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Genghis Cant · 20-03-2014 07:38PM

golodge wrote: »

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

Would ya have a link to the AI Charolais, I'm curious to see would he have any genetic links to the AI bulls here. That's a lovely square Charolais calf!

golodge · 20-03-2014 07:44PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

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.

I've a hand held scales for sheep, so it fits for just borned calves.
Looks like this:
http://ykzhengya.en.alibaba.com/product/524160320-209565437/200kg_hand_held_weighing_scale.html
When calf is lifted and can't touch the ground there is nothing calf can do.

golodge · 20-03-2014 07:47PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Would ya have a link to the AI Charolais, I'm curious to see would he have any genetic links to the AI bulls here. That's a lovely square Charolais calf!

Yes I've a link.
http://www.naturalgenetics.cz/DOC_SEMEN4/ZCH-518_Offer.pdf
We'll have one his calf from one more Limox cow this weekend and one calf out of BBx cow after three weeks.

Genghis Cant · 20-03-2014 08:38PM

golodge wrote: »

Yes I've a link.
http://www.naturalgenetics.cz/DOC_SEMEN4/ZCH-518_Offer.pdf
We'll have one his calf from one more Limox cow this weekend and one calf out of BBx cow after three weeks.

He has a lot of body to him. He looks a useful bull to get a replacement heifer off.
I've used a Blason son (Icare), I think Blason bred milky cows, and had muscle too. I think there was a Harrison son around one of the AI stations but I can't remember his name. It might come to me!

golodge · 20-03-2014 08:58PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

He has a lot of body to him. He looks a useful bull to get a replacement heifer off.
I've used a Blason son (Icare), I think Blason bred milky cows, and had muscle too. I think there was a Harrison son around one of the AI stations but I can't remember his name. It might come to me!

It nice to hear that we can expect good calves by him. We'd like to have a heifer.

golodge · 22-03-2014 09:58AM

New heifer calf borned this morning. Sire the same AI Charolais bull, dam 1/2 Limouisne, 1/2 dairy.
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Genghis Cant · 22-03-2014 10:14AM

golodge wrote: »

New heifer calf borned this morning. Sire the same AI Charolais bull, dam 1/2 Limouisne, 1/2 dairy.
2014_03210002.jpg

Excellent. You must tag the calves when they hit the ground! :-)

Are the cows outwintered on that ground?

dh1985 · 22-03-2014 10:17AM

golodge wrote: »

New heifer calf borned this morning. Sire the same AI Charolais bull, dam 1/2 Limouisne, 1/2 dairy.
2014_03210002.jpg

Monster calf

golodge · 22-03-2014 11:50AM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Excellent. You must tag the calves when they hit the ground! :-)

Are the cows outwintered on that ground?

Heifer was tagged in one hour after birth.
Cows have outwintered in the winter pasture, but now here are now snow, so girls feel much better in the field.

jt65 · 22-03-2014 04:31PM

golodge wrote: »

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.

great loin on the ch

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 05:05PM

At one week old now, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

Kovu · 22-03-2014 05:09PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

At one week old out, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

Christ! The neck on him! Poor cow will never want to go incalf again:eek::eek:

moy83 · 22-03-2014 05:15PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

At one week old out, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

Is that dad in the picture aswell ?

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 05:20PM

moy83 wrote: »

Is that dad in the picture aswell ?

Yip, not looking great either. He got a bad bout of coccidiosis a few months back and it nearly whipped him. Only starting to thrive a bit with the last month.

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 05:21PM

.Kovu. wrote: »

Christ! The neck on him! Poor cow will never want to go incalf again:eek::eek:

Out of a springer and all. Tough cookie she is, stayed standing while we pulled. Was full sure she'd go down.

TITANIUM. · 22-03-2014 06:05PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

At one week old out, still wondering how I got him out route 1. Animal of a calf.

That's some calf for a week. Fair play.
Did you ever think about taking up tug of war?

moy83 · 22-03-2014 06:32PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Yip, not looking great either. He got a bad bout of coccidiosis a few months back and it nearly whipped him. Only starting to thrive a bit with the last month.

He doesn't look too bad at all . Have you many calves out of him ?

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 07:51PM

moy83 wrote: »

He doesn't look too bad at all . Have you many calves out of him ?

He's the second one now. Bulls just gone a 2 year old. He looked a lot better when I got him!!

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 07:55PM

TITANIUM. wrote: »

That's some calf for a week. Fair play.
Did you ever think about taking up tug of war?

Let the jack do the pulling. Pulled a lgl bull calf for my girlfriends father a few days back without a jack, he doesn't believe in it :rolleyes: 3 of us pulling the cow around the place. Self inflicted hardship is all I could call it!!

moy83 · 22-03-2014 07:57PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

He's the second one now. Bulls just gone a 2 year old. He looked a lot better when I got him!!

Think will you have a few hard pulls or was it just that she was a springer . Hope he is lucky for ya

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 08:03PM

moy83 wrote: »

Think will you have a few hard pulls or was it just that she was a springer . Hope he is lucky for ya

He's a fair horse of a calf even it was a cow that had him. He wasn't rated too bad on ICBF for calving but you never know for sure until a few hit the ground. The other springer calved no bother and had a handyish sized calf to him.

Genghis Cant · 22-03-2014 08:37PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

He's a fair horse

He's a bear of a calf. Great to get him out and goin ahead. How many days did she carry him do ya know?

LivInt20 · 22-03-2014 08:37PM

golodge wrote: »

I've a hand held scales for sheep, so it fits for just borned calves.
Looks like this:
http://ykzhengya.en.alibaba.com/product/524160320-209565437/200kg_hand_held_weighing_scale.html
When calf is lifted and can't touch the ground there is nothing calf can do.

What do you put the calf in to weigh?

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 08:51PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

He's a bear of a calf. Great to get him out and goin ahead. How many days did she carry him do ya know?

I haven't a notion, never bother writing down dates unless I'm ai'ing but I'd still have a fair idea of what's bulled and what's not. Anything no matter how good gets the road if not in calf any more.

cristeoir · 22-03-2014 09:20PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

I haven't a notion, never bother writing down dates unless I'm ai'ing but I'd still have a fair idea of what's bulled and what's not. Anything no matter how good gets the road if not in calf any more.

Hi GSD , I don't want to worry you or anything but a few years ago a neighbour of mine had a bull who got coccodosis and he became infertile, now it may have been the medicine he was treated with( medicil - which is now off the market afaik) or something completely unrelated but just for your own sake you should jot down when you see a cow in heat.
Hopfully I am totally wrong and well done , that is a super calf!

rancher · 22-03-2014 09:26PM

cristeoir wrote: »

Hi GSD , I don't want to worry you or anything but a few years ago a neighbour of mine had a bull who got coccodosis and he became infertile, now it may have been the medicine he was treated with( medicil - which is now off the market afaik) or something completely unrelated but just for your own sake you should jot down when you see a cow in heat.
Hopfully I am totally wrong and well done , that is a super calf!

A high temperature can kill all the semen in a ram and they can take six weeks to become fertile again....a bull is probably the same

GrandSoftDay · 22-03-2014 09:36PM

cristeoir wrote: »

Hi GSD , I don't want to worry you or anything but a few years ago a neighbour of mine had a bull who got coccodosis and he became infertile, now it may have been the medicine he was treated with( medicil - which is now off the market afaik) or something completely unrelated but just for your own sake you should jot down when you see a cow in heat.
Hopfully I am totally wrong and well done , that is a super calf!

He won't have any work again until next June but I'll keep an eye on it. Would never have figured what was wrong with him if I hadn't rang the vet to take a faecal sample off him. Only ever seen it in calves before.

cristeoir · 22-03-2014 09:49PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

He won't have any work again until next June but I'll keep an eye on it. Would never have figured what was wrong with him if I hadn't rang the vet to take a faecal sample off him. Only ever seen it in calves before.

Yea I thought it was only calves that got it too until that, the poor fella had nine 18 month old cattle take it aswell at the same time .Vet put it down to contaminated water from the stream they were drinking from but it was some amount of work to cure them.

golodge · 23-03-2014 11:28AM

LivInt20 wrote: »

What do you put the calf in to weigh?

I've a special S shape metal hoop. One its side is tied to the weighing scales.

Milton09 · 23-03-2014 10:29PM

I was like a **** this morning, went out at 7 o clock to put a bale into the shed. The bales are stored right beside the shed so we get away with using a 35 most of the year for feeding. There is one line of bales left beside a drain so I decided to chance spiking the bale thinking I would not be stupid enough to let it fall into the drain. (Usually I'd pull them over first with a rope to ensure they wouldnt go into drain) Anyway even worse happened as you can see in the photo, front of tractor went in and back was only a whisker away from going too. Of course the father is away for the weekend so I had to go get the 4wd myself to pull it out. If the father did this I'd be telling him to cop himself on a bit

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