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Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::

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  • #152
    Kovu
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Know all about it this year myself

    Wasn't it foot rot you had?

    The cows were limping too I take it? :D


  • #153
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,546 ✭✭✭tanko


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    You have a better view than me right now:p
    qcC3Q0Jl.jpg?1

    A step on the good side of the foot might be a help to him?


  • #154
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    tanko wrote: »
    A step on the good side of the foot might be a help to him?

    Washing it daily and he has a shot of Synulox in him.
    Don't think a step would be a massive benefit to him, it's not in the actual cloot/claw but just above it.


  • #155
    Seaba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭Seaba


    Just a few pics of a few Limousin heifer calves for breeding, off supposedly good maternal bulls.
    1st one - Vermeil S666 heifer
    2nd - another Vermeil S666, really good heifer
    3rd - Pacha PCH, a good bit lighter than the others, even though she is the same age, but alright.


  • #156
    Mad4simmental
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    Seaba wrote: »
    Just a few pics of a few Limousin heifer calves for breeding, off supposedly good maternal bulls.
    1st one - Vermeil S666 heifer
    2nd - another Vermeil S666, really good heifer
    3rd - Pacha PCH, a good bit lighter than the others, even though she is the same age, but alright.

    First one looks like a lovely blocky heifer, second one will grow into a bute of a girl to.


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  • #157
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Wasn't it foot rot you had?

    The cows were limping too I take it? :D

    I reckoned at one point the cattle were faking it to get a hooficure


  • #158
    Nekarsulm
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Yerr, he managed to do a bit of a job on it. But he can still kick :mad:

    It's at jobs like that you realise how useful those foot winches on a crush would be. (when you've a horse lunge rope round his leg and twisted over a bar wedged into the wall!!)


    Hey Kovu, really easy to knock together a foot winch. Get the spare wheel carrier device from a scrapped small lorry. These are exactly the same as a bought hoof lifter device. Should not cost more than 20 Euro. Then fit a wheel to allow easy lifting/lowering control. Steering wheel from the same lorry usually does the trick.


  • #159
    sandydan
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Wasn't it foot rot you had?

    The cows were limping too I take it? :D

    any you guys scatter bluestone on parlour floor ( or in foot bath in crush) to get rid of foot ulcers or rot in situation like that ,available in 25kg bags or was from miller,vet recommended it to me when milking a few years back, good for killing moss on slates too


  • #160
    Kovu
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    sandydan wrote: »
    any you guys scatter bluestone on parlour floor ( or in foot bath in crush) to get rid of foot ulcers or rot in situation like that ,available in 25kg bags or was from miller,vet recommended it to me when milking a few years back, good for killing moss on slates too

    Bluestone used on everything here. Any cut we see almost, easy to dilute in a spray bottle and use in the field. Use it on calves navels in place of iodine too.


  • #161
    Username John
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Bluestone used on everything here. Any cut we see almost, easy to dilute in a spray bottle and use in the field. Use it on calves navels in place of iodine too.

    We'd use bluestone here too on the (sheeps) feet.

    But I would have said twould be too severe for navals? :eek:


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  • #162
    Kovu
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    Username John wrote: »
    We'd use bluestone here too on the (sheeps) feet.

    But I would have said twould be too severe for navals? :eek:

    Diluted with water it's not too bad. Going by my judgement of accidentally using it on cuts of my own a few times anyway!!:eek::pac:


  • #163
    dar31
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    some of the spring born calve, just started on 1kg meal

    323230.jpg

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  • #164
    dar31
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    in calf heifers having a bit of a run around

    323233.jpg

    new water throughs and piping being put in this week

    323234.jpg


  • #165
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Some good citizen is after releasing a load of these lads on my road...as if we hadn't enough of them around the place already. There must be 400-500 wild ones in the valley I live in alone.


  • #166
    just do it
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Some good citizen is after releasing a load of these lads on my road...as if we hadn't enough of them around the place already. There must be 400-500 wild ones in the valley I live in alone.

    What's it like up there this morning. Dull and drizzly here.


  • #167
    Kovu
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Some good citizen is after releasing a load of these lads on my road...as if we hadn't enough of them around the place already. There must be 400-500 wild ones in the valley I live in alone.

    Donkey stew?


    I'll probably be shot for this but I think t's time Ireland got over its squeamishness with horsemeat.


  • #168
    Connemara Farmer
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Donkey stew?


    I'll probably be shot for this but I think t's time Ireland got over its squeamishness with horsemeat.

    Quare lookin donkeys.


  • #169
    greysides
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    Goat goulash. :)

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #170
    Reggie.
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    greysides wrote: »
    Goat goulash. :)

    Mmmmm


  • #171
    Kovu
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    Connemara Farmer wrote: »
    Quare lookin donkeys.

    On phone in bed but that's what they look like here.......what are they?:o
    Goat is nice! Mmmm kid curry.


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  • #172
    tanko
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Donkey stew?


    I'll probably be shot for this but I think t's time Ireland got over its squeamishness with horsemeat.

    Donkeys?, horses?, are they not goats?:confused::D


  • #173
    Genghis Cant
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Donkey stew?


    I'll probably be shot for this but I think t's time Ireland got over its squeamishness with horsemeat.

    Are they not goats?
    Which I'd happily eat btw :-)


  • #174
    Reggie.
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    On phone in bed but that's what they look like here.......what are they?:o
    Goat is nice! Mmmm kid curry.

    Well if ya weren't up till the wee hours....


  • #175
    Count Mondego
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    tanko wrote: »
    Donkeys?, horses?, are they not goats?:confused::D

    or he could be driving a Monster Truck for the herding, those lads get a grant for anything up there!


  • #176
    Kovu
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Well if ya weren't up till the wee hours....

    Jeez.......are you my dad :P:eek:
    4 hours sleep is graaaaaaaaand.


  • #177
    Reggie.
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Jeez.......are you my dad :P:eek:
    4 hours sleep is graaaaaaaaand.

    Oh yeah sure it is. Here's a pic what do you see......DONKEYS!!!!! No Kovu they are goats


    You need more than 4 hours it seems :P


  • #178
    Reggie.
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    Count Mondego wrote: »
    or he could be driving a Monster Truck for the herding, those lads get a grant for anything up there!
    Be a great way to clear the ditches tho :D


  • #179
    Kovu
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Oh yeah sure it is. Here's a pic what do you see......DONKEYS!!!!! No Kovu they are goats


    You need more than 4 hours it seems :P

    The horns looked like ears!


  • #180
    Tokyo
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    The horns looked like ears!

    uh-huh... suuuuuuure they do :p



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  • #181
    Reggie.
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    .Kovu. wrote: »
    The horns looked like ears!

    Ahem.......more sleep needed


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