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towzer2010 · 18-03-2014 02:01PM

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Does anyone have a idea what these heifers would make in the mart? D.o.b March/April 2012, Out wintered.
I'm not very good with weights sorry.

Hard to tell from a photo but the one on the left looks around 500kgs so at €2.20 per kg (avg price for continentals atm) she'd make around €1100 from what I've seen. The others a bit less. Totally depends on demand on the day but you will be selling at the right time around now.

exercise is the antidote · 18-03-2014 02:09PM

towzer2010 wrote: »

Hard to tell from a photo but the one on the left looks around 500kgs so at €2.20 per kg (avg price for continentals atm) she'd make around €1100 from what I've seen. The others a bit less. Totally depends on demand on the day but you will be selling at the right time around now.

Thanks towzer. Would be happy if I got that. There's 1 Angus there she might not do to bad either.

Bodacious · 18-03-2014 02:15PM

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Thanks towzer. Would be happy if I got that. There's 1 Angus there she might not do to bad either.

I'm in the same boat here.. Need to offload some breeding heifers .. I'd hold off for another month if you have the fodder / space for them.. The real grass men/ DAS grass men not out yet

Reggie. · 18-03-2014 02:46PM

Bodacious wrote: »

I'm in the same boat here.. Need to offload some breeding heifers .. I'd hold off for another month if you have the fodder / space for them.. The real grass men/ DAS grass men not out yet

Waiting for them myself. Have two FR bullocks here to move on.

bogman_bass · 18-03-2014 04:31PM

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Spead some fertilizer on the reseed over the weekend. coming on grand this end of the feild but very bare other places. let cows and calves out on it on Sunday

on the river · 18-03-2014 04:36PM

bogman_bass wrote: »

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Spead some fertilizer on the reseed over the weekend. coming on grand this end of the feild but very bare other places. let cows and calves out on it on Sunday

what fertilizer are you using ?

bogman_bass · 18-03-2014 04:45PM

18-6-12. It's silage ground and need to get the P and K up.

cows have access to hay and a bucket and doing them with bolus's later

Brown Podzol · 18-03-2014 06:02PM

Odelay wrote: »

If your mother saw that dirt under your finger nails you'd be in big trouble...

Oh says that hands like that make good back scratchers.:D

Damo810 · 18-03-2014 06:26PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

She has special sanitary wipes for me when I go to hers

Wipes, be god, most lads would just use a tissue :P

moy83 · 18-03-2014 07:16PM

Bodacious wrote: »

I'm in the same boat here.. Need to offload some breeding heifers .. I'd hold off for another month if you have the fodder / space for them.. The real grass men/ DAS grass men not out yet

Whatever about the men being out , the grass certainly isn't out around here anyhow

Greengrass1 · 19-03-2014 11:29AM

Monster LHZ heifer out of an RIL cow

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.up

dh1985 · 19-03-2014 12:01PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Monster LHZ heifer out of an RIL cow

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.up

Is that opening ok for others

Genghis Cant · 19-03-2014 12:17PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Monster LHZ heifer out of an RIL cow

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.up

dh1985 wrote: »

Is that opening ok for others

The calf is so huge it can't fit on the screen:D

Greengrass1 · 19-03-2014 12:19PM

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.jpg

Any better?

dh1985 · 19-03-2014 12:47PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.jpg

Any better?

Cow has a fair elder

Greengrass1 · 19-03-2014 01:18PM

dh1985 wrote: »

Cow has a fair elder

She is very slack actually tbh

Round Bale · 19-03-2014 01:19PM

Damo810 wrote: »

Wipes, be god, most lads would just use a tissue :P

Or the arse of their trousers:cool:

dh1985 · 19-03-2014 01:55PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

She is very slack actually tbh

Jaysus from the photo you swear she'd have lots

Nekarsulm · 19-03-2014 02:06PM

Round Bale wrote: »

Or the arse of their trousers:cool:

Or the curtain..............

I said · 19-03-2014 03:01PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Or the curtain..............

Yeehaw

tanko · 19-03-2014 03:33PM

First calves this year off FZF, yellow bull, red heifer. Both came backways, small pull, no jack needed.

tanko · 19-03-2014 03:44PM

The mammy

towzer2010 · 19-03-2014 04:05PM

tanko wrote: »

The mammy

Are you sure they are all out?

She looks big enough to still have a calf or two...:D

onyerbikepat · 19-03-2014 06:07PM

Did you buy the FZF straws from Powerful Genetics ?
He looks a fine bull from what I've seen of him. (MERESIDE FAVORI)

Greengrass1 · 19-03-2014 07:56PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

https://imageshack.us/a/img837/9566/56wz.jpg

Any better?

Father says to me is it a simmental.
Weighed her. She was 58kgs.
For a Fr heifer that's a whopper

trixi2011 · 19-03-2014 08:06PM

bogman_bass wrote: »

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Spead some fertilizer on the reseed over the weekend. coming on grand this end of the feild but very bare other places. let cows and calves out on it on Sunday

Would you not be wasting the fertilizer if you put cows on it at the weekend. You have only a 3 day window to graze grass after applying fert after this the fertilizer has made its way from the roots to the leaf ,

Genghis Cant · 19-03-2014 09:33PM

tanko wrote: »

First calves this year off FZF, yellow bull, red heifer. Both came backways, small pull, no jack needed.

Pity you hadn't a pair of heifers of that bull.

tanko · 19-03-2014 10:54PM

towzer2010 wrote: »

Are you sure they are all out?

She looks big enough to still have a calf or two...:D

Yeah, she's a very easy cow to feed, hard to keep flesh off her. She had some belly before she calved. Two heifers would have been nice but I'm just glad they're alive, I left her calving a bit too long and they had some fluid in the lungs but are flying now.

I got the straws of powerful genetics, €10/straw.

This is her OZS heifer from last year

Checked the cows earlier and went to the Cavan V Tyrone U-21 game, came back and a cow had calved on the slats. All well, don't know yet if I've got a heifer this time.

golodge · 20-03-2014 05:28PM

New calves. 1st is by AI Charolais bull out of 1/2Limo, 1/2dairy cow. Birth weight 45kg.
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2nd is by AI Angus bull, out of 1/2 Angus, 1/4 Salers, 1/4 dairy heifer. Birth weight 42kg.
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In pics both calves are 3 days old.

GrandSoftDay · 20-03-2014 05:46PM

golodge wrote: »

New calves. 1st is by AI Charolais bull out of 1/2Limo, 1/2dairy cow. Birth weight 45kg.
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2014_03200004.JPG
2nd is by AI Angus bull, out of 1/2 Angus, 1/4 Salers, 1/4 dairy heifer. Birth weight 42kg.
2014_03200008.JPG
In pics both calves are 3 days old.

How do you weigh the calves, do you have a harness and hand held scales? Had a massive limo bull out of a springer here last weeks that I really struggled to lift. Would loved to have put a weight on him because I'm used to carrying 2 bags of nuts on my shoulder when I'm doing the feeding and he seemed way heavier.

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