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

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Nice stock there Naughto, tidy looking job on the section.
What age is the oldest Lim bull you're training?

18months
wasent going to put up the pic of him as he is not one of or best that we have had,he was very slow to put on weight and condition and it has taken a lot of meal to get him to where he is,and even now we dissapointed in him.his mother was a great lump of a cow put was throwing bad calves so she got the road

moy83 wrote: »

Nice cattle. What else did I miss in the pics

two different sheds

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Did ya try a few different bulls on her?

ya we did but it was a mixture of little or no milk and small calves
for the price of the straws ya want to be getting good calves.

like the bb from the section she will be a massive hefir and shes from a commercial and allways throws great calves
dont no what happen this time with the section as she got the same bull as last yr and calved herself.(cant think name of the bull)

Genghis Cant wrote: »

It's a different type of breeding this purebred lark!
You're spot on with the milk thing, a cow that hasn't enough milk to rear her calf ain't worth having in my opinion.

now can you please tell that to my brother its his farm after all i just stand in agap when iam needed

he is coming around to the idea as this yrs calves are small
one pb cow had twins and there no bigger than the dog,but give them good grass and meal and they will thrive like hell.
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Genghis Cant wrote: »

Don't be selling yourself short, you mix it with the best of them here.

did a lot a farming yrs ago had a bad accident 5yrs ago,did not do any feeding this winter,or draw any silage last summer.will be the same this summer.its not worth the pain after it but i have to say i do miss it.iam only 33

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Christ. We do tend to take our health for granted. If you can keep tipping away without strangling yourself it would be something.
Take care of yourself no matter what.

it wasent a farm accident that i had cant go in to it on here legal involved and all that craic

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

There was an old thread here on twitter Taltos, maybe if we kept it to that and if someone put up their username on it fair enough rather than other posters putting them up. I'm on the phone now so can't send a link to it but if you search the forum you'll find it.

Thanks for that.
Yup, if you reveal who you are that's one thing and that makes sense, just bear in mind that posters here who haven't still deserve to protect who they are out of here. So long we keep to that we should be fine.

Thanks .Kovu. for putting up that Twitter thread. Won't be adding my name to it, don't want my "out"laws to find me

Greengrass1 wrote: »

You would mistake her for a jex

yup, milked her this morning for first time , shes a smasher, her mother has great solids and kids always look out for her as shes easy to spot

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Is her dam an aax?

yes out of an ruu cow and she was from an lbo cow,

Genghis Cant wrote: »

How did ya end up with her? Fr bull or wrong straw or what?

fr heifer went in calf to an aax bullock that wasnt a bullock, liked the look of her as a calf so held on to her, she is 7 now and has had 3 frx heifer calves in the last 3 calvings, one that calved yesterday was the first of these calves. The heifer that calved yesterday is out of br/fr bull

whelan2 wrote: »

fr heifer went in calf to an aax bullock that wasnt a bullock, liked the look of her as a calf so held on to her, she is 7 now and has had 3 frx heifer calves in the last 3 calvings, one that calved yesterday was the first of these calves. The heifer that calved yesterday is out of br/fr bull

It would be good to see how she compares to your other heifers (off br / ho cows).
In terms of quality (milk & calf)