Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Farming Chit Chat

1…142143145147148…331

Comments

  • #4322
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    reilig wrote: »
    In my experience, inconsistancy, growth rate and structurally unsound calves will have as much or more to do with the dam as with the sire. Too many people will put a BB bull on a cow which doesn't breed well with a CH or a LIM and expect her to have a super calf just because the calf is off a bb. It doesn't work that way. Dam breeding is very important to ensure quality BB calves.

    As a dam is responsible for 50% off the progenys genes of course there is a significiant dam effect. But typically the commercial cow is a xbred, and the resultant progeny are 50% BB and less of other breeding. This and anecdotal experience from using BB leads me to conclude that the BB breed is where the problems are coming from typically.
    I do think certain lines within the breed are worse than others, but the last time I used a good bit of BB I was left with several gimps off predominantly good cows. From memory one of the bulls I used was GUY.
    Again, as stated I am open to use BB again and looking at some of the Blues on the photo thread it's hard to not be impressed.


  • #4323
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    leg wax wrote: »
    i had 1 heifer that went to the factory, as she was very bad on the legs,no other big problems other than tender on the feet.your heifer sounds like my edj cow she puts her stamp on the calf what ever the breed ,she had a lim heifer by rocky last year and its like looking at a red copy of her,shes got a part bull under her now and hes blocky as well.

    Ill post a picture when i get a chance,,.. might send her up to ya! Im the last year at least threatening to flog her and put a better one in it

    She unreal quiet though a suckler calf, that never saw the inside of a shed and you can walk up to her in the field


  • #4324
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    dont think i will be spraying weeds today:rolleyes:


  • #4325
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    I took the risk of spraying of a padock for reseeding last night. Twas a bad move in hindsight. rained 2 1/2 houers later :mad:

    thought I'd get away with it. tore a hole in a pipe on the neighbours sprayer just to add insult to injury. or and lost a nozzle too. Should have watched telly instead


  • #4326
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan1 wrote: »
    dont think i will be spraying weeds today:rolleyes:

    No it's real jumper weather :p


  • Advertisement
  • #4327
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    I took the risk of spraying of a padock for reseeding last night. Twas a bad move in hindsight. rained 2 1/2 houers later :mad:

    that will be fine, Glyphosate will be dry in minutes. many is the time I left a field after spraying and it started raining and with no consequences to chemical,


  • #4328
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    tore a hole in a pipe on the neighbours sprayer just to add insult to injury. or and lost a nozzle too.

    How did you manage to do that, hit the ditch turning at the headland? I often find there's more Drama in farming than there is on the telly! :o


  • #4329
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707




  • #4330
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    Hahahahaha :D:D:D The bit at 14s where the 'intruder' is seen for the first time is priceless!


  • #4331
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    I particularly like the bit at 1:01 :D


  • Advertisement
  • #4332
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    "We're closed, let's go"

    Love to see them lads work moving stock in a mart, c'mon bessie, me chips are gettin cauld :cool:


  • #4333
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Snowman is that the hardware place beside the auburn lodge?

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



  • #4334
    bt12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭bt12


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Snowman is that the hardware place beside the auburn lodge?
    ya


  • #4335
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    she was a very quiet cow... could have been alot worse


  • #4336
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    That was one quiet cow alright......priceless..:)


  • #4337
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Great vid.
    She certainly didn't live up to the "Bull in a china shop" phrase!


  • #4338
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Anyone got an idea of how many HP required to work a Claas Rotocut chopper baler? What would the min HP be for a non chopper Claas?


  • #4339
    Pat the lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Pat the lad


    http://www.claas.com/cl-pw/en/press/mitteilungen/2005/start,cid=207078,bpSite=51524.html"In keeping with its suitability for smaller farmers and contractors, the ROLLANT 254RC has a power requirement of just 90hp, which is 10% less than what is needed for the ROLLANT 255"


  • #4340
    rocketjk
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 30 ✭rocketjk


    We had a claas 46 standard pickup and no chopper we drove it with 75hp. Now we have a claas 255RC and drive it with 120hp. To be honest i wouldnt like to drive it with any less as when your chopping with a full set of knives and climbing a hill with chamber nearly full youd need every bit to make a good bale


  • #4341
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    reilig wrote: »
    Anyone got an idea of how many HP required to work a Claas Rotocut chopper baler? What would the min HP be for a non chopper Claas?

    I see a nice one in Tipp ;)


  • Advertisement
  • #4342
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    I see a nice one in Tipp ;)

    Can't justify buy one at the minute. Just know someone who is in the process of buying and they were wondering if their tractor would be powerful enough for it.


  • #4343
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Muckit wrote: »
    How did you manage to do that, hit the ditch turning at the headland? I often find there's more Drama in farming than there is on the telly! :o

    comeing trough a tight gateway made tighter by a bar i drove into the grown to stop cows pushing the gate open. cought the hose on the corner of the gate :mad:


  • #4344
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    not long to go now till the weekend is here!!!


  • #4345
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    bob charles wrote: »
    not long to go now till the weekend is here!!!
    Im going lamping foxes tonight and after that a mate is having a house party , couple of beers and plenty of jameson :D:D:D:D


  • #4346
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bought a british friesian bull today from the barrowvale herd in laois... let him with cows this evening and he's working away;)


  • #4347
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    scanned 27 cows and 15heifers this evening all between 30-45 days pregnant

    5cows empty:eek: and 1heifer
    these cows were showing no feckin sign of heats and are covered in tail paint


  • #4348
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    do you have heat time... absolutely fantastic for picking up silent heats...


  • #4349
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    whelan1 wrote: »
    do you have heat time... absolutely fantastic for picking up silent heats...


    no but priced the new horizon one the other day-it does heifers as well if in range-800 a month over 2years


  • #4350
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    i find it brilliant as i cant be everywhere:D for example my son brought in cows the other evening as we are really busy doing new farm roadways , told me there was a cow jumping that ended in 4:confused: heattime picked her out no guess work.. love it


  • Advertisement
  • #4351
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i find it brilliant as i cant be everywhere:D for example my son brought in cows the other evening as we are really busy doing new farm roadways , told me there was a cow jumping that ended in 4:confused: heattime picked her out no guess work.. love it


    whats your calving interval-honest please mine was 417 this year


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement