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

Reggie. · 09-02-2015 08:49PM

Bodacious wrote: »

1 year old today

Like a proud daddy

Mac Taylor · 09-02-2015 09:01PM

Bodacious, smashing animal. Will you breed from her? Mac

Bodacious · 09-02-2015 09:19PM

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Bodacious, smashing animal. Will you breed from her? Mac

I'd say I will .. First blonde I've ever had but she has great growth and her dam was good enough milker but a monster cow so this lady will definitely be very big... Hoping to lim first time and CH all the way after that .. White calves good sellers

Farrell · 09-02-2015 11:07PM

Bodacious wrote: »

I'd say I will .. First blonde I've ever had but she has great growth and her dam was good enough milker but a monster cow so this lady will definitely be very big... Hoping to lim first time and CH all the way after that .. White calves good sellers

Yellow sell good maybe even better & she should throw either (possibly white more so).
Only problem with LM off a BA or CH can bring yellow which can go either way as buyers think they're CH.
Will we see an update this time next year with a +1 at foot, or would you give her extra months?

frazzledhome · 10-02-2015 11:15PM

Born this afternoon

Lifting it out of it

Reggie. · 10-02-2015 11:19PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Born this afternoon

Lifting it out of it

I like the feeders

Mad4simmental · 10-02-2015 11:24PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Born this afternoon

Lifting it out of it

Helping a lad at the moment with allot of jex & fr. The je calves I can get on the feeders at a few hrs old. I was surprised how hardy the little feckers are.

frazzledhome · 10-02-2015 11:25PM

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Helping a lad at the moment with allot of jex & fr. The je calves I can get on the feeders at a few hrs old. I was surprised how hardy the little feckers are.

You couldn't kill the bastards if you drove over them

Reggie. · 10-02-2015 11:32PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

You couldn't kill the bastards if you drove over them

But if ya wanted them to live....they'd be dead in the morning

frazzledhome · 10-02-2015 11:36PM

Reggie. wrote: »

I like the feeders

New plan this yr Reggie.

Milk ad lib till after dehorning at 2 wks and keep on for another week they're averaging 7 litres a day young and old.

A week after dehorn into grps of thirty and into mobile feeder OAD feed of 5 litres after a few days to the paddock. I did it with Autumn borns and worked really well. Fill all containers after lunch so no pressure in am. Walk through a few times a day. They have it by the second day.

Eating a nice bit of meal and to date no scour. We're calving hard now so lots of milk around. Just before turn out onto replacer.

frazzledhome · 10-02-2015 11:37PM

Reggie. wrote: »

But if ya wanted them to live....they'd be dead in the morning

Too true

frazzledhome · 10-02-2015 11:44PM

Straight out of the oven
2 little ladies
Pen tube and scratcher in that order

Greengrass1 · 11-02-2015 10:25AM

frazzledhome wrote: »

New plan this yr Reggie.

Milk ad lib till after dehorning at 2 wks and keep on for another week they're averaging 7 litres a day young and old.

A week after dehorn into grps of thirty and into mobile feeder OAD feed of 5 litres after a few days to the paddock. I did it with Autumn borns and worked really well. Fill all containers after lunch so no pressure in am. Walk through a few times a day. They have it by the second day.

Eating a nice bit of meal and to date no scour. We're calving hard now so lots of milk around. Just before turn out onto replacer.

Cheap computerised feeder.
The lad thats over the heifer rearing for us said before calves don't get scours from too much milk. Its dirty equipment that causes them

Limestone Cowboy · 12-02-2015 09:53AM

Bit of this going on here the last few days. Turning into a dear job between the machine and 40 litres of Gallup going out everyday.

I said · 12-02-2015 09:56AM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Bit of this going on here the last few days. Turning into a dear job between the machine and 40 litres of Gallup going out everyday.

Ya have your work cutout for ya

Reggie. · 12-02-2015 10:09AM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Bit of this going on here the last few days. Turning into a dear job between the machine and 40 litres of Gallup going out everyday.

That's rough going there

TITANIUM. · 12-02-2015 10:39AM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Bit of this going on here the last few days. Turning into a dear job between the machine and 40 litres of Gallup going out everyday.

Would it be to stoney for a mulcher?
At least you'll have a bit of usable ground when your done.

Parishlad · 12-02-2015 11:48AM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Bit of this going on here the last few days. Turning into a dear job between the machine and 40 litres of Gallup going out everyday.

Fair play to ya for taking it on! I did something similar last year. Probably not as tough a job as you have there but the place was completely overgrown with scrub and small trees. Cost a small fortune and plenty of days picking stones but definitely worth it. Have a lovely field now this year to graze and get silage out of if needed.

AntrimGlens · 12-02-2015 12:06PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Bit of this going on here the last few days. Turning into a dear job between the machine and 40 litres of Gallup going out everyday.

But there'll be nothing more satisfying than looking at it when its done and green with grass.

Limestone Cowboy · 12-02-2015 12:49PM

Getting a bit back out of the BFCP towards it but it's still going to cost enough. The drum on the mulcher is recessed where the flails are. Seriously well built piece of kit, you'd have a fair job to break it and it has a lot of stones hit. That was fairly heavy stuff he had cut in the pic, it's a lot cleaner looking where the scrub wasn't as strong.

blue5000 · 12-02-2015 01:06PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Bit of this going on here the last few days. Turning into a dear job between the machine and 40 litres of Gallup going out everyday.

Ballpark what will it cost/acre?

Limestone Cowboy · 12-02-2015 06:15PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Ballpark what will it cost/acre?

I don't know exactly how many acres I'm doing to be honest blue. Mostly cutting back light stuff and paths through the heavier stuff so the cattle will be able to move around the winterage s bit easier. 50+vat for the machine an hour.

Bullocks · 12-02-2015 06:37PM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

I don't know exactly how many acres I'm doing to be honest blue. Mostly cutting back light stuff and paths through the heavier stuff so the cattle will be able to move around the winterage s bit easier. 50+vat for the machine an hour.

That doesn't sound too bad for a machine like that , does one pass get it ?

Bodacious · 13-02-2015 01:32PM

Found this old pic - blonde aquataine bull calf 30 years ago my dad bought .. Made a horse of a bullock !

limo_100 · 13-02-2015 01:58PM

Bodacious wrote: »

Found this old pic - blonde aquataine bull calf 30 years ago my dad bought .. Made a horse of a bullock !

sure why wouldnt he look at the timber on him christ, i wonder what he cost and wat he made??

Reggie. · 13-02-2015 02:19PM

Bodacious wrote: »

Found this old pic - blonde aquataine bull calf 30 years ago my dad bought .. Made a horse of a bullock !

I'd say that young lad came into a horse of a man aswell

Bodacious · 13-02-2015 05:13PM

Reggie. wrote: »

I'd say that young lad came into a horse of a man aswell

Was a big calf, a good weanling but never grew much after that.. .. Pure sign of a scrub ;-)

Bodacious · 13-02-2015 05:14PM

limo_100 wrote: »

sure why wouldnt he look at the timber on him christ, i wonder what he cost and wat he made??

In the photo I think by my finger gesture I was giving 200 for him ;-)

Reggie. · 13-02-2015 06:27PM

Bodacious wrote: »

In the photo I think by my finger gesture I was giving 200 for him ;-)

Or the 2 finger salute

limo_100 · 13-02-2015 07:47PM

Bodacious wrote: »

In the photo I think by my finger gesture I was giving 200 for him ;-)

o and y did your mother dress you in hot pants

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

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