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

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  • #7382
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Reggie. wrote: »
    hate the sight of horses on land as it does get wrecked with them
    and they do a fine job of killing off the trees by eating the bark.
    I must make a confession, I'm not a great horse lover!! There I've said it and I feel better for it!!!


  • #7383
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Neddyusa wrote: »
    Weanlings on kale a month ago. Turned out a great crop (over 11t DM per ha) once it recovered from the droughts in July and September.

    I'd love to give it a go but reckon the rainfall here is just too high. Do you mind me asking where you're based? (no drought here last summer)


  • #7384
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Base price wrote: »
    I checked out the Sheep forum for some pics of newborn lambs but it seems that there is no photo thread - maybe I am wrong :o
    However any of ye sheep keepers got any pics of newborns?.
    Nothing lifts my spirits more than seeing pictures of newborn lambs particularly if they are out and about.

    There is a pictures thread in the Sheep forum I believe.
    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Con, its happening around here too. Older generation slowing down and the land is going to ruin. Around here it's horses that are taking over!!. Anywhere that is being rented is generally not been well looked after.

    Same as that. My sister "offered" to let her two horses into my place to "eat the furze". I told her when they had the furze eaten where they were to come back to me. Still waiting :D
    delaval wrote: »
    Con, fair dues to you place looking well when one considers what could happen quickly of neglected. I guarantee I'd take the easy option and plant, hats off to you.

    If I wasn't a dairy farmer I'd love sheep. My father started as a sheep farmer till he got married and my mother pushed for cows. Sheep lasted a few years and I remember them lambing and sponging.

    He had a great love of sheep and of all my siblings I think I've inherited that Gra. I would stop to admire a flock of ewes and lambs before all other livestock. At a show or the ploughing I'd always visit the sheep. Oh and the nicest meat on the planet!!!

    You'd be disappointed Del, not enough depth to plant :D Just back from a sheep meeting in Westport. Tell ye this much, it's much easier work with the animals lol.


  • #7385
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Heifers on the hill... Soaking wet but they loving it, great shelter as deep valleys and lots of dry lie in the heather

    photo2_zpsbea2720b.jpg

    photo1_zps03439b5a.jpg


  • #7386
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Bod
    Good to see the plan coming together. I'd say foddering them on the rough days isn't for the faint hearted!


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  • #7387
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    and they do a fine job of killing off the trees by eating the bark.
    I must make a confession, I'm not a great horse lover!! There I've said it and I feel better for it!!!

    Like a weight off your shoulders eh :D


  • #7388
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    just do it wrote: »
    Bod
    Good to see the plan coming together. I'd say foddering them on the rough days isn't for the faint hearted!

    Good looking silage there too, that heather must bale up well :D


  • #7389
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    https://imageshack.us/a/img585/9146/xhrg.jpg
    Happy out


  • #7390
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    https://imageshack.us/a/img585/9146/xhrg.jpg
    Happy out

    Very nice shed there green


  • #7391
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Very nice shed there green

    Front was all open till this year. Was a very cold and wet shed. Nice place to calve cows now


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  • #7392
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    https://imageshack.us/a/img585/9146/xhrg.jpg
    Happy out

    Is there space sheeting on roof??


  • #7393
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Muckit wrote: »
    Is there space sheeting on roof??

    Nope


  • #7394
    Neddyusa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Neddyusa


    just do it wrote: »
    I'd love to give it a go but reckon the rainfall here is just too high. Do you mind me asking where you're based? (no drought here last summer)

    In Roscommon JDI, lots of rain but very free draining ground.

    Works much better in the east of the country alright, but any sandy or rocky ground in the west could work for young stock too... so long as you had run-back access to a dry or rough-grazing field.


  • #7395
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Nope

    How is it for ventilation?

    Had to re-sheet a section of old roof due to recent storm damage. Jeez sheeting ain't cheap!


  • #7396
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    just do it wrote: »
    How is it for ventilation?

    Had to re-sheet a section of old roof due to recent storm damage. Jeez sheeting ain't cheap!
    how much did ya pay


  • #7397
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Was quoted around 2k for sheeting for a 72'x35 shed recently.


  • #7398
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Sheeting is bloody dear. I was looking at prices for pole barn or steel building and it'd shoot up once you get to the sheeting.


  • #7399
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Nope

    How does the shed ventilate? Is this the first winter with cattle in it since ya closed it in?


  • #7400
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    Was quoted around 2k for sheeting for a 72'x35 shed recently.
    to the ground with three sides?
    how high is it? what grade sheeting?


  • #7401
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Muckit wrote: »
    How does the shed ventilate? Is this the first winter with cattle in it since ya closed it in?

    Ye it is. It was a bit warm in there but its only cows in it so no real problems. It might be changed to a calf shed in the coming yrs so I will do something.
    Cost us 900e to sheet that down and put in timbers


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  • #7402
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Roof.


  • #7403
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    Roof.
    roof only with no sides, was it .7 sheeting or .5 sheeting


  • #7404
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Reggie. wrote: »
    to the ground with three sides?
    how high is it? what grade sheeting?

    Roof only.
    15-16'
    0.5 i think


  • #7405
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    Roof only.
    15-16'
    0.5 i think
    that price sounds about right for .7 sheeting from midland cladding but there is a huge difference between .5 and .7


  • #7406
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    It could have been for .7 cant remember.
    Thought it was a little dear.


  • #7407
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Ye it is. It was a bit warm in there but its only cows in it so no real problems. It might be changed to a calf shed in the coming yrs so I will do something.
    Cost us 900e to sheet that down and put in timbers

    Would larch or pressure treated deal YorkShire boarding have worked out better l wonder? Plenty of light and air and I'd say it'd have worked out a tad cheaper. Save that sheeting for a roof


  • #7408
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    It could have been for .7 cant remember.
    Thought it was a little dear.
    trust me ya wont get it any cheaper than that anywhere else for any decent grade of cladding


  • #7409
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Reggie. wrote: »
    trust me ya wont get it any cheaper than that anywhere else for any decent grade of cladding

    I know, haven't bought cladding in a while


  • #7410
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,684 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    td5man wrote: »
    I know, haven't bought cladding in a while
    can be a bit of a shock alright if ya aint used to buying it


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  • #7411
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Muckit wrote: »
    Would larch or pressure treated deal YorkShire boarding have worked out better l wonder? Plenty of light and air and I'd say it'd have worked out a tad cheaper. Save that sheeting for a roof

    We had it on it was a disaster. Rain always blew through it and the straw bed would be in ****e


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