebook earlier!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I'd be a bad farmer there. I'd just spend the day cuddling them...:o

    name change?


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


    name change?


    Yup. Thought the other was a bit boring:rolleyes:


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


    name change?

    I was wondering the same!!


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


    I was wondering the same!!

    Haha, sorry to confuse ye! I was bored in work the other day so decided to do it on a whim.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Haha, sorry to confuse ye! I was bored in work the other day so decided to do it on a whim.

    Got it now!! bit slow today

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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