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just do it · 16-08-2013 09:18PM

Redzer

Nice looking heifers alright. Alot to be said for knowing the source and breeding, you don't get that at the mart. Out of interest, what value would you put on them?

just do it · 16-08-2013 09:22PM

blue5000 wrote: »

No, where they are is bare ok, but I move them to a fresh block about every day or two. I set up the fence for the next block while they eat the meal. They were moved to a new block just after they finished the meal.

Going on the hook, starting in about 4wks, in a bit of a catch 22, some of them will be over 16mths, and are not fat enough now to get the QA on the grid bonus.....

Fair duece finishing them off grass. I see you were listening that night in Ennis trying to get them off before their 16m. Is there a premium/penalty in place if their under/over 16m?

Bodacious · 16-08-2013 10:25PM

redzerologhlen wrote: »

2 2 year old Lim x sim breeding heifers. Were out of 2 old cows which calved late and thats why they arent calving as 2 year olds.

cf61 heifer on the left and parati heifer on the right. Belong to the girlfriends father. Cf61 heifer is a smasher, I asked him a few times if he'd sell her but he isint having any of it :rolleyes:

CF61 bred some great stuff round here commercials and he was brought in as a char with milk in his pedigree.. would really love a PB char heifer out of him

Dampintheattic · 16-08-2013 10:28PM

Bodacious wrote: »

CF61 bred some great stuff round here commercials and he was brought in as a char with milk in his pedigree.. would really love a PB char heifer out of him

Are his straws still available?

Bodacious · 16-08-2013 10:29PM

just do it wrote: »

Someone was on about clipping weanling's head hair a while back. This fella looked a bit like jedward so while he was in this morning I did a little trimming

It was me that clips the faces... think I gave my fella a bit of an army crew cut

just do it · 16-08-2013 10:52PM

Just looking again, should have done the ears as well while I was at it

just do it · 16-08-2013 11:14PM

Cows heading into a new paddock of, eh hem, fresh grass :rolleyes:. This is a wet field of bottomless peat. I'd gotten on top of the rushes 2 years ago but access was difficult last year and this spring. The new roadway will be a big help in this regard. I'd no option at stages to graze it and poach it and hey presto it's worse now that ever!

Had a lad lined up to lick it a few weeks ago but he failed to appear:rolleyes:. I've been following rellig's drainage job with interest and have decided spraying/ licking is somewhat pointless until I sort out drainage. It's 6ac and there are 3 obvious lines for drains, but how to drain it has always been the question. It's peat so over time stone will migrate away from shore drains. There's iron ore in the land so pipe blockage is a possibility. In the end I'm verring towards stone and pipe as I just don't have the confidence that the connaught agri will still be patent 10yrs down the line. At least with the stone and pipe I should get 10 years out of it and rellig will be able to tell me if the connaught agri pipes are still doing the trick;).

Kovu · 16-08-2013 11:19PM

just do it wrote: »

Cows heading into a new paddock of, eh hem, fresh grass :rolleyes:. This is a wet field of bottomless peat. I'd gotten on top of the rushes 2 years ago but access was difficult last year and this spring. The new roadway will be a big help in this regard. I'd no option at stages to graze it and poach it and hey presto it's worse now that ever!

Had a lad lined up to lick it a few weeks ago but he failed to appear:rolleyes:. I've been following rellig's drainage job with interest and have decided spraying/ licking is somewhat pointless until I sort out drainage. It's 6ac and there are 3 obvious lines for drains, but how to drain it has always been the question. It's peat so over time stone will migrate away from shore drains. There's iron ore in the land so pipe blockage is a possibility. In the end I'm verring towards stone and pipe as I just don't have the confidence that the connaught agri will still be patent 10yrs down the line. At least with the stone and pipe I should get 10 years out of it and rellig will be able to tell me if the connaught agri pipes are still doing the trick;).

OH THANK GOD/JDI. I was sure I was doing something wrong and was so envious of Whelans whimsical quotes of pasture :pac:

just do it · 16-08-2013 11:28PM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

OH THANK GOD/JDI. I was sure I was doing something wrong and was so envious of Whelans whimsical quotes of pasture :pac:

And it's lashing out there now, better get them back out of there first thing in the morning:rolleyes:.

Kovu · 16-08-2013 11:58PM

just do it wrote: »

And it's lashing out there now, better get them back out of there first thing in the morning:rolleyes:.

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Kovu · 17-08-2013 12:00AM

Better call the cats in

Kovu · 17-08-2013 12:01AM

Miaow

bob charles · 17-08-2013 12:09AM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Miaow

what noise do you make for the goat?

just do it · 17-08-2013 12:24AM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

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Jeez Kovu, you've lost me there

Kovu · 17-08-2013 12:35AM

bob charles wrote: »

what noise do you make for the goat?

BIAOW. It's great. Very Nostralmutic.

Kovu · 17-08-2013 12:36AM

just do it wrote: »

Jeez Kovu, you've lost me there

You've never been on Reddit then?

just do it · 17-08-2013 12:45AM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

You've never been on Reddit then

Never heard of it!

bbam · 17-08-2013 08:05AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBS6xeWqGk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Something lighthearted I found on YouTube.
Maybe it's been posted before.

just do it · 17-08-2013 09:22AM

bbam wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBS6xeWqGk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Something lighthearted I found on YouTube.
Maybe it's been posted before.

Excellent bbam, love it

redzerologhlen · 17-08-2013 09:53AM

just do it wrote: »

Redzer

Nice looking heifers alright. Alot to be said for knowing the source and breeding, you don't get that at the mart. Out of interest, what value would you put on them?

Im completely out of sync with the trade at the moment, havent been near a mart in a few months so in all honesty I couldnt say jd.

redzerologhlen · 17-08-2013 09:56AM

Bodacious wrote: »

CF61 bred some great stuff round here commercials and he was brought in as a char with milk in his pedigree.. would really love a PB char heifer out of him

Ya, I never thought much of him to look at in the picture in the book but couldnt fault the calf, great power to her.

Dampintheattic wrote: »

Are his straws still available?

Nope, he was going to use him again this year but he couldnt be got.

Midlandsman80 · 17-08-2013 10:59AM

BBQ heifer out of Red Lim Cow
CH heifer out of big white head cow, both approx 16 months, plan to calve both down next autumn, the CH for sure, will see how the BB develops in the next few months

Third pic of some rushes licked 6 wks ago, great results, will never Top rushes again without a plan to lick regrowth, been just topping for years and waste of time.. suppose the very dry summer has stunted them as well but great to see totally dead buts all over the fields...

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pakalasa · 17-08-2013 12:26PM

Midlandsman80 wrote: »

Third pic of some rushes licked 6 wks ago, great results, will never Top rushes again without a plan to lick regrowth, been just topping for years and waste of time.. suppose the very dry summer has stunted them as well but great to see totally dead buts all over the fields...

Great job. Was that with Round Up?

beef burger · 17-08-2013 12:27PM

nice heifers great job done on the rushes used to just top them meself an awful waste but got a licker mighty tool what ya put in your mix.

just do it · 17-08-2013 12:38PM

Midlandsman80 wrote: »

pic of some rushes licked 6 wks ago, great results, will never top rushes again without a plan to lick regrowth, been just topping for years and waste of time..

Said I'd display that photo for you;) You've just finally sold me on getting a licker

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Both nice heifers by the way. Why are you undecided on the blue? She looks the better of the two to me.

Midlandsman80 · 17-08-2013 12:53PM

Used "Buggy", hired the licker on a Friday evening and back Monday morning for €50.
Got it in Roco Engineering, buggy is what they sell, same strength as Roundup, think the 8kg bag of was €100.

Some rushes that were very heavy did not get as good a kill, just because the licker didnt get to hit everything, some got a great kill where I was turning and got them from both sides, will top everything next April and lick it all again 6-7 weeks later.

Not undecided in the blue, just not sure if she will be ready for putting in calf for calving next autumn.
See she has one horn, bought "horn up" dehorner, great yoke but once they go over 4wks old its too late and full dehorning is required, she was done at 5-6 weeks.

Conmaicne Mara · 17-08-2013 01:49PM

Midlandsman80 wrote: »

Third pic of some rushes licked 6 wks ago, great results, will never Top rushes again without a plan to lick regrowth, been just topping for years and waste of time.. suppose the very dry summer has stunted them as well but great to see totally dead buts all over the fields...

On my regular travels I see one particular field. Always a tractor with topper parked up in it, and it gets cut fairly often. Always struck me as a waste of diesel. Grows many fine crop of rushes a year

I see another family more local to me, obsessed with cutting. Any weed, they cut. They've more bracken, thistles, rushes now than when they started

Kill him right and keep after his descendents

whelan1 · 17-08-2013 07:41PM

needs some work

jersey101 · 17-08-2013 07:44PM

Midlandsman80 wrote: »

Used "Buggy", hired the licker on a Friday evening and back Monday morning for €50.
Got it in Roco Engineering, buggy is what they sell, same strength as Roundup, think the 8kg bag of was €100.

Some rushes that were very heavy did not get as good a kill, just because the licker didnt get to hit everything, some got a great kill where I was turning and got them from both sides, will top everything next April and lick it all again 6-7 weeks later.

Not undecided in the blue, just not sure if she will be ready for putting in calf for calving next autumn.
See she has one horn, bought "horn up" dehorner, great yoke but once they go over 4wks old its too late and full dehorning is required, she was done at 5-6 weeks.

if you put roundup on a weed licker will it just kill the weeds or grass and all??

Muckit · 17-08-2013 08:21PM

whelan1 wrote: »

needs some work

Is that part of a field that's poached Whelan? Hard to make out from photo. No doubt you'I do a rousin' job on it when you get a chance

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