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

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  • #6482
    Midlandsman80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Midlandsman80


    how did you harvest it to get it in too them?


  • #6483
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Midlandsman80 wrote: »
    how did you harvest it to get it in too them?

    A whole lot of hardship, cutting it with machetes and loading into a trailer, long story seed company gave us 3 bags of the wrong seed so now we've got 3 acreas of 5-7 foot long giant inca kale thats starting to flower total cluster-f**k
    the cows are happy though have gone up 2 litres since they went on it


  • #6484
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    A whole lot of hardship, cutting it with machetes and loading into a trailer, long story seed company gave us 3 bags of the wrong seed so now we've got 3 acreas of 5-7 foot long giant inca kale thats starting to flower total cluster-f**k
    the cows are happy though have gone up 2 litres since they went on it

    we had cows on redstart (similar to kale) till sat, and they went on the forage rape with heaps of grass in it today. And they are milking alot better than they did on the redstart


  • #6485
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    kept black OZS lim heifer and Cottage Devon, they eating and weaned and out still and will probably wait out

    FC3A76BE_zpsa7083bfb.jpg


  • #6486
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Smashing looking Lim heifer above. Great body to her.


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  • #6487
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Smashing looking Lim heifer above. Great body to her.

    thank Bizzum, terrible photo as she all gathered up and head below in a bucket but she is a pure savage of a calf, not overly tall, DEZ calf is leggier but if this Ozeus is as maternal as the figures are suggesting then she has to be good


  • #6488
    essgee268
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭essgee268


    Bodacious wrote: »
    kept black OZS lim heifer and Cottage Devon, they eating and weaned and out still and will probably wait out

    FC3A76BE_zpsa7083bfb.jpg
    Lovely stock. have an orange DEZ heifer out of a SI cow ready for bull. I wonder are they making good cows


  • #6489
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Some pictures of 5 replacements that we have calving next year. 2 are pbr in calve to rmx and ahz (Munster Ai) out of abi. (Amp Brigideer) The heifer on her own is out of one of my own pbr cows. The other 3 are in calve to pacha 08, a shorthorn bull whose name I cannot remember and our own stockbull. They will be calving down between 24 and 28 months. We bought them as weanlings this time last year. Hopefully they will be lucky!.


  • #6490
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    MF 35 earning its keep this summer. Unbelievably handy around the place.


  • #6491
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    We bred some serious stock off Brigadeer (ABI), best Lim for years we've used.


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  • #6492
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    MF 35 earning its keep this summer. Unbelievably handy around the place.
    we have a 35 also, great for building up the muscles in your arms, use it for scraping yard, goes faster in reverse than forwards:D


  • #6493
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    essgee268 wrote: »
    Lovely stock. have an orange DEZ heifer out of a SI cow ready for bull. I wonder are they making good cows

    I don't know if any calved down out of him yet so not sure.. I hope he does bring milk, the one I held onto is out of a good red lim X cow that has milk .. is yours big for her age against others anything ive seen out of him grows and grows


  • #6494
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    essgee268 wrote: »
    Lovely stock. have an orange DEZ heifer out of a SI cow ready for bull. I wonder are they making good cows
    Bodacious wrote: »
    I don't know if any calved down out of him yet so not sure.. I hope he does bring milk, the one I held onto is out of a good red lim X cow that has milk .. is yours big for her age against others anything ive seen out of him grows and grows

    I can't see DEZ bringing milk, few Charolais will, but look at the Dams, the Sim and the Lim, I'd be thinking the drop of milk will be kept, maybe not to the same extent of the dam but adequate none the less. There must be power in the Ch milk too, looking at some of ours they look slack in the elder dept, but the calves look well.


  • #6495
    essgee268
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭essgee268


    Bodacious wrote: »
    I don't know if any calved down out of him yet so not sure.. I hope he does bring milk, the one I held onto is out of a good red lim X cow that has milk .. is yours big for her age against others anything ive seen out of him grows and grows
    there seems to be a few pedigree calves out his daughters according to charolais website


  • #6496
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Cf61 heifer I bought off the girlfriends auld lad, Great power about her I think.

    photo_zps628203d4.jpg

    photo_zps022ebd0b.jpg

    Was topping up walls in the winterage the other day, left one small stone up on top of it and it all came crashing down, typical.

    photo_zps5a88043b.jpg


  • #6497
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Redzer, Lovely heifer. Is there a bit of sim in her. regardless she will through a good calf from either a lm or ch.


  • #6498
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    redzer, so you went for it, i hope you got a good discount:D

    call her after the mother in law, that should go down well;)


  • #6499
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Redzer, Lovely heifer. Is there a bit of sim in her. regardless she will through a good calf from either a lm or ch.

    The mother is a very milky whiteish charolais cow but there could be some sim in her alright. Shes as quiet as a snail too, completly different to the limos :)


  • #6500
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Redzer, your persistence has paid off :D


  • #6501
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    photo_zps5a88043b.jpg

    How do you find those stones for building with? Stones in my place are dog heads, in that's how a lot of them are shaped, pure f'kin useless for doing anything with.


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  • #6502
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Cf61 heifer I bought off the girlfriends auld lad, Great power about her

    good man redz and good luck with her, she a beauty and for E400 you could look at it two ways 1) a topic of conversation with the father in law for years to come and 2) a kind of dowry!! :-)


  • #6503
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    BFC37B5E_zpsa75ea90f.jpg

    one of my springers none too impressed with being on the mountain!!


  • #6504
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    Bodacious wrote: »
    one of my springers none too impressed with being on the mountain!!
    :D She don't look happy, does she?


  • #6505
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    onyerbikepat wrote: »
    :D She don't look happy, does she?

    no .. she giving me evils..


  • #6506
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    How do you find those stones for building with? Stones in my place are dog heads, in that's how a lot of them are shaped, pure f'kin useless for doing anything with.
    Might'nt be the stones Con , you could be just like me and just cant see the right opportunities for the shapes :D
    Ive often throw my hat at fixing up a wall because I cant get the stones to fit any which way at all , then the father has it up perfectly a few days later from the same stone :o


  • #6507
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    [QUOTE=Bodaci
    one of my springers none too impressed with being on the mountain!![/QUOTE]
    Are you feeding the silage yet that you got dropped onto the mountain ?


  • #6508
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    moy83 wrote: »
    Might'nt be the stones Con , you could be just like me and just cant see the right opportunities for the shapes :D
    Ive often throw my hat at fixing up a wall because I cant get the stones to fit any which way at all , then the father has it up perfectly a few days later from the same stone :o

    Tis the feckin stones :mad:

    :D:p

    Mind you, the great thing about stone walls is the fences I've put on top. The stakes last forever, even the shítty ones they make now.


  • #6509
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    My mother is mad for naming cattle, I'll leave it to her!! She cost enough now but I got a good luck penny alright. Stones are lovely for building, really grip into each other.


  • #6510
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    moy83 wrote: »
    Are you feeding the silage yet that you got dropped onto the mountain ?

    No hopefully hold out into December anyway depending on the weather. just threw 8 cows onto another part of it, ran single strand of temporary electric fence and make them eat it, furze taking over.. only try them out for 2 weeks .. if they start to melt ill take them in off of it as wouldn't let them go backwards these time of year and couple of them (one in pic) start calving mid january


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  • #6511
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Bodacious wrote: »
    No hopefully hold out into December anyway depending on the weather. just threw 8 cows onto another part of it, ran single strand of temporary electric fence and make them eat it, furze taking over.. only try them out for 2 weeks .. if they start to melt ill take them in off of it as wouldn't let them go backwards these time of year and couple of them (one in pic) start calving mid january

    Last year with the fodder shortage we rented rough rocky ground (17 acres) and left the cows out on it till end of December. 8 cows. Instead of putting bales in, we gave them 20kg of meal a day. It worked the finest - they actually put on condition. We also had no calving problems in spring with them.


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