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Anyone feel like branching out to a specific market?

vanderbadger wrote: »

pure nuisance when it happens, will you try and keep them indoors for a bit of confine them to some corner?

Richk2012 wrote: »

Get them into shed and plenty of patience .
You can break some of them in a short time , others are more difficult .

Easier said than done , but dont let the calf get too many kicks or he wont have any confidence going for suck.

good luck :cool:

pakalasa wrote: »

Redz, You could try introducing a dog too. I brought a young Jack Russell counting last night. Man, sent the cows into a mad panic. he loved it though. First dog we've had with no fear - but no sense either.

I have her in the shed and I think she has taken now, she wasnt too pleased to see sheba coming and was smelling the calf and mooing at it when I brought her in, she let him suck too but her eyes were glued to me so much I dont even think she knew the calf was sucking her. I threw a bit of salt on the calfs back and she licked him a small bit too so its looking fairly good.

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Bizzum wrote: »

Bear meat? Yea, it is ridiculously expensive though. Up to 60 euro for a lb of 'sirloin' type of steak. Think I'll stick to the reindeer! That was tasty

Hope to fug, it wasn't Rudolf!! Could be consternation in the camp next Christmas!!

i reseeded a few patches that didnt take so well last autumn, chain harrowed and rolled!!.. ive grazed it twice already and it just keeps coming back.. will reseed whole place in time:)

pakalasa wrote: »

that looks like a Ranger Grass harrow, made by Hackett. How do you find it?

i bought it in longford ... i thought the lad said it was dutch... pallet and cement stake and couple of old window weights give it more tilth.. great yoke though

fishfarmer wrote: »

Lovely view

of the fish farms!?;)

Richk2012 wrote: »

These communions are becoming more like weddings .
Got invited to one next week , and the dinner is in a hotel 50 miles from the church , with some of the guests staying the night there too

Wtf .... I thought this was a time of austerity! !! Thats just mental.

just do it wrote: »

Looking good. How did growth compare during the cold spell to old swards? Also when you say a few patches didn't take so well, does that mean you put out seed a second time?

I seeded it by hand and missed few patches .. Human error ... So yeah wont be doing that again as wasn't as precise as I thought I was.. Boring job too.. Only 1.7 acres in that paddock and far too much work went into it

Sprayed off aug 10th

Several runs of chain harrow plus weights... Couldn't get enough of a tear on the old grass so got tractor and springtine harrow then chain harrow to finish

Seeded sept 22nd plus 10-10-20 and rolled( got ground lime last year)

Too wet to graze it in harvest but grazed twice so far this year and yes it's recovery and response to manure is very impressive

Next time I'm going to spray off and try to get contractor to direct drill in few acres with disc thing and avoid all the harrowing

Another 2 year old springer calved this morning when I went out, I left a hand on her at half 1 this morning and her bones werent stirred and the calf was up sucking at half 8 when I seen her again. 11 more to go now until a normal sleeping pattern can resume again :cool:

Kovu Murr wrote: »

You were up at the same time as me Redzer:D
Checked this girl at two, then half four, she was just starting to get sick to calve at that stage. By half seven, calf had arrived and she was mental. Still don't know if it's a bull or heifer! She's for the road this year anyway!


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Cleaning out the shed today as only three cows left in, mice everywhere!! I should prob train the original Kovu to not play with his food:o



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Whatbull is the calf by kovu ???

after reseed


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pakalasa wrote: »

...and I heard there wasn't a blade of grass "back west Clare". You must be very happy with that, Van. Did you do it yerself? By what method?

no contractors, it was drained as well, then sprayed off, disc harrowed and 2 runs of power harrow, seed spread with wagtail, then gran lime, 10-10-20 and rolled
it looks good at the moment but its been a long haul, was done last april, its started raining a few days after seed went in and was wet enough all year, only half grazed by weanlings last autumn, hoping to get good crop of silage or two out this year though