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Sharpshooter82 · 28-11-2013 10:57PM

just do it wrote: »

I'd say that's as much as we'll get out of him (without turning up at his door with a rod and a six pack )

And a friendly smile

adne · 29-11-2013 08:55AM

Twins out of tvr. I was sweating about his calving difficulty so twins might be a god send!!

towzer2010 · 29-11-2013 11:23AM

adne wrote: »

Twins out of tvr. I was sweating about his calving difficulty so twins might be a god send!!

Fair play adne. Bulls or heifers or both? You could be right about the twins being a help.

Jeez he went from 7.8% to 13.6% difficulty in a year. Fair jump.

tanko · 29-11-2013 11:29AM

towzer2010 wrote: »

Fair play adne. Bulls or heifers or both? You could be right about the twins being a help.

Jeez he went from 7.8% to 13.6% difficulty in a year. Fair jump.

I know a man who put TVR on six big heifers and had to section all of them.

onyerbikepat · 29-11-2013 11:29AM

towzer2010 wrote: »

Fair play adne. Bulls or heifers or both? You could be right about the twins being a help.

Jeez he went from 7.8% to 13.6% difficulty in a year. Fair jump.

Hard calving bulls like that are just not worth the hassle.

Kovu · 29-11-2013 11:32AM

Seaba wrote: »

There the type of cows I am trying to aspire too - shape and milk. Have a few of them but not enough. What AI bulls do you use? I think you mentioned Malibu before but he is gone. We put Vermeil S666 on a few this year to see what happens. Have a lovely PAM and CVV heifer for the bull next year and a FL25 but she is not as good.

20 years ago we had a good, square Freisan cow for "the house" - she got a limousin bull every year and brough loads of heifers which we all bulled. Their daughters all got limousins and we had nearly 10 of her lineage at one stage - all like yours above - now their is just one left! Combination of c-sections, mastitus and just bad luck cleared them all out. Starting from scratch again

I was sure I'd replied to this :pac:

The two cows are PB lm, out of Navarin. Bad feet run in the family hence hoppy-along on the right

We also have 2 PAM cows from the same dam sooooo.....half sisters to these. Also reg' too. But the last (heifer) is carrying very heavy to RHF so I'm a little worried about her.

Marooned75 · 01-12-2013 06:20PM

Last of them in today motoring away

reilig · 02-12-2013 10:49AM

Well I asked if a MF165 will work a bale splitter and the answer is yes - pretty fast cutting too!

Muckit · 02-12-2013 11:00AM

Nice setup. Pops can hang the silage knife up in the collar ties :-)

reilig · 02-12-2013 11:07AM

Muckit wrote: »

Nice setup. Pops can hang the silage knife up in the collar ties :-)

Pops couldn't be convinced to use one. He's still climbing the step ladder, knife in hand to get on top of them.

This one if over your side.

Will be buying another one of them though - very impressed with this one!

Muckit · 02-12-2013 11:27AM

Oh he'll get sense yet. You'l have to bring him with ya when your visiting the inlaws
Over Christmas :-)

Fine shed there. Well wear with the new machine. Great job I'd say.

Marooned75 · 02-12-2013 11:59AM

reilig wrote: »

Well I asked if a MF165 will work a bale splitter and the answer is yes - pretty fast cutting too!

Is that the one ya fitted the valve on

reilig · 02-12-2013 12:05PM

Marooned75 wrote: »

Is that the one ya fitted the valve on

That's it yea!

vanderbadger · 02-12-2013 12:44PM

reilig wrote: »

Pops couldn't be convinced to use one. He's still climbing the step ladder, knife in hand to get on top of them.

This one if over your side.

Will be buying another one of them though - very impressed with this one!

when you buy the other one go for the new plastic retaining model, looks the business, you may as well throw the loader on the tractor as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03OGLs8qbqw

Sharpshooter82 · 02-12-2013 12:48PM

vanderbadger wrote: »

when you buy the other one go for the new plastic retaining model, looks the business, you may as well throw the loader on the tractor as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03OGLs8qbqw

ya wouldnt be long feeding a few bales with that yoke

reilig · 02-12-2013 01:16PM

vanderbadger wrote: »

when you buy the other one go for the new plastic retaining model, looks the business, you may as well throw the loader on the tractor as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03OGLs8qbqw

That would take all the fun out of farming. There would be no smell of your hands and people would think that you are a lazy git!

You're talking about €3500 at least. I only gave €1300 for mine!

jersey101 · 02-12-2013 01:31PM

that would be a right job have all your cows fed in half an hour, lye off in the tractor then for the rest of the day

:D:D

nashmach · 02-12-2013 02:07PM

Flashy 165 too - back window and flashing beacon

Well wear.

just do it · 02-12-2013 02:30PM

Reilig
What's the benefit to it? Surely there will still be a need to fork in/ push in?

vanderbadger · 02-12-2013 03:09PM

just do it wrote: »

Reilig
What's the benefit to it? Surely there will still be a need to fork in/ push in?

sure the splitter will push it in with the tractor

reilig · 02-12-2013 03:36PM

just do it wrote: »

Reilig
What's the benefit to it? Surely there will still be a need to fork in/ push in?

Huge benefit to it from our perspective. Where we have this, we have a 4 bay slatted shed and we drop a bale in front of each pen. Cattle eat till they can reach no more, then it has to be pushed in. The boss can't drive (isn't safe on) the tractor but loves the exercise of tipping in a bit of silage with the fork twice a day. However, he struggles with the round of the bale (even the chopped bales) that is left and he does be out of breath. Sometimes he gets thick and despite the warnings, he gets up on the tractor and pushes in the bale with the spike and at the same time he bends a gate or knocks a pillar - the worst thing he ever did was get down off it without putting on the handbrake and it pinned him to a pillar for half an hour when it rolled till a neighbour found him passed out and blue!.

Now with the bale splitter, the bale can chopped down the centre and it spreads out leaving no round that is hard to fork. Then we can split the bale 2 more times - this ensures that no piece of silage remains which is more than 18 or 20 inches long. It's pi$$ easy to fork and the boss has no excuses about having to get up on the tractor.

Another advantage is that we have a pen of light weinlings that only eat half a bale in the week. We can split the bale in half and pick it up with the splitter and move it to the pen of cows that eat a bale and a half in the week.

Another advantage is when you split a bale, it spreads out. It lies just below the height of the barrier. Therefore you can push it right up to the toe boards without having to worry about it being too close and them pulling a load of silage into the slats. This means less forking per bale in the long term. If you leave a full bale too tight to the barrier, they'll pull a good bit of it in.

Another advantage is when you are restricting silage to cows which we do for 6 weeks before calving - it usually means that most of the bale is forked in to them over a number of days - a split bale is far easier to fork to cows than a whole bale!

That's just from my perspective - others may find other benefits.

hugo29 · 02-12-2013 03:42PM

reilig wrote: »

Huge benefit to it from our perspective. Where we have this, we have a 4 bay slatted shed and we drop a bale in front of each pen. Cattle eat till they can reach no more, then it has to be pushed in. The boss can't drive (isn't safe on) the tractor but loves the exercise of tipping in a bit of silage with the fork twice a day. However, he struggles with the round of the bale (even the chopped bales) that is left and he does be out of breath. Sometimes he gets thick and despite the warnings, he gets up on the tractor and pushes in the bale with the spike and at the same time he bends a gate or knocks a pillar - the worst thing he ever did was get down off it without putting on the handbrake and it pinned him to a pillar for half an hour when it rolled till a neighbour found him passed out and blue!.

Now with the bale splitter, the bale can chopped down the centre and it spreads out leaving no round that is hard to fork. Then we can split the bale 2 more times - this ensures that no piece of silage remains which is more than 18 or 20 inches long. It's pi$$ easy to fork and the boss has no excuses about having to get up on the tractor.

Another advantage is that we have a pen of light weinlings that only eat half a bale in the week. We can split the bale in half and pick it up with the splitter and move it to the pen of cows that eat a bale and a half in the week.

Another advantage is when you split a bale, it spreads out. It lies just below the height of the barrier. Therefore you can push it right up to the toe boards without having to worry about it being too close and them pulling a load of silage into the slats. This means less forking per bale in the long term. If you leave a full bale too tight to the barrier, they'll pull a good bit of it in.

Another advantage is when you are restricting silage to cows which we do for 6 weeks before calving - it usually means that most of the bale is forked in to them over a number of days - a split bale is far easier to fork to cows than a whole bale!

That's just from my perspective - others may find other benefits.

fcuk me ud make a serious sales rep;)

just do it · 02-12-2013 04:25PM

Thanks reilig. Whatever about the others, the first advantage is priceless.

onyerbikepat · 02-12-2013 04:30PM

hugo29 wrote: »

fcuk me ud make a serious sales rep;)

Was thinking the same. Very convincing. I think products will get sold her on here, depending on the Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down from Reilig.

Mchale make great products in fairness to them.

jerdee · 02-12-2013 04:35PM

that's what its all about tipping away...

Timmaay · 02-12-2013 04:46PM

Ha jezz reilig, and I thought the boss around here caused trouble!

adne · 03-12-2013 10:59AM

towzer2010 wrote: »

Fair play adne. Bulls or heifers or both? You could be right about the twins being a help.

Jeez he went from 7.8% to 13.6% difficulty in a year. Fair jump.

One of each, ya seemingly he is a disaster for hard calving, know a guy that has had 3 sections from 4 with him.
The downside of a test bull

renandstimpy · 03-12-2013 09:57PM

They are just starting to make there way to barrier after been put back after been squeezed this evening . They are done for tetanus so everything should be ok .
They rae spread out around shed till other cattle are put in to avoid pneumonia.

Muckit · 03-12-2013 10:12PM

Are they calving pens in behind?

renandstimpy · 03-12-2013 10:29PM

Muckit wrote: »

Are they calving pens in behind?

They sure are muckit . There used to be a passage way the width of the currogated sliding door on the right which ran the lenght of the 3 pens (meant for feeding meal ) but was good for nothing really. There used to be a wall then seperating this from the cubicle shed so i knocked it with protest from the boss:D. and put in 3 calving pens , a crush with automatic gate that stays open along back wall and a calving head gate and section gate in middle pen .
works a lot better now . since i opened it all up we have had a massive reduction in pneumonia if any . Having the crush inside is great i can work in comfort in the evenings or when the weather is sh#t#.

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