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1chippy · 27-08-2012 08:14PM

sim x lim heifers in my mind are one of the best cows out there. the only thing is to not get the big leggy types. its true though that they can end up with big awkward sort of spins that were hard for newborns to suck. someone mentioned here before about being prone to mastitis too, so i had a look around our own and found that a fair share of them had a blind quater.

just do it · 27-08-2012 08:18PM

Oh what a beautiful sight,
Unfortunately it means my land's in ....... mud :rolleyes:

vanderbadger · 27-08-2012 08:47PM

just do it wrote: »

Oh what a beautiful sight,
Unfortunately it means my land's in ....... mud :rolleyes:

is that shed on the road into quilty?

just do it · 27-08-2012 09:13PM

vanderbadger wrote: »

is that shed on the road into quilty?

Yeah that's the one

redzerologhlen · 27-08-2012 10:30PM

Sure I figured that out months ago

Bigbird1 · 27-08-2012 10:53PM

1chippy wrote: »

sim x lim heifers in my mind are one of the best cows out there. the only thing is to not get the big leggy types. its true though that they can end up with big awkward sort of spins that were hard for newborns to suck. someone mentioned here before about being prone to mastitis too, so i had a look around our own and found that a fair share of them had a blind quater.

Is it that sim x lm are prove to mastitis or those with bottle teats?

Bizzum · 28-08-2012 12:51AM

Bigbird1 wrote: »

Is it that sim x lm are prove to mastitis or those with bottle teats?

I've heard of a link with the bottle teats.

vanderbadger · 28-08-2012 06:45AM

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Sure I figured that out months ago

only passed the other evening so the penny dropped

just do it · 28-08-2012 08:32AM

vanderbadger wrote: »

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Sure I figured that out months ago

only passed the other evening so the penny dropped

If you'd passed by 4 years ago you wouldn't even have been able to see in the gap it was so overgrown! I got a lot of clearing done before joining REPS.

redzerologhlen · 28-08-2012 08:45AM

just do it wrote: »

If you'd passed by 4 years ago you wouldn't even have been able to see in the gap it was so overgrown! I got a lot of clearing done before joining REPS.

At the back of the shed on the quilty side is that yours too, I remember a few lovely blue weanlings in over the wall there a few years back. Must be tuff there this summer, its very low lying!!

pakalasa · 28-08-2012 12:26PM

redzerologhlen wrote: »

....Im not looking forward to calving a few of them to be honest.....

I used a head halter this year for the first time on a heifer that went mad at calving. I found it great. I could tie her up in a shed and work around her then with no worries. I would slide a bucket of meal in under the gate and when she was eating it, I would attach a strap to the halter. Simple but it worked a treat. No putting my life at risk.

redzerologhlen · 28-08-2012 12:40PM

pakalasa wrote: »

I used a head halter this year for the first time on a heifer that went mad at calving. I found it great. I could tie her up in a shed and work around her then with no worries. I would slide a bucket of meal in under the gate and when she was eating it, I would attach a strap to the halter. Simple but it worked a treat. No putting my life at risk.

It might be an idea, there is one in particular and I should have know better than to keep her because her mother is a c*nt. I must do a right pen for calving in the shed before next spring with a headgate. Seen a very well designed pen for calving at a farm walk a couple of weeks ago where the cow can be forced out the headgate without going into the pen with her.

just do it · 28-08-2012 01:04PM

redzerologhlen wrote: »

just do it wrote: »

If you'd passed by 4 years ago you wouldn't even have been able to see in the gap it was so overgrown! I got a lot of clearing done before joining REPS.

At the back of the shed on the quilty side is that yours too, I remember a few lovely blue weanlings in over the wall there a few years back. Must be tuff there this summer, its very low lying!!

Yeah it stretches back a bit. I've gone away from the blues this year though using two maternal gene ireland bulls instead as I'm still building numbers. I also used a shorthorn on the heifers as they have a lot of LM in them. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

1chippy · 28-08-2012 07:28PM

Bigbird1 wrote: »

Is it that sim x lm are prove to mastitis or those with bottle teats?

seems to be the ones with the big bottle teats. They seem to have no direction as in they stick out all sort of directions and very untidy elders.we just never seem to get mastitis with the purer lims. we had one heifer (sim x lim) prematurely calve this year and the spins are more the size of a sheeps which kinda goes against the trend but shes rearing the calf grand.

Black Smoke · 28-08-2012 07:40PM

Ennis Mary today, quality weanlings still holding up. One man had a serious number of Charolais weanlings born mainly February / March. Sold in pairs. Typical weights between 370kg and 390kg. Typical prices between €980 and €1050. Great stock though and great weight for age. Not pushed either by looks of them. Great credit due to the producer in fairness.

snowman707 · 28-08-2012 09:02PM

Black Smoke wrote: »

Ennis Mary today, quality weanlings still holding up. One man had a serious number of Charolais weanlings born mainly February / March. Sold in pairs. Typical weights between 370kg and 390kg. Typical prices between €980 and €1050. Great stock though and great weight for age. Not pushed either by looks of them. Great credit due to the producer in fairness.

I was passing ennis to day and dropped in. Think I might have seen some of the above selling , they had great frames and not over fleshed , The ones I saw were from the Kilkishen area.

Bizzum · 28-08-2012 09:34PM

A PB Charolais heifer by Alcazar AZA calved down 2 days ago to FL22 at 285 days. A lovely heifer calf. The CH heifer is 30 months. She sprung up a nice drop of milk.

pakalasa · 29-08-2012 07:18AM

Bizzum wrote: »

A PB Charolais heifer by Alcazar AZA calved down 2 days ago to FL22 at 285 days. A lovely heifer calf. The CH heifer is 30 months. She sprung up a nice drop of milk.

Why use FL22, would you not use an easy calving Charolais bull and have a PB animal then?
I suppose better safe than sorry.

Richk2012 · 29-08-2012 08:09AM

pakalasa wrote: »

Why use FL22, would you not use an easy calving Charolais bull and have a PB animal then?
I suppose better safe than sorry.

I have a Charlaois heifer to be a.i'd in november .
Was thinking of P.G Charlaois Nippur(NPP) .
She will be calving at 30 months and is a good square heifer , as is the one above .
We always use Limousin on maiden heifers , but i see a neighbour of mine , year in year out running a few heifers with the Charlaois stock bull and the rest of the cows , and he never has a problem with calving them .
Will be new to me but trial and error i suppose

J DEERE · 29-08-2012 01:07PM

Richk2012 wrote: »

I have a Charlaois heifer to be a.i'd in november .
Was thinking of P.G Charlaois Nippur(NPP) .
She will be calving at 30 months and is a good square heifer , as is the one above .
We always use Limousin on maiden heifers , but i see a neighbour of mine , year in year out running a few heifers with the Charlaois stock bull and the rest of the cows , and he never has a problem with calving them .
Will be new to me but trial and error i suppose

Would you consider using OSI from Dovea? He's a very easy calving bull. I have used him on maiden heifers with no problems

Bizzum · 29-08-2012 01:25PM

pakalasa wrote: »

Why use FL22, would you not use an easy calving Charolais bull and have a PB animal then?
I suppose better safe than sorry.

I used to use an easy calving Charolais on PB maiden heifers. I would have used the likes of Pirate, Excellent, Ijoufflu, CF51. We would bull the maidens to calve as 3yo's.
Then I switched to using a BA or Lim bull calving at 2 1/2 yo. The calves are born easier, no hassle on heifer or calf, and I find they are easier reared by a heifer, as opposed to the Charolais calf who generally wants all the milk they can get and more!
The FL22 calf should make a great suckler cow too with plenty of breeding behind her. It'll be interesting to see how the docility is with her as the CH is very quiet.
Probably put Excellent (EXT) on her now, though I'm not fully decided.

restive · 29-08-2012 03:34PM

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Hello

The above are pictures of my grass that i hope to get on a second cut of baled silage. What do you think of the grass? Is there anything that can be done to improve the quality? It was closed first of july and got NPK and 2 ton lime acre n april.

Richk2012 · 29-08-2012 04:34PM

J DEERE wrote: »

Would you consider using OSI from Dovea? He's a very easy calving bull. I have used him on maiden heifers with no problems

Only looked there after you mentioned it . Looks a decent bull for an easy calver.. Did the calves fill out well after a few weeks calved??

J DEERE · 29-08-2012 05:20PM

Richk2012 wrote: »

Only looked there after you mentioned it . Looks a decent bull for an easy calver.. Did the calves fill out well after a few weeks calved??

This is my first year using him. The calves are about a month old now and are showing a touch of class about them. Very quiet too. It will be interesting to see how they shape up in the next few months. I used him on Limousin heifers, they calved themselves with him

redzerologhlen · 29-08-2012 05:20PM

Black Smoke wrote: »

Ennis Mary today, quality weanlings still holding up. One man had a serious number of Charolais weanlings born mainly February / March. Sold in pairs. Typical weights between 370kg and 390kg. Typical prices between €980 and €1050. Great stock though and great weight for age. Not pushed either by looks of them. Great credit due to the producer in fairness.

Was the owners name pj fitzpatrick by any chance?

Kovu · 31-08-2012 09:20PM

Richk2012 wrote: »

Only looked there after you mentioned it . Looks a decent bull for an easy calver.. Did the calves fill out well after a few weeks calved??

We've used him for about 4 years here. All first calvers that are a bit narrow in themselves get him. Never a problem yet and grow into grand shapey calves. I'll see if I can root out a few photos.

just do it · 02-09-2012 10:14PM

What a spider! We spotted this big fella earlier and as we were looking at him a wasp flew into his web. Within 10-15secs the spider had him fully wrapped up. It was an amazing sight. That's the wasp in the photo as well.

vanderbadger · 03-09-2012 06:29AM

just do it wrote: »

What a spider! We spotted this big fella earlier and as we were looking at him a wasp flew into his web. Within 10-15secs the spider had him fully wrapped up. It was an amazing sight. That's the wasp in the photo as well.

oh a common sight in the jungles of Quilty id say

Kovu · 03-09-2012 09:59AM

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I can walk through them by myself and they wont even stand up but as soon as they are in a bit of an enclosed area or a stranger is about you can see their eyes light up and the only way I could describe they go is blind with fear, Im not looking forward to calving a few of them to be honest. I love farming and cattle but could do without putting my life in danger every day and I am sure I have a lot of my luck used up over the last few years with wicked cows calving, I got a nice knock off one earlier this year.

Well the best cow we have is half sim/lim. Short enough in height but i'd reckon 13.2hh in horse size:D Just swapped a bull of my own for her heifer, lovely blue animal off WTB. 'll get a pic later.

stanflt · 03-09-2012 01:00PM

a bit of 4th cut for silage bales

By stanflt at 2012-09-03

a few autumn calving 2year olds

By stanflt at 2012-09-03

and cows grazing out paddock very well despite the weather

By stanflt at 2012-09-03

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